No longer crying or murmuring, she just silently let the tears flow.
Perhaps, she didn’t even know she was crying herself, she just felt a sourness in her eyes, and a kind of indescribable pressure began to sprout in her heart.
The Lord of the Flameless did not immediately destroy Aoluxiya’s soul consciousness, but instead took out a pale blue ice flame from the burning husk on the ground, which emitted an intense white frost aura.
This was the Fire Relic.
An otherworldly fire that the Lord of the Flameless never imagined someone could make recognize them as its master.
The Lord of the Flameless gazed upon the pale blue ice flame, a nearly imperceptible glint flashed in His eyes, and slowly, He placed it into the soul consciousness of Aoluxiya.
The reason the Lord of the Flameless had not yet destroyed Aoluxiya’s soul consciousness was precisely because He needed it to carry the Fire Relic.
Within the orb of light in His palm, there now flickered a pale blue ice flame.
The Lord of the Flameless looked somewhat captivated by the object in His palm, which, after the Fusion with the Fire Relic, looked like an Eyes of Light with blue flame pupils.
Dreamlike and beautiful.
The Lord of the Flameless admired it for a while, then took the Primordial Fire, which had taken Aoluxiya considerable effort to obtain, from the lifeless husk that now lay without a soul on the ground.
The Lord of the Flameless lightly tossed the Primeval Flame into the air, and as if turning into two fishes of different colors, swam around the “Eyes of Light,” tracing a circular path.
The Lord of the Flameless released the constraints on the “Eyes of Light”; it did not fall to the ground but floated beside Him. The Primordial Firefish were both the source of its buoyancy and also marked by the Lord of the Flameless; wherever He went, the Firefish would follow.
The Lord of the Flameless, satisfied, glanced at the Eyes of Light by His side, then slowly shifted His gaze elsewhere.
The business here was finished; it was time to leave.
This world bore an aura that made Him uncomfortable.
However, before leaving, the Lord of the Flameless intended to study that somewhat peculiar human.
Step by step, the Lord of the Flameless walked toward Angel.
Popota was the first to notice the actions of the Lord of the Flameless. He had said a lot using telepathy earlier, and Angel had not responded. Only when he mentioned Angel’s family and friends did a hesitant expression finally appear on Angel’s face. Thinking there might be a chance, Popota continued speaking, but no matter what he said next, Angel gave no further response.
Popota even felt that Angel might have blocked his telepathy.
Seeing that the Lord of the Flameless had begun to walk towards Angel, Popota clenched his teeth and, forsaking the art of telepathy, bellowed, “Angel, using the artifact is our only way out! Stop hesitating!”
Popota’s shout made even the Lord of the Flameless pause for a moment.
His gaze turned towards the human in the distance, or rather, the statue beside the human.
It was because He had pinched the human with the Flameless Hand that the statue had fallen, but the human’s body was so fragile that even such a gentle pinch had caused significant injury and a gush of blood.
Some of that blood had splattered onto the statue.
According to the rules of summoning through artifacts, that meant that the human merely had to call upon the Cruel Scholar with sincere intent in his heart, to directly summon the Scholar’s consciousness.
At such a level of thought speed, even the Lord of the Flameless could not stop it now.
Would he do it? The Lord of the Flameless watched Angel.
Although He didn’t know why the Cruel Scholar had not branded the human, leaving the artifact with him instead, the Lord of the Flameless had a hunch that maybe the Scholar was impeded by something, temporarily unable to brand the human, so He left the artifact with the human, who could use it to bypass that impediment and be branded.
This sort of impediment, though very rare, was not non-existent.
Certain objects, abilities, and even Mysterious Objects could cause such impediments.
The Lord of the Flameless saw through this at a glance; hence, He was rather curious—would this human use the artifact?