Chapter 48 - Frozen Fire – Part 5
Seeing the flame streak past his eyes at full speed, Noah quickly looked up and was left awestruck by such a majestic sight.
The phoenix hovered in the air, right above his head, causing the ceiling to ignite from the intense heat. And before it, the flame—with its strange yet beautiful icy blue hue.
On one side, the environment was as hot as a vast furnace; on the other, as cold as absolute zero. On one side, the Frozen Fire—even though it was a flame—caused everything around to freeze instantly; on the other, the phoenix, whose every beat of its wings made everything tremble and burst into flame once again.
Yet, despite the peculiar state of the surroundings—one side frighteningly hot and the other equally cold—Noah, surprisingly, felt fine. He didn't even feel much cold or heat; to him, the room maintained a normal temperature.
'That's surely thanks to the phoenix... Which means, I too have-?! Oh damn!' Noah thought.
As he began reflecting on the advantage of being seemingly immune to both heat and cold, he had to interrupt his thoughts when he looked at the girl's bed and noticed that she was beginning to freeze.
Immediately, he sought a way to help her—not only because only seconds had passed since the flame and the phoenix had left their bodies, but also because if she was already in such a state after just a brief exposure, he couldn't even imagine what would happen if she stayed there much longer.
Yet Noah didn't need to do anything. For, as he was about to rise, the phoenix, with its enormous talons, grabbed the Frozen Fire and drew it closer. And after doing so, it spread its massive wings and, opening its golden beak, let out a scream so powerful that the barrier around the bed shattered, and people from all over the city—and beasts from the entire forest—shuddered upon hearing it. But, right after, the phoenix was slowly reabsorbed into Noah's body, while enclosing the Frozen Fire within its wings.
With the phoenix back inside him, Noah rose and took a single step toward the bed. However, as he did so, he noticed that his vision immediately grew strangely blurry. Noah continued to move slowly toward the bed, managing only two steps in total. On his third and final step, with his vision growing more and more obscured, Noah finally collapsed to his knees beside the bed.