The heavy, iron-bound door of the Phoenix Wood house swung open with a rhythmic, satisfying creak that seemed to echo through the very foundations of the earth. As Leo Shaw stepped across the threshold, he was instantly enveloped by a sensory experience that surpassed anything he had encountered in Forest City.
The interior of the house didn't just smell like ancient timber; it smelled like the birth of a star. The air was thick and heavy, saturated with a high-density fire-elemental Spirit Air that shimmered in the low light like invisible gold dust. For a normal human, the temperature inside would have been lethal—a pressurized furnace of nearly a hundred and forty degrees. But for Leo, whose Spirit-Forged Body was now at the A-rank, and whose Tier-2 core was a literal Source of Spirit
