A trip to unlock his potentials, is about to cause Grey his life as he was in a tough battle with a level 3 beast that could use two elemental attribute making it dangerous to fight as Grey was limited in his options in fighting.
He could only use the wind attribute and he was on the losing side of this fight. This was further cemented with the beast sending a shrapnel coated with fire towards Grey at immense speed.
"Shit! What am I going to do now?" Grey asked as he could see the shrapnel almost close to him.
'Think! Think Grey, think! Finally!' He thought as an idea struck him and he got to work executing it as he closed his eyes while standing and ignoring the shrapnel that was almost close to him.
Grey was now circulating the mana around his body and also drawing in more mana from the world. He was drawing more and more mana and in the process, his body was starting to overload.
That was when a sharp sound was heard as the shrapnel was incredibly close. Quickly snapping his eyes open, Grey thrust his hands outwardly and a burst of energy erupted from his hands hitting the shrapnel and causing it to go flying away from him.
And then, Grey fell on his knees as he was breathing in heavily because his core was almost depleted with the attack he did earlier.
From the outside point of view, it looked like Grey used the wind to push the shrapnel very far away from him but that wasn't what he did. He used mana as a pure form to push the piece of shrapnel away causing it to lunge deep into the ground.
All mages could do this, whether they were weak or not. As long as they could use or control mana, they were able to do this but it required immense focus and a lot of mana to do what Grey just did.
But using this, the mage's mana would be halved as the skill used a lot of mana to be cast and was always seen as a last resort.
Grey was now on his knees gasping for air as he was feeling incredibly weak. And that was when he heard rumbling noises beneath him.
"Give me a break damn it!" He shouted as the ground shook and burst open then he was suddenly thrown up in the air by the force of the sudden burst and then a blunt rock was seen heading Grey's way.
In an instant, it crashed into him sending him crashing into the ground with so much force that the ground broke beneath him.
"Kuh! Kuh! Kuh!" Grey coughed as he was finding it difficult to breath and his chest was burning in pain.
"Darn it! I should have ran for it when I have the chance." He said as he slowly rose as he could hear the sound of steady pounding of paws heading his way.
'I wish there was sand for me to use here.' He thought as he quickly left the way for the beast to ram into a tree.
'I need to think fast now!' Grey thought as he looked around quickly and his eyes landed on another shrapnel just a few feet away from him.
And lifting his hands, Grey twirled it around and slowly, the shrapnel lifted into the air slightly and headed towards Grey who quickly caught it in his hands while taking a weak stance waiting for the beast.
After ramming into a tree, the wolf turned around and spotted the human a few feet away from it with a bleeding face, hand and nose while holding onto a piece of shrapnel.
Quickly, the beast tapped the ground softly and it moved pushing the beast towards Grey with immense speed while Grey was seen holding the shrapnel in front of him.
The beast opened up its mouth and Grey knew what was coming next as a long stream of fire was seen heading his way quickly while the beast was not far behind.
'I only have enough for this one last defense.' Grey thought in his head as he performed the hand signs for his only wind skill.
"Aerius!" He shouted out loud and a huge burst of wind bigger than what he had performed earlier erupted out of his hands and crashed into the fire dispelling it totally.
'Huh? Has my wind powers grown stronger? But how?' He thought in confusion. 'I shouldn't worry about that right now, I need to focus.'
Grey wasn't wrong in assuming his wind powers had grown stronger and that was because the criteria of leveling wind powers was by repeated use which he had been doing from the start of the fight.
By repeatedly using the wind powers, his attribute had grown stronger and he could now use more complex skills. That is if he manages to get away from this situation unharmed.
Immediately after dispelling the fire, Grey could see the beast heading towards him in a straight line with immense speed and he didn't know what to do but hold the long shrapnel up.
And now, the beast sent a rock shard towards Grey quickly who used his long shrapnel weapon to hit the shard away and then he moved forward a bit while the wolf was now a feet away.
Without wasting time, Grey thrust his weapon into the beast body pushing it back a bit. Then he used a little bit of his mana in order to use his wind powers to push him forward a bit.
Then he quickly stabbed the shrapnel into the beast's eye temporarily blinding and disorienting it. The wolf was seen twisting its head around rapidly as it felt a stinging pain in its eyes.
Grey was now seen two feet away from the wolf with his hands raised.
"Goodbye! Aerius!" He shouted out at once as he used the very last bit of mana he had to perform one last skill.
The Aerius caused a huge burst of wind to push the shrapnel into the eye of the wolf more and after a little bit of struggle, the edge of the shrapnel was seen popping out the other end of the wolf's head and the wolf slowly swayed a bit before it fell down with a thud and so did Grey in weariness.