Chapter 11
Immediately the beast fell down, Grey also fell with a thud as he felt his eyelids closing in and out and he was panting hard from pain as his chest went up and down while his eyes were still partly open looking at the sky.
"That was somehow hard and dangerous." He said while reflecting on the fight from earlier.
"If I hadn't unlocked the wind affinity, I'm sure I would have been dead by now. All I had to do to unlock the wind affinity was to be exposed to it enough time and I got exposed to the wind attribute thanks to Clark." Grey smiled as he weakly lifted himself up and sat down while breathing in and out heavily.
"But I can't believe I was able to defeat a level 3 beast that had two affinities all alone. Even in my wildest dreams, I didn't expect I will pull this off." He said with a chuckle.
Then he slowly stood up and walked towards the dead beast that layed a couple of feet away from him and then he picked one of the partly broken shrapnel from the ground and decided to get to work.
"Just by unlocking the wind affinity, I was able to fight with a level 3 beast although I'm terribly injured, I still came out the victor. Now imagine unlocking more affinities! That's crazy!" Grey laughed loudly like a mad man as he began extracting the crystal cores from the beast.
The cores were located in different part of the beast. And he began extracting them first by going to the abdomen of the beast extracting a shiny crystal core.
Holding it, Grey's eyes gleamed with excitement as it felt like he was holding onto an egg.
"This is… this is the fire core! With this, I would finally have the fire affinity too." He exclaimed as he set the crystal aside and began carving the second core from the chest area of the beast.
"Finally! I would soon have three elements." Grey said when he slowly trailed off.
"No! I don't think it's right for me to unlock more affinities at this time, let me first start slow and steady by cultivating the fire core first. After all, I have already started cultivating it already." Grey said as he quickly tucked the Earth crystal core into his pocket.
Then he took the fire core that was slightly burning. He took it to the foot of the volcano and sat down cross legged with the core in two of his hands and then he closed his eyes.
Grey began breathing in and out slowly trying to replenish his mana core while at the same time drawing in energy from the core.
As Grey drew in energy after energy from the air and the core in his hand, the core was now starting to dim slowly while his chest was glowing even through his somewhat tattered clothing.
After a few minutes, the core stopped shining and it looked dull after serving it's purpose, Grey tossed it away and stood up with a beaming smile on his face.
"Finally! The fire attribute!" He said as he lifted his hand and twirled his finger around.
Then a fire lit up in front of his finger then throwing it outwardly, a thin stream of fire burst out towards the body of the dead beast slightly torching it a bit.
With a smile on his face, Grey walked towards the dead beast and he looked at the spot his fire torched.
"I wouldn't want to damage my prized possession now would I?" He said as he bent down and started carving out the skin of the beast.
In this world, beast skin were quite valuable and they sold for 7 silvers per gram and currently, there were at least two grams of skin on the beast meaning Grey would receive 14 silver coins.
Coins were the world currency. With bronze being the lowest currency followed by silver and then Gold being the highest currency.
Having a single gold coin is a privilege most poor people don't have while silver coins are quite easy to come by if a person worked.
"With this, I would be able to provide for my mom." Grey said before he paused.
"Hold on, what am I going to tell her about this? About how I got injured, and how I even got the skin. Hold on a sec, what am I going to tell the trader? He won't believe that a 15 year old with no magical affinity killed a level 3 beast.
Even most of the adults, would struggle a lot against the level 3 beast." Grey realized as he started pacing around thinking of what to do when a sudden idea hit him like a lightning bolt.
"Yes, I will just have to tell them this." Grey said as he continued carving the skin off the beast quickly.
When he was done, Grey parked up the skins and got ready to leave the forest with his trophies in excitement as he couldn't wait to see his mother's face when he comes back with a pouch filled with shiny silver coins.
Grey began his torturous journey back to the town with his body riddled with injuries but he didn't really feel the pain.
Immediately Grey left the forest, a phenomenon was occuring in the forest as a warping and whooshing sound was heard in the forest.
And then a white space appeared around the forest and two men were seen standing in the forest in the exact same spot Grey just left from.
One of the men who had brown hair left the white haired man and went to where the dead beast lay with its skin totally carved and a huge hole in its head.
"He is adapting real quick." The brown haired man said.
"Yeah, he surprises me too. I can't believe someone as young as him with only the wind affinity managed to kill a level 3 beast." The white haired man said.
"That's quite the achievement if I must say." The brown haired man said as he slowly stood up.
"And now, he has managed to unlock the fire affinity which is the most devastating power ever and quite the rare one I must say." The white haired man who turned out to be the old first mage Grey had met earlier said.
"We need to keep watching him more to see if he will continue growing then we can make our decision if we are going to help him in this upcoming war or not." The brown haired man said.
"Agreed." The first mage said.