"Grey!!! Wake up!" A voice was heard calling and Grey slowly opened up his eyes to look around him.
He could see the familiar surrounding of his room and he was even still in the position he was in when he tried to create his mana core.
"Oww! My head and chest hurts." Grey said as he touched his head while looking around.
'Strange, I could have sworn that I heard someone calling onto me.' He thought as he looked around then he heard a splash from underneath him and then a foul smell as he slowly looked down.
Grey's eyes met with a black toxic substance around him even his clothes was drenched with this substance and he even felt his mouth taste weird while his body was even sweating with the black toxic substance mixed in the sweat.
"Is this what I think it is?" He said excitedly as he touched his chest and then quickly got into a meditave position and he closed his eyes as he slowly breathed in and he could feel it.
'I can feel the mana around me easily and they are even moving to my core as I breathe. I… I have successfully created a mana core.' Grey thought excitedly as he quickly stood up and jumped up excitedly.
"Calm down Grey, this is just the first step, the next step is unlocking one of my affinities and for that, I need some guidance." He said.
That was when the smell hit him again. "Right, I need to get to cleaning."
Without wasting much time, Grey got to cleaning his room intensively afterwards, he went to take his bath and then he disposed of the clothes he wore because it wasn't useful again considering the tough smell.
Even if he were to wash it thoroughly, it won't get rid of the smell from the clothes so it was better to dispose it off.
Grey was now about to step out when he noticed how dark it was outside through his window.
"Huh? Was I unconscious for so long? There's no way in hell mom would allow me head out now." He said as he sat down on his bed thinking of what to do.
"I wish dad was able to unlock his dormant affinities in time." Grey sighed in sorrow and then he felt something in his chest.
'Even sitting down and not meditating, I can feel the mana heading into my core. So what if I meditate more and try to move the mana around to get the hang of it.' He thought and then quickly got into a meditave position.
Grey closed his eyes and began cultivating again drawing mana into his body.
'The mana looks like little particles in the air. I just have to draw it into my body and make sure I don't overload my body.' He thought as he kept moving the mana into his core.
And when Grey felt like his core was full enough, he started moving the mana in his body around. He first started with his core as he circulated the mana around his core slowly and then around his body.
Grey kept doing this for a while, circulating the mana around his body trying to get the hang of it. He did this for so long that he hadn't realize that it was already dawn.
Immediately the sunlight hit Grey's face, he snapped his eyes open and was brimming with energy than ever before.
"It's morning already?" He asked himself confused as he slowly stood up and stretched himself.
"Let me go and freshen up and quickly head over to the library to see if I can get anything that might help me." He said as he rushed out of the room.
Immediately after Grey left, a crackling noise was heard in the room and slowly, a white blinding light appeared in the room and finally dimmed itself as two men were seen standing in the room.
"He's talented." One of the men who had brown hair and blue eyes said.
"Yeah, without guidance from anybody, he managed to gain control of his mana circulating it properly with immense focus till the extent he didn't realize it was morning already." The second man who had all white hair and white beard said.
"I wonder what affinity he would unlock first." The brown haired man said.
"Whatever it is, he will become a target soon enough. One thing about we multi elementalist, we don't unlock all of our affinities at once, we unlock it one at a time at different intervals."
"At first, people would see him as a single elementalist when he unlocks his first affinity then a dual elementalists which is quite rare and respectable here. But when he unlocks the third affinity, he would become a major target of those people." The white haired man who turned out to be the first mage said.
"Yeah, even with all your strengths, you weren't able to totally defeat them huh?" The brown haired man said.
"That is why I am putting my hope on Grey. I had four affinities while he has five which is extremely rare." The first magw said.
"How many affinities does the emperor even have?" The first mage asked.
"Four, I guess. But rest assured, he doesn't have any special affinities." The brown haired mage.
"Grey will face difficulties the more he unlocks his affinities and I will try my best to help him from the shadows." The first mage said and the he and the man quickly disappeared in a blinding light.