The Dragon Heart - Flaming Core

Northwest to Narsis, there was a large lake known as Lake Hlaalu. The place was tranquil and not much happened there.

Feeling the quietness away from the bustling town, Jon sat on a small piece of land in Lotus position. In front of him was a Smithing Anvil.

He put an uneven glowing red stone on the anvil then a hammer and a gauntlet appeared on his right. He slowly raised the hammer and...

*Clank*

*Crack*

The glowing stone turned to powder and its energy flowed to the anvil that shock from the excessive power. Jon hurriedly switched the Hammer to a Dagger with a blue crystal blade and touched the anvil with it making it all the excessive energy flow into the Dagger and from it to the Gauntlet.

*Groan*

The Natural Padomic Energy was very hard to capture and refining one's body and soul with it is a pain. Jon's bones, skin and blood needed to be ready for a much harsher process that comes next.

The first major stage in this sort of Meditative Training Technique is called the 'Dragon Robbing stage' it is consisted of 10 Levels. The purpose of that stage is to upgrade the Soul for a certain quality in the terms of Vitality and Magicka by a method Energy Gathering to reflect the upgrading effect on the body and that takes us to the next realm.

The 'Dragon Frame stage' is when the soul has reached its limit and the body is ready to upgrade. It is consisted of 3 minor stages known as 'Iron Bone', 'Jade Skin' and 'Ebon Blood' with 10 levels each. A body at the late Dragon Frame stage is the complete form of a human body.

In the past few months, Jon was diligently training like mad and used rare resources and precious materials to reach the late Dragon Frame stage. For that reason, he was normally full dressed to avoid anyone getting a look under the hood.

Right at this moment, Jon was aiming for one thing and that is to break through the bottleneck of the Dragon Frame stage and attain a higher level of power. He didn't know what lies next but his intuition told him to stay away from civilization when it happens.

As the Vital Padomic Energy was his base training energy, Morrowind was his best training place for the existence of the Red Mountain which is a massive generator of Padomic Energy.

This means Jon's power is bound to jump by leaps and bounds since he was training as if his life is dependent on it.

Time passed and his concentration deepened.

A day passed... phenomenons started to appear in the lake. Despite being a large body of water, this kind of lake doesn't necessarily have tides and waves. But last night was a completely different story. The people of Narsis noticed the unnatural moves and by the second day, the water became a bit violent.

Such an accident would make the town go in panic but the old woman made it clear that one of the people responsible for saving the town is having an important period of his training in the middle of the lake to not cause inconvenience in town. Jon was really honest with her about the fact.

At the third day, the water was clearly unnatural as it wasn't just violent waves but as if something was trapped under the water surface and keeps hitting the water screen from beneath the surface. Even the old woman herself had to climb a tower and look deep into the lake by magic. Most certainly, the cause of the violent pulses in the lake was a certain Nord welding a Dwemer hammer and striking down some red stones. It seems that the anvil was broken in half too so he had to use rocks from the lake which caused the violent movements of water.

However, the first three days were one thing and the fourth was a completely different story. The lake was tranquil in the morning but as soon as the time of noon came, the sky darkened all of a sudden and it seemed to be an out of season thunderstorm.

The people locked their doors on themselves but a few curious ones could link the untimely even with the mage in the lake.

Jon was sitting in a swirl of Padomic Energy and making a steady advance to the next stage.

Up in the sky, the storm started to develop a tornado descending right on Jon.

This was a natural response from the World at someone breaking the rules of the Mundus. To Jon, sending a tornado at him was a mere child play compared to that other time but what made this one different was what happened next.

A spark of fire broke in the tornado and as if it is some flammable substance, the tornado became all fiery red and pressured Jon to the max.

Jon started to lose concentration but he put his hands together and connected the pressure points in his palms and finger together forming a strange hand gesture to maintain his inner flow.

The firestorm on his head started to get fiercer by the second, Jon could barely summon [Krilon] to increase his resistance to the elements and [Greed] for protection.

And so... the long battle began.

