Chapter 360 - Spiraling Demon

Due to the fact that a whole God Damn Dragon Skeleton appearing at the bottom of the Volcano, a lot of confusion has struck the town. It was visible from the very middle of the Volcano, and the word spread like Wild Fire. Everyone in town knew about this mysterious Skeleton of whom Lava doesn't burn.

No one, including the Oldest Calidum Lutum (Xalk) doesn't know the origin of this Skeleton, it just doesn't add up. The Calidum Lutum don't have a history of Dragon slaying, but there is a theory about this Skeleton that might be believable.

What if the Ancient ones, just found this Cave and reached a special spot that has a big hole in it, they throw a rock down it and they can't hear the rock hit the ground, which signifies that it is very deep.

With the ability to blast Lava out of their own limbs, and in need of a new Domain, the ancient ones just started blasting a lot of Lava down it and officially forming a Volcano. Filling a mile wide and long hole could have taken a while, but with several of the Grand Masters blasting Lava, the chances would just increase to accidentally kill an unsuspecting Dragon down there.

Think about it, Dragons are rare and Furthermore they are mysterious and almost impossible to study, the odds of studying a Dragon would be a million to one. What if a Dragon was down this hole and no one knew about it, including the ancient ones?

Could have just been sleeping, could even be harmless since them attacking towns is no where to be heard off. This can be the only explanation, the Ancient ones accidentally killed a sleeping or unsuspecting Dragon, its Skeleton was somehow stuck down there and now it got unstuck and popped out.

The fact that one bone appeared first and afterwards the entire skeleton followed could be a proof that the Dragon carcass got stuck, and since Dragon Bones are almost impossible to break, it didn't float up all this time.

The first bone didn't come out broken, just separated from its socket. Dragon Bones can't be cracked that easily, but can be removed from its sockets if heavy pressure is applied to them in a long period of time, a.k.a Lava. This could explain the whole reason why a Dragon Skeleton is here, but yet again it doesn't explain where the Blue Bubbles are coming from.

If they don't know what was down there when they unleashed Lava for the first time, what else would they not know about? What else could there be hidden underneath this large body of Lava?

The questions are indeed great and hard to find an accurate answer out of, the fact that Xalk's father knew about Dragons makes it a whole lot confusing too. But for now, they just slowly removed the Dragon Skeleton from the Lava and stored it in the biggest room down at the Grand Master's den.

No one can meditate peacefully or exercise for that matter, when knowing that a large skeleton is floating on Lava, so it was best to place it where eyes can't see it as easily.

With the theory of how the Dragon got here in mind, life returned almost back to normal after they removed the Skeleton from the Lava. Well at least, it returned to normal for most people.

You might have figured it out that I'm talking about Xalk, now that a Skeleton popped out of the Lava he has gotten more and more paranoid. Wondering what else could be down there, loosing sleep over it.

They didn't know what solution to find for Xalk, until Commander Alia came up with a little idea. Regardless who mentors who, Eric is still the King of Lan Zhe due to the fact that he is the Golden Blood.

"Eric says that he orders you to go to sleep." Kazer translated for the young King.

But of course, with the lack of sleep and paranoia by his side. King Xalk instantly replied, "So you talked him in to it?"

"It isn't important who did it, what matters is the fact that he has ordered it. You know that refusing the order can prove you disloyal, and the Calidum Lutum don't have disloyalty in their blood." Now Kazer touched Xalk on veins he knew it would prove effective.

Regardless of the situation, regardless of what he thinks, as a Grand Master he especially can't go against the King's word. "Alright, I'll play along with your little game."

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In the next morning, after the four hour exercise with the Grand Masters down at the bottom of the Volcano, Eric made his way out of the Domain and climbed the mountain over it to get in to his Fire Manipulation training. In unrelated news, he felt glad that Xalk has lost his eye sacks and is thinking slightly clearly although still Paranoid. Oh well, progress is progress.

After an hour of practicing the Fire Shield, shot after shot managing to withstand the Concentrated Blast better, Mogranius decided to let Eric in another move, to make training a bit more interesting.

"I will show you a move you don't know, a move which would be inadvisable to attempt before getting a good grasp of what the fourth level has to offer." Mogranius set the base of the move introduction and finally explained it by name too. "I will teach you how to do the Spiraling Demon move!"

"The name sounds interesting, does it actually have to do anything with Demons?" Eric became indeed curious about the name, because it is the first move he heard about with the word "Demon" in its name.

"Not really, it just is complex and too dangerous that people actually started calling it Demonic." Afterwards trying to explain the origin of it, Mogranius added. "It is a move a few hundred years old, discovered by a few Grand Masters come to think of it but we can do it too."

Afterwards, he gave a brief before action explanation of the move, using all of his limbs to perform the strongest and most detailed preview. And of course he performed the move too, seemed simple enough and Eric understood why it is called the Spiraling Demon.

And so you can understand it too, let's have Eric perform it as well! The move, uniquely starts off with a push up! Yes with a push up, and the reason behind it will make sense shortly.

Well we can't consider it a full push up, because Eric would just need to keep himself up away from the ground using his arms. Afterwards, fire has to be blown from both his feet and hands, fire has to blow from all of his limbs!

Once elevated a few meters from the ground, with fire spreading fast and wild he is supposed to do the part that adds Spirals to the Spiraling Demon move.

He has to position his arms and feet in such a way that he won't fly off too high from the ground, but he also has to spin in place. It is indeed difficult, but Mogranius showed detailed information on how to attain it properly, he gave a preview without using fire.

Spiraling in mid air, will create such a formation of fire underneath him that will look a lot like a Tornado but much shorter in vertical length and much wider in horizontal length. It basically looks like a snail's shell.

Once the spiral has been officially made, Eric quickly raised his arms above his head and stopped blasting fire from all of his limbs.

Quickly moving downwards the fire, aiming to reach the very middle of the spiral, he blasts fire again once close to what he has previously formed while spiraling.

When he blasted fire again, the middle of the spiral opened up and started deforming and at the same time expanding.

Once close to the ground, he blasts fire at double the amount which will not only cushion his fall but will also quickly expand the fire he has unleashed in the first few steps of the process.

When expanding, this spiraling demon takes everything with it, a pushing and burning force to its aid. In battle it can become very dangerous against an enemy, but it requires time to perform which can also be dangerous.

Covering himself with a dependable Fire Shield, trying to shield himself from Eric's holy amount of fire. He saw the spiral having a starting base of 15 meters wide and expanding to 40 meters when Eric made contact with it again.

Dropping down his shield after seeing that the area is safe, he complimented for once but salted it with Sarcasm too. "You are a quick learner, see how much you can accomplish when you aren't complaining?"

"Yes well in my defense apart from this move looking pretty, I don't think we will use it too often. So in some cases I do have reasons to complain." Eric tried to protect himself, but indeed said something very stupid in the process.

Noticing the rather unmissable wave of stupidity in Eric's words, he chose to spare him this one time and actually not use Sarcasm but a bit of reason instead. It is fair to say that this can actually work for the better of things. "Oh don't act like you didn't love the move, it's not like we can't have some fun sometimes."