Chapter 50: Flame Manipulation

  In such a sigh of Yan Shao, Hu Si Ming's innate talent has finally been transformed.

  As the flame energy was thoroughly saturated, the innate law of his chest gradually withdrew the red light that drew in the flames. After letting the remaining flame energy around him disperse naturally, Hu Siming opened his eyes from his epiphany.

  What Ah Wen had said to herself before all came flooding back into her mind at this moment.

  Flames, which symbolize the energy of flames. The metal shield is a symbol representing armor in the school emblem. After his previous epiphany, he probably knew what his talent was.

  Under mental control, a scorching flame burst forth from his hand and flowed onto the rusty sword.

  Originally, the Frostbite Orb's power on the longsword caused a chill to emanate from the blade. However, with the attachment of the blazing flame, the top-priority talent perfectly integrated the orb's energy. As a result, an ordinary iron sword suddenly had the special effect of having both scorching flames and icy frost coexist, a trait only seen in top-tier magical weapons in Hollywood blockbusters. A common decorative weapon now possessed two completely different attributes.

  Then, Hu Siming swung his long sword and slashed down at the wall of the Yongdao with all his might!

  The flame energy stored previously, was constantly feeding back to him from his chest, bringing him immense power. Perhaps it was a coincidence, but he triggered his innate talent and swung out a red sword aura, dealing an astonishing 58 points of damage.

  Talent Awakens!

  As Ah Wen said, understanding and personally triggering it can truly grasp one's innate talent. With the prompt of the school emblem, Hu Si Ming genuinely saw his own talent's true abilities in the attribute column.

  Pyrokinesis

  High Innate Talent.

  Can manipulate flames to fight for you, restricted by physical attributes, currently only the first layer is unlocked.

  Basic Ability: Attaches flames to the weapon, scorching energy that melts 2 points of enemy armor, making them more vulnerable to lethal damage.

  Unique Ability: When attacking an enemy in a melted armor state, there is a 16% chance to deal double physical damage.

  Currently has 985/1000 flame energy points. Each time the talent is activated, it consumes 10 flame energy points. The more intense the battle, the more critical hits are triggered, and the faster the flame energy is consumed. In an environment with dense fire elements, the flame energy will automatically recover. Additionally, each time a fire-type spell is released, the scattered fire elements can also recharge 10 points.

  Innate abilities cannot be inherited by any mirror image, illusion, or duplicate units and cannot be copied or stolen.

  The armor melt is ineffective against buildings and cannot affect magic immune units at the current level; The only ability to add crits only takes effect on oneself and does not stack with any other crit skills/equipment.

  Note: Your frail body has only exerted a tiny bit of your powerful innate talent.

  Flame Manipulation!

  In the desperate situation of the unified exam, Hu Shiming's true talent was activated, making him extremely excited. Moreover, the powerful attribute of flame manipulation made him even more excited. Just by opening the first layer, he could reduce the enemy's armor by 2 points and had a chance to cause double damage. Although as the students' combat power increased, the significance of reducing 2 points of armor would become smaller and smaller, the appearance of critical hits undoubtedly brought a qualitative improvement to his strength.

  In Dota, critical strikes are absolutely one of the most important factors in measuring late-game ability!

  The key is that this has only opened up the first layer of innate talent!

  No wonder Ah Wen said that a top-notch talent can make the fourth-year seniors' combat power increase exponentially. Hu Siming couldn't imagine how strong he would become as his attributes continued to rise and gradually unlocked the second layer of his talent. Looking at the flames in his hand that he could control with ease, Hu Siming's heart was filled with unprecedented confidence in his future for the first time.

  As long as I can grow up, I will absolutely not be worse than those top-notch seniors.

  This confidence has even affected the current unified exam. Even if he is in a predicament of hanging three teammates, his ambition in his heart has not wavered!

  "Congratulations, Brother Hu's strength has greatly increased!"

  Although it was unclear what the previous strange phenomenon represented, his astonishing sword move made Yan Shao understand that Hu Si Ming had definitely encountered something extraordinary. With a hint of envy and congratulations, he couldn't help but ask: "Hu brother, if you don't mind, can you tell me what just happened?"

  "My talent has just awakened!"

  Hú Sī Míng, in a great mood, said this phrase. Seeing Yán Shǎo ō's confused face, he briefly repeated the knowledge that ā Wén had explained to him earlier.

  "Born student?"

  It was the first time he had learned of this special class in the college, and Yan Shao couldn't help but widen his eyes in surprise.

  His teammates around him have talent, but he doesn't, which undoubtedly makes him feel a bit down. But things that are born with you can't be envied into existence. Moreover, being able to get along well with a talented student from an early age is something that many people want to do but don't have the opportunity to. Comforting himself like this, Yan Shuo dispelled the imbalance in his heart. As someone who has a rich second-generation dad in reality, he's very aware that this world has never been fair.

  However, Tianfu students' interlude did not change Yan Shao's low mood.

  Although Hu Si Ming had awakened his talent, flame manipulation was undoubtedly a late-stage ability. The stronger it was, the greater the amplification it brought. In a short period of time, it was impossible for his strength to undergo a drastic change. However, the current situation was that three teammates had already died when the unified exam had only just passed halfway!

  The third layer of the Blade Maze killed one teammate, and the second layer of the Flame Temple lost two more. What about the first layer of the Underground Mausoleum?

  Will there be even more dangerous abyss waiting for them?

  Can they really rush through the remaining dangerous journey and escape safely back to the ground with just the two of them?

  A string of questions made Yan Shao's heart waver.

  He empathized with his negativity. Honestly, if it weren't for the lucky activation of his talent, he would also be in a very low mood now. But after staging a turn for the better in the Flame Temple, his confidence was greatly solidified. With a bright future ahead, how could he stop in front of the temporary difficulties? Moreover, whether sitting down and waiting for death or continuing to move forward, the worst result would be the same. Since that's the case, what else is there to hesitate about?

  Since we've all come this far, then no matter what, we must persist until the end!

  Hu Si Ming's firm expression made Yan Shao understand his teammate's choice. He stood up straight from the wall he was leaning against, and smiled: "Looks like I can only die with a noble man too."

  Because the state was too bad, the two did not rashly advance in the next few minutes. After waiting for two treatments and replenishing blood volume, they continued to run towards the ground. Although they triggered thorn spikes and frost curse traps one after another later, relying on treatment skills, the two still rushed to the second floor of the tomb with no danger.

  The structure here is similar to the three layers of the mausoleum, but the scene inside the underground palace hall surprised both of them.

  Unlike the empty and desolate underground third layer, where only the tomb guardians roamed, the second floor's great hall looked extremely gloomy. The unknown mist that filled it severely obscured their vision. Through the thick grey fog that lingered without dispersing, they could vaguely see a door at the far end of the mausoleum. By comparing it to the structure of the third layer of the tomb, they knew that the passage leading to the first floor was behind that door. However, this stone gate's structure was different from the previous ones; the tightly closed large gate had a heavy lock hanging in its centre.

  It seems that you need a key to open it!

  The dim and silent hall gave them a bad premonition. The two people, who were left in the shadow of the Flame Temple, worried that there might be similar traps here, and they didn't dare to enter rashly. In the end, Yan Shao summoned a water element and let it go in first to explore the way and find out if there were any key-like tools inside the hall.

  The clumsy water element, under Xian Shao's control, slowly and laboriously walked into the grand hall of the Earth Palace.

  A faint gray mist, quickly making its figure blurred. Almost as soon as it had gone six or seven meters deep, transparent ripples suddenly flashed in the surrounding air. Under the cover of the mist, two withered arms swiftly swept across the water element's body, immediately crippling its blood volume.

  The water element, enraged by the attack, immediately turned around and attempted to counterattack its enemy. However, before it could even see where its enemy was, it was attacked again from behind. Then, the water element with 225 HP was defeated in just two hits, and the pale blue magical water lost its restraints, bursting open with a loud crash and scattering all over the ground.

  Witnessing this scene, Hu Si Ming and Yan Shao Ou both inhaled a mouthful of cold air, and saw the shock on each other's faces!