“So you are saying that you have fooled not one, but two inspectors into letting you pass the Triannum without having much Fla in the first place?”
Professor Espinella chuckled in both admiration and disbelief.
“I still have passed it by killing the dummies as requested. So it was not cheating, I just used….. alternative thods.” Ronin made a small grin.
Espinella shook his head. “No, no, I’m not berating you for ‘cheating’.”
“In fact, I am astounded.”
“However… You did ntion that you were not born with a Fla. And in order to activate runes, you need at least a little bit of Fla.”
“Not to ntion this…. darkness that you have created. Has your family never known you were capable of such darkness? And I an your real one.”
This was when Ronin decided that it was ti he asked:
“How did you know about my true family, Professor Espinella? Since when have you known ?”
Professor Espinella just smiled at him.
Fine, then. If he won’t answer he’ll gain it from his thoughts.
(The Headmaster said it was not ti for him to know yet. That he must know his destiny by himself.).
Ronin blinked. ‘The Headmaster?’
As far as he could rember from Maellan, there was no Headmaster in the Academy.
There was only the Council, and the Head of that Council was Lord Perdrix Blanc D’argent. Pavone’s father.
And before him, the one who ruled over the Academy was also the Council Head.
So who is this Headmaster?
“Let’s just say, Ronin, that I have great hopes for you. I have heard about you from a friend, and many were astounded to have the first ever Commoner student in school.” He said.
He went over to Ronin’s side. “I can feel a different kind of Fla in you. Your heart moves in a much slower rhythm than any living human, and yet you still function well.”
“Slowly, if you increase your own Fla, you may morph even without my hands crushing your heart.”
Ronin raised an eyebrow. “That’s all it takes? I just have to increase my Fla?”
“Yes. And then it is up to you what you aim to morph into.”
He pulled out a chart. “Every stone has carbon, so potentially, every stone can turn into a diamond.”
“Even you can beco your diamond, your flesh burned into crisp and then compacted with enough pressure.”
In this chart, there were all kinds of stones and how their transformation process would be if they were turned into a diamond. He pointed at a certain part.
[Bituminous coal–> Anthracite –> Graphite —> Diamond ]
Ronin took the chart. “So every ti my fla increases, I have to go to becoming an Anthracite first, then Graphite, then eventually Diamond?”
Espinella nodded happily, his glasses bobbing. “Isn’t Morphology wonderful!? Many people think that Hero Mages are the most powerful, but I beg to differ.”
“We Morpho mages have the capacity to turn things into sothing completely different. Rebirth. Ashes to diamonds, diamonds to ashes.”
Ronin nodded. ‘And I get to be ‘rebirthed’ as I level up. Is that right, Kai?’
Kai just teleported by his side, unseen and unheard by Espinella.
“Yes. Once you reach Level 50, you will beco an Anthracite. And when you reach Level 100, you could beco Graphite.”
‘How did I beca Obsidian as Level 100 Ronin Dreadborne, then?’
Kai stayed quiet. His mind just repeatedly says:
(Cannot spoil, cannot spoil, cannot spoil, cannot spoil, cannot spoil, cannot spoil, cannot spoil, must not spoil in my head.)
Ronin sighed, and just went over to ask the master Morpher himself.
“How about obsidian? Can I beco one?”
Professor Espinella blinked. “Obsidian? Only daemons have Obsidian Heartstones. As well as Abyssal gods…. and they have perished a long ti ago along with the Lord of Darkness.”
“Just out of curiosity, professor.” Ronin said. “After all, from what I rember….”
“Shouldn’t Obsidian be made from magma? And magma can be made of any molten rock. So potentially, can that be applied to my Heartstone?”
Professor Espinella nodded. “Yes….. Potentially, every rock can beco Obsidian, yet at the sa ti…. Not.”
“What do you an?” Ronin asked.
“The magma would only lt and burn your Heartstone, and the magma itself will be the one to turn into Obsidian. So remnants of your forr Heartstone may remain.”
“It’s more like coating rather than morphing. You can’t fully lt your heart, it would…. Well, you would die, of course.”
Ronin just grinned. “That’s the purpose of rebirth, isn’t it? You can’t be reborn without dying in so way. You lose so and gain so.”
Professor Espinella frowned. “But Ronin, aren’t you more excited with the idea of becoming a Diamond?”
“If you could just sohow increase your Fla to greater heights, and I would be the one to put pressure on it…”
“You’ll be the first Diamond Heartstone mage after eons of not having one! An artificially created Diamond mage!”
Ronin nodded blankly, taking a quill and ink. “Yes, yes….. That does sound promising.”
He scribbled sothing in the chart.
[Bituminous coal–> Anthracite –> Graphite Magma —-> Obsidian? ]
He gestured at this to Professor Espinella, who shifted from foot to foot while thinking of sothing.
“It is possible…. yes…..” He frowned. “If you have the Heartstone of a god.”
“Magma is too dangerous. Even when you cultivate your Fla into surviving many tamorphoses…”
“In the end, you would still be setting yourself on fire just to beco Obsidian.”
He chuckled nervously. “You could not possibly take out your Heartstone just so you could lt it. You either find a way to bring the magma inside without damaging your organs and heart…..
“Or surviving burning everything completely, until it reaches your very core, your Heartstone. Both have very low possibility of being achieved by a human, this rebirth is simply impossible—“
“And phoenixes get reborn with fire, professor.” Ronin countered. “Completely turning to ashes.”
“You are not a phoenix, Ronin.” Espinella sighed.
“Even when our hearts have stones within them, you are still flesh and blood. Flesh and blood do not survive extre heat and pressure as stones.”
“It cannot be done. And you would have to find a very hot and dense source of magma in the first place. Most of which too deep below ground, and you need to quickly pass through it.”
Ronin raised an eyebrow. “Pass through?”
“Obsidians are made not just by heating, but very quick cooling of magma. If you stay there for too long, you may just lt into magma too. That’s it.”
“You cannot pass through quickly a pool of lava, and even if you have a sort of anchor tied to you, it will burn down with how hot the lava needed to be to morph you.”
“We’re talking about a speed of not more than 3 seconds, Ronin. You need to get out of there within 3 seconds. And you won’t be able to move because of the heaviness and the pain of it all.”
Ronin frowned, and listed down the two impossible things he needed to be Obsidian.
“So a Fla as high as god’s, and inhuman speed to not die as molten magma in the end…. I think I can do it.”
Professor Espinella observed him from head to toe. He then asked.
“Why do you want to be an Obsidian so much? Is it because….. You are incarnated from the Abyss?”
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