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"Don't try to control them, connect and communicate with them"—these words sounded very simple and normal, but they held immense significance.

Atticus immediately entered a deep state of focus upon hearing Dekai's words. His gaze became unfocused as he pondered.

Dekai, who saw this, smiled slightly before silently exploding into flames and disappearing, only to reappear a distance away from Atticus, giving him time and space to think.

'It'll be up to him from now on,' Dekai thought, his hands holding his walking stick trembling with excitement. In all his decades of learning and teaching people about fire, he had never come across someone like Atticus before.

'Not even that fool could compare,' Dekai couldn't help but remember one hot-blooded man who had attended the fire sanctum in the past: Avalon.