This Spiritual Energy is Lethal!
Chapter 282: Ashes of An Helei

Chapter 282: Chapter 282: Ashes of An Helei

Chen Ke could only understand this as her having lost most of her strength through years of imprisonment and torture, and this heroic death was just the release of her last magic power.

Chen Ke’s shield on his left arm had completely melted, leaving nothing behind, yet his armor still held up. He felt an itching sensation as the red flames dimmed down.

This was a sign of the end.

Chen Ke’s body continued to heal without being interrupted. Although the room’s temperature was still terrifying—steel melted at 1500 degrees, and silver needed only 960 degrees—both his gun and shield had melted, but his armor had not. This meant that the Mithril Knight’s suit had less silver and was forged with more advanced steel materials.

However, where could such advanced steel forging technology exist in the Medieval era? But this was Fan Hede, where things that couldn’t be scientifically explained were all chalked up to magic.

An Helei vanished into the flames, the surrounding high temperatures also gradually receded, and Chen Ke’s body slowly recovered. However, being encased in the scalding silver knight armor, he still suffered some burns, but it was much better than being charred every second.

But the next second, the armor heated up like a furnace, suddenly igniting on its own. The inner lining turned red-hot, searing the flesh that it touched on Chen Ke’s body, the temperature was like placing hands on glowing charcoal.

"Shit, shit!!!" Chen Ke cried out in severe pain, wanting to take off the armor. At that moment, a line of text flashed before his eyes:

Holy Relics transforming...

He knelt down on one knee, trying to remove his helmet, when his eye caught a black, glossy vambrace and an information box popped up.

...

[An Helei’s Elegy](Complete Set)

[Durability: Indestructible]

[Flame Guardian: Immune to Flame Attribute](Must be Complete)

[An Helei’s Elegy: When charged, the complete armor enters Flame mode, capable of releasing a flame explosion within a 5-meter range]

[Unbreakable: Can never be destroyed](Must be Complete)

[After An Helei was imprisoned by the Pope, she was subjected to inhuman torture, the Witch of Chaos Fire, who even in her last moment, did not turn the flames toward her own kingdom.]

...

Chen Ke was stunned, the painful feeling vanished in an instant, and a small line of text floated up.

Transformation complete...

Simultaneously, a red halo drifted in the darkness, pouring into Chen Ke’s body. He opened his palm, and a red soul emerged.

Acquired soul: An Helei’s Grand Soul

[An Helei’s Grand Soul]

[Effect: Increases the maximum lifespan by 100 hours, opens a Teleportation Gate once.]

[The Queen of Fan Hede, An Helei’s grand soul. Only those with great power possess such a soul, harboring the great power of the holder from their lifetime.]

[Before becoming the Queen, An Helei was hunted by countless Witch Hunters, who all turned to ashes in the fire.]

Chen Ke couldn’t believe his eyes; An Helei’s soul could increase his life’s upper limit by 100 hours in one go!

His current limit was 35 hours... Adding these 100 hours... He had just over 5 days to live freely!

"Just a little more effort, and I can enjoy a weekend..." Chen Ke muttered to himself.

He thought this soul was his only gain, but then two more items popped into his view.

He had obtained the inheritance...

[Flame Witch Inheritance]

[Effect: Follow the path of the Witch, become an incarnation of fire.]

[There can only be one Witch in the world at a time, but each Witch’s abilities vary; the Flame inheritance will transform the inheritor’s soul, remolding the body.]

[The Witch’s inheritance is not a gift, but a curse; those who control flames will eventually be consumed by flames.]

As the letters scrolled past, a red orb, like the sun, appeared in Chen Ke’s hand, similar in size to a ping pong ball, like a crystallization of some power.

"It’s so powerful... Am I..." Chen Ke thought, as the orb in his palm slowly floated up, the sunlight-like radiance forcing him to squint.

The orb slowly sank into Chen Ke’s chest, and he felt the Sun Mark on his chest spinning wildly.

"Gender mismatch."

Just as his body was filled with intense heat, a line of small text suddenly appeared in the corner of Chen Ke’s eye. Then, the orb, as if repulsed, bounced back into his palm.

"Damn!" Chen Ke muttered, realizing that this inheritance could genuinely only be accepted by a woman—perhaps the only power that could be inherited. It seemed that as a man, he was never fated to be associated with the flame.

With a flick of his hand, the orb was stored in the new "Inheritance" menu of his life countdown.

Then, he began to examine another new item.

He had obtained a relic...

[Ashes of An Helei]

[Effect: Ashes appear in the hand, igniting the Witch’s Flame to scorch enemies, or to imbue weapons with flame attribute damage]

[The ashes of An Helei, Witch An Helei was defeated by a hero traveling through time and space, losing her qualification as a Witch.]

[An Helei’s ashes retain half the power of a Witch’s Power, burning eternally like the white ashes left after a fierce fire.]

Chen Ke stretched out his right hand, and gray-white ashes with tiny sparks floated out onto his black glove. Was this An Helei’s ashes...? Would it run out? But the description didn’t mention any limit to this stuff.

Chen Ke grabbed a Moonlight Greatsword nearby and rubbed the ashes onto the blade.

However, the Moonlight Greatsword did not transform into a Flame Greatsword, the ashes falling off the blade body and disappearing before hitting the ground—either truly vanishing or just too dark for Chen Ke to see clearly.

"Looks like... a Magic Attribute Holy Relic can’t be imbued with these ashes..." Chen Ke pondered.

Hoisting the Moonlight Greatsword, Chen Ke stood up; it seemed that in this Fan Hede World, the most valuable things were these ashes and Witch inheritance.

Surely, the corporation people, Yasla, and those chasing after H.C.P were after these, weren’t they?

However, based on Chen Ke’s experience and without his life countdown, they had no chance of obtaining such things.

Without the life countdown, it was impossible to resurrect Faralis, and failing to do this meant no access to the further temporal cycles.

In the second cycle, if Chen Ke hadn’t used Faralis’s soul to acquire her greatsword, he might have needed to look for Faralis’s sword in the temporal space of the Order’s civil war—a troublesome matter.

And in the third cycle fighting against the Pope, as well as in the final cycle against An Helei, unless equipped with extremely powerful gear... few could survive within the flames.

Chen Ke had no doubt that H.C.P could achieve this, but resurrecting Faralis was something no one could do.

"Looks like... you’ve done it..." A familiar voice suddenly called from behind.

Chen Ke turned and saw, at the entrance of the stone chamber, that H.C.P ’s tin can was holding an automatic rifle, aiming straight at him.