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wanted.
    He needed to find some other way to beat this guy. The room was pretty much useless at helping him out. Stone walls didn’t help at all since he didn’t control the Elementa of Earth.
    And the metal walls? The Elementa of metal was an insanely hard Elementa to control, let alone master. It took so much training to perfect that he hadn’t even tried controlling it.
    Wait. Metal , he thought.
    The floor was made of pure metal, and the ceiling was metal too. He threw his hand up at the ceiling above Idhren. The High Priest paid no attention and continued walking towards him, his staff glowing even brighter than before.
    He focused harder, trying to force a good chunk of life energy into his attack.
    C’mon , he thought. Don’t let me down now .
    A small spark flickered from the ceiling.
    Q smiled, Gotcha .
    He brought his hand to the ground, and a hundred bolts of red lightning shot between the two metal surfaces. All around the room a haze of red shone through the air, but smack in the spot where Idhren stood, was a sphere of calm. It was almost as though that region of the room were in a completely different dimension he couldn’t affect.
    For a second, Q really thought Idhren had created his own force field. Who knew what these Druids could do?
    Then he realized what was actually going on. Idhren had pressurized the air around him to form a sort of high density shield of air. Air was one of the best insulators against electricity. Q’s could get past the normal insulation power of air, which is why the lightning was easy to create, but denser air had much greater insulation power, which meant it was harder for lightning to pass through it. Once the air got to a high enough density the insulation strength would be so great that lightning would never be able to get through it.
    And that’s exactly what had happened.
    Damn it , he thought.
    “You will need more than parlor tricks to beat me, boy,” Idhren said and with one simple swing of his staff, dissipated the entire storm of red lightning.
    Q was starting to doubt if he could ever beat this guy. That lightning storm was one of his strongest attacks, and this guy took less than a second to counter it.
    “You have yet to show me your true power,” Idhren pointed his staff at Q, and a blast of wind shot at him.
    Q instinctively threw his hands in front of him. A wall of translucent white rose from the floor a few yards away and isolated him and Idhren from each other. He looked through the translucent barrier and saw a wide smile across Idhren’s face.
    “A barrier from the Elementa of light,” the High Priest smiled.
    The orb at the top of his staff went from aquamarine to bright white. Loud thuds came from the white wall and small cracks started to form all over it.
    The wind , he thought.
    Idhren was concentrating the air into high density regions and ramming it into the wall, almost like a sledge hammer. Q tried to channel out more of his life energy to strengthen his barrier, but he knew he faced a far more fundamental problem - he had no clue how he’d put up that barrier. The key to mastering an Elementa was creating visual cues to help set up a wave-skill, and right now Q had no cues at all.
    The thudding stopped abruptly, and Idhren took a few steps back, swirling his staff around before pointing it to the ceiling.
    “ Extieum ,” he said.
    A funnel of wind shot out of the staff, like a raging tornado, and crashed through the barrier, shattering it into nothing. Q flew through the air once again, this time hitting the stone wall before slumping to the floor.
    Ugh , he thought.
    He’d been utterly defeated by the High Priest, even though the man had only used his Elementa of wind.
    Idhren calmly walked over to him, the soft thuds of his staff accompanying his steps, “That was a good battle, my boy,” he said.
    “I can’t believe you beat me,” Q said.
    It wasn’t the nicest thing to say but he was genuinely stupefied. He was pretty