Chapter 125 - 123: The Birth of a Spark

"You go first. I’ll bring him back shortly after!" Doctor Jenkins said.

Sev Steele glanced at him and decisively ran toward home. By the time she arrived, Doctor Jenkins had already gotten there first, bringing Firestone wrapped in a Jelly Cradle.

The courtyard was completely peaceful. Sweeping his Spirit Ability over the area, he found the sleeping Rick Kaye and Rusty, who had successfully awakened his Ability. Looking again at Rose, who was lying amidst Curly’s branches absorbing a Wood Element Crystal Core, it wasn’t hard to imagine what had happened here earlier.

Recalling what Mr. Fuller had said, he could finally confirm that Sev had truly cooked up an incredible delicacy, its effects even comparable to a Genetic Potion! However, now wasn’t the time to study these things. How to save Firestone’s life and his foundation was the most crucial priority!

Entering the house, Sev once again rushed over to the broken chest and told it, "Firestone needs your help. State your terms!"

She waited for a full five minutes. Just when she thought the wicked thing was dead asleep, the Life Tree Totem at the bottom of the chest slowly turned into a mouth.

Sev thought, "Damn it! You blasted glutton, just how big is your stomach?"

Helpless, she had no choice but to run to the kitchen. With a flurry of CLANGs and BANGs as she chopped wildly, she once again cooked a large pot of braised radishes with pork cracklings.

Doctor Jenkins watched the entire process, his head full of question marks, but he tactfully kept quiet and simply observed in silence. In the end, when he saw Sev rushing back to the chest with the steaming pot, he acted with lightning speed. Taking a small bowl from his Space Button, he quickly scooped out half a bowl before she could pour it all into the chest.

Having seen such a supreme delicacy, how could he be willing to let it go without even a single bite?

Sev couldn’t be bothered to deal with his childish antics. It was a massive pot anyway; the little bit he snatched wouldn’t hurt.

Doctor Jenkins watched her dump the large pot of precious food into the chest like it was pig slop, his heart twitching with pain. But soon, he noticed something unusual. The Energy in the food began to fluctuate violently, as if an invisible straw was frantically sucking it away.

At this moment, he finally understood that what Sev had said earlier about almost being sucked dry wasn’t a hallucination, but a very real occurrence. Known science simply couldn’t explain this bizarre phenomenon. However, Awakening an Ability was also something that couldn’t be explained by science before the Great Cataclysm.

For millions of years, countless scientists had exhausted their entire lives exploring the origins of the world, yet they had failed to find the truth. The vast universe was full of wonders. Everything that existed was reasonable; the inability to explain them was merely because their means of exploration weren’t advanced enough.

Doctor Jenkins quickly accepted the bizarre sight before him. He waited quietly to see how Sev would communicate with the strange entity inside the chest.

Fifteen minutes later, the food inside the chest turned into a handful of ashes. If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, Doctor Jenkins wouldn’t have believed it even if he were beaten to death.

He saw Sev tell him with a calm expression, "Put Firestone into the chest."

Doctor Jenkins obediently complied. Then, he discovered that the moment Firestone’s body touched the bottom, the Jelly Cradle wrapping him disintegrated instantly. The spiritual power Guardian Barrier he was so proud of vanished into thin air, ceasing to exist.

At this moment, he was incomparably shocked. The bizarre entity in the chest had to be at least two or three Levels higher than him to be able to instantly dissolve his defenses. If so, perhaps it could truly save Firestone?

Looking across the entire continent, Seventh Tier Ability Users could be counted on one hand, and as for the Eighth Tier, no one even knew if they truly existed. Just what kind of dumb luck did Sev have? To think that an invisible big shot was actually hiding in the broken wooden chest left behind by her parents!

The boy lying at the bottom of the chest had long been stripped of his clothes by Mr. Fuller. At this moment, his body was curled up like a cooked lobster, completely bright red.

Doctor Jenkins wanted to continue using his Spirit Ability to monitor the boy’s condition, but he found that as soon as his Ability entered the chest, it was like a clay ox plunging into the sea—vanishing without a trace, completely unable to be sensed anymore.

He couldn’t help but smile bitterly. And to think he had just solemnly promised Mr. Fuller that he would definitely do his best to save Firestone. Yet now, all of his connections to the boy had actually been severed, and he could only watch helplessly as Firestone struggled on his own.

Soon, the inside of the chest was filled with a thick grayish mist that obscured his vision, making it impossible to see Firestone’s face clearly anymore. Gradually, even his silhouette became indistinguishable.

Firestone felt as if he were in a Fire Sea. Endless red surrounded him on all sides, and every part of his body was being scorched. Strangely, there wasn’t the usual pain of being burned. He purely felt hot, yet he couldn’t produce a single drop of sweat.

He figured he had to be dreaming; it was just a rather strange dream, that was all.

He wanted to rush out of this Fire Sea, but he found that no matter which direction he walked, the Fire Sea would move along with him. It constantly surrounded him, refusing to let him step out of its encirclement.

He thought of the Melting Furnace Mr. Fuller used for Artifact Refining. At this moment, he felt like a piece of ore thrown into the Melting Furnace. He remembered that every time Mr. Fuller threw an ore into the Melting Furnace, he would repeatedly pound it with a heavy hammer until all the impurities in the ore were beaten out. Only after forging it into his desired shape would he fish it out and toss it into the Quenching Pool.

A flash of Spiritual Light crossed his mind: since this was his dream, he was the boss here.

With a mere thought, he manifested a large hammer from within the Fire Sea. He began using the large hammer to strike at the Fire Sea surrounding him, but the Fire Sea was a phantom. When scattered, it would quickly gather again and continue to wrap around him.

He simply used the large hammer to strike his own body. In the world of his consciousness, the large hammer could be controlled at will, striking front, back, left, right, up, and down, hitting every part of his body. Then, he noticed that after every strike, a small section of the Fire Sea would scatter, splashing countless fiery red particles that sank into his body.

Gradually, he realized his body was fully saturated with these fiery red particles. When Firestone finally completed the hammering of his body, he had beaten himself into a humanoid Fireball.

He felt as if he had also become a ball of fire, unable to distinguish the Fire Sea from his own body anymore. It was like a bowl of water mixed into a basin of water—blending together seamlessly without any boundaries.

Grabbing at random, he fished out a handful of fire from the Fire Sea and kneaded it into a beautiful spark of flame.

He remembered his adoptive mother once saying that Planet Veridia, where they lived, existed at the edge of a Galaxy called The Rosaline Element. And the Solara of The Rosaline Element was called Rosaline Prime. Viewed from space, it looked very much like a blooming Rose.

Firestone didn’t know exactly what a Rose looked like, but it was said to be fiery red. So he wanted to make a fiery red flower to give to Sev, and tell her that her name was as beautiful as this flower.