This was the new defensive technique he learned, earth armor. It would form an armor on the body of the Elementalist. The strength of this technique increases with the strength of the Elementalist. For now the armor is made to rocks, as his strength increases, it would be made of jade, before turning to crystal and then finally diamond.
Grey looked at his surroundings with a disoriented look. He was still playing out what just happened.
Grey was currently over six hundred meters away from the blast. After the blast occurred, Grey tried running, but he was unable to surpass the speed at which it was moving. Luckily, he managed to get to the outer regions of the blast where the strength of the blast wasn’t as strong as the central region.
Grey made an earth wall to try to reduce the impact of the blast, after doing that, he also used earth armor to protect himself, he had to be extra sure. Fortunately, the wall was able to help him reduce the impact, but he still suffered from the little that passed through.
“I could have lost my poor little life if I didn’t act fast” Grey whipped off the sweat on his face, he truly did feel fear when he lost control of the orb. The earth armor started falling apart from his body.
“The instructors will probably come here after this blast, what will I tell them if they asked me what happened?” There is no way the blast won’t attract the instructors over, and since Grey was currently the only one near the blast, they would naturally question him.
“There’s no way I can tell them I was practicing a new technique, the strength of the blast exceeded what someone who is still at the Arcane Plane can do,” Grey thought hard about it.
“Thankfully I didn’t try it out when I was in the Academy” Grey sighed, the thought of the consequences of destroying his home and maybe putting the lives of other students at risk terrified him.
“I should probably leave here” Grey turned and immediately started walking in the other direction.
“Where are you going?”
A voice suddenly rang out.
Grey’s heart tensed up when he heard this, but he didn’t show it out. He had learned to mask his reactions well, so even if he’s shocked or afraid, it would be almost impossible to notice it from his body language.
He turned around calmly only to see Chris standing midair looking down at him with interest. Chris was the first one to arrive here since his place was closer to the site of the blast, and he was faster.
“Teacher, I’m heading back to the Academy” Grey replied calmly.
“What happened here?” asked Chris
“I have no idea, I was training when I suddenly heard an explosion, luckily I wasn’t too close to it” Grey answered.
“Hmm, okay. You should head back now”
“Yes, Teacher,” Grey said and quickly dashed away from the place.
Chris’s eyes followed the shadow of Grey till he disappeared from his sight.
‘Seems like this cook of mine has some secrets, interesting’
Chris heard everything Grey said when he arrived. When he arrived at the site of the explosion, he didn’t sense anyone. He knew there was no way the person who did this attack would have already escaped before he arrived.
He suddenly heard movements coming from some distance away and headed towards the place. When he arrived, he saw Grey pushing off a wall he used to protect himself from the blast. After hearing what he said, he knew this was done by Grey.
But what he still couldn’t figure out was how someone in the Arcane Plane could make an attack which strength equals someone at the Early stages of the Origin Plane, it just doesn’t make sense.
“Whoosh”
Chris looked over when he heard this. He saw Blake coming towards him at a very fast speed.
Blake quickly appeared in front of him.
“Senior” He quickly greeted as he saw Chris.
“What happened here?. Oh!, and I saw Grey leaving here just now,” Blake asked. When he was flying here, he saw Grey leaving the place. Since Chris was already here, he must have met Grey.
“I don’t know, seems like whoever did this already fled before I arrived” answered Chris.
“So fast?,” Blake was surprised. He knew just how fast Chris was.
“Did the blast affect Grey?” Blake asked, he remembered how Grey looked when he saw him. Grey was like a beggar in the street. Some parts of his clothes were torn, so he guessed Grey might have suffered from the blast.
“He was able to act quickly and use his defensive techniques, but he was still impacted by it. But he should be okay” said Chris. He knew there was no way Blake would think Grey was involved in what happened, if not for accidentally hearing what Grey said when he arrived, he still wouldn’t have thought Grey was involved also.
The other instructors arrived while Chris and Blake were still conversing about the blast, Blake told them what Chris told him. They decided to investigate the site. After searching for some time and finding nothing, they all went back to the Academy. But they agreed on increasing their guard since they still didn’t know what caused the blast.
Grey got back to his house and finally heaved a sigh.
“I was lucky today, but I did learn some things from this attempt”
Although he was scared by the blast, he was also amazed by the strength of it. If he could master it, he would be able to easily defeat everyone in the Arcane Plane, he wouldn’t even be scared of battling those in the First stage of the Origin Plane.
Grey decided not to attempt it for now since he wasn’t as confident anymore. But he would try it again in the near future.
After he took his bath, he waited for his friends to arrive before they headed towards the arena.