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.

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

felt myself growing weaker from not having used that much power in so long. Gerald noticed my exhaustion as the

chirped before he shrieked as I flicked my fingers toward him and engulfed him in flames. He danced, trying to extinguish the flames covering him as I controlled the fire enough not to touch his skin, only burning his clothes from his entire body

only to see he wasn’t burned, just very naked and looking like a hairless cat. Even his eyebrows were gone. I snickered, and Gerald

I just broke your record. Do you want another demonstration, Gerald? I’m pretty sure I can melt

his feet, rushing toward me like an enraged rhino. Lycus stepped over the gap. I cut into the ground and into his path. He halted instantly, nearly tripping over himself in his effort to not run into Lycus’s wall of

shoulder. “Issue Gerald?” Lycus asked, and Gerald looked between Lycus and me before sneering and turning on his heel. He stalked off while cursing under his breath. Lycus then turned to face me, a grin on his face. “So you’re a fire element,” he said, eyes sparkling with the knowledge. That made me a little nervous because they

would let you

him, and he 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 standing by the edge of the field with Tobias and Kalen. Looking over at Lycus, he shrugged. “They came to see if you were indeed a fire element like all of

fire?”

other gifts, the compulsion and his ability to tell if someone is

I asked, already knowing he could read