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Molting the Mortal Coil - Chapter 498

Published at 29th of March 2024 06:18:39 AM


Chapter 498: Experiment

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Chapter 498: Experiment

He matured the little beetle till it was the size of his palm and then moved the orange flame over to it. Using it as an experiment, he didnt apply a Human Seal since that would just make it more creepy. The orange flame fell upon the beetle and it let out a squeaking noise before going silent.

There was no smell of burning flesh, or insect in this case, yet the beetle was still being bathed in the orange flame. It was no normal fire after all, the Samsara Flame could do more than burn physical objects and it was exactly this special function that Sage was using upon the Dragoon in order to test a theory of his. The hand sized beetle had gone completely still and quiet, but that did not mean it was dead. As the controller of the flames, Sage could glimpse into what the beetle was experiencing.

Just like when he had been the victim of the Samsara Flame, the beetle was living out a multitude of other lives. Sage watched the lifetimes of dozens of insects flash past and then he was surprised to see the Dragoon living as a form of lizard. Then it became a Spirit Animal Viper, and a few lives later it was a huge sea turtle. The little beetle wasnt just living more lives, it was improving its next in the cycle of reincarnation. Sage was fascinated by this change and watched more closely. Remarkably, after a hundred lives, the little beetle was a human!

When Sage was under the influence of the Samsara Flame, his mind was slowly being consumed to fuel the tempering of his soul. The Dragoon was quite young and only an insect after all, so it didnt have much mind to fuel this process. Sage was using his own Spirit Power to bridge this gap, feeding energy to the little beetle. He wanted to see whether this Samsara Flame was only useful against enemies. While every life Sage had lived through was tainted with unfinished business, he had still experienced many things.

When hed thought of Merging with a powerful Demonic Beast to acquire its experiences, this idea popped into his head and he wanted to try it out before even handling the simple task of breeding a firefly. The lives and experiences were essentially artificial, but for the one living them, they were quite real. A person can only interact with the outside world through their senses. The lives lived under the Samsara Flame were directly experienced by the mind and soul. For the person being burned, even time flowed at a normal rate and the lives they lived were just as real as anyone else's.

Turns out, his experiment was far more successful than he thought it would be.The original appearance of this chapter can be found at Ñøv€lß1n.

Everything went silent.

The boom of thunder was so loud that his eardrums had burst. All around him many mortals were bleeding from their ears, noses and eyes. A few had fallen to the ground clutching their chest. The immense shockwave released from the collision of the teen and the lightning had caused the whole of Lionheart Town to rumble. The meeting in the sky had caused the ground to quake. Many were dead or injured, but the skies suddenly cleared up.

The teen had succeeded. A single upward punch completely conquered the river of lightning that had fallen from above and banished the dark clouds. The sky was suddenly clear like that monstrous lightning had never been there in the first place. The teen looked down and frowned, but then he shook his head and then flew up into the sky. He moved so fast there was a loud boom in his wake and then he disappeared completely from sight.

Who knew you could uppercut a storm away?

His ears were not ringing as his fast healing quickly restored his hearing. He realized the seriousness of the situation and rushed to the Thousand Treasures, buying a huge quantity of healing pills. Then he gathered up the injured Dragoons and sent them into the Inner World while bringing out an equal number of replacements. Injured as they had been, he considered their service fulfilled and let them retire from that point on. The new Dragoons were swiftly sent around town to maintain order and distribute the healing pills to all the mortals that were injured. They also had to do some firefighting, the many sparks that had fallen to the ground had already ignited dozens of small fires around town. A couple buildings had also collapsed from that final quake and teams were sent to dig out the survivors.

What had started as a small experiment had turned into a disaster.




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