Tasting Drakness

Chapter 62

Gerald jumped as the ring around us set on fire, the heat warming us while my eyes glowed with excitement. How I had missed having magic. “That’s the best you got,” Gerald taunted. I smirked before feeling the tether to my power strengthen, morphing it before I lifted my hands out to the sides above my head before tossing them down.

The flames exploded in a cylinder-shaped wall around us. The fire flew towards the sky, higher than the castle’s tallest point, and I chuckled while Gerald’s mouth fell open. I couldn’t see those standing outside of our circle, but the murmurs at my reach with the flames had them gasping in shock.

“Pretty sure, I just broke the record for highest,” I giggled.

“Not the hottest,” Gerald said with a cocky grin.

“How hot is cutting fire again?” I asked him.

“Yeah, right 3700, pfft?” he murmured, admiring my towering wall of flames.

“I burn hotter,” I whispered, and his smile fell as he looked over at me. Moving my hand, he watched as I turned my palm up before the flames burned brightly, turning purple and blue burning so bright I watched as he squinted from the harsh rays of light it emanated. Clenching my fist, the wall of fire plunged toward the earth, burrowing deep into the surface of the rock. However, maintaining it to remain on the ring’s outer edge took some concentration as I cut the circle out, burning a hole through the ground turning the rock to molten lava. It bubbled u p, spewing out of the gaps as I cut a ring around us, leaving us in the center.

and bled from the earth. Everyone jumped back and Gerald too, before

used that much power in so

I controlled the fire enough not to touch his skin, only burning his clothes from his entire body and hair. Still, the shriek of terror from him had everyone laughing as he jumped around like his ass was on fire. My own giggles as he shrieked, patting himself down before rolling on the ground made the flames cut out. Momentarily

very naked and looking like a hairless cat.

sure I just broke your record. Do you want another demonstration, Gerald? I’m pretty sure I can melt you down. Shall we see what you’re really

ground and into his path. He halted instantly,

me, a grin on his face. “So you’re a fire element,” he said, eyes sparkling with the knowledge. That made

you keep

nodded. I rolled my eyes before brushing my fingertips over his palm and giving his magic back to him. Turning around to follow him back inside, I stopped when I noticed Darius

fire?”

Fire is our strongest manifestation, except Darius. He is a dark elemental. Tobias has a few other gifts, the compulsion and his ability to tell if someone is lying. He can also manipulate a person’s emotions,” Lycus explained as we

already knowing he