"Sister, what are you doing..."
Shade was very curious about where the wood came from, and then he realized that it was a power similar to his thaumaturgy - the Traveler's Camp, which could directly create scenes.
The bonfire was not bright, but looking at Sister Defulin kneeling by the fire, Shad felt inexplicably at ease.
"Won't you come up with me?"
He asked, and the gray-haired nun wearing a silver eye mask nodded slightly, still not speaking. Although Shade didn't know what her plan was, since the nun said so, he went upstairs alone, just treating it as his own investigation.
The interior of the apartment was not shabby and looked like it was still in use, but I didn't know why no one was there now. After reaching the second floor, Shade didn't notice anything unusual in the dark, so he continued to walk up with the lantern. As he approached the third floor, the whispering element gradually became active:
"What could it be?"
He was ready for battle, but when he arrived at the corridor on the third floor, he still found nothing. He tried to walk further along the corridor, and finally a ray of blue fire suddenly appeared in the darkness.
Amid the creepy wailing, the fire quickly expanded until it turned into a person with blue flames burning all over his body, and he rushed towards Shade with his arms open.
"What?"
Xia De frowned slightly and took a step back. His figure disappeared and immediately appeared behind the burning figure. But at the same time as he appeared, a second burning figure appeared out of thin air behind him, still opening his arms and rushing towards him.
This time the distance was too close to dodge, so Xia De turned around and threw out a beam of moonlight. It clearly broke the opponent's head, but the body was still flying towards him.
"Hedon Seal!"
The Moonlight Greatsword was summoned, and then the golden spherical shield was deployed, filling the narrow corridor. The next moment, a flaming figure with arms outstretched pounced on the shield that was emitting flowing light, and then turned into a blue flame that exploded in the corridor.
The sound of rain outside the window completely covered up the dull explosion. Shade clearly felt that the shield had blocked the blue fire, and he did not feel any damage, but he still felt dizzy. When he stood up against the wall, he saw Sister Defulin kneeling by the bonfire. It was obvious that he was back in the lobby on the first floor.
Although it was stormy outside, the room was exceptionally quiet. At this moment, although the nun didn't even look up at him, Shade clearly felt embarrassed.
Without saying a word, he picked up the lantern and quickly walked up the stairs again. Soon, he was back on the third floor.
There was no sign of damage to the ground or walls at the location where the burning figure exploded. Nothing could be seen at the stairwell, but when Shade took two steps into the corridor, blue flames appeared again, and a burning man with open arms appeared out of thin air, just like before, and rushed towards him again with open arms:
"Moonlight Slash!"
This time, the silver arc of light directly cut off the legs of the burning figure, and it fell to the ground with a dull sound. When Xia De counted to "three" in his mind, the blue flames all over the figure exploded on the spot, but it did not cause any impact on the surroundings:
"It seems that as long as I don't let this thing get close to me, everything will be fine. Space Stabilization Aura!"
Since these figures burning with blue flames appeared out of thin air, interfering with their appearance was one way.
Knowing the rules made me feel more at ease. Just as I was about to move forward, I suddenly felt something was wrong behind me. Turning around, I saw the blue-flame figure with arms outstretched was already close at hand, but Xia De didn't feel any spatial changes at all:
"Didn't these things appear through space movement?"
There was another muffled explosion. Shade did not activate the Hiton seal, but took the initiative to let a small amount of blue flame splash onto his clothes. In an instant, the high temperature hit him, and his whole body was burning with blue flames, and then he disappeared again on the third floor.
Dizzy and holding onto the wall, Sister Develyn, who was kneeling beside the bonfire, appeared before him again. This time, the nun moved, and her trembling hands pierced into the bonfire, and her hands with burn marks slightly grasped the core of the flame. Then, the blue flame on Shad's body flew towards the bonfire and disappeared into the orange-red flame as if it was absorbed.
Sister Devlin remained silent, and Shad almost understood that there was probably a special fire-related relic upstairs in the building, and the nun hoped that he could help contain it.
The strange blue flame was not very lethal, at least not to Shade. But once the body or the shield he maintained came into contact with the flame, a forced spatial transfer would occur, which was a very tricky feature.
Sister Defulin did not comment on Shad's first two actions, but Shad felt more and more embarrassed in the nun's silence. He climbed up again with the lantern in his hands, taking two steps at a time, and his pace became faster.
"She" in my ear whispered:
A man's self-esteem.
