"That was... EPIC!" Mercury was hopping with excitement as the time bubble disappeared. And then he stopped short and a mischevous smile streched over his face. He pointed at the stranger whose name he still hadn't thought to ask and said, "Village gates, five minutes. Tell people." before running off to stir up some new trouble.

"therebetterbepeoplethereorimsoscrewed!" A humanoid blur streaked towards the village gates, pursued by a small army of what looked like more than a few dozen pheasants. As he ran he yelled for anyone he passed to "followmeforfreeexp!" Mercury split his attention away from the ground beneath his feet to bring up the message menu. He hurriedly filled in "freeexp @vilgate" and hit SEND TO ALL. In a moment of distraction, his foot caught on a root and sent him skidding acorss the ground on his face. "Time's Backhand!" Mercury was puched off of the ground and into the air. He landed already running again, the pheasants now only feet away. Mercury kicked up a rock, caught it, and threw it behind him into the mass of pheasants. It would all be for nothing if he lost their agro now.

Eventually, finally, the village gate appeared in the distance. If he'd been in a desert, mercury would have assumed it a mirage, but it was really real. he snapped a stick from a tree as he passed and threw it behind him. And then he was at the gates.

Mercury skidded to a stop and spun around. "Time's Arena!" A bubbkle of slowed space enveloped him, the pheasant army, and a few unlucky players that had been standing too close. Mercury, and those unluckies, went down under a barrage of feathers and blows. "Time's Backhand!" A black cape, and the small magicion that wore it, blasted out of the top of the bubble. Mercury watched as the players figured out what they were supposed to do. It was a slaughter. 

Even a small portion of the exp from so many kills added up, and a deep blue aurora poured from the Temporal Mage's eyes as he leveled up once... twice... thrice... 

Mercury slammed into the ground just inside the village gates, dying on impact. Damn, no more free exp for him. "Hey cool, I'm a ghost!"