August did not panic when he realized that Diana had played her first card. She wanted to corner him and make it more difficult and 'costly' for him to improve quickly, leaving him with no other choice than to admit defeat.
However, August was not the type of person to waste time worrying about problems. He was always thinking ahead, trying to figure out a solution. Thankfully, due to the success of his mission and the spirit stones he obtained from the pouches of the enemies he killed, he had enough points to spend on buying enough high-grade wind elemental cores.
The reason why he started buying high-grade elemental wind cores was that during the last three months, he realized that the effects of the low and medium-grade wind elemental cores stopped having an effect on his affinity. Hence he only managed to raise his Spirit from 11 to 12 points. So he decided to try absorbing a wind elemental grade higher grade to see its effect.
