Chapter 54

Before receiving the heavy blow, Leo quickly added his air armor around his body to cushion the punch. However, he was still sent flying until he hit the wall made of rocks behind him. Slipping into unconsciousness, all the events that he went through until now started to flow in.

Memory after memory began to surface in his mind as time seemed to stop entirely around him. First it was when he faced a monster for the first time, then the goblins, all the way until the training in the city with Noah. These memories were very small compared to the last one that popped into his head.

"Sweetie, did you eat enough today? You must eat so that you can grow into a fine adult!" his mother called out to him as he saw himself laying down in his dark room. Feeling exhausted and sick of living, he just continued to lay there in the same spot.

Seeing his old self just laying down in a miserable state, shook Leo greatly. This all seemed too real as he looked around the room and saw all his previous possessions. Though not many, they were all seen by him and that is when he turned around.

"Mother? Father?" Leo called out as he saw his parents now standing in front of him. He was now in a white space filled with pure nothingness except for him and his parents.

"We were always proud of you." Leo's mother said as she walked towards him as she gave him a big hug. Leo could remember this warmth. His mother may have been ill, but every time she hugged him, he could feel a special kind of warmth flowing through his body.

"She is right you know." His father walking towards him said as he patted Leo on the back. "Now why don't you wake up now?" he continued while his eyes locked with Leo.

"I am sorry." With several tears starting to form within his eyes, Leo started to hug his mother tighter as he held onto his father with the other hand forming a group hug between them.

"We understand." Were the final words his parents told him as their bodies faded away, leaving Leo all alone in this blank space. Closing his eyes, Leo's body began to shake uncontrollably. The level of emotions he was currently feeling, was something that one couldn't measure with mere words.

"Hahaha! Come on now little one, you have more than that, right?" the spider now walking over in a winning type posture called out with an evil smirk on its face. "Do not disappoint this senior now, otherwise I might just eat you from being let down so hard."

As it walked over, the spider continued to ridicule Leo, not noticing the changes that were being made on Leo's body. Leo's body started to glow in a dark bronze color, as his eyes changed into a Crimson Dark Red coloring as air started to lift his body up.

"I never got to say goodbye because I was selfish." Leo said so softly that not even the heavens could understand what he said.

"Come on now, if you are going to respond with using only your words, you are going to need to say them a little louder!" now laughing in a sinister tone, the spider started to pump itself up yet again as it remained only several yards away from Leo's position.

In this moment, Leo finally transformed himself into a completely different form. Before, he seemed like a preteen just trying to play hero, while now he looked like a Wind entity that wanted to blow away everything in his path.

Feeling a weird pressure radiating out of Leo, the spider started to become more serious as he watched him, waiting to defend himself against Leo's next attack. "I put my all into that last punch, but he was able to survive?" thought the spider as he watched Leo carefully.

Suddenly, Leo disappeared from the spider's sight in an instant. It happened so fast, that the spider had to blink several times before looking around the rest of the area to located Leo. "How did this kid manage to hide himself from me?"

"Hey kid, wherever you are, you should come out and play with me before I die of bordum!" shouting out many taunts, the spider was still unable to locate Leo's position. This angered the spider, before it realized something. "If his elemental affinity is wind, that must mean that he is- "

Before he could finish his thought and act upon it, a small tornado formed around the spider, causing his body to slowly float within the air, as over ten clones encircled the spider, leaving no room for it to respond to the attack.

The clones all had wind flowing around their arms, as the wind element formed into wind daggers, before they made their move against the spider. With many slashing and stabbing motions, the clones started to cause many spots on the spider to bleed out uncontrollably as it shrieked in pain.

Watching the show, Leo stood at the very top of this small tornado with his eyes looking down upon the spider trapped within. Leo's blood lust was something that threatened every single one of his opponents up to this point. However, right now his eyes, were what was really releasing pressure.

Coldness, only coldness and sorrow were what you would describe while seeing Leo's gaze. Neither life nor death was clear while looking into these eyes. Emptiness, only emptiness was present, and some regret.

Raising his right hand, Leo started to chant yet another spell. Back within the tornado, the spider started to transform itself into its true spider form as small spikes covered its body as it grew to seven feet tall. "How dare you play such tricks on me!" the spider shouted as it finally finished transforming.

Unfortunately, before the spider could act against Leo, the clones that surrounded him started to shake violently. The spider was too enraged to notice, but even if it was able to notice the change, it would have been too late for it. In a mere instant, all ten clones exploded and released an infinite amount of wind that sliced up the spider and causing the tornado to disperse from the impact.