We took our stances as I prepared to strike him first. But then something unexpected happened.

Ethan simply vanished before my eyes, and all I could feel was wind rushing through me. As Wind Blades, more than ten slashes of wind were launched behind my back. Fortunately for me, I can deflect it with my earth mana. He's fast...like super fast. This explains his Lightning mana.

However, just as I turned around, Ethan smiled.

"My back!" I yelled and attempted to turn around. But there was a lightning crackling along with Ethan's wind blade, causing the blade to spin much faster than it should, and it slashed through my back and front like a sword.

"Hey, Kid, you're not half bad!" Though, I didn't use my full power yet.

"Mr. Blue Grim, are you certain you're not feeling something? You think my techniques are half-decent!"

Ethan said, but at that time, I didn't understand. I felt the wind blowing through my face as he began to create Wind blades again.

This child...

He sawed my mask in half. Well, look at this little guy.... Now I understand why my student Edwin was so excited to meet Ethan.

hmm.

Ethan created Wind Blades to attack me again and again, but I reinforced my earth mana in my hands and body to deflect all of his attacks.

It would be foolish to strike him, as his speed is comparable to that of a Light Yellow cored mage. I'm curious what kind of training Edwin gives this little kid to get this much power out of his small body.

Ethan vanished just as a swarm of blades descended on me. I didn't have time to counter him because he was so fast. And as I slowly turned back as I deflected every wind blade, I was overcome with a sense of evil, chills, and goosebumps. I began to reflect on my childhood.

running away from death Behind me, the kid's terror was like a wrathful monster smiling to brutally destroy me. He started mana manipulation to reinforce mana and started to pierce my back as he slid behind me with an evil smile.

Then, as Ethan leapt above my head like a phantom, directing his blades around me, all wind blades that had previously been scattered in the air, gathered into a neat row with lightning reinforcement, orderly and sequentially cut toward the same position on the back of me.

"Now then!"

This child's strength has been demonstrated. But he lacks the necessary potency. He requires more refinement and sharpness. This test should be halted. Right now.

So I just stood there and raised my right hand, closing all of my fingers.

"Earthen Cage!"

The spell reverberated throughout the room, and suddenly, a four-sided wall, more resembling a small prison, rose from the ground and entrapped Ethan inside. Ethan tried everything he could to break through, but his mana core level is insufficient to do so.