Chapter 345 - We don't know

The next day, as Eric was making use out of his Lava Controlling training. He noticed something rather unusual. At first thought, he would think that this is some type of illusion due to mental exhaust, this is the fourth and final hour of his daily training and it can get tiresome enough for his brain to not calm down even when he is trying to sleep over 6 hours after!

But this can't be an illusion, he is no expert but illusions aren't supposed to be this familiar. As you might have guessed by now, he noticed Blue Lava. But this time it came in a new form and at the same time more noticeable.

A bubble arose from the lava, possibly around 20 feet away from where Eric was standing. A bubble blue in colour and 4 feet wide in size! Unusual, never seen before by the six people here and the only way he knew to handle such a case is. "Did you see that?"

"See what?" Kazer asked, once acknowledging that Eric's shout broke the five's meditation.

"There was a blue bubble, but it disappeared." These sentences sound familiar to Kazer, although he just recalls Blue Lava being spoken off.

Not a fan, thinking that the young Electus might be messing around here. Kazer replied with. "I told. There is no thing as Blue Lava, I don't think there is Blue Bubbles at heats this large." His sentence started off with a yell and ended up with calm reasoning.

The young Electus felt a tad offended, but as Kazer ended his sentence. Laza gasped in shock and pointed towards another bubble. Now, they all saw it.

"Well, I'll be damned." I think we know where Kazer learned such a sentence at. "That really is a Blue Bubble."

"I told you." Eric expressed, glad that he didn't just see illusions all this time nor is he going crazy. Well described, he isn't feeling c.o.c.ky about this.

Before he knew it, the five Grand Masters have already started debating a move with their own language. The following sentences will be translated, for the pure pleasure of translations not ruining the flow.

"What do we do here?" Kazer asked confused, although possibly the smartest man in Ignis he could use older wisdom here. Specifically, he is looking at Grand Master Xalk, he is the oldest here standing 1301 years old.

"Um this is unheard off..." Xalk expressed truthfully, indirectly making it clear that he has no idea what the hell is going on.

"Forget that, do any of you think it is Dangerous?" Kazer asked the most important question here, they have over 800 people to consider here. There are so many newborns.

"They are blobs... and they are blue...?" Laza reminded, trying to figure out where this can be considered dangerous.

"I think we need to check it from up close." Kazer recommended, feeling rather paranoid now. Because after all the safety of this town is obviously not solely dependent on a child, they hold the most responsibility here.

"No, those blobs could tip our rocks over and we can fall in the Lava." Xalk reminded, this is where old wisdom comes useful at least. Perhaps did he see Grand Masters get burned?

"You have a point. What if we sent the Golden Blood there?" Throughout their murmuring, the word "Welzer Artej" went through Eric's ear and he managed to pile thoughts together and know where this will lead.

With an urge to flip, but at the same time trying to be as respectful as possible. Pezik asked, "Would it really be a good idea to send a highly untrained child? I mean we don't even know what those bubbles are made off! They can even withstand Lava's heat."

"But they burst right after coming out of Lava... hmmm." Kazer focused on Pezik's last words rather more than on the criticism she gave.

"The boy can swim in Lava, we can send him further down to figure out the Source of this Blue Lava." Xalk complimented Kazer's idea, after all it is better to send a boy who can easily withstand Lava than sending anyone who can't.

"He can't hold his breath enough to properly analyse the Source." Altacin reminded, and afterwards recalled what the young Golden Blood explained about swimming in Lava. "It isn't like swimming in the river, it would take twice the effort to swim down."

"She's right." Kazer aimed to reason, no research would be worthy enough if any of the Grand Masters or the Golden Blood died here. "Do any of you think that it would be a good idea to wait?"

"Well the Bubbles aren't exploding or bringing the town down... Why rush it?" Altacin calmed them down with reasoning, fairly the calmest here in a high pressure situation like this.

"She has a point." Kazer complimented with a swift tone, as reasoning furthermore became acceptable in his critique. Afterwards he continued, "I recommend an around the clock stake out. None of us will sleep until we know exactly what these blobs are."

