After a few torturous minutes of walking, Grey found himself outside the forest and back in town. Walking for a few minutes, no one stopped nor questioned him and that was because there was no one to.
As all the adults were still at work in the small factory in the town. Grey just hoped that his mum was not at home. After a few more minutes of walking, He was finally home and luckily, his mum was out of the house.
He quickly went up to his room to freshen up and changed into another set of cloth as his current one was torn from his fight with. Then he swiftly left the house for the market where all sorts of things were sold including beast skin.
Leaving the house, Grey walked for 10 minutes before he got out of the shabby area where he and his parents lived to the much better parts of town where the somewhat stable people lived.
Getting to town, Grey saw people walking around going from one place to another. But he kept his head on the road and wasn't about to get sidetracked as he made his way to where a vendor displayed his goods and was currently sitting.
Grey walked towards the man after an exchange of pleasantries, he quickly got down to business so he will get out or there.
"Sir, I'm here to sell some beast skin." Grey started.
"Beast skin? Where did you get it from?" The man asked as he slowly stood up.
"I was training at the outskirts of the forest when I perceived a foul smell and tracing it, I came across a dead beast so I decided to carve its skin." He lied.
"Hmm!" The man said as he stroke his beard as he examined the skin and noticed a flaw in Grey's lie.
'This skin looks and feels fresh. It's like it was killed recently which contradicts his story of perceiving a foul smell.' The man thought as he eyed Grey from the corner of his eyes.
'I don't think it's possible for him to kill the beast himself right? Unless he has strong magical affinity.'
'Whatever the reason, I don't care because this skin is quite valuable.' The man thought as he finally looked up at Grey.
"I will give you 12 silver coins for this skin." The man declared.
'12 silver coins! That is a lot than I expected.' Grey thought excitedly.
'Ha! Silly kid, he must be probably happy and doesn't know that beast skin were always sold at 15 silver coins.' The man thought excitedly.
"I will take it." Grey declared happily.
"Good then, I will get you your money now." The man said and then got to work arranging the silver coins for the young kid.
After he was done, he handed the pouch over to Grey and bid him goodbye and Grey received the pouch excitedly and left for his modest house with a hop in his steps.
'Mum will be so so happy and surprised seeing this huge amount of money.' Grey smiled happily and was lost in his thoughts that he didn't realize where he was going and he bumped into a person who was standing in the middle of the street.
"Sorry." Grey said without looking up and was about to keep going when a hand was felt on his shoulder halting his steps.
"What do you think you are doing bumping into me!" The voice shouted and Grey's pupil dilated as he heard the voice.
Slowly turning around, Grey was met with the face of his nemesis.
"Weakling? You are the one who barged into me?! How dare you!" Clark shouted as he had a firm grip on Grey's shoulder in anger.
"I already apologized Clark, I didn't intend to bump into you." Grey said again.
"And yet you still bumped into me." Clark said and then his eyes wondered to Grey's hand that was trying to hide something behind his back.
"What is that? What are you trying to hide?" Clark asked as he reached out to grab Grey's hand.
"It's nothing that should concern you Clark." Grey said quickly pulling his hand away.
"Oh it concerns me wimp." Clark said trying to reach for the pouch again but this time, he used his wind magic to pull Grey's hand towards him.
Grey seeing what was going on, quickly used his wind magic to push Clark's wind magic away totally even moving Clark's hand a bit.
"You! Did you use wind magic?" Clark asked.
"Pfft!" Grey laughed. "Wind magic? No way, I don't have a mana core at all remember?"
'That's right, how can he use wind magic? He doesn't have a mana core and so he can't. Maybe I was hallucinating it.' Clark thought.
"Now if you would excuse me, I need to get home as soon as possible." Grey said and he immediately sprinted off while boosting himself with a little wind magic.
"Wait!" Clark shouted but Grey had almost disappeared from his view.
"I don't think I'm hallucinating it, he definitely is using wind magic and it is much stronger than mine. But how?" Clark wondered aloud.
"Whatever it is, I need to put him in his place and let him know who he is messing with." Clark said and then he smirked.
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