Chapter 433
Chapter 433 Tempering Spirit
Fire Throne.
Greem disappeared alongside the first floor’s fire altar as energy surged through the tower.
At the same time, a radiant Ring of Fire sprung up near the base of the tower where the sea of lava was. The viscous magma was repelled and pushed aside as Greem reappeared with the fire altar.
Greem opened his eyes, and a blinding red light instantly filled his entire sight. Front, back, left, right, up, down; everywhere he looked was filled with boiling magma. This thick, semi-liquid substance seemed to be circulating like some unknown force was pushing it. It rumbled as it slowly but stubbornly flowed around Greem.
This spot was twenty meters deep in the sea of lava. The horrifying heat had vaporized every bit of moisture in this place. The solid rocks had also been scorched into half-molten magma and dragged into this massive whirlpool of lava.
Even Greem needed to erect his Ring of Fire to avoid being directly consumed by the magma. Greem’s senses told him that this place was 900 to 1,200 degrees Celcius. Every ten meters deeper into this place would see a temperature increase of two to three hundred degrees.
Not far away, an overwhelming torrent of fire elementium slowly but surely flowed past him. The red and hot sensation felt the same as the sea of lava in reality.
Greem hesitated for a moment before extending his mental appendage out of his consciousness core. He gradually reached towards that torrent of fire elementium.
Weng.
At the instant his mental appendage made contact with the fire elementium, Greem felt his mental consciousness go completely numb. A hot swell of flame split off from the torrent of elementium and flowed up the thread. It rushed towards his consciousness core with ferocious momentum as if it would crush anything in its way.
Strangely enough, while Greem was shocked and feared that he was in great trouble, his consciousness core suddenly vibrated. A weird golden rune formed within the core.
Golden light shone upon Greem’s mental consciousness the moment the rune was born. He quickly, yet vaguely, felt as if something different and new had been added to his mind. The untouchable stream of flames turned into a warm summer’s breeze, allowing his entire ‘body’ to bask relaxingly in that golden radiance. Greem was so comfortable that he didn’t want to move even a bit.
At the same time, Greem’s mental consciousness could sense gray and black spots of light continuously spilling out from his Spirit. These spots of light slowly dispersed in this strange psychic space.
Greem, in his usual state, might have been scared out of his wits at this point. He might have hurriedly broken out of this weird state. However, Greem was able to rely on the information he had gathered in the past. He was able to realize that this was the tempering process of his Spirit that he had been so painstakingly searching for.
Those spots of light that were being expunged from his Spirit was the parts of his Spirit that weren’t entirely compatible with fire elementium.
While this meant that his total Spirit was slowly decreasing, the remaining Spirit was now undoubtedly more suited to supporting and absorbing fire elementium.
His spirit consciousness sank into this strange state, silently enduring the pain of blazing jets of pain enveloping his Spirit, and the discomfort of having it tempered. The golden rune emitted golden light every time Greem was at his limits. The radiance would merge into his mental consciousness and help him sooth the damage from the violent flames.
This golden radiance possessed knowledge fragments that had a trace of the fire laws. It allowed his mind to suddenly gain missing knowledge that it previously hadn’t understood.
It was like a massive puzzle of knowledge suddenly had one or two inconspicuous spots illuminated and solved. This process of tempering his Spirit had allowed Greem to understand and comprehend the existence of the fire laws finally.
After four whole hours of meditation, Greem reluctantly retreated from his state of meditation. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to continue. Rather, his mental consciousness was at its limit.
Greem received multiple notifications from the chip when he finally came out of the meditation space.
It seemed these notifications had temporarily been blocked while he was in the meditation space. They were only flooding in now.
“Detecting unique mental consciousness space.”
“Detecting unknown change happening to host’s mental consciousness. Request instructions from host? Stop this process?”
“Detecting unknown change happening to host’s mental consciousness. Request instructions from host? Stop this process?”
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“Host’s mental consciousness changing. Mental space shrunk by 11%. Mental strength increased by 4%. Elementium concentration within body increased by 1%.”
“Host has completed one instance of Spirit tempering.”