"You guys are starting to piss me off now!" Bale shouted and then his mana began seeping out of him as fire erupted all around his body.
"Oh?! You are a fire mage too, interesting." Grey smiled.
"I want every single mage in this room to attack all of them but leave that red haired kid for me!" Bale shouted and then the twenty men that were standing around with the remaining mages all prepared to attack while Bale jumped up from his throne and landed in front of Grey while thrusting his palm that was blazing hot with fire all around it towards his abdomen.
Quickly reacting, Grey raised an Earth wall just in time to block the palm strike but then to his surprise, the Earth got caught in flames and he was pushed back a few feet from his position.
'What the hell?' Grey thought when he saw a fireball heading towards him rapidly. Without wasting time, he shot out a fireball of his own but to his greatest surprise, Bale's fireball swallowed his whole and was heading towards him.
'His spell casting speed is fast? And I don't think I'm imagining it but he might be a little more powerful than I am.' Grey thought as Earth was beginning to surround his hand and then thrusting it forward, it crashed with the incoming fireball causing it to go up in flames.
'Lucky for me that my fireball managed to weaken his a little earlier otherwise, I would have been toast… But what level of mage is he?' Grey thought worriedly as he could see Bale moving his hand around in a circular motion.
And then thrusting it, a roaring blaze of fire was heading towards Grey looking as if it wanted to swallow him whole.
"Shit!" Grey said and then squeezing his hands tight, a huge amount of fire blazed around him and the clapping his hands together, a thin shot of fire like a bullet came out fast and hit the blazing fire heading towards him dissipating it and therefore causing smoke to appear all around.
"Impressive!" Bale said as he was seen coming out of the smoke so fast that for a second, the smoke got cleared before coming back together again and then he was seen in front of Grey about to grab his face with his flamery hands.
"You're fast, but I'm more skillful!" Grey smiled and his hands coated with earth magic, was seen above him and then he used it to block Bale's hit before delivering a strong punch with his other hand still being covered with Earth into his stomach causing him to cough out blood and then he was sent skidding a few metres.
Grey looked at his earth covered hands in surprise as he couldn't believe the amount of strength he displayed from that single punch.
'Right! It is Earth magic, it is naturally stronger and I was able to still control it making it sturdy and stronger.' he thought as he looked up to see Bale kneeling down with his hands on his stomach.
"Fast! Strong and skillful!" Bale commented as he looked at his hands and then smiled before slowly standing up. "But you are forgetting one thing, I'm still smarter and I am not the town's lord for no reason!" He declared as his hands blazed brightly again and then he went shooting towards Grey like a rocket as his hands were behind him shooting out fire aiding his movements.
"He can do that?!" Grey was surprised and was unable to move in time as Bale crashed into him and also shooting out a fireball at him causing him to go flying and crashing into the wall cracking it slightly.
"Haha!" Bale laughed. "You might be a dual elementalist, but you are still a kid without much experience in fighting humans. Looking at your fire powers, I can feel that it is a purple grade same as mine but mine is still more stronger… why?
That is because it is a mid purple grade."
Color grades were also divided into sub sections like low, mid and high. A mid- purple fire mage was still a little stronger than a low-purple fire mage by a slight margin. And that was what Bale was displaying currently as his fire magic totally overwhelmed Grey's own.
"You are wrong!" Grey shouted as he was seen slowly standing up but was still kneeling with his hands on the floor and his upper clothes burnt off from his body while still having scorch marks on his body and face which was bleeding also.
"I'm not a dual elementalist!" Grey smirked and then he slammed his hands into the ground.
"Earth magic! Bind!" Immediately, Bale felt his feet stuck to the ground with Earth surrounding his legs making him unable to move from his position.
And then, the whole room suddenly got windy as papers went flying around and rubbles along with dirt were also lifted around in the room then slowly, the wind surrounded Grey who was seen standing up and letting it surround him more causing a tornado to be formed around him.
Everybody in the room felt the powerful wind magic as they all turned around to see it surrounding a certain red haired individual.
"Such powerful wind magic!" The wind mage commented while breaking out in a terrible cold sweat.
"The rumours weren't exaggerated at all, he is as strong as it comes and he really is a multi elementalist!" The ice mage said feeling his heart thump loudly while remembering the short exchange with Grey in the carriage.
"He… he was right, he could easily kick our arse without breaking a sweat." The ice mage mumbled as they looked at what Grey was about to do but they were suddenly interrupted by the twenty mages in the room as they lifted their hands about to unleash several spells on them.
"Now that your speed has been taken care of, let's do something about you." Grey smirked and then called out. "Wind magic! Tornado wind blades!"
Right on cue, several blades of wind were sent Bale's way at tremendous speed that he knew it would be difficult to avoid but before it crashed into him, something crashed in front of Bale throwing dust around and then, in a flash, the wind blades were broken easily.
Which caused Grey to raise an eyebrow in confusion and when the dust slowly settled, he was even more confused and shocked by who broke his wind blades.