Ch. 13 Important Memories 3

"Between these continuous wars," Maw's voice droned, controlled by Ash, "as Humans did not possess any supernatural power, they began to seek the help of Spiritumens. From the beginning, Spiritumens were supporting and protecting humans. However, when Spiritumens discovered that by inhabiting a physical human body, they utilized a significantly lower amount of Nature Energy while maintaining the same power output, they began to live inside human bodies to fought more better in the wars."

"Humans and Spiritumens forged a contract. Spiritumens held the upper hand in this contract because they could survive without human bodies, but humans could not. Yet, even after all this, Spiritumens never took advantage of humanity's helplessness. Furthermore, for Spiritumens, there was another significant advantage to this arrangement: within human bodies, they gained the potential to store Nature Energy for prolonged periods, making it easier for them to fight in extended wars. In this way, Humans began to live alongside Spiritumens."

Maw paused, a brief, almost imperceptible flicker in the Void.

"Approximately 6,000 years ago, I was born. In this period, the Third Great Spirit Rebellion erupted."

"The Third Great Spirit Rebellion wasn't like the First and Second Great Spirit Rebellions. It wasn't 'great' in the same catastrophic sense, after all. Nevertheless, many lives were lost in that war. Spiritumens held the upper hand due to their magic advancements and their mastery of various elemental flames, such as Red Flames—which was a lower version of Sun Flames—and Blue Flames—which was a lower version of Moon Flames—among many others."

"Moon Flames themselves were discovered and created by the wife of Luminous himself. Moon Flames possess the unique ability to utilize the cold and moisture present in the atmosphere, converting it into war power, into Moon Flames. Moon Flames allow their user to infinitely draw upon the cold from the atmosphere."

"Actually, the working mechanism of Moon Flames wasn't like that of Sun Flames, which directly draw flames from the sun using spiritual powers. Moon Flames create their fire from the heat in the environment. They can use any type of heat and convert it into Moon Flames. Moon Flames usually attempt to create an infinite cycle of absorbing heat and utilizing it to generate moon flames, then reabsorbing the released Moon Flames to generate again. However, this cycle was never truly infinite. Wherever Moon Flames were used, that place became an absolute hell, and due to the immense cold generated, even the user of it wasn't able to bear its devastating effect. But moon flames were incredibly powerful, second only to Sun Flames in potency. None in history had been able to use both Sun and Moon Flames other than their original creators."

"However, their respective clan members were able to use lower imitations of these flames, such as Red Flames and Blue Flames. There were many at that time who attempted to crossbreed the users of Blue and Red Flames, resulting in new users who could manipulate both types of flames. Some were rare among them, able to harness Purple Flames, which bound together the powers of Red and Blue Flames, creating an even more powerful and volatile flame."