Ch.268 Will Flames

Ch.268 Will Flames

Even with all of the knowledge granted to him by the golden orb, the information he had regarding Will Flame’s was low. However, even a fool with a rotting brain would be able to recognize that it would be very bad if a Will Flame died out. But ‘bad’ was putting it mildly; In reality, it was a step or 2 away from fatal.

Thankfully, the information regarding Will Flame’s wasn’t completely lacking and he knew a few things. First of all, a Will Flame was exactly what it sounded like. It was the embodiment of someone’s Will and could be considered the engine of their Soul. For those who were adept in the Soul, they would be able to see it at the centre of their mindscape.

Drive, diligence, motivation and things like that were heavily tied to the quality of a Will Flame. The higher the quality and the more vigorous it burned, the more passion you felt to do things on a daily basis. And by contrast, the dimmer the flame, the lazier and more susceptible to things like depression you were.

However, as was mentioned before, all things had grades. Perhaps they weren’t all distinctive enough to be named, but there were always worser and better versions.

When it came to Will Flame’s, they were divided into grades called ‘Tiers’ and Eridel knew about 3 of them. His own Will Flame was at Tier 2 and it was gold in colour.

It happened after he had pushed himself to the limit to survive his Red Tribulation. He didn’t know how it worked since he didn’t possess the knowledge to cultivate it in the first place, but he could only guess that his strong will to overcome everything in that moment caused some changes to his Will Flame that pushed it to the next Tier.

In Tier 1, a Will Flame was very susceptible to changes and could be affected by the things that happened to its owner, becoming brighter or dimmer depending on what state of mine the owner was in.

But when a Will Flame reached the 2nd Tier, it would etch within itself the most predominant personality traits of the owner and would stick to them. From then on, it would be exceedingly difficult for the owner to have a drastic change in personality. This was a good thing for most and a bad thing for some.

Perhaps that was why he had barely stepped down onto his lands to walk amongst his people. In fact, the amount of people that had seen his avatar could be counted with a hand and a few fingers, despite the great amounts of opportunity. And even then, he never stayed long.

He seemed to spend more time lying around on clouds, eating various foods that he created, than actually showing his face anywhere. How amusing.

How very amusing.

Thankfully he didn’t see something like aloof on his Trait list or he would have mocked himself for being a frigid loner. As it stood, he could only wait until his World was more interesting before deciding to actually step down and smell the roses. Maybe when toilets and bathrooms were invented? Haha!

In any case, Will Flames were pretty unique. Tier 1 was what pretty much everyone else had and didn’t need to be mentioned, Tier 2 encoded your most predominant personality traits and allowed you to keep your mentality no matter how much time passed or what you experienced (but it’s not like you couldn’t feel anything else, those were just the core personality traits). And Tier 3...

That’s where things really got juicy. Alas, it was pointless to think about considering how far out of his reach it was.

Instead, he was much more interested in what would happen to Kazolix. Kazolix had a Tier 1 Will Flame that was grey in colour, nothing special about that. But it had been blown out like a candle flame. According to his knowledge, there were a few things that could stimulate back into existence, and he had done those things, but there was no way to confirm success or failure since a long time of rest was still needed.

He would just have to see if the guy would ever wake up.