The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

She needs to stay calm; it seems like she can't beat either of them.

"Oh."

"Come out."

Ember and Lance Sanx silently stepped back, then quietly watched the woman whose head was the only part of her body protruding from the ice cocoon.

The woman then realized that Ember and the others had only managed to break open a small opening in the ice cocoon; she would have to rely on herself to get out.

"Whoosh!" The woman took a deep breath, and the scorching air flowed out with her breath, melting a hole in the ice cocoon.

The omnipresent flames within his body began to flow. Fiery red patterns began to appear on the ice cocoon formed by the Evil Eye.

"Boom!" The surging flames did not choose to melt the solid ice, but instead shattered it directly.

The Blazing Witch, consumed by flames, has returned to the world after five hundred years!

"Wow! So tall!" Ember looked up at the woman; the huge skirt lifted her up, making her appear much taller than Black Knife.

"Fire! Fire!" Lance Sanx's voice came from afar. Ember turned his head and saw Lance Sanx using his dragon claws to beat at the rekindled flames.

"Could you tone it down a bit?" Ember looked up at the woman, heat radiating from her body, invisible flames scorching everything around her.

Of course, for Ember, this amount of heat was like a gentle breeze, and he felt nothing at all.

"It seems... no." The woman paused for a moment, then answered somewhat awkwardly.

If she could control herself, she wouldn't use the Evil Eye as a shackle to restrain herself.

"Your move... is quite ruthless." Yu Jin glanced at the woman's condition. It was normal for her to be out of control after burning away the power she had gained.

"But your second-phase cutscene is way too long? If you fight me, you'll be in trouble if you can't get it going." Ember saw that with Lance Sanx's efforts, the greenery around them disappeared quickly.

So he stopped worrying about the fire—it was all burned, so what fire could it possibly start?

Upon hearing this, the woman was at a loss for words to respond to Ember. He had described breaking free from the shackles as a second stage, and she had no intention of being hostile to Ember whatsoever.

She felt that if she really angered Yu Jin, it would be better to slit her own throat first, so that in the end, she wouldn't even be able to find her body.

"I'll teach you how to quickly enter the second stage." Yu Jin seemed to have suddenly thought of something fun, and immediately ran behind the charred charcoal wood in the distance.

"Screech—" A harsh scraping sound rang out, and the lady and Lance Sanx looked up in the direction of the embers.

They saw nothing; the charred tree was twisted and contorted. It and everything after it seemed detached from the world, offering no useful information.

The scraping sound of metal didn't last long before the distant scenery stopped distorting, and Ember emerged from behind the charcoal.

In his hand was a wisp of ash, still faintly glowing with embers.

Embers—the embers remaining within the bodies of heroes. They are something that the ashes without fire cannot obtain, which is why they are attracted to them.

It grants the power of fire, increasing maximum health until death.

"Try squeezing it?"

The embers flickered with light, and the bloated figure looked like a burning person.

Chapter 183 Flickering Fire

2023-09-20

"What is this?" the woman asked with suspicion, looking at the ash-like object in Yu Jin's hand.

"Good stuff, you'll die if you don't squeeze it soon!" Yu Jin warned. In this state, the woman was constantly burning her life force.

"My lord, what is this?" Lance Sanks asked curiously, looking at the ashes in Ember's hand.

“The dead skin on my body.” Ember spoke as if the lady didn’t exist, directly revealing the origin of the ember in his hand.

Such blatant discrimination left the woman feeling breathless.

“Uh…” Lance Sanks looked at the large lump of ashes in Ember’s hand and suddenly wondered how long it had been since he had taken a bath.

However, considering that he might get a beating from Ember if he spoke up, Lance Sanx kept his doubts to himself.

"Dead skin?" The woman took the large lump of embers from Yu Jin's hand and pinched it lightly with suspicion.

"Snap!" The embers in her hand seemed to be truly formed from loose ashes. With just a slight exertion, the embers scattered.

Ashes, flickering with tiny sparks, drifted aimlessly into the woman's body, causing some kind of change within her.

"Ah—" Flames ignited from within the woman's soul. Lava, of unknown origin, flowed inexplicably along the hem of her skirt and her body.

Her soul was constantly disintegrating, and the woman's nasal cavity and throat were filled with stinging and heat.

"Cough cough—" Large plumes of ash spewed from the woman's mouth. Under the heat of the flames, her flesh and blood began to turn into dust and smoke.

"I can't die... I can't die yet..." The woman, her consciousness nearly fading, lay prone on the ground. Her long, slender fingers dug deep into the sand, as if to ease her pain.

"So it really won't work?" Yu Jin shook his head, looking at the woman's pained expression. The power of fire was beyond the capacity of ordinary people to withstand.

“Then forget it!” Ember stretched out his palm, and specks of smoke, still carrying sparks, escaped from the woman’s body. They drifted, eventually returning to Ember’s body through the gaps in her armor.

Yu Jin looked at the dazed woman on the ground, squatted down, and a pale yellow light wave swept across her.

The ripples of the tree appeared on the ground, and wherever the light waves passed, tender grass sprouted from the ashes and new buds emerged from the charcoal.

Meanwhile, the charred and carbonized flesh on the woman's body began to fall off, and new granulation tissue filled the gaps in the wound.

