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.

earth. Everyone jumped back and Gerald too, before

of my wrist as I felt myself growing weaker from not having used that much power in

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

like a hairless cat.

Do you want another demonstration, Gerald? I’m pretty sure I can melt you down. