The next morning, Grey woke up earlier than usual. He felt very refreshed after the long rest he had. Since he still had time before the tournament starts for the day, he went out for his physical training. He noticed his spiritual energy was stronger than it was previously.
“Hmm, this is strange” Grey tried to think of a reason which caused this, and the only reason he could think of was that it increased due to his constant use over a short period of time.
With the increase in spiritual energy, he noticed he could feel the elemental particles in the air more clearly and his mind was more relaxed which in turn increased his focus. He felt his control over the elements was better than before.
“I should be able to attempt it now,” Grey said confidently. When he noticed how strong his spiritual energy was, he suddenly remembered there was a technique he had, but had never attempted it since acquiring it.
Elemental fusion.
He got the technique after breaking through to the Arcane Plane, but he had never once tried to attempt it since he felt his control over the elements wasn’t good enough yet. But with this current increase in spiritual energy, his confidence increased.
Grey calmed himself, he wanted to be in the best state before attempting it. The sun was just about to rise, the light from the rising sun passed through the trees and shone in the serious-looking face of Grey.
When he felt he was prepared, Grey slowly stretched out his right hand. He put all his focus into sensing the surrounding elements. He slowly started using his spiritual energy to carefully guide the lightning and earth element slowly towards the top of his outstretched hand.
Although he also had the wind element, he didn’t want to add it as well since controlling two elements at a time was already tiring. If he were to also add the wind element, he wasn’t sure if he would be able to fuse them.
Grey totally lost himself in what he was doing and soon, lights made of brownish and silver color started congealing at the top of his outstretched hand. Slowly an orb started taking shape with two different colors intertwining perfectly in it.
After the orb grew to the size of a fist, it suddenly started trembling. Clearly, it was starting to become unstable.
“Shit” Grey cursed out when he noticed he was losing control of the orb. He tried to regain control over it.
The trembling increased and Grey’s heart suddenly tightened, the orb was about to explode and Grey felt an energy that scared the life out of him. The power contained in the orb was terrifying, if it exploded on his palm, he would definitely die.
“Fu*k!, it’s going to blow” Grey cursed again before he threw the orb in one direction and dashed towards the other direction.
As he was running, he suddenly heard a deafening sound.
*BOOM*
The orb exploded in the forest, Grey’s heart started beating faster and faster, when he turned to look, he felt the scare of his life. The explosion was expanding from the spot and moving towards him.
“Shit, shit, shit” Grey cursed repeatedly and employed lightning steps enforced with the wind element. He was practically on the verge of crying.
“Why didn’t they say it was this dangerous” Grey was running like his life depended on it? Oh wait, it does, if he gets caught up this close to the blast, he would definitely lose his little life. It was clearly stated that the technique was dangerous, but it wasn’t stated how dangerous it was.
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Inside the valley…
Chris was sleeping peacefully. Brown was lying lazily on the ground.
*BOOM*
The sleeping Chris woke up from the sound and walked outside his little cabin. He looked towards the forest with interest before disappearing from his previous spot.
Brown also raised her head vigilantly and was about to fly out on seeing Chris disappearing.
“Stay here”
Chris’s voice echoed out, but he was nowhere to be seen.
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Inside the Academy…
*BOOM*
“What is that?” Blake suddenly looked towards the forest behind the Academy. Lightning danced on his body before he disappeared.
At different places on the Academy, different instructors were heading towards the location of the blast.
“Did you hear that?”
“Of course I did, I’m not deaf”
“What do you think made such a loud sound”
“I don’t know, but from the direction of the sound, it came from behind the Academy”
“Do you think it’s an enemy attack?”
“Who would be stupid enough to come here and attack us?”
“The Starlight Academy?”
“I don’t think they have the guts to dare”
“We shouldn’t bother about this, the instructors will take care of it. Whatever it is”
Different conversations started off among the students. The explosion shook the surrounding, some students thought it was the handwork of the Starlight Academy, others thought maybe some experts were fighting.
The explosion became the hottest topic among the students.
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Back at the forest…
“Creak”
The sound of rock grating against the ground sounded out.
“Bang”
The rock fell on the ground with a loud sound.
A youth who looked messed up appeared in sight, his hair stood straight and his face was covered with black substance. He was covered in armor which appeared to be made of rock. Some parts of the armor had holes in them, this was clearly a result of the impact.