"Hmm..." The woman opened her eyes and took a deep breath. The cool, refreshing air entered her burning body and eventually turned into a scalding heat.

The flames that had previously made the woman feel uncomfortable were now so warm.

Without comparison, there is no harm; compared to the fire within the embers, the witch's flames are truly insignificant.

As the woman felt the power gradually filling her body, her body transformed into a swirling ball of flame, quickly distancing herself from the embers.

“You…” The flames dispersed, and the woman’s figure reappeared. She pointed at the embers, her body still wreathed in flames.

The woman was about to ask why, but suddenly found herself unable to say anything.

The pressure that had rendered the woman immobile returned. Beads of sweat dripped from her forehead, and the fire within her began to shrink under this pressure, as if she had seen something terrifying.

If the pressure Ember exerted on her last time stemmed from a tremor in her soul, then this time it was sheer power. The pressure, like the sky collapsing and the earth sinking, made it hard for her to breathe.

"The weak must submit to the strong, isn't that your creed? Why do you look so unwilling?"

A straight sword, a one-handed shield, and armor with melting edges—this is Ember's strongest form.

"Want to fight?" The one-handed sword rested lightly on the woman's collar.

Despite the straight sword's rust and its apparent impending melting, the woman had no doubt that it possessed the power to sever her own head.

The woman shook her head with difficulty, her skin touching the embers of the blade. It felt warm, not at all like a weapon, but the woman didn't notice these details.

The sword was sheathed, and the woman's aura subsided. She relaxed completely.

"Huff—, huff—" The woman greedily inhaled the air; just now, she truly dared not even breathe.

"That's right, I don't like fighting. Besides, you're really too bad, you can't even learn the second stage I taught you, it's no fun fighting you."

Ember reverted to his usual unreliable self. He raised one hand high, holding the embers, and the flames began to flicker around him.

Melting, dissipating, melting, and dissipating again... Waves of invisible pressure assaulted the woman's body, each time brief but with a high frequency.

This made the embers look like a constantly flashing LED light. The woman watched the firelight flicker before her eyes, and two streams of tears flowed down her cheeks.

As for why? Well, it's because of the fumes!

Each time Ember unleashed the power of fire, large plumes of ash spewed from the gaps in his armor. This powerful ash flew straight into the lady's eyes, suffocating her.

"Sizzle—" A burnt smell wafted over, and in addition to the ashes, Yu Jin was covered in black smoke.

"What are you doing?" Yu Jin grabbed Lance Sanx from behind and pulled him out.

The latter was holding a piece of meat that had been completely mushy.

"Pah! This is awful!" Lance Sanx took a bite of the "charcoal" in his hand as if no one else was there; it was nothing but a mouthful of smear.

"I thought meat roasted with the king's body heat would have some special effects." Lance Sanks looked at Ember with an embarrassed smile, seemingly a little ashamed.

"What effect will it have?" Ember was immediately drawn to Lance Sanx's idea. He snatched the slice of meat from Lance Sanx's hand and examined it closely.

Unfortunately, aside from the constantly falling charcoal ash, Ember found nothing. It was simply because his body temperature in his second stage was too high; the flesh, which seemed to have come from nowhere, instantly turned to charcoal.

Perhaps Lance Sands is an ancient dragon, so he's not sensitive to these things? Ember thought for a moment, then glanced at the lady rubbing her eyes beside him.

The woman suddenly felt her hair stand on end. When she looked up, she met Yu Jin's gaze.

"You... what do you want to do?" The woman looked at Yu Jin carrying a lump of black stuff and couldn't help but push him back.

"I'll treat you to something delicious." Yu Jin raised the charcoal in his hand even higher. Some of the falling charcoal slag even blew onto the lady with the wind.

"Do you have some kind of misunderstanding about what delicious food is?" The woman was on the verge of tears. No matter how she looked at it, the thing in Yu Jin's hand could not possibly be associated with "delicious food".

Moreover, the experience of creating fire just now was still fresh in her mind. This made the woman somewhat apprehensive about anything from the embers, let alone eat this so-called "delicious food".

In some ways, the woman was right. Yu Jin's palate had been bland for countless years. He'd tried everything, edible and inedible, and to him, they all tasted the same.

"Alright, since you're not going to eat it, I won't force you." The woman only felt a flash before her eyes, and the "meat slices" in Yu Jin's hand disappeared.

"But what about you? I think you'll be burned to death soon." Yu Jin changed the subject, talking about the lady's current situation.

The flames around her grew increasingly fierce, and her aura became more and more powerful. In contrast, her life force grew weaker and weaker.

“I can return to Winter to find the Queen,” the woman replied without hesitation. The Queen could extinguish the flames on her body.

"Why go through all that trouble?" Yu Jin waved his hand, a hint of eagerness in his voice. He held up three fingers, from which orange-yellow flames began to flicker.

Ember approached the woman step by step, while the woman retreated step by step.

"No... don't come any closer!"

"Lance Sanks, hold her down! Feel the despair of her madness!"

"what--"

The woman's screams echoed a second time beside the Fruit Wine Lake.

Chapter 184 Be Blessed with Mad Fire

2023-09-21

"Uh..." On the shore of Fruit Wine Lake, the woman was lying on the beach, barely alive.