"Megan and Audrey are right, Shade. This 'Fire Seed Source' is very important. But be careful: a Fire Seed Source can only absorb kindling weaker than the 'Life Fire Seed' it contains."
Luvia reminded him, and Shade realized what else Luvia had just said:
"Only [Active Metal] can be used to make something like this?"
"Yes. That was what the divination showed. Perhaps others use methods different from ours, but that would only affect the Fire Seed Source's strength and stability. The method we used is already the most perfect forging method. The Heart of the Earth Furnace, the Ring of Fate: Breeding, Shade's Thaumaturgy—none of these can be replicated."
Luvia nodded, while Megan and Audrey exchanged a glance.
"So the reason [Creation Church] began comprehensively controlling [Active Metal] seven years ago was because they also discovered this relic's special nature? Can they make Fire Seed Sources too?"
Even Luvia could not be entirely certain.
"All we can say is that they know at least part of the secret."
Shade frowned.
"Although I had suspected it before, now that it has truly been confirmed, I still find it hard to believe. The Church of Creation and Destruction is an Orthodox Church. How could they use the power of calamity?"
Megan laughed.
"Orthodox Churches are made up of mortals too. There will be all kinds of ideas and factions within them. Besides, seven years ago, Murmuring Chapters was no different from mythology to everyone. The Church at the time may not necessarily have realized what they had discovered was.
Perhaps they knew that Kindling was extremely dangerous, but they might not have known that this danger was connected to Doomsday. Seven years sounds short, but looking back now, that was already a previous era—the era called 'nobody knew anything, so everyone