Kyle looked at the bubbling pot in front of him.
Naturally, this pot was filled with copper, and it was already quite hot.
The fact that it was boiling meant that it was already close to becoming a gas.
'This fucker is bright,' Kyle thought as he looked at the bright, bubbling liquid.
At this moment, a complex rune was on the ground below the pot, and a similar rune was on the pot's bottom.
Surprisingly, there was no flame.
In order to create these insane temperatures, Kyle needed to learn a new Spell.
Luckily, the Spell had been quite simple.
It just acted like an induction stove.
"That's hot enough," Theodor said.
Kyle's heart rate shot through the roof when he heard Theodor's voice.
"Put your hand in."
Kyle took a deep breath.
Everything inside of him told him not to do this.
This was a dumb idea!
Kyle closed his eyes.
Then, he rammed his hand into the stove.
His eyes immediately shot open as an unending assault of heat went into his hand.
Yet, Kyle just gritted his teeth and kept his hand inside.
"Move it around! Remember how it feels!" Theodor shouted.
Kyle did just that.
Moving it around hurt so much more.
"Deactivate the Spell," Theodor said.
Kyle did just that.
Deactivating such a Spell was easy. He just needed to stop doing the calculations.
"Keep it inside," Theodor said.
Kyle felt like his hand was inside a gigantic furnace, but he forced himself through.
'Just dissociate!' he kept shouting at himself in his mind. 'Pain is just a feeling. So what if it hurts? It's just a feeling!'
'It's background noise!'
'Just ignore it!'
Of course, doing that was harder than saying it.
It was like all of Kyle's senses were being pulled to his hand.
It was like a blinding spot in a world of darkness.
It just couldn't be ignored.
After some minutes, the pain lessened.
Some more minutes passed, and Kyle almost felt like his hand was normal.
By now, his hand was no longer an impossibly bright spot in the darkness.
It was almost like it was just gone.
'Did it burn off?' Kyle thought.
'Wait, no. If it burned off, my body would grow a new hand, which means my new parts would enter the hot copper again. That means I would still be in pain.'
'But somehow, I'm not in pain anymore.'
"Boss, what's going on?" Kyle asked with furrowed brows. "My hand doesn't hurt anymore."
"That's a good sign," Theodor said. "We need to test something. Pull your hand out. "
Kyle pulled his hand out of the incredibly hot liquid.
Naturally, so much heat wouldn't dissipate within just a couple of minutes.
As he looked at his hand, he saw a thin sheet of copper covering it.
"Scrape it off," Theodor said.
Kyle removed the dried copper from his hand.
After he was done, his hand looked very normal.
"Put it into the pot again," Theodor said.
Kyle did just that.
Immediately, he was assaulted by unending heat again.
But this time, the feeling almost immediately vanished.
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