[Ember Echo].
It was one of the last Kindlings from a dead world, entrusted in the form of a Flame Crystal within the [Ember Instructor Staff] of Zarite's Church of Ashes.
And along with the town fragment after the Extra-Dimensional Convergence, it had arrived in a small valley named "Gray Valley" in Yuansha Province of the Servia Kingdom on the Aifala Continent, transforming into what Xia Nan understood as a Secret Realm.
It was exactly like the literal meaning of this Combat Skill's name.
"Ember": the warmth left after flame had burned out, life and power on the verge of extinction yet not fully gone;
"Echo": the sound that still reverberated through space after it had ceased, the power and will of the past still exerting their effect at the final moment.
Even if one had already mastered the route by which its energy was conducted and circulated, only by experiencing the rekindling after the flame of life was about to go out could one break through the original bottleneck and take the final step before entry.
And to a certain extent, the strength of its effect also matched its extremely harsh entry conditions and its own sacred identity as a "world Kindling."
When the user's Life Force fell below 33%, entering a critically wounded, near-death state—[Ember Echo] met its usage conditions (cooldown: 30 days).
After choosing to cast it, the user's Life Force would recover to 66% the instant [Ember Echo] activated, then continue recovering Life Force at a rate of 0.333% per second over the next minute.
At the same time, during these sixty seconds, the user would enter the "Afterglow" state.
The state effects were as follows:
1. Five-dimensional Attributes (Strength, Agility, Constitution, Perception, Charisma) increased overall by 33%;
2. Stamina Overload—maximum stamina increased, stamina recovery speed