However, the curse of the Ancestral Dragon's Essence also brought him an uncontrollable urge of anger and hate. Elric realized that the feeling of corruption is slowly creeping in his mind trying to take control of him again.
Immediately, he stopped attempting to muster his wings and calmed himself down as fast as he can. The urge of hate and anger slowly dissipated while Elric inhaled and exhaled deeply.
As expected, the Ancestral Dragon's power has indeed been sealed, but the main source and trigger of the Dragon's Power at the moment is negativity, hate, and anger that can easily dominate one's mind.
Unlike a natural-born Dragon where the Dragon's essence is naturally compatible with their body and soul, Elric, as a human has to overcome the Draconic corruption to fully evolve into a real dragon.
Therefore, summoning the power of the Dragon inside him would also bring forth the side effects of Mental Corruption which, in his case, poses a high risk of accidentally unleashing the power of the Corrupted Ancestral Dragon again. One thing that Elric vowed to stop from happening again.
But with his current situation, how is he going to escape the mad fire elementals after him?
"Fire..." Elric suddenly had an idea and focused his mind to the maximum. "Wings of fire..wings of fire. Visualize, control, execute..." Elric applied the theoretical knowledge given to him by the Phoenix.
Using the Authority to control fire, he planned to create Wings made up of Fire to escape his situation.
"Focus.. focus Elric... focus..." While running, he desperately evoked the authority of fire to slowly form the wings but he failed immediately.
With the fire elemental catching up to him, Elric is currently on his mental limit to multitask.
Just when he was about to complete a set of fire wings, Elric has also reached a dead end and the only way to reach the other end was to fly over it which is separated by a mile-wide lava river.
Elric knew that he now has the authority of fire but with his current control ability, swimming in a pool of lava is something his half human-half dragon could not take on - yet.
"This is bad..." Elric's mind raced to calculate the distance, but his current power was not enough to bridge the gap with his jump alone. He looked back to see any opening from the chasing fire elementals only to see them covering his exit path.
Jump!
WOOOOSH~
Without hesitation, Elric jumped over the cliff hoping to reach the other end by raw strength of his jump alone. With his current superhuman strength and power, he would rather try his limit to reach the other end rather than pit himself with the hungry fire elementals. Elric's jump was ridiculously long and high. Compared to Olympic athletes, he was more like a flying rather than jumping.
However, it didn't take long for him to realize that his jump was not enough. Slowly, he dropped towards the molten hot lava river.
"Now this is bad." He quickly composed himself and switched to visualizing and materializing the wings of fire. As the gravity finally taking its toll on him, Elric's mind raced in hope of creating his only chance of survival.
Blaming that turtle for not saving him would not help him in any way. After all, this was a test.
"I see..." a realization dawned on him and his eyes shone with enlightenment. Elric closed his eyes with peace and relaxation. His body continued to drop towards the burning lava but his eyes remained closed. He appeared to be giving up when he was focused on something.
RHAAAAAAAHH!~
Unexpectedly, another massive serpent covered in red hot lava wooshed out of the molten river. This monstrous serpent was along as a train and its mouth can stretch wide enough to devour a whole house! It jumped straight towards Elric together with its wide steaming mouth craving to devour him.
Despite having no eyes, this Fire Elemental Serpent can see using heat and had been hiding in ambush as Elric came closer to the edge of the land. Now that the opportunity has presented itself for the serpent, it did not hesitate to jump for it.
A half-human and the half dragon would give him enough fuel to become an even stronger fire elemental and possibly extend its life for more years!
Realizing the unforeseen threat, Elric's eyes opened and suddenly summoned his blue flame which is far more powerful than the red flame covering the body of this serpent.
"Let's see who devours who!" Elric's body was covered in magnificent blue fire by evoking the power of Authority of Fire.
Promptly , after seeing that his supposed-to-be-victim wielded a much more powerful fire than him, the serpent immediately knew that this seemingly powerless human could end up devouring him instead!
The humungous serpent quickly closed its mouth and swayed its body to retreat towards the lava river.
Elric, on the other side, took this opportunity land on its body and use it as a landing spot to vault again towards the safer side of the planet.
UWHRRAAAAAAGHH~~~~
Upon touching the red serpent with his blue fire-covered-body, the serpent wailed in agony with fear covered in its eyes.
The smaller fire elementals could only look in pity at the giant serpent as they felt lucky for not devouring the human; or else, it could have been them who would end up as dust.
Elric reached the other side safely which is devoid of any fire elementals. It turns out that running across the map lured every fire elementals to chase him which gave him the temporary rest that he has now.
Little did he knew, the fire elements don't dare to approach him anymore after realizing his capability to wield the ultimate blue fire.
"Sorry little red snake, I do not mean to hurt you. I am grateful for your kindness to let me jump ahead." Elric bowed to apologize for the red serpent while the latter retreated at the other side of the edge, far away from the bowing Elric. Fear is adamant in its eyes.
Upon losing interest to him, the fire elementals at the opposite land slowly left one after another to mind their own lives. Elric, on the other side, sat down to focus on his newfound enlightenment.
"Fire is light but fire also creates darkness. To rid of the corruption, one must be fire from within."
With his newfound insight, Elric's control of the Authority of Fire was refined and strengthened and techniques that apply the authority of fire slowly gathered in his consciousness.
"Fire can push and fire can pull. Like a river, fire is also a boat that floats in serenity.."
Wisdom after wisdom, Elric immersed himself to this powerful gush of realization. Like a cultivator, his mind and comprehension have significantly broadened concerning the Authority of Fire.
Suddenly, a pair of elegant wings made of blue fire grew from his back. Slowly he stood up and looked at the distant blue moon where the Water Elemental lived. A smile slowly crept in his face while he started moving his magnificent blue wings of fire that can stretch as far as twenty meters.
Elric's eyes were full of burning radiance and wisdom. For some reason, his aura has also undergone a more refined presence and his face glowed in a reddish hue.
Compared to his pale and heavily stressed face before, his current look is like that of a gentle God of fire. He was handsome and burning-hot!
And with a single flap of his elegant burning wings, he left nothing but dust in the red ground of the Fire Elementals' land.
Now Elric, with his new wings of fire, flew at the speed of sound towards the land of the Water Elementals.
Little did he knew, that he is the first human who has access to Authority of Fire and the first and only Human-Dragon-Elemental being that currently exist.