With one hand clutching the box and the other holding the lantern, Shard, led by Sister Delphine, reached the true "Primal Fire Altar" at the bottom through the ritual site's internal elevator.
The spark of the Fire of the Primordial burned at the center of the circular, upward layers of the altar, and the nun's weapon, the longsword "Ashes," was tilted into the campfire, its flames licking the strange sword.
"Offer the firewood."
The blind nun, clad in a gray nun's robe, stood by the fire pit, her silver blindfold reflecting the unstable flames leaping around.
Shard handed the slender-necked bottle filled with "Demon Remains" to the nun, who extended her right hand into the flames. The primal fire ignited her hand almost immediately, and as the marks of burn appeared, the cracks that emerged on her skin's surface crawled all over her body from the fire, reaching even the tips of her decaying gray hair where sparks appeared.
