Chapter 302: The Fire Bearer's Back-up Plan
Colin did not delay and secretly took a "colorless crystal". From a distance of more than ten meters, he shook his head and pointed his hand at the bonfire.
"What are you doing to the holy fire!" The patrolling "Sea Fairy" was shocked and quickly raised a staff inlaid with a round gem in her hand, and ice cones condensed in the air.
But before she could do anything, a huge spherical fireball with a diameter of more than five meters rose from the bonfire.
The light cast by the bright orange-red fireball emanated a kind of warmth that they had never experienced before, but was extremely comfortable. Under this firelight, even the faint whispers of the deep sea in their ears slowly disappeared.
She felt that her humanity had been stabilized.
“So…comfortable.”
The patrolling "Sea Fairy" squinted her eyes, feeling the warmth radiating from the fire.
Although she still harbored a lot of ill will towards "non-humans" like Colin, but really...
This flame is really soothing.
Many mermaids who had just fled in fear quietly emerged from the water, feeling the flames, and couldn't help but squint their eyes comfortably.
Although he was still mentally repulsed by outsiders like Colin, his body honestly climbed ashore and stretched out its body.
Bang.
I don't know who was the first to fall down, but all the fishmen lay back down again, posing like mud, with lazy and satisfied expressions on their faces.
And Dog Brother Arsonist and others also noticed that the progress of the tasks in the task list was increasing rapidly.
"Believer" +10.
"Believer" +10.
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"How can you guide the holy fire?"
The patrolling "Sea Enchantress" suppressed the comfort all over her body, trying not to groan, trying to get an answer from Colin.
The "Holy Fire" is not subject to any abnormal manipulation. It can be destroyed but not controlled. Even a god-level being cannot control it. This is their basic understanding.
But the person in front of him broke this ancient cognition !
Colin did not answer her, but walked towards that direction with some doubts.
He also discovered that the "holy fire" mentioned by the mermaid was a little bit wrong. It didn't look like a normal flame...
When the patrolling "Sea Siren" saw this, her mind told her that she should stop them, but some instinct made her stop.
After a while, when he came to the campfire, he saw a pottery jar under the irregular crystals. The jar was filled with something like grease. When the grease burned, it vaguely emitted a feeling similar to the power of "Fire Holder".
This power was integrated into the surrounding flames.
“No way…”
Colin sniffed and immediately understood - the fire came from a "fire bearer"!
No wonder he felt that this flame was easier to control than he had imagined. It was almost the same as the flame in the bonfire sacrificial site in "World No. 13".
but……
Looking at the grease in the pottery jar on the bonfire...
"My goodness, what the hell, could it be that some 'Fire Bearer' was captured by the 'Sea Fairy' and then hung up and set on fire?"
Colin suddenly had some bad associations about his own situation.
He swallowed and glanced around quietly, and found that all the mermaids were lying on the ground and being roasted. So while maintaining the five-meter-diameter fireball in the sky, he secretly took out the "analysis chip" to make the final confirmation.
When he left before, he took the lens back from the arsonist.
[A can of oil extracted from the fat of various marine organisms. However, after smelling it, you can vaguely smell a different smell. It doesn't seem to be from marine organisms, but from the oil of someone's body.]
[You are unsure, so you smell it again and finally become almost certain that this is consistent with your guess...]
…
"Shit, it's the grease on Firebearer's body!"
Colin was startled, and suddenly remembered that Tina said that the queen seemed to have gone back for something. Could it be that she went back to call for help, and then came to capture him and refine oil together?
"Hiss, the real 'Fire Bearers' I've encountered so far are all extremely powerful. Even if I have all kinds of powerful items, I can be sure that I am no match for them. If a 'Fire Bearer' really falls to these fishmen, I don't know what means they use, but it's definitely not something I can handle."
"After all, if they can't beat the 'ace' of this company, then a reserve like me is even more unlikely to be able to beat them!"
With palpitations, a lot of thoughts flashed through his mind at an extremely fast speed, and Colin couldn't help but want to run away.
But he soon discovered that his logic was a little wrong.
If the queen really wanted to call for help, there was no need for her to go back, because as the highest combat force, it would be best for her to stay here and keep an eye on him to prevent him from escaping or other accidents.
If you want to call someone, you can just ask them or use some kind of communication.
"It shouldn't be a big problem, so don't panic. If you panic, it will be useless. You can't escape now. The only way is to complete the mission and leave this world."
"But then again... why do all these 'Fire Bearers' have such miserable endings?"
None of the "fire bearers" seen so far have had a good ending.
Either you use yourself as firewood, or others use you as firewood.
This made Colin, who had already integrated part of the aura, feel as if he had been deceived by Ms. Rabbit and boarded a pirate ship from which there was no return.
But... think about it carefully, if you don't get on this pirate ship.
I have probably passed away due to ALS now, there is not even a possibility...
"Alas, this is what they call fortune and misfortune, right?"
Colin sighed, and prepared to put away the lens in his hand, complete the task here as soon as possible, and then leave this place -
As for the situation of the "fire holder" who might be used for oil refining, and whether he can be saved, etc., it's not that he is being modest. In short, for this kind of thing, he still hopes that the company will seek other help.
Judging from past experience, if he saw what happened here, it was basically equivalent to the company knowing what happened here.
Therefore, if there is a similar task from above, Colin would hope that they would send an "army" instead of the poor, helpless and weak low-level employees like him who are below level C.
However, at this moment, Colin's hand, which was retracting the lens, stiffened uncontrollably.
Then, he saw a line of words appearing uncontrollably on the lens:
[Faintly, looking at the burning flames of grease, you seem to hear something whispering: "When you appear, it means that I have failed in my mission to carry out the 'World Number' this time. However, successor, I still have a trick up my sleeve. There may be something you want to know here."]
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"hiss!"
When Colin saw these words, his pupils suddenly shrank. He felt that this thing he bought with a few hundred points was so hot that he wanted to throw it away, but before he could do so, the content on the lens disappeared.
It all seemed like an illusion.
But he knew very well that this was definitely not an illusion!
