Journey Of A Legend

In the middle of a flat surface surrounded with average-sized rocks, Greg was calmly breathing the air in and out.

While he was motionlessly sitting in one place, Joe was inspecting him from the dark cave, with his sword in his hand, while his two Soul Creatures were scanning the proximity continuously.

Knowing that from now on he was in those three care, Greg relaxed his body and started to think about his last element.

Darkness. An element that was always useful to Greg no matter what situation he was in.

If he was in need to carry any objects or materials, he could easily use it as luggage. If he needed to approach targets sneakily or escape from dire situations, he could always depend on this element no matter of what.

Also, let's not talk about the moment when he used this element in the tournament to pull his enemy through his own shadow and throw him high up into the air just only to be turned into crisp by Mila's power.

With such all-rounded ability, Greg could easily attack or support anyone he wanted.

However, just like all of his other elements, this one had its disadvantages too.

For example, the more stuff he put into his shadow, the more his movements would become restricted and heavier.

Furthermore, to the range he could use his darkness element was only a mile. Maybe in close combat, it was very useful, but in a large scale battle, against an enemy who was a long-range fighter, this power would become totally useless.

Also, let's not talk about the fact that every time he used this power, his stamina would be depleted rapidly, making his body weak if he used it continuously.

So if you look at it like this, his darkness element was a great asset as a support but had no attacking or defending traits at all.

However, these thoughts of his were totally changed when he read Kuragari's book, which was given to him as a help.

Next to the Special Respiration Technique which was written in it, Kuragari wrote down also the years of his experiences with his darkness element.

Just like him, Kuragari thought in the beginning that darkness could only be useful as a transportation system, which helped the owner travel through shadows.

However, his view on this element change when he found out the full potential of the darkness element.

Darkness in itself was a shadow that no one could control and even its shape was given by other objects and materials. 

However, what will happen if you try to form an object out of shadow? Out of pure darkness? Can you make it dense enough to be able to fight with it? Well... The answer that Kuragari found was a solid yes.

Just like how he formed his clones and weapons, Kuragari wrote down every detail to help Greg achieve what he did.

However the moment Greg tried to imitate Kuragari's way, unfortunately, he needed to realize that he couldn't.

No matter how hard he tried to control the shadows around him, he couldn't make them to form any objects. Not a single one.

It wasn't because he was weak or an idiot, but because his darkness element's traits were totally different from Kuragari's.

After attempting a few more tries, Greg decided to give up and think about another solution when he broke through his other elements. But the moment he saw the Dark Creature back in the woods, he instantly realized something.

"What if my darkness element doesn't need to be used to attack?"

The moment this question appeared in his head, Greg understood something.

All of his elements had one thing in common. And it was the fact that each of them was mainly focusing on supporting him. 

Wind and earth. Except for controlling the two elements, his wind element's main purpose was to warn Greg from unseen attacks and dangers while the earth's vibration helped him scan and see things that he wouldn't be able to normally.

His water and fire elements however were helping him differently. He could use both of them to resist against intensely high and low temperatures, while also he could use them to control the combat during a battle.

Of course, he didn't try to use them in that way, because he had no chance to do so, but theoretically, it was quite feasible.

But the most important factor that those two elements had was the fact that Greg could use them for fighting.

Especially his fire element. Greg knew for sure that out of his six elements his fire element was the most destructive during combat. And because his flames were golden because of his Special Activation, his attacks were much more disastrous than any other normal fires.

However, even like this, right at the moment what Greg could say for sure, that the most potential out of his six elements his light element had.

Even though he just broke through not long ago with that element of his, he understood its usage entirely.

Just like his other four elements, this was also a power that focused on support. Next to the fact that it could accelerate his speed without limit, the most shocking trait it had was its strange area like power.

The moment the white light expanded from his body, anyone or anything inside it would become drastically slower than normally, making Greg's circumstances in the fight to become much easier.

