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252: Baptism Complete
A week crawled by like an eternity, though for Kai it no longer felt like a measure of time, it felt like a measure of endurance, of madness, of will. At the beginning, every second had been screams, bones cracking and reforming, agony without end. But now… silence.He floated in the lavare, his body reduced still to a skeleton, yet the fire no longer tore through him. The lava licked against his bones like water, rolling off them harmlessly. His skeleton gleamed gold, radiant beneath the roiling crimson currents. If someone had been able to look close, they would have seen fine cracks that once marked him but now they were gone, reforged into something seamless, perfect. Stronger than diamond. Stronger than steel.Kai couldn’t grin, not without lips or flesh but deep inside, he was smiling and maybe screaming. I did it. I actually did it.His spirit had adapted to the torture. What once felt like his executioner now felt like his cradle. The lava that once tried to burn him into noth
251: Baptism of Bones.
Kai stood at the edge of the molten pit, his chest rising and falling steadily as waves of unbearable heat slammed against his skin. The lava was alive. It hissed, boiled, and bubbled like a beast calling him to his death. Every instinct screamed at him to step back, to run, to do anything but jump but retreat wasn’t an option. Not anymore, it was too late to back out now. With one final exhale, Kai stripped off his robes until only his underwear clung to him, sweat already pouring down his back in streams. His body looked solid, toned, but none of that mattered. Against lava, muscle was paper. Against lava, flesh was kindling.He clenched his fists, muttered under his breath, “I won’t break… I can’t afford to break,” and then leapt.The instant his body struck the molten surface, the world dissolved into white-hot agony.His scream tore out of him, raw and primal, shaking the mountain. The sound wasn’t human, it was a mixture of despair, fury, and the kind of pain that made every ne
250: Baptism in Fire
The instant Kai stepped beyond the blackened threshold of the Endless Lava Region, it felt as though the world itself was trying to devour him. The air was no longer air, it was molten breath, liquid flame rolling into his lungs and searing everything inside him. Heat sank through his skin, down to his marrow, as if invisible claws were trying to peel him apart from the inside out.At first, he clenched his jaw and bore it. He told himself it was just heat, just fire, just another trial but the sweat came quickly, rushing down his temples in streams, soaking his black robes until they clung to him like molten tar. His steps sounded against the charred stone floor, each one heavier than the last.All around, disciples of the sect moved like shades through the inferno. Some passed him without even glancing, their expressions calm, unbothered by the lava rivers gurgling only a few paces away. A pair of them laughed lightly as they scooped glowing liquid rock from the mouth of a nearby vo
249: The Endless Lava Region
The next morning came heavy with heat, the kind that seeped into bone even before the sun had risen. Kai found himself standing at the threshold of what the disciples called the Endless Lava Region. From a distance, it looked like a massive gash in the earth, an open wound that bled molten fire. Rivers of lava slithered endlessly down jagged rock walls, the glow painting the skies above with streaks of orange and red, as if the heavens themselves had been set ablaze.He stood dressed in black robes that Atlas had once prepared for him, the fabric thick yet light, fluttering against the hot wind that swept up from the volcanic maw. The air burned his lungs with every breath, yet his posture was straight, his gaze locked forward.Beside him stood the Grand Elder Harkan. His own robes were a faded crimson, torn in places from decades of fire and heat, though no flame ever touched him. His white hair whipped around his wrinkled face, and despite his age, his smile carried the same vigor a
248: Gates Of Hell
The world blurred into ripples of light and space, and when Kai’s vision cleared, he found himself standing on the edge of a vast and terrifying land. His breath hitched for a second. This was no ordinary mountain because before him stretched a horizon dominated by towering volcanoes, each one alive with veins of molten fire. Lava flowed slowly down their sides like rivers of glowing blood, boiling and hissing as it met the blackened stone. The ground itself trembled now and then, as if the land groaned under the weight of its own fury.The air was suffocatingly hot. Each breath Kai took burned his lungs, and sweat immediately trickled down his forehead. Yet the Grand Elder beside him seemed completely unbothered, his long robe swaying lightly with the rising heat waves. The old man’s eyes gleamed with satisfaction, as if he were standing not in a hellscape but in a paradise he had waited centuries to return to.“This,” the Grand Elder said, voice resonant, “is the Forging Mountain.”
247: Separated
The atmosphere thickened the moment the man’s words left his mouth, and before Kai could even react, both the Sect Master and Liang moved in unison, their voices overlapping with urgency and respect.“Grand Elder!” they called out, bowing low, their tones filled with reverence that was rarely seen, even for someone of the Sect Master’s stature.But the man, the so-called Grand Elder, didn't even glance at them. His eyes were locked entirely on Kai, his steps carrying him closer until he stood directly in front of him. The intensity of his gaze was unsettling, yet there was no malice in it, only excitement, hunger, and a kind of obsession that made the air around them hum.The Grand Elder clasped his hands behind his back and leaned forward slightly, studying Kai from head to toe as though he were some rare gem freshly unearthed from the deepest earth. His sharp eyes traced the lines of his frame, the way his aura flickered, the faint traces of that bloodline that refused to be contain
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