Xia De did not deny that his self-esteem was hurt, so he wanted to find out quickly and carefully what was at the end of the corridor on the third floor.
So two minutes later, with another muffled bang, Xia De once again held on to the wall and returned to the first floor. This time, only his trouser legs were stained with blue flames, and the flames were quickly absorbed by the bonfire in front of the nun.
"In addition to appearing out of thin air, it turns out that those guys on fire can also stretch their hands directly out from under the floor."
Without anyone asking any questions, he muttered to himself, without even looking at the expression of Sister Defulin who was kneeling by the campfire, and quickly walked up again with the lamp in his hand.
Another two minutes later, with the fourth bang, a large group of butterflies suddenly appeared on the first floor, a quarter of which were burning with blue flames. As the red butterflies gathered into Shade, the blue flames were once again absorbed by the bonfire in front of the nun.
Xia De turned around quickly and went upstairs without saying a word, so he didn't see the slight smile on the nun's face under the blindfold by the fire behind him.
This time, Xia De stayed upstairs for a long time. Even on the first floor, he could hear the constant collisions, explosions, and the sounds of indistinguishable small animals running around coming from above.
After another bang, Xia De appeared on the first floor and rushed upstairs without hesitation for the sixth time. Five minutes later, Xia De finally walked back to the first floor from the third floor. At this time, a faint blue flame had appeared on the wick of the worn-out kerosene lamp in his hand.
"The clerical-level relic return fire often appears in ancient tombs, deep in the forest with complex terrain, and closed and dilapidated houses. Its characteristic is that when a living person approaches, it will continuously generate a burning human figure, and after the explosion, the life contaminated by the flame will be sent back to the 'starting point'."
As Shad walked down the stairs, Sister Develyn stood up and told the truth about the relic:
“Rumor has it that an unknown adventurer from the Fourth Epoch left behind this soul flame.
If you are not afraid of the high temperature that steams and bakes your body, you can return to the starting point.
Although it is the regret of someone who died while lost in the maze, it is also his obsession to return. "
"Sister, you could actually tell me what's upstairs before I go upstairs."
As Shade spoke, he had already come to the nun. He opened the cover of the lantern, and the relic fire turned into a stream of fire, flowing towards the nun's hand, with a black round and slender flame at the center of the flame.
The blue flame was quickly absorbed by the "Original Fire" without even changing the color of the flame in the nun's palm. She silently clasped her hands together until the slender flame was completely covered.
On the backs of the hands with burn marks, red flame cracks flashed, as if there were a few more flame veins on the white backs of the hands, but they disappeared quickly. And Shade clearly felt that Sister Defulin, who had swallowed the new flame, seemed to have the power of space.
"Yes, the First Fire already possesses spatial power."
She lowered her head, as if she knew what Xia De was thinking:
"For the battle tomorrow night, I will need the power of space."
The nun kept her habit of being frugal with words, but she explained everything in just a few words. Shade nodded and asked for the witch's task list again. After crossing out "the blue apartment with fire", there were only three unimportant tasks left on the list.
"That witch of time is really amazing."
He sighed softly, but did not notice Sister Defulin's hesitant expression. He put away the parchment and grasped the door handle to open it, but an arm behind him reached out and grasped Shade's hand on the door handle.
There were only two people in the apartment at this time. It was Sister Defulin who held his hand behind him. Shade was a little confused, and then he felt the nun's palm getting hot, and then fiery red cracks appeared on the backs of both of their hands. The flames rushed from the nun's hand into his arm, and the primordial fire flowing in his body also gained new characteristics.
Outsider, when you use "Strong Spatial Perception", you can sense the location of the scattered flames of "Original Fire" in a larger range.
Outsider, you can restore your spirit by absorbing flames... ...but the effect is very weak.
Although he has not acquired a completely new ability to move in space, his ability to sense the location of the First Fire is now quite good as he is about to land on the island.
In the darkness, the nun behind him did not let go of Shade's hand:
"Tomorrow night, please do not destroy the seal of the First Fire until you are sure that you can seal the Central Island of Green Lake."
"Of course, I understand. Once the seal is broken, the material world will be doomed. We were originally here to stop this, so we can't become the one pushing it."
The nun nodded and then took back her hand. Xia De resisted the urge to look back at her expression and pushed open the door, then opened the umbrella with a bang. It was a slightly cold rainy night, and the sound of rain broke into the room, breaking the strange atmosphere between the two.