A glimpse into the shadow (3)

The loud rumbling roar of the shadow screeches from the distance. I could immediately tell that this "special training" was not going be fun in the slightest. Sotaki was no going easy on me.

I would ask if he was joking around, but this seems like the only time he was actually serious.

The trees did not stand long as the shadow approaches me directly. It had no eyes to speak of and It had several teeth, it was molar, the bite of that shadow would crush me rather than it tearing me apart.

I quickly dashed as fast as I could, I didn't think it would be like this. The Eyeless shadow is quickly approaching me. I hid myself behind a Boulder, I tried to make no noise, I calmed myself down and I was basically a corpse. But to no avail, the boulder that I was hiding behind was crushed before I knew it. I instantly ran away again.

It seems as though It cannot hear and I completely dismissed about the fact that it does not have ears and it also have a huge visible nostrils with bushy nose hair to booth.

I definitely noticed that it could smell me, and I don't think that it has tracking magic of sorts since magic is fairly new. I do need to come up with a solution non the less.

I know I cannot run forever as I would quickly exaust myself by doing so. But I cannot attack here from this distance since all I would achieve is enraging the beast. As for now I will use my ability "gust" to keep my distance.

I made use of my spell [gust] to quickly propell myself through the plains and made quite a bit of distance against the shadow.

I then prepared myself to cast one of my spells that I created recently, that's right, It's the [explosive fireball] that I had created while I was experimenting with magic.

I aim my hand towards the shadow, channeling my mana. I made sure to feed the spell most of my mana till my limits before I pass out. Basically speaking I will leave myself with enough mana so that I would not pass out.

"Here goes, [Explosive Fireball] !"

The fireball goes flying, I sure hope that It hits because I would be pretty much out of options if It misses.

"Oh there it goes!"

It hit right on the shadow and it was immediately followed by a large explosion. There was also a large amount of smoke that also followed afterwards.

"Is it over?" I asked myself, After a while the smoke cleared out revealing the shadow with little to no scratch.

"That was a nice explosion indeed, but you seem to forget that shadows are invisible to most people" Tao Sotaki commented as he laughed hysterically.

I said no words and simply showed  my middle finger to the sky. I couldn't express myself with just words how irritated I was.

The shadow was now very furious, all I could do was run. I also had a strong odour when I'm sweating so running doesn't help much. What else could I do anyways?

After a while I finally have enough distance from the shadow and I  decided to rest for a while. Think! Think! Think!

After focusing for a while, I had a bright idea. This would be my all of nothing, if I could not defeat the shadow with magic, I would defeat it with my fists!

After a few minutes of waiting, I, now have enough magic to cast very basic spells, so I will create a new one. To be exact I will create two spells, the first one being a water spell, that would behave like a whirlpool, for convenience sake I will name it [whirlpool], and the other being [heat emittion].

Creating the [whirlpool] spell was an easy feat, But I struggled with [heat emittion], it was difficult to make it the exact temperature I wanted. Even with that struggle I could somehow manage to complete the spell.

After creating the spells, I immediately stripped myself .I made a dummy with the abundance of leafs and sticks around me, it was nowhere near perfect but it would do the job.

I then used [whirlpool] to get rid of my sweat that I was drowning in. Of course that would not be enough to cleanse me of my awful smell. Since human can survive about the maximum temperature of 47°C, but considering that the human body is amplified by magic, I bumped up the temperature to about 65°C, just enough to quickly kill bacterias. It was only for a while but it was painful.

I then played the waiting game. The dummy had my clothes and I waited for the shadow to hunt me. It didn't take very long for shadow to quickly be approach "my" location.

It came for the bite, then I used [gust] to jump on its back, I preceded to run towards the head, while it was busy chewing the other me, I pulled his bushy nose hair with all my strength.

This is hard, It is struggling and and I have never been in a rodeo before. I pulled and tried, with all my strength in fact, but it was way too difficult.I used my left hand to hold hair tightly, and I released my right and punched with an amplified strength with the help of my mana. I landed a hit and It affect the shadow unlike my [explosive fireball]. I felt a rush of adrenaline.

"I DID IT! YOU HEAR THAT!" screaming as I Celebrated my victory.

"Very well, you did good. But the goal of the training was not to defeat the shadow, but to gain one" Said Tao Sotaki.

he continued," Well you did somewhat completed the task though, although it is not fully developed yet, it should be of some help"

confused I asked,"What are you talking about?"

"look to your left, that is your incomplete shadow

As instructed I looked to my left to see a blob floating.