Chapter 277: Charging, [Melted Grey Silver Ingot] and [Ember Echo]

The orange-red firelight was like clusters of fireflies flickering with a moist luster, dancing and circling around Xia Nan.

It didn't scorch, nor did he feel any scorching heat.

He only felt warm currents coming from all over his body, as if bathing in a hot spring, and even his originally somewhat tired spirit was relieved.

In his mind, intermittent images flashed quietly:

It was a weak flame that was about to go out but was stubbornly maintaining itself while swaying;

It was a spark that appeared when the wind blew over the firewood that had been completely burned and turned into charcoal;

It was the ash falling like snowflakes in mid-air, carrying a hint of residual warmth.

Ruin, hope, desolation, embers... the massive amount of information rising and falling in his mind brought emotions, making Xia Nan feel as if he were also in that desperate world where the fire was about to go out.

At this moment, he finally knew the name of the combat technique that was called "fire seed" in the words of the exotic priest—

【Ember Echo】

Unexpectedly, it was not the "long-range" or "defense" combat technique that represented the last two corners of a "hexagonal warrior" that Xia Nan was urgently lacking right now.

According to the information mastered in his mind, the combat technique category of 【Ember Echo】 seemed to be... "status type"?

Significantly improving physical fitness in a short period of time, and gaining additional effects?

Most of the information that poured into his brain with the orange-red flames had already sunk into the depths of his mind, needing to be slowly excavated later.

And just like the 【Spinning Slash】 and 【Tooth Hunt】 of the past, although Xia Nan had mastered the training method of this combat technique, and even knew the key points due to the information infusion.

But after all, he hadn't entered the door yet, and didn't even have the proficiency level to display it on the attribute panel, so the information he obtained was quite limited.

If he really wanted to figure out the specific effects of this combat technique and what kind of role it could play in battle, he was afraid he would have to wait until later training, when he gradually realized it as his proficiency increased.

He couldn't help but recall the encounter in the secret realm in his mind.

To be honest, Xia Nan didn't think that just such a combat technique, no matter how high its quality and level, could shoulder the responsibility of saving the world and becoming the "fire seed" that relit the light.

And the town represented by the ruins behind him in his memory was not some imperial capital or big city, but just a remote small town located in the wilderness, and the church inside shouldn't be the main hall of the so-called "Church of Ashes."

Referring to the conversation between "I" and the priest in the secret realm, those vague and unclear words.

Perhaps the "fire seed" in their words was not just the one he obtained.

But thousands of people from all over the world, when the fire of the world was about to go out, were brought to the "royal city" they mentioned by priests and characters like "I," gathering together to complete the grand goal of relighting the fire of the world.

In a hurried trip, the information Xia Nan could obtain was too fragmented, and this was just his guess.

After all, it was something that happened in another space-time and another world; before he encountered the next secret realm with the same worldview background, no one knew what had happened.

Therefore, even though he was truly eager to deepen his understanding of 【Ember Echo】 through this way of worldview exploration, he had no clue at all.

His expression paused slightly, Xia Nan temporarily put down this combat technique he had just acquired, and his gaze turned to the ring finger of his right hand.

There, the silver-white ring transformed from 【Dream Weaving Corridor】 was flickering with a faint light.

He clearly remembered that after he crushed the flame crystal just now, a large part of the flames was absorbed by it.

His heart couldn't help but move.

Carefully controlling his mind, he touched the surface of the ring emitting fluorescent light lightly.

"Ding!"

"Charging substance detected, automatically replenishing..."

"Charging successful!"

"【Remaining Energy】: 0% -> 2%"

Sure enough!

Xia Nan's emotions fluctuated in his heart.

Although the energy obtained was not too much, only 2%.

But the most critical thing was that he found the way to charge, no longer as confused as before, knowing nothing, bumping around blindly.

Secret realms were the source of energy for 【Dream Weaving Corridor】!

And on the other hand, this 2% seemed very small, but one had to know that the dream simulation that caused 【Tooth Hunt】 to break through the limit and directly obtain nearly fifty points of proficiency, thereby upgrading to max level lv5.

The energy consumed was only 3%.

This meant that Xia Nan only needed to find another secret realm and pull the remaining energy of 【Dream Weaving Corridor】 up by a little bit, and he would be able to meet the energy conditions for opening the terminal.

Of course, if he didn't want to consume the last remaining use of 【Fate Coin】 here, he would also need to find the opening key for the terminal.

No matter what, he had taken a solid step forward in this regard.

For this, Xia Nan was incomparably satisfied in his heart.

While pondering, a scorching heat suddenly came from behind.

Thinking that there were still undead creatures like mummies in the ruins that hadn't been cleaned up, causing the 【Evergreen】 wooden sword to trigger the Sunfire flames again.

He subconsciously drew his sword, only to find that the sword surface was cool and moist, not even warm.

He felt strange in his heart, searching along the source of the scorching heat.

Immediately, a metal silver ingot with a crimson molten luster on its surface was held out from Xia Nan's backpack.

"This..."

He remembered that this metal ingot wasn't a spoil found on Terwilliam, so how...

The next second, as his attention focused due to his careful observation, translucent characters quietly emerged in the void before his eyes.

【Melted Grey Silver Ingot】

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