It was like this element's real power wasn't to control light, but to control the time around himself. Unfortunately this theory was hard to guess, because the moment Greg broke through with it, he looked at it as the element of light. If not, it was quite possible he wouldn't have been able to break through, no matter what.

So because of this, he just put this problem to the side and will only think about the real answer when the right time comes.

However, because it was this powerful, he could only use it for a limited time which was five minutes at max. Any more than that and his body would collapse without hesitation, making his whole being defenseless instantly.

As Greg thought about all of this, his line of thought finally arrived at his last element.

"What if my darkness element's true purpose is not to help me in combat but to help me in protection? Just let's think about it. All of my elements are helping me in that kind of role in a way or another. My earth element is for long-range scanning, my wind element is for proximity warning. But even if the attacks are able to come through both, I have my light element to slow down the assault, helping me to dodge easily. However, if that fails too, I have my ice element's Jade Skin and also my golden flames to protect myself and start a counterattack."

As Greg thought about this, he frowned slightly and asked himself, "So how could this final element help me too?"

However, suddenly Greg realized the fact that he couldn't control all six of his elements at the same time, so even if he had so much layer of protection and support, with only one element active, he was quite vulnerable.

"I see!", said Greg after realizing this fact and thought, "Then what I need is an element that has absolute protection. A power that can save my life even from fatal attack.", said Greg and after thinking for a while, suddenly his eyes brightened and thought with excitement.

"And I exactly know how to achieve that!"

Instantly as he said that and the idea appeared in his head, the shadow around his body started to move and with slow motion, it engulfed his whole body.

Slowly but surely, the darkness that enveloped Greg's whole body started to shrink bit by bit, and after 15 minutes just like his Jade Skin, a thin layer of darkness covered his skin, making him look quite eerie.

Opening his eyes, Greg picked up a small stone from the ground and three at his other palm.

Concentrating on his palm, Greg watched as the stone was about to touch his, however the moment it reached the layer of darkness it vanished instantly without touching his skin even a bit.

However, just as Greg wanted to compliment the sight, the layer of darkness started to slowly vanish from his skin, making him realize that his body got several times exhausted.

"Woah... I just used it for only a few seconds and my body became this tired...", said Greg and wanted to try this new power of his again, however just as he was about to do so, suddenly the last cycle inside his body started to move.

"It's here!"

One pulse after another, the sixth cycle started to turn black like an abyss and release dim black light from under his skin with each of the pulses.

Knowing what he should do, Greg took out his energy crystal with the darkness attribute and started to consume it.

Bit by bit, the crystal melted into his skin, forming a small layer around the pulsating Sixth Flow and stabilizing it gradually as time went on.

Seconds ticked by one after another and after almost 10 minutes, Greg has finally finished consuming the crystal, making the Sixth Flow to form inside his body.

"Be ready.", said Alice inside Greg's head.

Greg knew this was only the beginning too, and without hesitation, he prepared himself for the real breakthrough, and just a second later he did...

*KA-BOOOOM!*

*Crack!!*

*TREMBLE!!*

Immediately, the dim black light around Greg's body which was pulsating all this time, exploded out toward the sky above powerfully, while making the ground near Greg form small cracks instantly.

Even the Typhoon Beast and the little fairy needed to distance themselves from Greg, showing just how strong the shockwave and the explosion truly was.

Joe inside the cave stood up slowly and looked at Greg, ready to save him any given moment if he saw he was in danger.

However, he didn't know that this 'small' explosion that broke out of Greg's body was only the beginning and the rest was still on its way.

***

Somewhere in the far distance far away from the bottom of the mountain, a humanoid tiger in ancient clothing was walking slowly, when suddenly it heard a huge explosion following a small tremor.

*KA-BOOM!*

Turning around to see what just happened, the creature instantly noticed the thick ash black pillar light in the distance, making its expression to turn confused.

However the moment it's eyes changed color as he used a skill to see what was happening there, suddenly a creepy smile formed on its face.

"Found you!"