Bab 54: Ch 47 - Reality Check ( Part 1)
Seated on the ground with our legs folded in and hands placed on the knee. All the candidates sat in this meditating state as we were still covered in those mysterious green pale flames from head to toe. A blazing sea of pale green flames swirled around this amphitheater-like raging whirlpool flood. The only difference was that the pale flame wasn't able to destroy anything nor did it even harm anyone at all.
After the Phoenix was forcefully fed that mysterious super potion, the beast's flame properties were altered into these weird healing flames. It's already bizarre that a flame can heal which is not uncommon, I mean there are elemental mages who have both flame and healing attributes at the same time; BUT to forcefully convert the property of an individual by just mere feeding them a potion, now that's something out of this world.
In the mage world, mana arts tend to take mages to a higher level, but auxiliary supplements like mana artifacts and mana potions tend to take mages to a whole nother level.
Mana artifacts are created by mage artisans who create weapons, tools, machines, gadgets, etc that function on mana. Meanwhile, there are also mages known as Witches who are skilled in creating potions and medicines used by mages.
Lux Sentinel used that green potion which was a highly divine grade potion that forcefully converted the attributes of the flames even against the will of the phoenix.
The virtue is literally forcefully harnessing the divine flames from the phoenix and distributing them among the people. There is literally no point in calling it 'Blessing Ritual' and we were forcefully utilizing these flames, which should be renamed 'Extortion Ritual'.
This just goes to show that the monarch of this kingdom is nothing but the servant of the virtues. I am pretty sure any sane king would ever let their holy divine familiar that they passed down from their ancestors, be used like a plaything and just to appease the masses.
I sure, I wouldn't like that either.
Seems the kingdom politics is even a bigger mess than I had imagined.
The virtues are literally the ones who are controlling from the shadows. I imagine that every nation was facing similar circumstances.
This kingdom went to shit for all I care. Our village is located farther at the edge and barely gets any help from the kingdom. Even if the ruler had been changed it would hardly impact our village back there. We were just lowly peasants without the blessing of mana.
I would rather enjoy the benefits from the inner turmoil.
Hence I again went back to meditating while the flames were still left abundant for us to absorb.
These divine flames were classed as divine class objects.
At this moment, the flames were busy healing the injured candidates and regrowing every flesh and wounds the candidates had taken.
Even my injuries and scars that occurred during the 2nd trial mishap were all recovered anew. Even Miss Urza, who was an excellent healer who treated me, was still left with fatigue and body cramps, the side effect of her healing. But divine flame's healing properties almost got rid of all the problems in a jiffy.
Not only do the flames heal external wounds but they can even enter our mana pores, entering the meridians and reaching one's mana core. The divine flames have the property to enhance the mana core, bringing it to blossom quite early than the normal means.
It also has the ability to even repair broken mana cores of the mages who might have lost their power during battle or during their ascension trials when ongoing their mana core promotions. Not everyone can recover their broken mana core but there is still some hope it sometimes does work out. No wonder my mom was very excited about this trip, I hope it works out well for her.
As time went by, all the candidates sat quietly in the midst of these flames while trying to absorb and connect with their mana core on a spiritual level. I had no clue how meditating actually works but here goes nothing.
As we sat meditating, we could only hear the burning crackle of the flames, the snoring of the unconscious candidates, and the howling of the angry phoenix familiar at the center stage who was going fucking nuts.
To be honest not much meditating could be done in such an environment hearing the loud roaring of the phoenix.
The phoenix was spewing out nonstop divine flame breaths, hoping to kill us. Despite seeing that the candidates were unharmed by those flames, the phoenix still continued using its flame attacks with an unlimited divine flame supply that won't extinguish anytime soon.
We were more than happy to get more divine flames but the only problem we were facing was that the loud howling that came with the flame breath distracted us from performing the meditation.
The candidates finally started voicing their concerns,
"Damn it! I can't concentrate with all those beasts screaming." said one of the nearby candidates.
"Lord Lux should slay the darn beast for once and for all, it has done its part giving us the divine flames anyway."
"Any more of its howling and I, myself will step in the arena myself to behead that chicken. I swear!"
The divine phoenix was tortured by the virtue, forcefully made to eat the green potion and now was giving free legendary divine flames to everyone but now was treated like trash.
The legendary king's familiar now is being treated as a poultry bird from a farm.
It wasn't just a few candidates but all of them were now complaining as well.
Even the inner district candidates on that balcony were looking at the bird with scorn.
The noise of dissatisfied candidates got louder with each passing second.
The red cape mages didn't bother to intervene or stop the candidates from talking.
Finally, the virtue Lux stepped in,
"Now that you children had your share of divine flames, It's time for the remaining flames to be distributed among the people of our kingdom."
Saying so, the virtue once again started doing something.
Lux approached the phoenix who was busy flame breathing over the candidates on the seats. As the virtue walked toward the phoenix he lifted his light spear and yanked it once. There was a bright spark of light when he shook the spear which later returned back to its original glow.
The next instant the spear started deforming and became flaccid.
The spear had now transformed into a rope and started stretching without any restraint.
Lux had to pick the rope with both hands and wrap the excess rope around one of his arms.
The phoenix finally noticed Lux getting closer.
The dumb bird again opened its mouth wide and attacked with the flame breath on the virtue.
Despite seeing that the flames were doing nothing, the phoenix continued using the same attack.
After ingesting that green potion the phoenix had lost all its sanity. The only attack it did was flame attacks as if it was ingrained in his brain that the only attack it could use. The phoenix had multiple attacks in its arsenal, it could have used its beak or talons but it didn't, or it couldn't, I can't say which is which.
Lux leaped through the flame and punched the beast right on its beak. The punch was so powerful that it smashed through the upper beak leaving a big gaping hole in the phoenix's mouth.
"Woah!"
Everyone screamed in excitement like madmen seeing the virtue in action.
A mere punch from the virtue was enough to knock the beast back.
The virtue was indeed quite strong despite being unarmed. If it had relied on the ethereal light weapon, I wonder how easy it would be to slay such a monster.
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Hows everyone! I am doing just fine, I have grown a thick skin to survive the harsh world of the workforce.
Work is really tiring as always, I wonder if my company has already hired more staff. All our interns fled from the office lmao.
My one-year term will end in a few months, then I might be eligible to find a new place to work.
I hope to find a more benevolent and kind company. Living a life graphic designer is not easy. Because of the pandemic, everyone has resorted to using canva and other online apps creating more graphic designers in the industry and making it even harder to look for more jobs.
Enough of my nagging.
Thank you for listening to my whining and thank you for reading as always.
Have a nice day.
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