I can see right now that since out intelligence and spell competency are roughly comparable that I'll get nowhere fast and this will be a battle of attrition unless I do something unheard of to end this quick. I don't like the method I'm about to use but desperate times call for desperate measures. This abillity I'm about to use comes exclusively from the fact that I'm an elemental. For as long as Wizards have been alive they have tried to harness the power of lightning. To some extent they succeeded. Powerful enough wizards can conjure lightning storms willy nilly but getting those strikes to hit a specific target? Many believe it to be impossible, and to shoot lighting from a wand? many have tried and many have died. I researched this and found out why. In shooting lighting from your wand what you essentially are doing is substituting magic for electricity in terms of power, converting magical potential into electrical potential. The problem with doing this is in order for it to shoot out of your wand you have to direct it out of your body in that direction using magic. This simple enough to do, the problem is what comes as a result. Magical energy is way more powerful than any generator or battery on the planet. when you convert it to electrical potential and arc it out of your wand you're sending and insurmountable level of Volts through your body. So you can shoot lightning out of your wand but the result is that both you and whatever you hit experience what it's like to be struck with lightning. All 300 million volts of it. Unlike normal lightning Wizards decided if they were going to shoot lightning it was going to be a sustained arc rather than a strike. as a result anyone that has ever attempted this feat has either immediately died of heart failure as the current gives them a heart attack or been so badly burned by the sustained voltage running through their body they end up comprised more of charcoal than person. Knowing that this could be my ace in the hole I place a ward I designed around my hear to keep my heartrate consistent no matter the electrical current passed over it. I only decided to pursue this type of magic after finding that for short stretches of time I could take on the aspect of one of my elementals to gain immunity to that element for a short interval. I can't do it for long only a few seconds but with magic like this that's all I need.