Gravity well

“Stop,” I snapped, fingers curling into claws as my power moved. Keppel jerked and then all but flew back along the ice until it suddenly grew in layers around his feet, anchoring him. I pushed forward as he was stilled, reaching Nora’s side in a moment, and drew another crystal from my Inventory.
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Seeing the effect wasn’t doing anything to stop him, I stopped the flow of power to it, already feeling sweat forming on my skin from the exertion. As I let up on the pressure and prepared to switch to something else, he stopped his approach as well and held back, casting a quick glance at Nora. The temperature around her had changed again, but it was probably more comfortable the way it was now; it didn’t require a shift on my part. Better yet, she wasn’t in the immediate line of fire and I was close enough to get in the way of any attack directed her way regardless. Still, I drew Levant and Xihai to her, thawing my Water Elemental with a surge of heat. Just in case.

Only once that was taken care of did I look down at the window that had appeared before me.

A skill has been created through a special action! By combining many elemental affinities, the skill 'Gravity Well’ has been created.

‘Gravity Well,’ huh? I’d figured it was something along those lines, but it had been so instinctual, the power rising to my fingers at my sheer desire to push Keppel back. That was…useful, in a way, but also dangerous. At a guess, I’d say there was a pretty close correlation between the MP I spent and the kilograms of force that affected target. Potentially useful given training and time to level the ability, but as a new skill it wasn’t cost-effective against a high-level Hunter. That I was growing skilled enough with the Elements to combine them so effortlessly was appealing, but I’d need to be careful in how I did so, now especially.