Chapter 314 - They need me.

"You want to go with them?" Asked Bittore kindly, not even portraying shock as everyone stood quiet to listen her out. Well everyone but the kids. "Why?"

"They obviously need help mother, they helped us even when we didn't deserve it." Here she basically recycled old phrases she used when she wanted to go with them and battle the Grand King, this time she hopes they become effective. "Their arsenal is too weak, these people want to change the fate of the Ignite race. They need help."

"I suppose you are right, but we need you here as well. What would I do without my daughter here?" She didn't want to admit that she would miss her dearly in front of all these people, but Osira could understand what she meant. This is all the family Bittore has left once they parted ways from that Kingdom where her husband betrayed them.

"Mother I was grown up in this tribe, and It is hard for me to let this place go. But now we are living better than we ever did, I think you all would live just fine here." Osira directed it towards the needs towards Blacksmithery or hunting, it is what the tribe requires most at the moment.

"That's not my point, I need my daughter here. I need you to take over for me when I get old." Trying to convince her a bit more, she finally added. "You are the leader here, one day you will need to take over."

"Until that day comes, I want to gather knowledge and skill along with the Electus." Here she gave a little hint of what she means, and given Bittore's intense skill of speechcraft, she picked up right away. "I'm not going away for ever, just give me a few years. I will be back here and will be able to help my tribe more.

Recalling how Osira told her earlier that Ada and Eric aren't married or engaged, Bittore started thinking about the good of the tribe and afterwards considered Osira's beauty and skill, she could attract anyone including Eric. If one day Osira would be married with an Electus, this tribe would be protected and aided by an all powerful Electus!

"I suppose you are right, but promise me that you won't be gone forever Osira." With a tear actually starting to drop down her cheek, she added. "I will miss my daughter."

"Oh mother." Osira sighed and swiftly walked towards her, hugging her tightly and saying. "Who else would I put this much effort too? You were my shelter, a warm place who protected me. I want to do all of this so I can continue your work as good as you could."

Although smart, Osira can't yet catch up with her mother's intelligence. She needs a decade if not more to learn everything, and giving it a thought. The isolation up here won't help her learn much. She wouldn't nearly be stupid enough to leave her tribe she shared burden with for years, to chase after a boy.

She just sees this as an amazing opportunity to be a better leader, she would be elbows deep getting her hands dirty with experience instead of waiting for her mother to do most of the work. And if someone as powerful as Eric falls for at the process, it is a win win. If it wasn't for these two facts coming together and giving a tremendous reason, she would never even think about it.

And to aid Osira's decision, Eric added. "If it is of any consolation, we know someone who is a Grand Master(Level 6) in Fire Controlling! We will eventually see him again, and I think that Osira can learn a lot from him."

Here it seemed like he was trying to convince her mother even further to let Osira go, but it was for two different reasons. Eric appreciates why Osira is trying to do all of this, and would enjoy her presence at the same time. As a friend of her age of course, he finds Osira unique. Furthermore he spends all of his time with a.d.u.l.ts, he could use some time with kids his own age and Ada is clearly joining as well.

"That would be fantastic!" Bittore replied with her mood shifting a bit towards joy as she tried to figure out how exactly a Grand Master exists at these times.

But now her main focus is Osira, she continued. "But you can't go today or tomorrow." Here it felt a bit like a deal breaker, since it looks like she is stalling.

"What do you mean mother?" Asked Osira with a low tone as her heart stung a little bit.

"Look you can go after a month or two, but first I will assign assistants for you whom you will train Blacksmithery." Seeing that Osira gave a sigh of relief, Bittore felt flattered and continued. "You are the only one who knows the Craft this well, we need you to teach a handful of people who can work Iron."

Aiding Bittore's point, Commander Alia added with a smile. "When you do I can have one of our men escort you to our town, you will reach down there around a week."

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"Alright so the first thing you need to learn about suffocation, is how to trigger the unique function." Spoke Bittore, as she sat on the cloth she has brought along here to make sure that they get the entire concept.

"This is tremendously different, because it goes against that little urge we get to torch everything to the ground the moment we see an enemy." Although they told her much about their origin and past adventures, they might have forgotten to tell Bittore and the rest here about the Inner Demon of rage.

"That little urge, prevented us from casting this spell many many times. I think you might have the same problem here." Bittore specified, in another way telling them that it is okay to fail the first few times.

Eric wanted to tell her about the Inner Demon of rage each Fire Controller has, but he didn't want to lecture her about such a topic and put this demonstration to a pause. He fears what Mogranius would do if he slowed Bittore down, perhaps throw a tantrum to a Fireball? It isn't certain.

"As my daughter Osira will demonstrate, you will first need to unleash a fire shield so you don't end up suffocating yourself." Bittore stated as she pointed at an entrance near where she was sitting at.

They are on the Second Section, right in front of the entrance at the second tunnel on the left. This is another sleeping area containing 100 beds, but at the moment it isn't in use so it will be easy to demonstrate the spell/move without a terrible terrible aftermath.

Covering an entrance five meters high and wide is no easy task, but this demonstration requires it as it gives the best preview of what's happening. Osira bent down to a sumo squat and fire arose around her palms before she clapped her hands and forced the Fire shield to expand and cover the whole tunnel.

Doing something rather unusual, she calmly stood up and approached the front wall of this fire shield and throughout some extended effort of concentration she punctured two holes in the shield without breaking it in the process.

Fitting her hands through and making the shield surround her wrists after so nothing slips away to suffocate her, she took a deep breath and let out relief so the process can go smoothly.

What happened next was nothing visible, they only saw Osira with her hands through the shield holding completely still. So of course Bittore had to be the commentary here and explain this move further.

"See what she is doing now, is in some terms poisoning the air." That sentence doesn't fit so well together doesn't it? How would a Fire Controller possibly do that, most importantly how would a Magician (Level 3) Fire Controller do it?

"How could we poison the air?"

"Yes, we shoot fire not poison."

"Whaaaa."

The three Fire Controllers disturbed the calm atmosphere, but luckily Commander Alia spoke. "Hey let's not forget that you can sync with actual smoke, just shush and watch."

"Yes, she needs to concentrate." Bittore urged, "Or else you will have to wait more to understand how this works."

"Um good thing that the beautiful Alia here mentioned smoke." Bittore spoke at a low tone and saw how the little compliment made Commander Alia blush a little bit.

"You might know that if you make a lot of smoke appear in front of an enemy or basically anyone, you can make them cough from the top of their lungs." As she spoke calmly, all the two male Fire Controllers could think of here, is how much they messed with Stefan using the aid of smoke.

"But when smoke isn't so visible, no one would cough because of it right?" Now she isn't making enough sense and is having it hard to put her teachings together. How would anyone explain this with ease?

"That substance in the smoke that makes people cough, is originally invisible. We learned how to produce that substance only, at quantities big enough to kill anyone! Which means we learned to do it without including the smoke that usually should come along with it."