Chapter 229 - Through the Fire and Flames (2/2)
”This flame is quite interesting,” Argentum could not help but say as he committed the information to memory. Although he said that the reason why the inheritance was telling him about this information, it was still of some use to Argentum one way or another, having the feeling that he would use it once he became a Super Animate.
After committing the information to memory, he then pondered on what song he was going to sing this time while going through this path, eventually finding one that resonated with him quite well. Even though the message of the song was quite sad, Argentum sang it cheerfully.
”I walk a lonely road, the only place that I have ever known~”
”Don't know where it goes, but it's home to me and I walk alone~”
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After another 20 minutes or so, Argentum had finally passed through the path surrounded by Grand Erudinian Flames, entering a path filled with orange flames this time. Of course, Argentum felt an increase in power and heat from these flames, but it was still something he could handle. Not only that, but the bond he felt from the flames had also grown even closer yet again.
Naturally, since he had entered a part of the path surrounded by a new type of flames, the disembodied voice of the inheritance resounded throughout the corridor, giving Argentum some more useless information…for now.
”The third flame in this Seven Flame Road is the yellow flames surrounding you as of this moment. These flames are the rarest type of flames in this continent, with the Undying Flame Spirit, the master of this inheritance, being one of the only beings in the continent that could handle such flames.”
”This flame is called the Unworldly Sol Flame, due to it exhibiting properties of the sun that light the world of Erudinia, namely its heat and power. Normally, the Unworldly Sol Flame would kill millions of beings just from its indirect heat, with the inheritor dying just by coming in close contact with it for a picosecond. Fortunately, the master of the inheritance has reduced its power to a great extent, allowing it to exude a stronger feeling than the Grand Erudinian Flames while not letting the inheritor die from it. Note that the subsequent flames after this are far stronger than this one.”
”The most defining characteristic of this flame is that it is near immortal. Even if tons of beings try to put it out with skills and spells of the Water element at the Rank 9 level, it would still continue to burn.”
Committing the memory to mind, he then moved on and continued singing one of the two songs that he was singing a while ago.
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Surprisingly, due to him being distracted by his singing, it did not occur to Argentum that he had already reached the fourth flame of the Seven Flame Road. Thankfully, the disembodied voice of the inheritance snapped him back to reality as it explained the white flames surrounding him at the moment.
”The fourth flame in this Seven Flame Road is called the Lux Purity Flame, an incredibly strong flame from the Vasterion continent, its power akin to a hundred Unworldly Sol Flames combined. The master of the inheritance obtained this flame through sheer luck after traveling through the Vasterion continent in the past, being gifted to her by a great pyromancer.”
”It is said that the master of this inheritance is the only one that can fully exhibit the flame's properties in this continent, but beings in the other continents would be able to show its worth with just a small amount of power.”
”Its defining characteristic is its ability to manifest into a spiritual form, allowing the caster to not need to manually manipulate them. It's a 'just command them and you're done' sort of deal.”
”I can't help but feel like the explanation is getting more and more sloppy with every flame I pass,” Argentum could not help but mutter, concluding that the inheritance did not have information on these latter flames, leading to a somewhat sloppy explanation.
After getting to that answer, he then moved on through the path, reaching the fifth flame after another twenty minutes or so.
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Eventually, Argentum had reached the end of the corridor, with the disembodied voice of the inheritance explaining the last three flames to him in the best manner possible. Although the information the inheritance had on these flames were quite lacking, he still committed these thoughts into his memory, with him wondering for a bit if the flame Charisa had was one of the latter flames in this Seven Flames.
”Samsara Phoenix Flames…flames that flicker between black and white…” Argentum muttered to himself. ”Once I'm done with this trip, I'll probably go ask Charisa about this since Aurus is still in the process of evolving.”
”Nevertheless, I'm finally done with this trial.” Argentum let out a sigh of relief after seeing the great space after the seventh flame, filled to the brim with the ground he was moving through a while ago. A few seconds later, the flames behind him had disappeared as the corridor eventually shrunk back to the large stone room he was in before. This phenomenon made Argentum ponder over the power the inheritance had.
Not long after that, the disembodied voice of the inheritance, which used to tell him information regarding the flames on the Seven Flame Road, was now telling him the rewards he had obtained from the third trial, making Argentum radiate an aura of elation once more.
”The inheritor has successfully reached the end of the corridor, thus completing the Seven Flame Road,” the disembodied voice said to Argentum. ”Due to the inheritor crossing the Seven Flame Road in less than 12 hours, the inheritor has increased the quality of the reward given to them.”
Ding!
Hearing the notification sound resound in his mind just as the disembodied voice told him about the reward being enhanced, the aura radiating from Argentum had intensified once more, seemingly reaching the epitome of elation. It did not take long for Argentum to open up the notification screen and read the latest notification after that. But at the very instant he was finished reading through it, he went silent, only uttering a sound a few seconds later.
”…eh?”
'You have obtained the active skill [Flame Incarnation: Undying Spirit].'