Everyone had evacuated. No living person remained inside.
Ke Meng left the town too. As the last person to evacuate, he actually wanted to see what happened after that little flame exploded.
"Was that flame from the Zero-Level Item?" Ke Meng asked.
"That flame was left over from the previous explosion. It's a primer. To trigger the real explosion, I still have to activate the item," Flaming Man said, shaking his head.
As they reached the edge of the barrier, the mist behind them had grown thin enough that they could vaguely make out their colleagues.
The two stood at the edge, and Flaming Man took out an unlit candle.
The candle was tiny, only as tall as a little finger, and very slender.
But the moment it appeared, Ke Meng's Spiritual Perception issued its strongest warning yet.
Compared to the little flame he had just seen, this item was far more terrifying!
"I don't know how many more times I can use it. After this, I'll have to find a successor," Flaming Man said wistfully, looking at the little candle.
Something like this had to be used sparingly, and its side effects were staggeringly severe. After using it, he needed all sorts of restorative supplements to lessen the aftereffects.
"How do you use it?" Ke Meng asked.
"You blow on it with the flame in your heart. Then it answers the user's wish and burns everything to ashes," Flaming Man said quietly, looking at the still-unlit candle.
"Every time it burns, the flame is heartflame. That's why the little flame you saw earlier was under my control."
"Heartflame?" Ke Meng did not understand how to use heartflame.
"Does everyone have heartflame?"
"Everyone does, but not everyone knows how to use it." Flaming Man shook his head. "It's actually not