Chapter 319 - Greet of Honor

August is near here in Ignis, the group escaped the high mountains just to reach down here so Eric can start taming his Inner Demon of Self Control, which is of course associated with Lava Controlling.

Of course, everyone here has different intends. Commander Alia mostly wants to stay by Eric's side regardless, which is why she came alone all the way up to the hidden domain in the high mountains. That proved her pure intend and she can be considered the most unconditional ally here.

Helping Eric occupies most of her intends, but she is also glad to visit the place she called home for 200 years. She misses all her friends, and in another way doesn't know how to face them considering how many men died in the war of Pameres Kingdom.

12 Calidum Lutum guards died in that dark day, 13 if we count the Calidum Lutum that was a Guard in Gaster Kingdom. This race isn't so forgiving, one death can make the entire tribe go wild. Imagine 12, they might get a situation on their hands but luckily Eric is here whose word is respected as a King.

Mogranius is here completely under Akareas' recommendation, since she wanted them to be here. Recalling the "glow" on an Electus' eyes when he was her mentor, he remembered that it can randomly change.

But yet again in some other aspects it doesn't look so random, if he asked Akareas at that day who seemed to have a better view of the demonic situation, she would have told him just a bit more but with all those emotions getting together, who would remember to ask?

Although while under his mentorship they just labelled the glow as random and just decided to not pay more attention to it, he has a couple of theories on what's going on here since the fire like glow is noticeably reducing. He thinks that it is too based on the Inner Demons!

Akareas had a variety of differently coloured glows and they all happened when she started training a new form of magic or now better described, power. That can't be random and Akareas mentioned in as well on their last and final meeting.

Eric's glow started off occupying all of his eyes in the very beginning, Mogranius thinks that happened because Eric just accessed his powers and hence for the Inner Demons started working as well, describing his fearful rage.

In another event, a small dot in the middle of his eyes showed his pupil in the middle of the glow, getting the fact that it couldn't be random aside. That happened when he became just a bit less rageful, could it be a coincidence and could it be associated with that current rage?

And at the third time half of that fire like glow was gone and it spread further away from the pupil, a.k.a from the middle of the eye. That is when he became generally a much calmer person, so do you see where his theory is going here?

At first he was just introduced to the Inner Demons, who gave him the rage to burn that wolf down. Later on as the glow on his eyes wasn't occupying his eyes entirely any longer, and it just reduced more and more.

His theory is here that the glow is associated with what Level the Inner Demon of rage is, as Akareas specified Eric has descended towards Level 2 which means that he is almost beating the Demon.

All of these are just theories of course, they have no solid knowledge on it. Akareas failed to tell them and no book would contain such information, all they can do now is wait for Eric to go through this "change" once he learns just a bit of lava controlling, meaning that he would need to become a Magician (Level 3).

That would take a long time, so Mogranius just needs to hold on that theory for a few months or years. He has been asking Eric a boat load of questions, thankfully Eric remembered them all in detail so he helped Mogranius form this theory although to him it didn't matter that much.

As for what intend does Ada have here, she is just curious for a start. She never saw a Calidum Lutum, and is more than willing to see them although she is a bit anxious if they will be accepting or not. The ill.u.s.tratio killed 12 Calidum Lutum, how would they see her now?

Furthermore, with a month spend along with Eric now due to the fact of travelling, she has come to like him more and more as a person. He is quiet yes, but at the same time it is a lot better than yapping on and on like a mindless fool, spending time with Mogranius made him realise that!

And he fancies her as well although he is too shy to get to close, such as kissing or hugging. No, the best form of connection he can offer is talking to her a bit more than he usually talks to everyone else, it is a slow pace but they are kids after all.

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As they reached in the glorious under ground town of Lan Zhe, they've met with their first problem although it isn't anything particularly dangerous. The big tunnel Eric blew ten feet wide open at the first time they've been here, is covered with dried out molten lava.

