I formed two water swords , one for each hand and once again rushed towards my opponent this time seriously.

I moved in a zigzag pattern evading any Air Palms that Gale threw my way while also closing the distance slowly.

" Heh ,your little wind tricks won't keep you from me for long."

"Hmph."

I continued evading the attacks until I finally arrived before my opponent.

*Slash*

I did a downwords slash with my right water sword aiming for Gales neck, but I was blown away by a sudden strong gust of wind in the nick of time.

" Wind Lots Bloom."

The omnidirectional wind blew away anything in Gales vicinity including me. I was not hurt in any way but the distance between us was widened again.

"Heh, where is your boosting now? Didn't you say that you would be getting serious ,or is this your true power.

Pathetic."

I smiled. This guy was a crafty one. He was intentionally trying to make me mad by insulting me so I would make a mistake he could exploit.

He was definitely an experienced fighter by the looks of it ,but by his attack strategy his battle's were mostly with humans and that was his own downfall.

.....

During the many months I had spent living in the Forest of Hundred Perils I had fought with myriads of different creatures all of which had their own fighting style and by fighting with them I learned a lot.

One of the most important lessons was that if you couldn't win a fight you don't stay and battle to your last breath , but you ran .

I had run from a lot of fights, to many to count , but after each retreat I became more experienced in fighting different types of creatures and found the way to kill them with minimal effort.

This also made Gales taunting towards me like a refreshing breeze , but he didn't know that.

" You will pay for what you said.

Hah."

I looked like a mad beast rushing reclesly towards my opponent while he bombarded me with ranged wind elemental attacks.

* Boom* * Boom* * Boom* * Boom*

Wind elemental attacks kept hitting me ,but most of the them were cut down by my water swords.

I continued rushing towards Gale , but each time I came within striking distance he would release his omnidirectional wind elemental attack creating a gap between us before starting to bombard me again with ranged attacks.

This continued for a couple of times until I did something unexpected.

While rushing towards Gale like all the times before in the last two meters I suddenly speed up.

During all this time I had made Gale think that the speed I was moving until now was my top speed, but that was only my strategy.

Gale was unable to react in time as I arrived again within striking range and striked with both my swords towards his waist.

*Slash* *Whoosh*

One of my attacks connected but only managed to wound Gale slightly because even though he missed the opportunity to release his omnidirectional wind attack he managed to move backwards enough to avoid severe damage.

"You...

"Heh, why are you surprised? Didn't you want to see my full power!"

"It seems like I underestimated you,but not anymore."

Gale took a loose stance with both hands to his side and started to release huge amounts of wind elemental energy. The amount was so big that it was clearly visible.

The wind elemental energy was mostly concentrated on his limbs. The energy was not being released randomly, but took the form of small rotating tornadoes on each limb.

He took a horse stance semignly wanting to continue with the same attack pattern, but that was not entirely true. He started again attacking me but this time he punched towards me instead of the previous Air Palm.

" I'll see how you evade this!

HAT."

* phew phew phew phew phew phew phew phew *

He rapidly punched in my direction releasing the wind elemental energy that surrounded his arms. Unlike before the elemental energy was more compressed and had a rotating effect added, making it a more powerful and faster attack.

* bam bam bam bam bam bam*

I was pelted by a myriad of wind attack which were to fast to doge so the most logical thing to defend.

I created a thick circular shield of water in front of me to protect me from the rapid attacks,but I didn't end there. I also spun the water shield in a clockwise motion making the attack lose some of its forward momentum when they met the rotating force of the water shield.

*Boom* *Boom* *Boom**Boom*

Gale continued to attack me for about one minute ,but he found out that the water shield was holding strongly so he changed strategy.

He stopped with the ranged attacks and decided he would fight me hand to hand.

He rushed towards me with incredible speed using the propelling force of the two wind elemental tornadoes in his feet.

He arrived before me in the blink of an eye and threw a straight punch at me.