26 26. Flame Creation

After deciding, Orion closed his eyes, immersed himself in despair, and tapped into the curse of Velocity Burst.

Slowly, he could feel something inside of him.

'It felt hot.'

His body started to heat up from within him, but strangely, this heat didn't have any effect on him.

Opening his eyes, he concentrated this heat on his right hand, particularly how he had used the properties of attraction and repulsion.

A moment later, popping sounds could be heard, and pure red flames materialized in his right hand. But without a second thought, Orion cut his connection to the curse, as it soon got extinguished.

He didn't want to draw any unnecessary attention from that crazy dude playing with his skeletons; otherwise, who would know if that kid decided to go crazy here?

'So, this heat inside of me will ultimately result in flames.'

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but wonder if Liira also felt her body burning if she ever overused her talent.

Feeling satisfied with the power of flames, Orion turned his attention to the other kids, who still had their heads down in despair.

'Are they transmigrators or not?'

Although he had already speculated that the chances were that all the kids in the boat could be transmigrators like him, he didn't feel sure about that.

And now, looking at their faces filled with nothing but fear and despair, Orion felt that they ought to be transnmigrators, as only they would be filled with fear towards the ones who used powers and were way more powerful. Also, the presence of monsters in an unknown world would definitely make them terrified.

But he also couldn't let go of the fact that they could be just mere children, hence their terrified reactions.

'Anyway, what should I do now?'

Orion pondered, as he didn't know what to do. He couldn't escape from here, given the presence of so many skeletons and the absence of his swords.

Even if he could leave, he didn't want to. He understood that only defeating the boss monster could help them escape from this dungeon, which seemed to be missing from this dungeon for some reason, and whatever Liira's team had been doing, Orion had a feeling it was related to the boss monster in some way or another.

As a result, he wanted to take advantage of that opportunity to find out what their plan was.

'It will take some time, I think, to start whatever their plan is. So, what to do till then?'

As he pondered, he remembered a very crucial moment in his fight with Liira. He thought back to how she had taken him hostage and how he had tried to use attraction on her head but failed miserably.

'What can't I use my repulsion and attraction on her? Or is it that I can't use it on humans? But I seem to be able to use it in my body, so there is definitely not that.'

After thinking for a moment, he could only come to two conclusions.

'Either I simply can't use it on another person's body or my mastery over my talent is too low to use over another person's body.'

Orion thought the latter to be most likely true.

'But first I should learn how to fully use it on my body. If I can make weapons float in the air, then I should definitely be able to fly in the air if I practice well.'

With that thought in mind, he closed his eyes and meditated as he controlled the electrostatic energy to cover his own body.

A moment later, he could feel his own body floating, but it was only an inch above the ground. He couldn't go above that, no matter how many times he tried. It felt as if some other forces had been pulling his body downward as he tried to float upward.

'It seems my power isn't enough to get free from the gravitational forces. I have to increase my mastery over my talent before I can do that.'

He thought as he stopped doing altogether and waited, waiting for the time to pass.

***

A few hours later, Orion felt that evening should have already approached.

During this time, he waited and waited and eventually got bored of it, so he tried to use his Dimensional Dissonance curse but didn't use it widely and only used it in his hands.

But he felt amazed by the power it held.

He could vividly remember how his hands vanished into thin air. Although he could still feel them right here, his eyes couldn't see that. It felt like his hand had entered a different dimension, or something like that.

However, the best part of this curse would be its ability to make his body intangible.

Earlier, when he had used this curse on his right hand, apart from having his hand go into different dimensions, he also made his hand tangible.

He had tried to let his hand touch his body, only to have it pass right through it. It felt so surreal that he couldn't believe what he was seeing at that time.

'If I am able to use that power freely, then attacks won't be able to hit me at all.'

Although he had made his hand tangible earlier, it happened by accident. He didn't have control over how to do that, apart from the invisibility stuff.

But Orion still felt excited over the prospect of having such powers in the future.

"You seem happy."

At this time, a voice sounded from the other end of the hall, and Orion turned to see that it belonged to the golden-haired man who had earlier used some gravity-like talent to make him kneel to the ground.

Liira, Dion, and that blue-haired lady—Rina—also appeared beside him. However, their faces didn't look good, though.

'It seems they failed to capture Famir and Ryfin. Good.'

Orion secretly felt happy about that.

The golden-haired man, however, appeared to have the worst mood of them all. And why wouldn't he be?

Thinking of the man he went to capture and the fight that followed, only to be defeated by him ultimately, made him very angry. In his sixteen years of life, he had never felt so humiliated as he felt today.

And when he came here and heard that, two of the three individuals that he ordered everyone to watch carefully somehow escaped. This made him unable to control his anger at all.

Therefore, the reason he came here was simple—it was to complete the final step of their plan as soon as possible before he went mad as a result of his anger.