Lawrend was satisfied to see the new addition to his maids. She looked perfect in that maid uniform.

“It seems like all of you managed to improve while I was gone,” Lawrend said and looked at his maids.

They were not as weak as he remembered them to be. Five years was a long time. They looked the same, but that amount of time was enough for them to digest a lot of his lessons about magic.

It would be weird if they didn’t improve after all of that.

“Master, let me show you my change!” Elena excitedly stepped forward.

Lawrend didn’t need to hear her words to know what changed about her. He could see from her flow of mana that she had become a Heaven Mage. It wasn’t surprising to him since he knew that she was a slime.

Elena had the ability to sense the minute changes in mana around her. She WAS the embodiment of mana. It would be fair to say that she had an unfair advantage over every other being in existence.

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Elena activated her Heaven Mage powers and golden strings of light stretched out from her head to the sky, where it was impossible to see where it headed.

“Congratulations.”

Lawrend smiled at her. He was happy that she was able to become a Heaven Mage. Though, it slightly disappointed him that she was able to become one faster than him.

“Thank you, Master.”

Elena smirked and bowed before returning to her spot.

“Fufufu. See for yourself, Master.”

Aezel stepped forward and pushed her chest forward.

Lawrend used his elemental eyes. She was at the boundary of a Heaven Mage and an Earth Mage. With a tiny push, she should not have a problem becoming one.

Lawrend nodded his head at her in satisfaction. She didn’t disappoint him.

“Master.”

Ember took a step forward.

Lawrend raised his hand to motion her to continue.

“Do you want to watch a show?” Ember asked.

She stared at him with fiery eyes, literally. A fiery red phoenix swam within her iris and floated around. It made her spectacularly beautiful.

“Thank you for waiting,” Lawrend replied cryptically.

No one among Lawrend’s other maids understood what he meant except for Ember. She smiled and floated up.

The clear skies suddenly turned dark without any warning. Orange clouds appeared out of nowhere and rolled above Ember. It spun around her and crackled with explosions of flames.

“Ember.”

Lawrend lifted his palm up and a small ember of Divine Fire floated up. He pushed it towards Ember. She opened her mouth and swallowed it.

She had been waiting for this moment for a long time now. She could’ve become a Heaven Mage a long time ago, but she waited for Lawrend to become one before she became one.

And the reason for that was this.

The Divine Fire immediately tried to engulf her in flames, but Ember resisted with he own Phoenix Fire mana. Her heartbeat sped up, and her bloodline contained the ember by rapidly regenerating the damaged flesh around it.

Ember danced and a trail of flames followed her every motion. She stopped and a rain of demonic fire mana washed over her body. Her pores absorbed them and separated the impurities to create a stream of steady food for the raging Divine Fire ember.

She stayed in that dancing position without moving. A few minutes later, she moved to another dancing position and stopped.

She repeated this a couple of times. With each iteration, the ember would release a burst of flames before calming down.

Lawrend and the others watched her phoenix dance, stunned. She looked beautiful even though she was wearing a mere maid uniform. Something about the flames following her dancing motion made her enrapturing to the eyes.

“Master, your blood.”

Ember opened her eyes and stretched her hand to him.

Lawrend slit his wrist and a droplet of clear liquid floated up to her. It was Lawrend’s Ignis Bloodline. He made sure to separate his demonic bloodline from it as that would be detrimental for her.

Ember slit her own wrist and his blood entered her body.

“AHHHHHHH!!”

Without warning, Ember screamed at the top of her lungs. Lawrend’s blood boiled inside of her veins and integrated with her impurer bloodline. She could feel the insides of her bones aching in tremendous amounts of pain.

“I will be the strongest Ignis Descendant!” Ember shouted while gritting her teeth and enduring the pain.

Her Will spread out to the universe in a spherical wave.

She waited for a few seconds, but there was no negative Will that tried to attack her. Instead, the pain only became stronger.

The slumbering Divine Fire suddenly got into action. It went against her control and invaded her left leg’s bone marrow.

“NOOOOOOOOO!!! MASTER!!” Ember screamed, uncharacteristically.

Lawrend’s face turned grim, and he teleported to her side. He pressed his palm against her back. He sent his powerful Divine Fire mana and latched onto the ember inside her bone marrow.

It was destroying her old bone marrow and his new bloodline was replacing it with the new bone marrow. Instead of the destruction that Lawrend had expected, it was helping her instead.

He was still doubtful so he kept his palm on Ember for a few more seconds. Indeed, it left that bone and moved on to the next one to do the same thing.

Lawrend relaxed and removed his palm from Ember’s back.

“Master!”

Ember wanted him to stop it as the pain was beyond comprehension. It reminded her of the time when she almost died trying to save him from the Blumin Emperor’s final attack.

“Relax! This is beneficial for you.”

Lawrend wasn’t willing to let her waste this splendid opportunity. Once this was done, she might end up with a bloodline with a purity close to his.