Clentine focused her attention forward; on the hard rocky ground a few ters ahead to be more specific. In the darkness, her body shifted, hand edged onwards, palm outstretched, parallel to the ground.
Her mouth moved. Uttering words only she could hear!
[Not actually spoken!]
—[Starfall Convergence]— And just like that, a crimson fla with violet embers appeared above her palm. It was a small fla that burned boundlessly and harmlessly in her hand, its flickers seemingly appearing harmless to the untrained eyes.
Even the three did not feel much from it. However, it was a different case for Clentine, who knew how destructive, overbearing and dominating the draconian flas were in nature just like the creatures themselves!
It was a good thing that her dragon blood was only a [Tier one: Pureblood], so she was capable of suppressing the overwhelming pride and arrogance that flowed through every cell of the bloodline right away.
A unique ability only had three ability effects and had no sub-effects; the one she had activated was of the offensive type, and the other two were of the control and suppression type. Mainly the [Draconic Fla Control] and [Draconic Pressure Presence].
As for the elent type of her ability; it was Fla and Space! The sa elent as one of the dragons she had absorbed. Observing the sole flas for a few seconds, Clentine condensed them into a fla sphere of a few centiters in diater with a slight inward movent of her fingers!
Subsequently, she flickered her hand; the flaball shot forward, coming to a stop just above the spot where she had focused previously. The next second, it flattened itself into sothing similar to a 2D circle in the air. Like a thin circular disk, its width was perhaps even less than a centiter, whereas its diater had expanded to a whole 100 centiters.
SHONE! The flaming circle hovered 10 ters above the ground.
At the mont of its creation, it released a horrendous amount of heat and radiation that imdiately lted the ground, but before the heat and radiation could move past her, Clentine was able to control them and stopped their advance any further promptly.
LT! CRACK! SIZZLE! SIZZLE! BUBBLE! CRACK! CRACK! SIZZLE!
SIGH! Clentine exhaled and watched the disastrous aftermath of a montary lapse of control toward her own ability! Nevertheless, putting this to the back of her mind, she let the rest happen as she had planned previously.
The flaming circle, now in her full control because of her second ability effect, shone crimson in the darkness and shot a beam of super-condensed and super-heated flas toward the ground. The flas had practically transford into a space-distorting, twisting, wrapping, and fracturing plasmic beam already.
BOOOOOOOM! TREMBLE! TREMBLE! The impact was enough that the ground shook and cracked where the spatial flas hit, but aside from this, there was not much damage done to the cave. Of course, that is only if one looked past the lted ground.
Whereas the plasmic red beam was powerful enough that it had completely vaporized the ground and the rocks and had already made its way ters down as it continued its path below while disintegrating the earth entirely.
"What happened to your words of not destroying the cave, Clentine!?" Aezaleon questioned, his voice sharp and biting like a winter gale slicing through silk.
Clentine smiled wryly at the displeased emotions she sensed from Aezaleon, but she couldn’t say anything either when she rembered how confident she had sounded previously.
Despite the second ability effect being capable of fully controlling the heat spread, the space-fracturing thermal radiations, and stopping the flas from spreading beyond the chosen area to prevent unwanted destruction and keep the attacks focused; she still failed, because she did not account for the pre-effect such a small fla sphere created by her would have.
"My bad, I didn’t think that my authority over my own abilities would’ve deteriorated so much. I was overconfident, it seems," she apologized, her pride drooping like a wilted rose in a scorched garden, as she ca to a stop beside him.
Aezaleon, on hearing her words, also couldn’t bring himself to get mad at her anymore. He simply sighed and shook his head, focusing his mind on the task at hand.
"So, what have you accomplished by creating a vertical tunnel in the cave?" He questioned in a curious voice. "What you sensed, is that thing down below?"
"Indeed, there is a massive hollow beneath this cave; since I couldn’t see a path leading there, with it being closed entirely from the outside, I just created one," Clentine replied, her words carrying the weight of a mountain uncovering its buried heart.
"A hollow!... then can’t we just spend the night there if the cave is destroyed?"
Aezaleon and Clentine blinked, both having not thought of such a simple solution. Which made them feel quite strange—were they really that dumb?
"However, the important question is how should we get down? Considering the vertical tunnel that big sister created; the lting rocks will make it impossible for Aezaleon and Aphryne to use them since they are still filled with strong heat and the radiations from big sister’s flas!"
Auguszta voiced the main problem.
In fact, even as a master of fla elentals herself, she didn’t have the confidence to pass the vertical tunnel and reach the underground unscathed. Because she could tell the quality of Clentine’s flas was simply leagues above her elent—[Burningblight].
Why that was so? She had a few guesses but wasn’t much interested in the topic at the mont. ’I will ask big sis later, to see if my thoughts are really correct.’
"That is sothing you don’t need to worry about, since I am pretty confident in eliminating the heat and the radiation. So it should be safe for all three of you to pass through the tunnel unhard," Clentine stated, her tone as cool and reassuring as a deep, still pond amidst a forest fire.
"Are you really hundred percent sure you can do that!?" Aezaleon pressed.
Clentine’s lips twitched, but instead of using so aningless words, she let her actions speak for herself. She advanced towards the hole in the ground. Simultaneously, using her Extre Concept of [Frost] to freeze the lted ground.
On reaching the tunnel, she rely waved her hand, using her resonance with the heat and the radiations coming from her draconian flas to completely erase them.
As flas from her unique ability, she of course had command over every concept of her flas. She just had to master them and the ability to make what happened previously never happen again.
Clentine even went ahead and froze the tunnel too, creating a smooth ride towards the underground. She gazed towards the three.
"Follow !" she commanded, her voice echoing like the first strike of a bell in an empty hall.
Saying such, she jumped down instantly. The three also followed soon afterwards, without a second’s delay.
However, as they ca out from the ceiling of the underground cavern, a strong gust of wind hit them square in the face, thus cancelling their montum greatly.
Considering it has been nearly 11 seconds since the mont of their jump into the tunnel, during which they had covered a great deal of distance just by letting gravity do its work.
"How deep are we from the ground above, anyways!?" Aphryne questioned, her voice trembling like a leaf caught in a sudden updraft, as her feet touched the hard and even ground with a good thud.
"If my assumption is correct, then I’d say it’s about 350 to 400 ters," Aezaleon answered thoughtlessly, while observing his current surroundings.
"Ooh...!"
"That’s quite an awfully long distance!" Auguszta comnted, her eyes widening like moons reflecting a vast, dark sea.
"My...!"
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