Chapter 96: Only Opponent, And Magical Odors (1/2)

It was time to face the only one of the four that I considered an opponent. The other three had been my teachers, each one of them preparing me for this, and it was going to be a fight.

Each time I had been getting better, but something about this time said he was going to be serious, and I couldn't see him anywhere. I didn't take out any of my weapons. Instead, I prepared myself and opened myself up to the area around me.

I could feel him moving around me; Windorf was circling me, looking for an opening. I wasn't going to let him have it, and when he finally made his move, I was ready.

Everything happened in slow motion as I turned and slapped the fist away and then drove my own fist into Windorf's solar plexus area.

Windorf drove an open palm down onto my fist and pushed it to his stomach, where he absorbed the force and then jumped back, but I could read him now. I followed him, pulling my fist back as the two of us leaped in the air, and the moment that we landed, I stepped into Windorf.

I slammed my fist into him, but at the last moment, he disappeared into air vapor. I almost fell and had to roll forward to dodge a cut from the wind blade that Windorf had suddenly sent my way.

He must be furious if he resorts to using a weapon against me, but that wouldn't help him now. I didn't have him as a totem yet, but because I was connected to the other three and I was mostly made of magic or energy, I could feel him around me.

The next attack came as a full-frontal slash, but I could see and feel what he was going to do next or the three possible things that he could do next. The water totems helped me read his movements and the flexibility and reaction to deal with them, but it didn't give me power.

I slapped the blade away with an open palm and then kicked forward like Windorf was a door in my way. The Wind Elemental was kicked back but then disappeared again.

I released Wataluga's Totem and summoned Fireden, and my body started to heat up. My muscles started to feel like they were burning, but I wasn't in pain; they were burning to be used, and that was when Windorf decided he had had enough.

Suddenly, I could sense Windorf all around me, but I remembered this trick, and There could only be one attacking me at any time. The problem was that I could sense four out of the sixteen surrounding me were solid forms of him.

I started to take deep breaths, and each one of them stoked the fire in my muscles like I was revving the engine of a car. Burning red veins started to cover my body, and even my mind started to work faster, and that was when I noticed what Windorf was doing.

Each of him was only one-quarter of himself, which meant only one-fourth as strong as he usually was.

I dashed forward, and the moment I started to move, my mind started to slow the world down as I ran at what I considered to be an average speed. I ran straight at the first Windorf before he could react and smashed him out of the ring, making all but the three others disappear.