Having decided what he needed to do, Shade drank the rather tasty potion and immediately felt a familiar daze. But his soul was now far stronger than when he had been an ordinary person, so it did not experience any sense of separation from his body.
Only, a faint veil of steam had already appeared behind him due to the effects of the Bell Ringing Potion. Beneath the setting sun, Shade faced the snow mountain and summoned his Destiny Ring. The young ladies watched the enormous ring rotate behind him. As the thick steam mixed with the vapor that had appeared when he drank the potion, Shade said in his heart:
"Help me resonate with it."
"She" merely smiled gently, gentler even than the winter sunset.
Thus, the young ladies on the shore saw a silver silhouette appear behind Shade. But before they could make out the figure clearly, the thick steam surrounding the Destiny Ring spread across the entire surface of Ice Lake almost instantly.
This was also the technique Luvia's final divination had told Shade about before she left. In this way, the entire Ice Lake was encompassed by the influence of Shade's Soul Power.
Within that cloud of steam, flames flowed along Shade's raised right arm toward his Destiny Ring. After the rotating brass-colored ring was ignited by the flames, it looked to the young ladies on the shore like a brilliant Greater Fireball emerging from the mist.
"After ignition comes propulsion."
Drinking the Bell Ringing Potion allowed him to manipulate the Destiny Ring with the greatest precision. A layer of silver radiance rippled over his raised right hand. "She" seemed to be lifting the burning Destiny Ring together with him in the fog, and as Shade slammed his hand downward, the Destiny Ring wrapped in Primordial