Chapter 31: Who is the Son of Your God?
The roaring Blackflame Dragon soared into the sky.
It scorched the atmosphere, stirring up a scorching storm.
The high temperature within the fire scene distorted the light passing through the air, making it impossible to discern its exact form.
Stone slabs melted, and flesh and blood evaporated.
All nerve endings were incinerated in an instant, so much so that the Ash Cultists at the scene didn’t even have time to wail or scream before turning into dry, white powder.
Within the entire fire scene, only the pillar of Blackflame remained, darker than the night, as if it were about to devour the world.
Simultaneously, within Shaya’s mind, countless azure prompts were rapidly scrolling.
[Fire Seed Containment Progress: 100%]
[Skill Prototype: “Amaterasu” is complete]
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[Amaterasu]
[Attribute: Darkness, Curse, Flame, Spirit]
[Tier: Extraordinary (Quasi)]
[Proficiency: Beginner (0/10000)]
[Skill Description: Within the range of sight, disregard spatial limitations and release a large area of pitch-black flames to inflict damage on opponents, simultaneously causing multiple effects such as burning, curse, and spatial tearing.]
[Prompt: The actual power of this skill after release is directly related to the user’s spiritual power consumption. Excessive use will greatly consume the user’s spiritual power and place a significant burden on the user’s body. Please use with caution.]
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[10,000 Free Experience Points have been consumed. The proficiency of “Silver’s” composite skill “Amaterasu” has broken through, advancing from “Beginner” to “Mastered.”]
[30,000 Free Experience Points have been consumed. The proficiency of “Silver’s” composite skill “Amaterasu” has broken through, advancing from “Mastered” to “Proficient.”]
[Remaining Free Experience Pool: 60,500 points]
…
[Congratulations, due to learning a new skill, “Silver’s” combat level has increased, and the current combat level is 30.]
[“Silver’s” tier has been promoted from Extraordinary (Second Tier) to Commander (Third Tier).]
[Congratulations, your Soul Pact level has increased, and the current Soul Pact level is 30.]
[Your third Soul Pact has been unlocked.]
…
Shaya felt a sharp pain in his left eye. He touched it and found a few drops of crimson liquid flowing down from his eye socket.
“I didn’t expect even the side effects to be restored. It’s unbelievable.”
“Fortunately, it’s just temporary spiritual power weakness, not permanent vision loss.”
He took out a tissue from his Spatial Pocket and wiped the corners of his eyes.
After a Beast Tamer forms a Soul Contract with a Familiar, they can gain enhancements in physical fitness from the Familiar.
The higher the compatibility of their Soul Contract, the greater the feedback enhancement the Beast Tamer themselves can receive. If the compatibility is high enough, they can even directly use some of the Familiar’s skills and abilities.
This is also why most Beast Tamers choose to raise their Familiars from egg or childhood, and why they rarely switch unless their original Familiar dies unexpectedly, even if they find a younger Familiar with better racial talent.
Silver, as Shaya’s first Main Familiar, has accompanied Shaya from Ceylon in the Northern Territory all the way to the present. The soul compatibility can be said to have long since peaked beyond measure.
Because of this, after Silver completed the refinement of “Amaterasu,” Shaya’s first thought was to personally try out this newly acquired powerful skill.
He had seen the prompt information below the skill panel, of course––it was just that he had obtained “Amaterasu” and Shaya wanted to test the power of a full release.
“Now, it makes sense. It’s a quasi-Extraordinary skill that cost me three Skill Seeds and spent 40,000 experience just to increase proficiency from ‘Beginner’ to ‘Proficient.'”
“As expected, you get what you pay for. Expensive things have no flaws, only I have flaws.”
Witnessing the destructive power of the full-power “Amaterasu,” Shaya couldn’t help but sigh with poverty.
Extraordinary skills are, in theory, exclusive skills possessed only by King Tier Familiars, and even among King Tier Familiars, only those with outstanding racial talent can possess them.
Yet, Silver has learned an Extraordinary skill two tiers in advance.
Although there are still limitations for now, once it reaches the King stage, the “quasi” in front of it can naturally be removed.
Not only that, but absorbing a Tier 6 Extraordinary Material allowed Silver to level up twice, directly reaching the cusp of the Extraordinary Tier and Commander Tier…
Even Shaya himself broke through that final barrier due to the contract’s feedback, advancing to the Third Ring and unlocking his third Soul Pact.
“All in all, the harvest is quite good.”
Shaya stretched and then turned his gaze back to the sky in the distance.
“Now, it’s time to bring this farce to a close.”
…
On the battlefield in the distance.
The three Fourth Ring Masters who were engaged in battle also noticed the anomaly that suddenly occurred at Saint Roland Academy.
*snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap*
In the hands of the Ash Cult Patriarch, an iron plate that was originally emitting a faint fluorescent light was now rapidly extinguishing its points of light, one by one.
Until it completely disappeared, leaving zero.
This was an Extraordinary item that recorded the soul states of the arsonists who came this time, and the scene before him undoubtedly signaled the complete annihilation of the arsonists.
However—
At this moment, the Patriarch had no time to concern himself with the lives of his subordinates.
He didn’t even pay attention to the dying roar of the lava giant beside him.
In his spiritual perception––the majestic and scorching token, bestowed by the Master, had now completely disappeared.
No… it wasn’t so much disappearing.
Rather, it had merged with the only human still alive in the fire scene.
The expression beneath the Patriarch’s black robe was rapidly shifting, alternating between surprise, anger, and fear…
But in the end, it settled into ecstatic joy.
“So that’s how it is… so that’s how it is…”
“No wonder I could sense such a mysterious and scorching soul here…”
“Only the bloodline of the Master… the Son of Ash, can directly turn a part of our Master’s body into his own use.”
“And only in this way… can he so easily control the Master’s Blackflame.”
*Boom—*
The lava giant let out a mournful cry as its core crystal in its chest was shattered by a joint attack from Professor Kahn’s Elemental Fairy Monarchs.
Its life fluctuations rapidly dimmed.
For the Lava Giant race, the core crystal in their chest was equivalent to the heart and brain of a human. Once damaged, it was undoubtedly a death sentence.
But the Ash Patriarch remained unmoved.
He stood on the rapidly cooling remains of the lava giant, spread his arms towards Professor Kahn and Lieutenant Colonel Sieg, his face contorted.
“You are finished, all of you are finished!”
“Quietly embrace your death!”
“The Son of Ash will descend from the heavens with the Master’s will, furious and terrifying!”
“All heretics, all who defy fate—”
“Will be pierced through by that scorching spear into the deepest depths of hell!”
The Ash Patriarch, covered in blood, let out a wild laugh, but the laugh quickly came to an abrupt end.
He slowly turned around, only to see a youth with black hair and black eyes appear behind him without warning.
A blade, formless and made of Blackflame, stabbed straight into his abdomen.
The scorching flames instantly incinerated the Ash Patriarch’s internal organs.
“Looks like the combination of ‘Blink’ and ‘Amaterasu’ works well. I can add another combo skill in the future.”
Shaya whistled and kicked the neck of the Ash Patriarch before him, breaking it.
His head flew high.
The headless corpse fell from the shoulder of the deceased lava giant, landing on the ground with a splat.
“But I can go to hell with that—”
“Who is the Son of your God?”
