Leaving the Fire Plane

Leon cultivated the Flame Devour art with the Phoenix on his head and that Ifirt next to him. That Chimera was out killing beast and training by itself.

Leon easily cultivated the Flame Devour art. It was a high earth rank art. It gave the rune of Flame Devour on completing it. The Flame Devour ability allowed beasts to eat Flame. This would be helpful to Fire beasts when fighting fire beasts but could also be used by other element beasts. They would just also need an energy conversion rune.

The art had three levels of Flame Eater, Flame digestion and Flame absorption.

Leon broke through and was ready to form The rune.

The Chimera also returned. It's grey fur bloodied. The Dragon snake tail held a spatial bag in its mouth. It dropped the bag and waited For Leon to give it the rune.

The Chimera had long since gotten over its trauma of runes after the Eternal Sleep rune. It only thought about being the strongest.

Leon gave it the Flame Devour rune after forming it. The Chimera absorbed it. It's tiger mouth opened and started absorbing fire energy.

Soon it nodded saying it was a good ability.

It then left after emptying the spatial bag. Another two hundred cores dropped on the floor.

Leon nodded. He started cultivating again to form another flame devour rune. The Ifirt liked the ability and also wanted it.

Leon formed it and gave the rune to the Ifrit.

After this Leon summoned the Lightning Griffin and the Storm Spirit Butterfly. From Oren he had bought Lightning Wings fruit and sour Lightning Fruit.

He fed the Lightning Wings fruit to the Griffin and the Sour Lightning Fruit to the Storm Spirit Butterfly. He then gave both of them four drops of soul dew to use to level up to Greenstar.

Both beasts cultivated. While Leon sat and played with the Pheonix. The Phoenix formed a ball of Fire and would throw it towards Leon. Leon would run away. The Phoenix had finally gotten the Ability Fire Lord, similar to the dragons Ice Lord, it allowed control over the Fire energy to use all basic abilities.

As the Phoenix laughed Leon ran up behind it and picked it up. The Phoenix was surprised. Leon held it in his arms.

"I've got you now, looks like I win." Leon said.

The Phoenix was looked wronged. It had an expression that said you snuck up on me, that's cheating.

Leon held it in his arms and sat down. The Phoenix started attacking the Ifirt beast that was floating in the air watching the Chimera fight beast far away.

The Ifrit Beast dodged and looked unfazed by the attack. The Phoenix kept on shooting and the Ifrit Beast kept on flashing around using its Flame Flash ability.

The Dragon was also out killing beast and collecting Runic cores for Leon.

In a week the two Lightning beasts finished cultivating. They both reached Greenstar. Leon unsummoned them. He then asked the two beasts out fighting to come back.

The Chimera had also leveled up to Greenstar level. It even had some flame energy in it but the energy was slowly being devoured by the sin energy in its body.

Leon was done leveling up all his beasts to Greenstar other then the Blood Harpy which was an egg.

He had collected the thousand cores he needed for the Holy fruits and made his way back to Oren and Irene.

Oren wasn't there, it was just Irene waiting. Leon went up and said, "I have completed the third mission, What next?"

Irene looked at Leon and nodded, "Touch this orb so I can make sure." She took out an orb.

Leon touched it and the orb glowed green.

Irene said, "You have completed the mission much earlier then expected, There still three weeks of time for the others to finish. But I'll tell you what your next mission is. You have to defeat me or Oren in a fight. We will be using one beast while you can use as many as you like."

"You have as much time to train as you want. After you defeat us you will be allowed to Leave the Fire Plane and train on your own. You can always come back later to the Council of Fire to re-enter the Fire Plane."

Leon looked around and didn't see Oren, "I want to challenge you to the fight."

"Are you sure you want to do it this moment, one Greenstar beasts isn't really going to cut it."

"I'll be fine." Leon said assured.

Irene didn't ask any more and instantly summoned a soul book and then a beast. The beast was a Raging Fire Swan. It was at the peak of the Greenstar level.

Leon also instantly summoned his beasts. He summoned the Dragon in Frost snake form, the Lightning Griffin, The Chimera disguised as a dream Fire Tiger. Leon decided to make it seem like it evolved from a Red Flaming Tiger to a dream Fire Tiger.

Irene was a little surprised by Leon's instant summoning. "You are more talented then I thought."

The swan opened its wings and launched feather at the three beasts. The Dragon summoned chains to form a shield. The Griffin quickly chanted and formed a giant lightning hammer to attack with. Leon had been training it to attack with out using the Basilisk eye. It also couldn't use it to it's full potential as it knew only one spell.

The Chimera walked forward and all the feathers seemed to miss its body.

Irene was impressed by the beasts. They all were strong and could fight above there levels. The swam flew up into the air and its Flame turned more fierce. Around its body six fire spheres formed. The spheres all launched at the beasts.

The dragon knew it couldn't stop those spheres using chains such weak chains. It chanted as well and formed six smaller spheres of ice and launched them at the swan.

The spheres collided. The fire spheres over powered the Ice spheres but because of the interference all the beasts dodged the attack.

The Chimera roared and a pulse of dream energy was sent out. The swan opened its mouth ans sent a pulse of Fire energy to block the dream energy.

The tiger scoffed and roared again but this time as loud as it could. A purple fire appeared above it. It was in lotus shape but purple and made of flames. It was the Black lotus in disguise using formless aura.

The lotus was at around ten percent of its usual strengthening it was enough to distract the swan. The Lightning Griffin had never seen this ability before. It was surprised and mesmerized by the Lotus blooming. The Dragon, however, didn't let the opportunity go to waste.

It used a weaker version of Ice Dragon's Roar. The circle of ice energy hit the swan and turned it into an ice sculpture. The swan started falling and just as it was about to hit the ground and break into a thousand pieces a winged bear appeared and caught it.

The bear had wings of Fire and a golden halo above its head. It's fur was a golden brown. It held the swan's frozen body and started casting a spell. A magic circle appeared and shined golden light at the swan slowly melting the Ice.

Leon watched the Bear and was impressed. Irene had gone easy on him. She had probably used her weakest beast to fight him. The bear was a Bluestar beast of the Holy and fire element. It was a beast called the Holyfire Winged Bear, it's potential was also high at around eight voidstars.

Irene let the Bear heal the swan as she walked up to Leon. "You have passed the test, you can leave or stay. Which do you choose?"

"Before that can I buy some materials." Leon said.

Irene nodded and gave him a list that was exactly the same one Oren had given him.

Leon told her to give him all the Holy materials and then he traded for them using cores. He still had a few cores left and bought two blood materials as well.

"I'll be going out, but can you please tell my Friends, Pace and Anastasia that I left." Leon said.

Irene nodded, "Before you go take this talisman, it will give you a signal a week before the beginning of the next training session on team building and working as a group."

Leon nodded and took the talisman.

Irene took out a key and twisted it in the air. A door appeared. Leon walked through and came out in front of the large door that had entered the Fire Plane through.

Leon summoned the Griffin and started flying out of the Council of Fire. He was flying towards the Blood continent to find a place to hatch the Blood Harpy.

There was still around five months until the tournament with the substitute team. Although the final ten hadn't still be decided Leon knew that he would be one of them, he had never doubted that, he just wondered who would be with him. He had helped Anastasia and Pace as much as he could, and only hoped they do well in the missions. As Irene had said the top ten from these training sessions will be able to fight the substitute team for the national team position.