From what Liam could tell, it was clearly the egg that was kind of refining the fire essence from the lava and he was stealing bits and pieces of it.
This gave him an idea.
Liam lifted the egg and sat down on the rock, then placed the egg on his lap. After which, he continued absorbing whatever essence that he could steal from it.
He carried on with this for several minutes without any disturbance.
However, as time passed, the lava started bubbling and gurgling more and a hissing sound echoed in the pool of molten rocks and fire.
Liam quickly placed the egg back on the rock and stood up. Surrounding him on four sides were four lava mambas.
"Hmmm. Did you guys show up because we were stealing your essence?" He grinned and made his move.
After absorbing a little of the fire essence, he was beginning to feel a bit more comfortable in the lava filled hellish place but he was not a fool to think that this would be of any help.