Last time, Eric was bugged big time by this voice who didn't let him sleep. The source of that voice was never specified, even Eric forgot it due to all of those events happening at once here in this very town.

Today, that same voice chose to become more useful and it is a lot less concealed when compared to the first encounter. That same voice didn't speak in the Calidum Lutum language, but Ignite instead. "Welcome, Golden Blood ."

"Oh my... the voices are back." Spoke Eric in a bit of concern, and got everyone's attention.

Ada is new to such a sentence so she started thinking that Eric might have lost it here. She asked, "What Voices? Do you want some water?" Afterwards she pulled a bottle of it from her backpack and tried to hand it to him.

"Relax." Tried Alia to calm them down, and appreciated how Ada is trying to look after him. She is a child yet she is trying to care for a guy who is two years older than her, simply adorable. "It is just one of our Grand Masters."

"How could I forget to ask about the voice who gave me a month's worth of traumas." Eric complained a little bit and could almost feel the headaches he had from the lack of of sleep.

Turning his attention towards Commander Alia, he asked. "How can the Grand Masters speak to me? This blockage doesn't speak, does it?" Although it seems like a joke, it became his best theory here and he is dead serious.

"I don't think anyone reached such a technology yet, but you'll know along your training don't worry." Afterwards she grabbed them by the shoulders and pushed them to one side of the cave, awaiting for the blockage to open.

"Ummm." Ada started to become puzzled, as she rubbed her temples a little bit to figure things out. "Who are we waiting for?"

"Just watch." Commander Alia spoke, and as if planned the ground started lightly trembling.

The shake still remained light for about half a minute, afterwards the Cave started shaking enough to wake almost anyone up if he or she was under deep slumber. I think we know who wouldn't be woken up, even though that someone isn't here.

15 seconds later, the shake became so strong that dust started seperating from the ceiling and falling all over their heads, furthermore standing up on one's feet became troublesome!

Boom!

A man blew through the barricade of dried lava like a an arrow through skin! Making a stunning entrance indeed.

"Aaaaaa!" A feminine scream echoed across the cave. Most could figure who screamed since most wouldn't be too surprised of such a scene considering what more they saw.

Ada stood behind Commander Alia, using her as a body shield. Not that she wants Commander Alia to be hurt first, but because she saw up close what Alia can do to any enemy. In a way, Ada looks at her as a protector.

"Calm down girl." Mogranius complained as he bashed one finger on his ear, as if it would push the pain away. "It is just Kazer."

Getting a better glance at the man who just went through a wall of dried lava as if it was nothing, they figured that it is indeed Kazer although Commander Alia already knew. She knows all of the customs and how things flow here.

"Commander Alia." Kazer spoke in the Ignite language and bent down with his right hand stretched out, fingers spread wide apart from each other with the palm facing upwards. And his left arm placed a bit narrowly behind his back.

"You may stand." Commander Alia replied as she tapped her right upper leg with her left hand.

"Golden Blood." Kazer continued his greetings as he just shifted his body to the left a little bit to greet the King.

"Um hello." Spoke Eric, unaware of this greeting since it wasn't really common last time.

"Psst Eric." Whispered Commander Alia, as Kazer still stood bent forwards until the custom is properly answered. "Tap your right leg with your left hand and tell him that he may stand."

Eric did so, and this slightly embarrassing situation faded. Kazer continued to greet Mogranius afterwards, luckily he was quick to catch on.

Now he finally reached Ada, saying. "New girl." And honouring her as well.

Although just a simple gesture, it felt amazing. This is a Grand Master we are talking about here and he just bent down to greet a child, who furthermore is an ill.u.s.tratio. It just showed how accepting he is, or did he just honor her because of Eric?

The greet continued on at Dilli, and she has already quite understood how this goes. She too returned the greet kindly.

"Let's inside." Kazer spoke with the little Ignite language he knows.