Fortunately he has good balance and he catches himself before he falls over.

Then he places one of the smol totems on the altar and blows on it.

He gets a smol air totem! Would he like to use it? Maybe against that other giant bat swooping down at him?

He would, and then he'd like to recharge it.

He will then be able to recharge it just in time to use against the other bat that joined the first one.

He does so and then – recalls that the average totem only gets consumed if used to produce air and making a breeze does not count.

Treasure chest – nearby?

It materializes as soon as he thinks about it.

He runs over to it and grabs the average wind totem out of it.

Clear targets?

Do a couple of giant bats counts as targets?

Yes. He tries to fling them away with a strong breeze.

They are blown away out of sight. Anthony even hears a yelp that might be one of the bats colliding with something in a painful manner. However any reprieve is short-lived as a bat (impossible to tell if it's a new one) charges down at Anthony with surprising speed.

He rolls out of the way while also trying to knock it off-course.

That bat is diverted and hits the altar. Anthony can hear the horrible sound of bone cracking. Even so, it tries to get up and crawl towards Anthony, bleeding everywhere from its broken wing.

He feels really awful and thinks he's going to try running from it rather than continuing to harm it.

The bat is really not in condition to follow him.

Well, at least not that bat. There are other bats, currently much better equipped to keep pace with Anthony.

He tries to knock them away with wind, preferably sideways instead of anywhere directed at the ground.

That does mean less injured bats. Occasionally he sends a bat flying towards a tree or another bat. When he gets close enough, the weird balls of not-fire try to lurch in his direction. Then a bat manages to knock him down.

Oof.

He tries to scramble to his feet again, holding onto the totem, and swipes away at anything nearby again.

Bats are swiped away again. The ball of fire are not affected by the wind at all. One of the bats collides with the ball of fire and gives a terrible painful shriek and slumps to the ground inert... then there is a shower of sparkles that converge in Anthony's direction.

Can he swipe them away with the wind? Or – wait, are those the level up sparkles?

These are level up sparkles and they are completely immaterial to the wind. He doesn't actually level up, but the bubble-thing gets almost full.

… He gets experience points for knocking attacking bat things unconscious.

Fuck this game, ugh.

He tries even harder not to knock the things to the ground. Or trees. They can go up and away.

Up and away they go. It eventually stabilizes to have about five or six bats attacking him constantly.

Can he use the wind to push them away quickly enough or is he basically guaranteed to die this way?

Well, there is presumably the issue of doing this all night. But he can at least keep them all away for now.

So he's basically guaranteed to die.

Fuck.

How much damage do they do, if he lets one get close?