Crusader King

As the furious flames quickly spread across the ground, the cobwebs that covered every square inch of this part of the great, ancient forest vanished and the old, dying trees covered under it finally became visible to the light of the sun, just to die once more to the raging flames.

From the trees came a crackling sound and the few ancient branches that managed to survive under the thick layer of cobwebs quickly fell down onto the now brightly burning ground.

Cades who had previously cleaned a small field around him, with only a ten foot diameter, was now watching the brightly dancing flames devouring everything.

And as the fire finally died out around him and the smoke had partially cleared itself Cades finally began moving forward once more, now without his apparatus.

As he took one step after the other he could feel the heat exuded by the wall of fire in front of him.

Every few dozen steps he had to take a break and wait so that the superpowered flame wouldn't burn him either.

He was a bit worried when none of the strings of mana came towards him, but after some time a huge amount of the bright violet strings slowly stretched out towards him, twirled around his body, which was soon surrounded by hundreds of them, all slowly vanishing into his body.

At first he had been elated, but later on the growth actually started to feel painful.

The pain, however, did not slow him down at all.

He felt himself growing incomparably stronger.

With each sequence one would grow exponentially stronger and Cades could feel that he himself had almost reached the tenth sequence already.