After coming back to his base, pragna went on ahead with his usual routine. He skinned the bodies, collected the meat that is still edible and started cooking them. Its not like he cant eat the charred parts, but who want to eat that when he can have delicious meat! his hands were cutting up the meat without much need of his brain functions, so his mind started drifting to the today's event. He remembered how that gorilla shit it-self in pure fear. He felt little bit bad for that ape, but it was them who started this fight! He will never back out of a fight when they threaten their life.He is hoping that the scare tactic present he left for them will work and they will leave him alone. And then he remembered something, after coming to this world he did not take a piss or shit, in-fact he does not even sweat. The only explanation is that his body is digesting literally everything!

As he is thinking about this stuff he remembered about that cold roots of the older fire fruit trees. He went near the smaller older one,and then he started plucking the fruits, he collected almost two hundred of them. Then he took all of them, put them in a large bowl and crushed them, to cook them into fire fruit syrup. After that he made large fire blade and cut the 2 meter diameter tree at its base. It fell down like a huge pillar that lost its support. After that steadily he hacked down till it was nothing but a stump, Then he started removing the rocky terrain around the stump he started pulling it out. After few seconds it started budging and suddenly stump popped out along with its roots. Pragna almost fell backwards, but balanced himself. He started observing the roots, they were almost white in color at the base and were emitting a cold wave! After coming to this world he finally found a item, that is cold. He finally found an item to confirm his theory whether he can digest everything or not. Without a second thought he started chomping down the white root. First he felt like his temperature would drop a little bit. But no it was only cold till it was in his mouth and the moment he swallowed it,

Host absorbed an item that is rich with water affinity. Even though host body does not have any weakness towards the water elements, you are still not compatible to learn any lowest water elemental skills. Searching for suitable skill

You have learned cold flames, lvl1. You can produce flames that freeze anything that is hotter than it. As it progresses you can produce even colder flames for lesser mana.

Till now you only knew in theory that cold flames can be produced, but today you experienced it physically. You have taken your first step towards understanding the balance of elements. You have gained a new title "Harmony expert"

.A new title! Pragna used gift of knowledge on this new title

Insufficient knowledge

Hmmm.This time i learned something unique. Must be higher tier skill. Wait! how did these roots gain water affinity? there is no water hear.

He immediately checked the roots

Cold roots. Usually fire fruit trees cant grow beyond 5meters. But once in a while in presence of powerful sentient flora, they start developing cold roots. After growing to full maturity this roots are absorbed by the sentient flora to gain fire affinity. That way it can start absorbing fire based ingredients.

Sentient flora? it is in the volcano? but where could it hide from the radiation?

As he was looking around he remembered the cave he did not explore. He started climbing towards it.

He climbed to into the cave. He used flame resonance and did not get any response. It was pitch black, even with heat vision he could not see anything. he created few fire orbs and he let them go forward. As he moved forward for few 100 meters, something suddenly fell on the orbs and they were doused out! Before he could react Pragna is pierced by more than 20 black one inch thorns. He felt almost felt paralyzed, but immediately his regeneration lvl 1 kicked in.

Your infected with highly infectious neuro-toxin! Your body is being held together by your regeneration lvl1.

Your body is digesting the toxins slowly. Your body is healing.

Digestion process accelerated! Your body is almost healed by regeneration lvl 1

Digestion completed! You gained skill poison fumes lvl1. You can breath out poison fumes that are highly neuro-toxic in nature! To lvl this skill you need to absorb even more lethal or unique poisons.

All of this happened in less than two seconds. He immediately got clear headed. Before he could move forward multiple tree roots popped out of the floor and bound to him!

Warning! Your health is dropping at accelerated pace. Plant has noticed uniqueness your body. It is trying to absorb you.

Pragna laughed! You did not catch me stupid plant. It Is other way round.

A bright flash appeared around him and in an instant it spread around the cave!

He slowly walked forward and as he approached end of the cave, he saw a burnt up stem that was desperately trying to borrow itself into the the ground. He immediately launched a bright white flame ball on it. It immediately withered. But pragna did not stop, he started digging the spot using rock curving, he immediately pulled a large pulsating brown clump.

He used gift of knowledge on it to check its status window. It seems this an weak mutated version of extremely omnivorous flora called bleac. An original full grown bleac reaches a staggering lvl 350! It can devour an entire city in matter of minutes.

Fire becomes more or less in-effective against as it reaches maturity. Luckily this breed of bleac is not as strong as its original parent. What he is holding in his hand was lvl 25 seed. If it was anyone else of lower lvl , this plant could have easily devoured them. But because of Pragna's unique constitution he became its natural predator. He crushed it without giving it much thought.

Congratulations! lvl 12

Congratulations! lvl 13

Congratulations! lvl 14

Congratulations! lvl 15

Congratulations! lvl 16

Pragna checked his status window.

NamePragnaTitlesFlame itself, fire pitLevel16Health1400/1800Mana2100Physical statsStrength17Agility22Intelligence23Dexterity16Wisdom28Speed9Vitality53SkillsGift of knowledgelvl 10absolute temperature controllvl 10Flame resonancelvl 5Physical defenselvl 5Stone gorilla physiquelvl 5Lower meditationlvl 1Earth sturdy handslvl 1Regenerationlvl1Novice engineerlvl 1Novice cooklvl 2Poly linguisticlvl 1skill readerlvl 1Rock carvinglvl 1Poison fumeslvl 1AttributesFireMaximumEarthLower affinity lvl 1

After seeing his stats, he wanted to see how well he will fare against those apes. He got out of the cave and started making preparations for another clash.