The fact that the four other Grand Masters didn't carry shock at such a recommendation, Kazer became pleased because in a way it determines that they aren't scared of such a task. "Are all of you in?" Kazer asked, with no aims of breaking good relations by ordering.

All at the same time, they either grunted or said yes. "Perfect." Kazer sighed in relief, this situation can be possibly dangerous but at least all five are on board.

"I'm guessing you want to send me down there to get a better peek at the situation." Eric asked nervously, but at the same time not exactly unwilling to proceed with such a inevitably dangerous task. Hey he handled worse.

"No no, that would be stupid." Kazer explained as he kept his gaze firm towards where the bubbles previously came out of. "Those bubbles could burn you, we don't know what they are made off."

"So we will just leave it be? Is that the wisest idea?" Eric asked, he wants everyone to be safe but most importantly he wants his gang to be even safer.

"Of course we won't, but we can't do anything if we don't know what we are dealing with." A rather clear sentence from Kazer, you must be aware but furthermore he has good points. "So we will be watching the area with no sleep until we know."

"Makes sense. Anything I can be of help with?" Eric asked, feeling a bit dissatisfied that he has to stay here more than four hours again but this is a sensitive situation.

"Not really. You can stay here to lend us your eyes... but first go eat." Knowing that Ignites have less tolerance against tiredness, Kazer wanted him here sharp. "After an hour come back here."

...

As Eric flew his way up, afterwards entering the farm and walking towards the end of it in aims of reaching the Storage Area. He saw his little gang there, already making a feast near the Storage room. They have set nice flat rocks to use as seats, and a bigger flat rock in the middle resembling a table.

Eric didn't panickly run over there but instead kept a firm humourless face instead, enough to get Commander Alia concerned. Because Eric often smiles, but she figured that he could be tired from all the training.

"Would you like some boiled melon slices?" Commander Alia asked once Eric sat down.

And of course hungry enough, after noticing the cauldron near the seats he answered. "Yes, if it isn't troubling."

"A little gentleman aren't you!" Commander Alia spoke in a semi pitch tone as she grabbed his cheeks, squeezing it but noticed that Eric didn't get shy this time.

Leaving it be, she walked towards the Cauldron to prepare a little dish for him. Eric on the other hand, took a peek at Mogranius and hoped to grab his attention. Asking, "Do you know anything about Blue Bubbles?"

The group glanced at Eric afterwards, with considerably enough shock. Could the training and hunger made him all shaken? "Blue Bubble as in?"

"As in Blue Bubbles coming out of Lava!" Eric specified, keeping his tone low and not alarming although he inevitably has grabbed attention.

"Ummm Let me think it through." He answered as he chewed down on a nice foot long Carrot. Fair to say the Harvest was a great success.

"Blue Lava... hmmm." He continued to make noise, not panicking thankfully. Trying to recall every bit of experience Akareas has faced with Lava Controlling. There isn't really much information to fish out considering that she came in to power as a Level 3 Lava Controller and obliterated Blue Goblins with it.

"I don't think I ever saw Blue Lava Bubbles, nor did I hear about them." He finally expressed, giving an end to the anticipation.

With a kind gentle tone, Eric asked. "What about the rest of you? Ada? Osira? Dilli?"

He forgot to mention one lady here, and she grabbed his attention when gently placing the Iron plate in front of him. Commander Alia of course, that's who he forgot. "Anything we should be concerned of?" Alia asked, referring to the Blue Bubbles.

"We don't know yet, I was hoping that one of you would know more. I mean after all there are three races around this rock." Eric spoke calmly to not alarm them, and put a little bit of pressure on the Diversity.

"I didn't really see Lava before I've got here." Commander Alia expressed, leaving Eric feel even more puzzled.

Because Mogranius along with the bundle of people here were his last hope of shedding light towards these mysterious bubbles, yet they do not know a thing about them.

"I guess we will have to wait." Eric spoke calmly, and enjoyed the sweet taste of the nice boiled melon in front of him.