***

The difference between attaining temporary connection with the Aurbic Energy and looking at the Tower like the Tribunal is different from trying to harvest that energy for one's self and so the retaliation of the world was different.

At the fifth day, Jon was already powerful enough to finish up. He attained enough power to push the World back.

He got ready for what comes next and made the first wave of retaliation at the world's suppression. At that point, his heart felt strange.

All the energy in his channels and energy center gathered on his heart and it became as if a fire broke in there. The heat coming from his heart was something else entirely not even his whole being can withstand.

While pushing the suppression from above by willpower and his heart from within by endurance, Jon arrived at enlightenment.

He saw a strange scenery of a world as if very under the sea surface but what surrounded him was energy rather than water. The phenomenon didn't last for a few seconds before he was back to his surroundings with no storm above his head or anything. Even the piece of land he was on seemed to have sunken down.

Jon looked around and wondered.

"What just happened?"

Sadly, there was no one to answer him.

He was somehow completely naked with a charred fabric on his shoulder. Jon frowned and looked at [Greed] beside him.

"Didn't I say protect me?"

*Sorry Greed noises*

"Okay, just cover me for now."

Jon investigated his energy center to find a strange anomaly. It was somehow connected to his heart and his heart hand a strong vibe of Flame Energy along with strong pulses.

The phenomenon was questionable but there were things like that mentioned about the ones who attain a high level of magic and extend their lives by hundreds of years. This was called the 'Spirit Spark'.

Like how the Spirits of the World have Spirit Sparks for hearts, the practitioner of the Arcane Arts may attain a Spirit Spark in their hearts just like Lorkhan whose Divine Spark was the Heart of Lorkhan.

Now as far as Jon could tell, the Spirit Sparks is connected to the elements judging by the Suppression of the World that came as a Firestorm. Jon's energy became condensed in his heart becoming some sort of a center or a core.

"The Dragon Heart stage, the Flaming Core level." Jon concluded the name, "There seem to be no bottlenecks until the next breakthrough but that will require a vast amount of time and energy. I guess this is the Early Flaming Core then. System, run a full diagnosis."

< Loading... 10%... 46%... 86%... 100% >

< Diagnosis Complete! >

< A New Powers discovered. >

'Status.'

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<< Aptitude >>

• Nord

• Firemane

• The Serpent

• Ahzidal's Genius

• Eternal Flesh: Disease Immunity (Passive)

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"Eternal Flesh! Disease Immunity! Do I get tastier?"

< Negative >

"Curse you... but I guess I won't get sick now. Which means Lycanthropy and Vampirism are also impossible."

This also means that he became more immune to disease than Isha and the Old Woman who trained under special circumstances to resist poisons.

"Right! How much time passed?"

< 1 Week >

"Oops!"

***

"You are awfully late." Isha said, "What were you doing in the Lake?"

"I was playing in the water."

"That doesn't explain the Firestorm and the waves and the rain and... Everyone in the town is asking what on Nirn you were doing."

"I'm not even interested to explain myself. Where are the Old Woman and the rest?"

"They are back at Mournhold. The Tong Agents were able to locate Galam."

"In Tear?"

"No, Shadowfen. He seems to be amassing a force with Argonians and contacted the Thalmor."

"Morrowind didn't respond?"

"Not really. As long as there are no movements in the No Man's Land, the Dunmer Army is stationed in Tal'Deic Fortress."

"What about Old Cat?"

"She wants his head on a plate but she has nothing but her Tong and House Hlaalu so she can never go on offense. She seems to have connections but wants you to get things done."

"This has dragged longer than we thought. Did Boethiah say anything about her rogue champion?"

"Nope but the cult of Boethiah is very clear about killing him. They just want someone strong enough to replace him."

"HA! This is where I come in then. But the ones who employed Galam are the Argonians of Tear and House Dres, I think we should hit them first." Jon decided.

"Any plan?"

Jon thought for a while then smiled.

"Have you ever seen a Blue Cold Flame that can't be extinguished eating an entire city?"

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