Wrong Approach

Telling me all I needed to know and do to succeed would no longer make this a trial meant to assist me in my personal growth but a mere child's game done for fun. 

No. 

If I wanted to master the elements, I needed to move forward on my own… 

… Which was exactly what I intended to do.

Completing this mission was easier said than done, though. I've been battling with this primordial fire burning in my stomach for days, with little to no progress shown for my efforts.

Nevertheless, I had to do what I could to pass.

Focusing more than ever, I did everything I could to suppress it, focusing my willpower entirely on containing the inferno within me. I forced it into submission, compressing the fire into something smaller and smaller—an ember the size of a pebble, then a grain of sand, then a mere atom, invisible to the naked human eye.