Chapter 287 Cursed Flames (Part 1)

Chapter 287 Cursed Flames (Part 1)

Exile frowned as the new element clashed with the divine threads. 'Shit! It's becoming unstable!' He cursed as he turned to Winter.

"Get out of here, now!" Exile shouted.

Luckily, Winter didn't need to be told twice. She had already sensed that something had gone wrong as cold sweat dripped down her back from the energy leaking out of the rune. Exile nodded when he heard the door close behind her.

There was no way for him to escape. His concentration was the only thing slowing down the reaction. The moment he stopped trying to slow the reaction, the rune would explode. 'All I can do is study what's happening to understand the faults in the rune.'

Exile watched as the joint element eroded the divine thread used to make the shape of the rune. Eventually, one part gave way and the new element leaked out into the world. He cursed as purple flames burned brightly around him.

'Damn it! I've got to drop my concentration and get away from this!' He took a deep breath before moving in one swift action. His hands came away from the book at the same time as he sprinted away from the rune.

With his speed, he made it halfway to the door before the rune collapsed. Exile quickly activated several shield runes as he threw himself on the ground. The sound of shattering glass filled his ears as his shields broke one after the other in a fraction of a second.

The temperature in the room rapidly rose and plummeted as the purple flames raged. Luckily, it seemed the items in the workshop were protected by divine arrays. They flashed into existence as they contended for control against the rogue element.

Exile sighed in relief as the golden lines of protection swiftly contained the purple flames before making them blink out of existence!

"That was close. If it weren't for those arrays, I could've been in trouble." Exile shook his head as he stood up. He replayed those events in his mind and found himself growing excited over the potential of the new element. 'Pure divine threads aren't enough. I guess the next step is to create a stable container using threads of the same element.'

Exile chuckled at the thought since it was the only natural conclusion. The rune had to be on the same power level as the spell from the start, or it would just keep ending in failure. 'Well, at least I know what my next move is.'

The door creaked open being him as Winter carefully poked her head in. "Is everything ok in here now?"

He began fusing the elements in his body like before. Slowly drip feeding them into each other as he circulated them around his body. A few hours passed like that as the process was much more difficult than before due to the sheer amount of concentration he had to waste on keeping the new rune stable.

'Ok, let's try this again.' Exile held his breath as he slowly fed the divine energy for the spell into the rune. He silently stared at the threads as they came in contact with the mass of energy that matched it. He counted the seconds as they pressed against each other.

'Yes! They're not rejecting each other!' Exile felt like jumping for joy, but there was still more to go yet. Another hour had to pass as he fed the energy into the rune before it was ready. The system pinged in his mind as a new notification appeared.

[You have created a new spell!]

[Name: Everburn Palm]

[Type: Cursed Flames]

[Cost: 40 DP]

[Description: Touch an enemy with this rune to inflict the Everburn curse on them. This spell burns the enemy for 5% of their HP each second and 10% of their current DP each second. The curse must be purified, or it will burn out when the enemy has no DP left to fuel its flames.]

Exile's eyes went wide as he stared at the effects with a slack jaw. 'It doesn't do a straight damage amount. Instead, it damages them by a percentage of their current health! That's insane!'

He silently swallowed as he thought about the effect this spell would have on the other players' mentality when they found out about it. Not only did it do damage over time, but it burnt away the enemy's DP reserves as well. If they had no way to purify the curse, their only hope of not dying to it was to have enough HP to outlast their DP burn.

'Endurance types should have an easier time with this. But they'll still lose an insane amount of HP before it burns out. Especially if they were at full health when I hit them with it.' Exile groaned as he silently considered what the other higher elements would have to offer.

'Amari said he got Plague for mixing air and darkness. That's probably dot spells too. Or maybe permanent damage to a stat until it's cured?' Exile frowned as he considered that. 'So what would be needed to purify this curse? A mix of water and light maybe? Or would light spells be able to do it on their own?'

Exile hummed as he considered what the mergings of each element could look like. 'Probably water and earth for something along the lines of nature like those wood golems from the inheritance. Hopefully, Amari's book will clear some things up once I reach Tier three, and it reveals more of its pages.'