Should Have Been The First Awakened?

Midnight in a dungeon...

"Hurry up and light it."

Tak! Tak!

Tak! Tak!

"Damn it I'm trying!"

The youths have rested immediately after defeating the golems guarding the checkpoint of the dungeon.

Masked Girl appeared after leaving us for dead, and she activated the barrier to keep the surroundings of this cave safe.

Right now, the Jake and the twins were trying to light a fire using the dried wood that was in the checkpoint area, these things were all old and shabby.

Tak!

Tak!

Rin and Ren were trying to light up a fire by hitting a stone against one of their blades, now a single spark...

"Brr..."

One of the girls shivered as she huddled close to the group.

Now they know whether it was day or night.

They didn't realized it at first since Zhao Lina was busy burning up the place, and the after effects of the burning and molten rocks.

But after that, cold winds were blowing everywhere in the cave dungeon, that's when the Masked Girl appeared and said that it happens every night...

Gritting his teeth, Ren turned his head to the limp yet still elegant and calm Zhao Lina, leaning on the commoners, past out Roan and Wang Zihan, who seemed fine since he was used to being in the cold.

"Hey, Zhao Lina! Can't you—!?"

Before he could say anything else, Yoru appeared out of no where again and covered the older twins mouth.

"She's out of Mana, maybe you should awaken yourself and light up a fire?"

" Yoru, stop." Zhao Lina spoke, opening her eyes and looking at Ren and Yoru and then said, "I've... Got a little bit more Mana left."

She said with a tired a hoarse voice, she tried to stand up but Yoru was already walking up to her.

"No, don't move. Heat up your Mana in your palms, but anything else that requires Mana consumption, don't."

He said calmly.

Whoosh...

Another cold breeze flowed through the caves, making everyone shiver, their bodies were growing cold.

Ren and Rin, the younger brother shivered as he blew hot breaths to his palms and rubbing his shoulders.

Huff.

Zhao Lina groaned and then raised her palms and made it face up.

Slowly, she circulated her Mana, whatever was left, and then made it flow onto her palms.

Yoru watched, the Mana of the Awakened was different than the Mana of the non awakened.

But since Zhao Lina had spent tons of her Mana, hers looked dead and pale.

Fwooo...

She breathed steadily as made it flow into sharp circles on her palms.

Slowly, that small amount of Mana started to get warmer and warmer, until it became hot.

The Mana wasn't manifested as a ball of glowing flame, it was just hot.

Yoru then hovered his own palms over Zhao Lina's and then concentrated, slowly, the hot Mana on Zhao Lina's hand started to flow out of her.

Yoru was focused.

He was careful not to get distracted by the cold gushes of wind that brushed passed everyone.

Yoru lifted up the Mana from Zhao Lina's palms and then slowly led it to the small piles of wood.

Yoru made the hot Mana flow over the piles of the wood, while skillfully making it flow around the cracks.

He made it circle around itself, and once he got the feel of how it circulated around the piles of wood, he sped up the circulation.

To the skilled mages eyes, and to the now three awakened of the group, Yoru was mixing in magical knowledge and normal knowledge.

Phew...

He sight and concentrated, he circulated the Mana through the cracks and hovered it around the wood as well, he rhythmically solidified and loosened the hot Mana.

Slowly but surely, small wisps of smoke started to come from the wood, and then the Mana he was controlling started to glow orange.

And then finally...

Ssspp...

Flicker. Flicker.

A small warm feeling spread through their small huddled party, the dark spot in the cave they were in suddenly glowed a soft yellow and orange hue.

"That should be fine."

He whispered and stood up, going to find some more wood in the spacious hall.

The youths stared at their mysterious eleventh member for a while, then slowly turned to look at the fire that he made using Mana from Zhao Lina...

Zhao Lina sighed.

"He of all people should have awakened before us..."

Wang Zihan, still had his eyes closed, responded weakly:

"... Agreed."

The others stared at the two prestigious youths.

Then they stared some more.

Did they really put some mysterious kid in high regards?

It would have been fine if it was Amie or Anne, or even if it was the twins, or Jake and the other commoners...

But him??

Rustle. Rustle.

Roan who had been sleeping the entire time, woke up, sitting up and then looking at the fire.

He rubbed his eyes and smiled, turning to look at Zhao Lina.

"Nice!"

He said, raising a thumbs up.

Grumble...

Holding his stomach, he forced his smile to stay the same, his cheeks blushing a bit.

"Uh... So, when are we eating?"