Legend Of The Flame Warrior

Chapter 4: Awakening

Chapter 5: Awakening

Charlie was now rolling on the ground due to the unbearable pain he was suffering. Who told him to swallow the monster's core?

The monster core was too expensive to be left to the gluttonous golden tree to consume when he could sell it to totem warriors for a sky-high price.

He still wants to eat at an expensive restaurant for crying out loud!!

While he was rolling about on the ground, strange energy was released into his body. It was as if he was bathed in cold water after boiling for a week, all of his tensed nerves and exhausted muscles were relieved as the strange energy passed through his vein to reach every part of his body.

Not long after, the strange energy met its nemesis. It was a phantom of the white ape that just died. The phantom roared to the sky and intercepted the flow of the strange energy.

The chaotic energy in Charlie’s body, having nothing to hold it back again continued to cause havoc. The ape phantom used this opportunity to invade Charlie’s mind and tried to take control of his body while his thought was chaotic.

This was the reason why totem warriors don’t consume beast Core, 90% of the beast cores have the soul of the said beast hiding in it, waiting for an ignorant beast or human to try to consume it. The beast will attack their soul and possess their body.

But this time, the white ape has kicked an iron bucket. Immediately after it reached Charlie’s mind space, it saw a two meters tall golden tree swaying back and forth as if it was waving to welcome the beast.

The white ape seeing this strange scene decided to run away from this space, but a golden tendril shot out of the gold tree and wrapped itself around the white ape's soul. The tendril pulled it back to the golden tree where the other tendrils planted themselves into its body and sucked it out of existence.

With the white ape phantom out of the way, everything returned to normal and the chaotic energy was calmed with the addition of the energy from the golden tree.

After consuming the white ape phantom, the golden tree grew more in height; it was now a three meters tall tree with densely packed golden leaves on each branch of the tree. A lone white fruit was hanging from one of the branches of the tree.

A miniature version of Charlie was also in this place, watching everything as it unfolds. The golden tree transmits its thoughts to Charlie, telling him to bring more of this good stuff in the future.

“Has this thing gained sentience that quick?” Charlie wondered in his mind.

Though what was transmitted was intent from the tree, Charlie knew that it had gained sentience. He went near the tree and patted its shiny bark and turned to leave, but he saw the white fruit hanging on the tree branch.

“Is it edible?” he asked the golden tree to which the tree transferred its intent. He plucked the fruit, stuffed it in his mouth, and ate like a hungry beast. A white light suddenly engulfed his conscious body, followed by a splitting headache that left him rolling on the floor once again.

Charlie’s consciousness was forcefully ejected from the mind space to his body which was now cracking and repairing itself at a speed visible to the naked eye.

his whole body felt like a blacksmith's workshop; his head was like the anvil, and strange memories and information were hammered into it at an insane speed. his whole body felt like a blacksmith's furnace.

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1 hour later...

Charlie was now drenched in blood from head to toe. it was blood mixed with some black gooey substance. The goey substances were impurities ejected out of his body.

he checked his body all over and there were some visible changes. His bones and muscles seem to be hardened and he felt unimaginable strength coursing through his body. compared to the previous him who couldn't even kill a wild chicken from this world, he felt like he could defeat a wild bull.

The change didn't stop there, a 4-meter-tall Phantom of the white ape appeared behind him. The Phantom roared to the sky and starts to mimic every of his move. with the addition of the phantom behind him, his strength was doubled. Charlie stood there, surprised, as he looked at the 4-meter tall white ape avatar behind him…

He’s now a certified totem warrior, but something is wrong with his avatar… many things.

Number one: his avatar is taller than other avatars of the flame totem warriors he’s seen.

Number two: there’s no flame on his avatar, a normal totem avatar should be enshrouded in flames. He’s familiar with this process because he has attended five awakening ceremonies (he’s an expert), he’d seen many people awakened in different “flame” avatars, some are enshrouded in red flames, others blue flames… etc. But he’d never seen a flameless avatar before.

“ hey, gold tree! You gave me a defective product, can you change it?” Charlie said.

No matter what he said, the golden tree wouldn’t bulge.

After some minutes, Charlie starts to feel hungry, he went to the white ape carcass and cut a small portion of meat with the knife in his hand. He was about to start a fire and roast the meat when he remembered that he was in the wild, and starting a fire might attract other beasts in the forest. He might not be as fortunate as he is right now and end up as forest manure.

He dug the ground a little and buried the meat he cut off from the beast. He went near the shadow beast, cut his stomach open, and started searching, maybe he could chance upon another monster Core. Unfortunately for him, he didn’t see any, the corpse had even turned to dried skin.

It’s been a few hours since the white ape committed suicide and the smell of its blood would attract other wild beasts to that place, and the aura of the white ape will soon be completely erased so Charlie jumped inside the small bush and hid behind the large tree he was hiding at before. Not long after, roars began to sound from a distant parts of the forest, as beasts who were attracted by the smell of blood approaches the carcass.