[524] It rose.

I woke up, tired, but thankfully I was alive. The pain in my body disappeared, and my mana had recovered. It seems the phoenix bloodline did quite the work. 

Standing up, I massaged my stiff body and looked at the ice wall I had conjured up. It was holding its own against the heat outside.

When I had constructed it, I made sure to scatter as much of my ice mana around the cave. I could probably survive the heat, but the 'passenger' with me won't be able too.

The deadly lava isn't the only thing that's dangerous here. The heat it emits is equally dangerous. The heat would have killed her already if it wasn't for my mana cooling this place down.

After I reinforced the ice wall and made the cave cooler, I went over to her and bent down. I wanted to see whether my act of covering her in a ball of ice had repercussions. After I scanned her with dragon eyes, I was glad to find out that it didn't happen. She held on, perhaps due to her rank.