Getting up despite Uroa’s protest, Urist stood up from the ground causing more blood to drip down his bare chest. Walking through the pain he made his way over to burning corpse of the flaming wolf. 

Reaching the blazing fire he stepped inside the hellish fireball without fear allowing the intense heat washed over his body. He knew full well it wouldn’t hurt him so he instead sat down cross-legged and began to focus. 

Imagining himself as a container and the flames being the water; he began to feed the flicker of origin fire that remained inside him. The dwarfs watched dumbly as the flames licked across Urist’s body and began to be sucked in at a visible rate. Though surprisingly his clothes weren’t burning to ash.

Urist sat in a trance as his flames not only refilled but his extreme hunger seemed to be satiated. Even the pain of his chest seemed to become numb as he felt at ease as if being wrapped in a warm blanket floating in the clouds. This warmth wiggled its way across every cell in his body making them scream with joy as they greedily took in the vast flame energy.

It didn’t seem like a mere top off, but some sort of rebirth!

This mini rebirth didn’t last long though as soon enough he reached the limit of what he could store inside and could only regretfully feel what was left of the fire's embrace. Alas, it seems like I can’t remove the fire from the crystal despite it having quite the amount left.

He could only sigh and return to the angry Uora to get stitches along his chest. They used the purified water they brought to clean out the wound. Then got bandages and medical tape to cover his wounds.

Since Urist was wounded Rat took his items under Uora's order as not to agitate Urist’s wounds so they wouldn’t open up as they walked. Urist was placed in the middle of the formation and they decided to not check the traps until they got back to camp.

The walk back was quite quick allowing them to get back around mid-afternoon. When Uria saw Urist injuries she nearly flipped out at him for doing something so dangerous. It warmed Urist at how caring she was and told her he would be more careful from now on.

“Promise?”

“I can’t promise that I won’t do dangerous things, but I will make sure it’s the last resort from now on.”

Uria was fuming at Urist response how could be so unreasonable and carefree about his life!

“You!”

Urist scratched his cheek, “I rather not lie to you or others when things need to be done. We can only count on each other, no one is going to save us.”

Uria looking down, bit her lip drawing blood, “You’re a fool! Your life is too important to lose here when you have so much to accomplish here! Don’t you understand!”

Grabbing her shoulder Urist lifted Uria’s chin and looked her in the eye,  “Hey… Your bleeding did you bite your lip? Here let me get some salt and water to help stop it.”

“It’s nothing your injuries are worse than mine. You should go to the cave to rest.”

Seeing that she wouldn’t look him in the eye and how much pouting she was doing Urist ruffled her hair with a smile.

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“Hey now I don’t plan on dying anytime soon, yet I won’t stand aside when one of you guys are in trouble.”

“Whatever go get healed y-y-you, big dummy! I’ll come over to get you some water and boar meat the guys caught after cooking.”

“Thank you Uria, can you have Hot and Baikm talk with me on how the metal production is going? I wanna ask them if they need anything.”

“Understood, I’ll tell them to meet you once you are laying down. So go get some rest first you big dummy or I won’t forgive you!”

With those words, Uria left Urist’s group then headed over to the cave to drop off the plants and oxygen light crystals. Later on tonight they would line the walls and keep the remainder outside covered with dirt so carbon dioxide wouldn’t get to them.

The group got to work except Urist who laid down on his bead. Before he got inside Elrish had somewhat recovered and was doing some less intensive work by learning on how to make rope.

It made Urist happy knowing that he was alright and he decided to rest his eyes and take a break after so long. Only it seemed that he’d have to wait for his break for a little longer as Unicy hung over him like a specter.

“Hey.”

Urist opened his eyes and stared at her from below, “Yah?”

“Why did you put yourself in danger for one girl? You are the civilization leader without a successor if you die then everything is lost. So why did you do it? Do you believe that one life outweighs the many?”

“Hmm give me a second.”

Closing his eyes Urist thought to himself about the scenario in his head that he saw before. There was a train moving along the tracks heading for five people you didn’t know and you had the choice to change the tracks to one worker you know.

The question always bugged him to allow one person to die just because there would be more people to live. There was actually a third choice he thought was quite crazy since no real human could actually accomplish it and that was actually.

“I’d just stop the train myself.”

“Huh?”

“I was just thinking about something from my other world. To answer you all I need to do is become the strongest so I don’t lose anyone.”

“That’s pretty selfish of you. You know that you’re deluding yourself with such thoughts right?”

“What can I say, I'm pretty selfish. Why compromise with death when I can just kick his ass? If he wants to take something from me he’s going to have to come down himself and fight me.”

Unicy bit her lip listening to Urist crazy words, “Even for me?”

“Even for you.”

“If you truly wish to create such a world then I’ll give you my everything.”

“Good. Huh?”