Chapter 24
After absorbing the crystal and increasing his affinity in the Earth magic, Grey called for Randin by shouting and when he got to Randin's position, he was told that he would attract unwanted attention.
And right on cue, some creatures or race called goblins attacked them. And Grey decided to leap towards them but he was left with a warning.
"Before you charge forward, remember to not destroy any of their weapons because I need to examine them later." Randin warned.
"Wasn't planning on doing that!" Grey said as he pushed himself forward using the wind magic.
Seeing the human coming at them, two of the goblins shot a constant stream of lightning towards Grey who quickly raised his hands up.
"Earth wall!" He called out a huge Earth appeared in front of him blocking the lightning from hitting him.
'Good thing they aren't intelligent enough, they don't know that lightning is weak towards Earth.' He smiled as he quickly dismissed the Earth shield and then crashed in the midst of the two goblins.
Seeing the human, they quickly thrust their spear towards him while the tip of the spear was sparkling and lighting. Without wasting time, the Earth around his hand shaped into an Earth glove then he grabbed the spear of one of the goblin.
For the second one, he shot out a small fireball towards its head burning its head then with a turn, Grey shaped the Earth gauntlet in his hand into a long spear that plunged into its head killing it on the spot.
Before he could move, five more goblins came at him again while the remaining five went towards Randin. Well, this is quite unfair, but who am I to complain.
Two of the goblins shot out three quick successive bolts of lightning while the remaining one dashed towards Grey.
The lightning bolts heading for Grey crashed into an Earth wall while the spears that were coming for him, he avoided one of them but the second one cut through his clothes and lunged itself into his side.
Before he could move, the spear lit up and Grey was being electrocuted on the spot leaving him quite vulnerable as he was unable to move. His blood was dripping down his side while his face was twitching in pain.
The remaining goblins were now coming for him and he could only do one thing as the remaining goblins had their spears lit up and they shot out three lightning bolts each towards Grey who was still stuck in the grip of the other spear.
Doing the only thing he could, Grey managed to lift his hand in time as he cast one spell that could possibly save him from this trouble.
"Aerius!" He shouted as a huge burst of wind came out of his hands pushing him away from the tip of the spear then successfully but narrowly avoided the stream of lightning bolts heading towards him.
The lightning bolts crashed into the goblins themselves stunning them and being unable to move as they being electrocuted.
"Time to finish you all once and for all." Grey managed to say in pain as he lifted his hands up and it started burning brightly while an orange glow was being shown.
"Explomb!" He shouted and a stream of fire came out of his hands and crashed into the stunned five goblins and they were being burnt then the last part occured as explosions occured around the goblins burning them to a crisp.
Grey tiredly fell down as he looked up at Randin that was still fighting against the five goblins while his armour had scratches all around as if it will soon break and he was struggling quite a lot as he was unable to deal with the lightning attribute of their spears.
"I need to quickly regain my mana so I can help him before he dies." Grey said as he weakly sat down cross legged to meditate.
While siphoning mana from the air, a sharp pain ran through his mana core and it started shaking in power while Grey's heart was tightening and his muscles were suddenly tense.
"Darn it! What is going on? This feels like the time I tried forming my mana core. What is going on? This… this… this pain is excruciating!!!" Grey shouted the last part into the air in pain as he was losing control of his body and then he fell down unconscious while his body was still shaking.
Meanwhile, Randin was in a tough fight against the goblins. Avoiding a thrust, Randin tried to strike back again when a lightning bolt headed for his face.
Quickly, he lifted his sword up and used it to block the bolt of lightning. Quickly dropping his sword down, Randin was met with a hit from the spear of one of the goblin as he was sent skidding.
Then another one of the goblin shot out a lightning bolt again that landed on his armour not doing anything to it. Randin was about to move when he heard a loud shout coming from Grey.
Quickly glancing at him, he could see that Grey had fallen unconscious while his own share of goblins had all died.
'What happened to him? Why is he unconscious? Darn it! I really need his help right now and he went unconscious.' Randin thought as he swiftly side stepped avoiding a thrust and then smashed his sword on the goblin's hand swiftly cutting it cleanly.
Then he kneed the goblin in the face sending it tumbling back. Randin was about to give chase when a lightning bolt landed in front of his feet stopping him from moving further.
Quickly turning around, a spear hit him the head throwing his helmet off and then a lightning bolt landed on his body but he was protected by his armour.
Swinging his sword around him, Randin managed to slash one of the goblins away and then the earlier goblin that had its hand cut, came back again.
Randin managed to avoid its attack and sliced its head off cleanly leaving him to deal with only four more goblins.
Randin had been so much focused on one goblin that he almost forgot about the remaining ones. As he turned around, he could see three lightning bolts heading for his head and with the speed they were coming at him, he was sure he would be hit soon and no one would be able to save him from his fate.
But as the lightning bolts approached, the were about to hit him when an Earth wall suddenly appeared in front of Randin blocking his view and not letting the bolts to hit him.
"Don't worry, I got your back!" A voice was heard shouting.