"Do we need that many? They're two twenty-sided dice, after all."
When Dorothy took out the dice, Galina asked.
Miss Writer nodded.
"There's no need to waste a Ring of Fate just to save a few points."
The two dice were also tossed into the crimson drawer on the side of the furnace. When Shade shut the drawer, the heat bursting from the furnace forced even him to take two steps back.
Rolling heat rushed at them, and the lava surrounding the structure began to bubble and boil.
Daniste asked Shade,
"Is this normal?"
"No. It wasn't this dramatic before. Normally, the furnace only glows faintly red, and the drawer pops open automatically after a while."
The crimson light erupting from the furnace was now almost blinding. Amid the red glow, the star blue light of the Ring of Fate flickered faintly, like starlight resisting the power of the earth.
But this was, after all, a space left behind by an Ancient God. The stars had already fallen and been shattered, while the Heart of the Earth Furnace possessed the power of the earth, as a "Foundation Stone," to refine all things.
In the end, that gleam of starlight was still swallowed by the unstoppable crimson radiance, and at that moment, "she" spoke softly by Shade's ear:
Outlander, you are using the "Heart of the Earth Furnace" to forge Destiny. You are consuming the "Breath of Traverse the Earth."
"No problem. Consume it. Is that all we need to do?"
Please wait.
Faint streams of earthy-yellow air flowed from beneath Shade's feet into the surrounding lava. Then all sorts of strange sounds continuously came from within the furnace: like bursting bubbles, like surging seawater, like falling stars, and like lava flowing through the heart of the earth.
The temperature around