Feeling the wind cut sharply at his skin and the wood-elental clothes drawing blood, Jash gritted his teeth to the point of smashing them.
'Damn it! I must've gone crazy to try this brutal thod!' He cursed himself inwardly for being impatient.
It was not like he only had one day to achieve everything, and the sa were the thoughts of the observing few, having been already shocked by his craziness with the water elent.
Though they were used to all kinds of sights and easily dismissed Jash's actions as his talent, they really had a hard ti accepting the current situation.
Should we pull him out?" asked a taciturn voice, though a hint of surprise lingered.
Before the person next to him could even respond, a cold, almost chilling, voice entered their ears, "Not allowed."
The two didn't dare respond, shuddering under the voice of their enigmatic supervisor.
They might have harbored thoughts of pulling Jash out forcefully before he triggered the safety chanism, but after being stopped, they wouldn't dare even if they were dead!
Unaware of being noticed by another strong person behind-the-scenes, Jash tasted the tallic blood in his mouth from his bleeding lips.
'This is my own decision! I must persevere!' He recited inside his mind, trying to stay calm.
However, his situation truly wasn't all that good.
His body was covered in wounds from the wind current, with the wood-elental clothing sliced in different places.
Yet it was trying to shield him and at the sa ti heal his injuries, letting the wood elent sink inside his body alongside the infested wind-elent.
Although risky, this was the only thod Jash could co up with to awaken their mutated elent with wind as the base elent.
Not much reason behind his choice, just that he felt it was better to awaken wind for its versatility and wood for its healing factor.
That's why he even chose such a set of wood-elental clothing that really focused on healing and nourishing vitality only.
'Ugh! The pain is really repulsive!' Jash thought with a self-mocking smile despite his bleeding lips and fresh cut on his face.
At this point, he didn't have any extensive reaction to pain as if it were second nature to him and it was his old companion, like his little lover.
Yet his concentration had never left the elental mana that pervaded his body, trying to grasp just a tiny bit of its strand and connect it to his mana core.
With his multi-elental affinity, it wouldn't be hard to awaken any elent, so he was pretty sure it would work.
Truly, he didn't have to wait long as a strand of the lightest green mixed with denser shades of green ca into his senses.
For one, he could feel it inside his body rather than it directly acting upon the intended parts.
And as he could faintly manipulate and ascertain his will, his lips unconsciously curled upwards despite the increasing red.
'Soon!' He exclaid inwardly, sensing the increase in the number of strands he found inside his body resembling the first one.
However, each strand was unique, with its own sense of presence, as if they were all different mutated elents resulting from Jash's crazy attempt.
No one would usually make such a gamble, but then again, Jash was a bit crazy, even in his previous life, so it matched well with him.
'Now, which one do I connect?' Stay connected through m-v l|e'-
The question bothered him to no extent as it would directly impact what kind of elent he would gain.
Although he was sure to be able to use any mutated elent to a good extent and easily be able to control it, a sense of nervousness still washed over him.
In the end, he didn't have to wait for long before the first strand completely submitted to him, directly shooting towards the mana core.
Cold sweat covered his bloody face as sothing beyond his expectations happened at the critical juncture, taking him by surprise.
'Thankfully, I am not looking for more mutate elents,' he smiled bitterly, fully aware of his barbaric and spartan thods, which wouldn't bode him well.
In the next second, a flash of information entered his mind as the complex elental mana entered his mana core and resonated with it.
It halted the dreadful phenona around him, giving him ti to breathe before the environnt around him subtly changed.
It was filled with trees, shrubs, greens—made of wind—that swayed alongside the moving wind.
With closed eyes in full concentration, there was zero chance for Jash to see it, being busy sorting around the flash of inspiration and information in his mind.
Not even aware of himself, the new elent surrounded his body.
A light, flowing current resembling the essence of trees and the winds, flowing like a gentle breeze yet symbolizing strength and durability like that of wood.
The elent seed to represent the harmony between the grounded strength of trees and the fluid, dynamic nature of air.
It was a true embodint of both stability and freedom.
However, that wasn't all it could do!
Jash had to himself explore the elent and discover the manifold uses it could have.
But his body was currently floating a little with the help of the wind elent that was the base of his new elent which he used relatively well.
Simple shapes of birds with varying green colors appeared floating around him, taking on the shapes of giant monsters to the smallest of insects.
In the next second, a light-green hue covered his body, slowly healing his wounds and similarly generating the lost blood deep inside his body.
It was a double-healing, more akin to regeneration than the usual thod of using one's own lifespan to accelerate the healing of wounds employed by most healers and doctors.
Unlike wood-elentals or water-elentals, who were limited to their elental mana, his healing power originated from the air around him as well as the wood-elent.
It was a two-in-one comprehensive healing that would make one envy such a skill.
Alas, the pain and reward were really in ratio as if saying high-risk high-reward ca true.
At that final mont, Jash ca to himself and only a raspy cough echoed from within.
"What... the?"
He couldn't help but break his speech, his slightly dry chapped lips cracking at his own voice.
He had just felt the information of his new elent and its basic understanding flash by his mind and by the ti he could grasp it, he felt he lost a huge opportunity.
'If only I knew!'
Jash lanted his lack of knowledge or he would've held true to his genius aspect and learned as much as he could infer from the scrambled knowledge.
It didn't co from his past life or present life, but directly bestowed for unlocking this elent for the first ti in the whole world.
Centuries back, such occurrences were common but even millennials had passed, so it was too hard for one to awaken new elents.
"Ziva also had this when she awakened," he sighed, not anticipating he would have such a bout of new elents.
He knew about her case solely because it was ntioned in passing in the novel, not because she told him or he heard of it from anyone.
As it was a rare occurrence, it naturally invited unwanted problems, so anyone would want to hide it, masking the knowledge of Ziva's elent back then.
'Her family really put in so effort,' he smiled bitterly, knowing his own situation was sowhat better.
'But what do I call it?' he wondered in intrigue.
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