Chapter 66:Heading Back
Grey's next battle was against the student in the Eighth stage which he won. He currently had two people left to battle, one was Reynolds, and the other Alan.
Both fighters stood on the arena staring at each other, unlike Grey's previous battles, he was one hundred and one percent focused on this battle. He couldn't be careless since he knew how strong Alan was.
"Begin!"
The instructor called for the battle to start.
Both fighters attacked at the same time, Alan used the fire element to launch his attack while Grey used his lightning element.
Boom!
The attacks collided causing an explosion in the arena.
The students watching the fight from the stands all held their breaths and kept quiet watching the fight intensely, this was the most anticipated battle in the tournament. Although most of them felt Alan was stronger, they wanted to see how far he could push Grey.
The explosion soon died down and both fighters could see each other once again.
Grey squinted his eyes, and launched an attack at Alan.
He created three earth maces that he sent at Alan.
Alan didn't panic and used a wind technique to dodge all three maces Grey threw at him while also sending out a palm made of fire towards Grey.
An earth wall appeared before Grey, completely blocking the path of the palm.
Bam!
The palm struck the wall, causing cracks to appear on the wall.
Crack!
The cracks on the wall gradually grew bigger, while the flaming palm slowly started to shrink. But before the fire shrunk.
Bang!
The wall instantly exploded as it couldn't withstand the force from the flaming hand anymore.
Grey quickly dodged to the side, avoiding the rubbles as well as what was left of the flaming palm.
The battle went on for four minutes, with Grey and Alan exchanging multiple moves. From their exchanges, it was clear to see that Alan had a slight advantage over Grey since he had been able to push him back on more than one occasion, only, he still hadn't been able to completely dominate him as there were times when Grey would come out with a flurry of attacks that overpowered him.
'Lightning Rain!'
'Fire Lotus!'
Grey and Alan decided to bring out their big moves after over four minutes of fighting.
Alan's three petaled fire lotus went straight at Grey, while Grey's lightning rain started falling down on him.The inaugural upload of this chapter took place via N0v3l-B1n.
Being a Wind Elementalist, Alan managed to escape from some of the lightning, but not all.
While Grey on the other hand tried to block the fire lotus coming his way, he made two earth walls, but the first one was instantly destroyed, and the second one only lasted a second, before it was also destroyed.
Chris thought for a while before replying,
"Okay, we'll leave tomorrow. Also, inform Blake they can leave without you. I'll bring you to the Capital myself"
Grey was elated when he heard this, he wasn't too optimistic about Chris agreeing with his request. He bowed towards Chris and expressed his thanks before continuing with his training.
Chris narrowed his eyes, he remembered Martha.
'There's something about this family, from what I felt that day, Martha should at least be at the Seventh stage of the Overlord Plane, if not higher'
How could someone with that strength stay at that little place, Chris knew without a doubt, they were hiding something. He didn't even think Grey knew what Plane his mother was.
That attack Grey did, summed up his suspicion about the family. But he could tell Grey knew nothing about his mother's strength. If he knew, he wouldn't be worried since no one in the empire could harm her, unless she was sneaked attacked by a group of experts.
But the possibility of that happening is too small since the amount of Elementalist in the Late stages of the Overlord Plane are few.
The next day, after bidding farewell to his friends, Grey went over to meet up with Chris at the valley. He was a little hopeful about the journey, but he could deal with whatever the result was.
Blake was present in the valley when he arrived. He turned his attention to Grey on seeing him enter.
Grey bowed to Blake before walking over to where Brown was.
Blake smiled when he saw Grey. He had heard about Grey's performance in the tournament, and he was proud of his student. It wouldn't take long before Grey completely surpasses everyone in his group.
Chris soon came out and after speaking with Blake shortly, he walked over to where Grey and Brown were.
"There's still a little over five days before the competition starts, given the amount of time it took to bring you here, I wouldn't have accepted your request"
"But, since you're already in the Arcane Plane, you can cope with Brown's full speed. So unlike the last time, we should be able to reach before noon tomorrow"
Grey was slightly taken aback.
"That fast!"
When they came over from Red City, they only arrived here on the morning of the fourth day. But now, the journey was cut down by more than half.
Chris smiled.
"Oh! And we'll sleep in the forest during the night"
Grey was puzzled by Chris's words
"The last time we stayed at an Inn, why would we sleep in the forest this time?"
Chris laughed and then asked.
"You can't train in the Inn, right?"
When Grey heard this, he finally understood why Chris said this. He was currently trying to use the symbol to send out an attack, if he accidentally succeeds in the Inn, the owner can pretty much kiss his Inn goodbye since it would be destroyed by the attack.
Chris added after seeing Grey got the picture.
"And besides, you're a better cook compared to those morons who cooked at the Restaurants we ate at"
Grey didn't know if to cry or laugh. Chris had started getting used to his cooking lately that he even tells him to prepare his dinner most of the time before leaving the valley after training.
They immediately set off from the valley, their destination.
Red City...