Ainen roamed around for a bit to see if there was something hidden on this island.

It was the final island, after all.

There were hidden rewards in all other islands, so there had to be some on this island as well.

Well, Ainen wasn't wrong, but hidden rewards were nastily difficult to find, especially on a big island such as this one.

Several minutes passed by before Ainen heard an announcement.

[Dueling Lord Tathan is free for the next duel.]

'She failed again. Good.'

Ainen cracked his neck and continued flying in sensitive mode with a veil of heat sparks around him to help him sense his energy reward in a slightly larger range.

'If I don't find anything in the next three minutes, I'll start training. I have an idea I wanted to try, which should boost my combat prowess.'

Three minutes passed by, and he indeed didn't find anything.

'The biomes are also crazy here. Maybe the hidden rewards are hidden in dangerous locations.'

Ainen stopped his earch in an area with raging winds and several hundred meters tall trees as if they were mountains. Their branches were also massive.

Arriving on a branch that was two hundred meters wide and five hundred meters long, Ainen started training.

The idea he had was simple, but it could allow him to refine his skills to a new level.

'The wind here is good. I'll use it, too.'

In front of Ainen, a strange type of flame floated.

It was smooth, swirling, and flowing around him, not like a flame, but like a wind.

It was the newborn evolution of his Palatebloom Fire that had 'tasted' Wind. Ainen used his own A-rank Wind Manipulation to let his Palatebloom Fire taste the flavors of Wind.

And now, it shimmered with layered hues—crimson at the core, amber around the edges, and streaks of translucent jade wind weaving through like veins of light. The fire didn't flicker anymore. It flowed, coiling around him like a sentient current that whispered and hissed at the same time.

When Ainen lifted his hand, the flame didn't rise, but spiraled, vanishing into thin air before reappearing meters away as a burst of hot wind. The pressure that followed carved across the colossal branch he stood on, leaving behind charred spirals that still glowed.

'Let's call this Zephyrus Flame Art. The spells created from this flame will be interesting.' Ainen grinned, his eyes bright as he started getting ideas for the spells.

'Create spells that can bring out the speciality of this flame to its fullest. Those spells will be strongest,' Lord Black said.

'Yep. That's the plan.'

In the end, Ainen spent fifteen minutes creating four spells.

He wanted to create more, but he also wanted to try them out, so he went to find Tathan to challenge him.

He also didn't hear any announcement in the last ten minutes, indicating that Prisha also took a break instead of dueling Tathan every five minutes after losing.

Shortly, he found Tathan, and the duel began.

'Let's go.' Ainen's eyes glinted as he used one of the new spells right away.

Pyrostream Mirage Field.

Ainen releases a thread of Palatebloom Fire that travels invisibly along the air currents, heating them just enough to distort light.

But it was no mere distortion.

Within a hundred meters of himself, Ainen created a field that showed mirages that looked exactly like him and synced with his actions. Not just that, phantom flames that emitted heat, but were of no substance, also popped, basically creating a domain of deception to make it hard for others to target Ainen unless they used an AOE skill targeting a hundred-meter area to destroy his Pyrostream Mirage Field.

This time, the duel was in a desert with a raging storm.

Tathan wielded Lightning, Wind, and Sand this time, becoming even more of a pain in the ass compared to when Ainen fought him before above the steaming lake.

'Man, I can learn a lot fighting Tathan, but I only have one minute.'

Tathan created a horde of flying fish made of volatile fulmination glass created from the interaction of lightning and sand.

It was more sophisticated than any glass creation he had done, but this glass was semi-liquid, constantly jotted by veins of lightning that increased its speed and offensive power.

Those fish were penetrating Ainen's defenses easily, forcing him to be more defensive, but fortunately, one of the four spells he created was perfect to deal with minion-type attacks.

He was annoyed with those water dragons, so he figured Tathan might use that kind of attack again, even with a different arsenal of powers, and he indeed used it by conjuring these fish.

Within a hundred meters of Ainen, there were four things floating around him, keeping a distance of ten to fifteen meters.

Ember Vortex Turrent: A spinning column of flame that behaves like a miniature tornado. However, unlike normal firestorms, it feeds on its own airflow, sustaining itself indefinitely, and whenever any projectile enters within this 100-meter zone around him, these vortexes would shoot explosive Flamegust towards them that would explode upon contact.

Tathan used the quick and lethal school of fish and other direct projectiles to attack Ainen from long-range offensive so far, and hasn't done anything else yet, like closing on him.

But this Tathan's defense was also weaker than the previous Tathan who wielded Water.

Ainen managed to injure Tathan multiple times, lowering his Vitality close to 60% with the other two spells being for direct offense.

Gale Combustion and Windbloom Lance.

Both of them were super lethal, but one of them was more effective in the current duel and did the most damage, forcing Tathan to be on the move constantly.

Gale Combustion: Triggering all heated air particles in a chosen radius. The air itself combusts, creating detonations of invisible fire that erupt with sonic booms — a deadly zone of pressurised explosions.

Now, this spell required Ainen to have a control range, and Tathan was always outside of it, but he had one skill that erased this disadvantage.

Mark of the Hunter.

Upon marking Tathan, Ainen could directly target the area around Tathan, and concentrated on the place he marked Tathan, creating a violent explosion at the cost of a minimum of 500 Mana to a maximum of whatever his control allowed.

Alas, one minute was too short to finish Tathan off.

'Alright, time to make one more type flame.'

'Sand Fire Art?' Lord Black asked.

'Nah, I'll call it Dune Blaze Art.'

'…'

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