"Kuh?!"
Thankfully, he was alert and was able to duck and dodge the incoming fist. The wild swing continued, hitting nothing but air—but the tree that was a few meters behind Aster ended up getting perforated instead!
Just imagining such an attack landing made him feel faint!
'But why did the skill fail in activating? Did I do something wrong?!'
Since it was an upgrade of the Mana Slash, he thought that activating it would follow the same procedure. He tried again, gathering mana for his sword, before slashing forward with a wide arc.
However, just like the previous one, the skill didn't activate, and the strike became nothing but a mana-imbued slash with no power to back it whatsoever.
As soon as he failed, he transitioned to dodging almost immediately. With the extra stat from his passive Boost, dodging was a lot easier compared to before. However, this doesn't change the fact that he couldn't attack.
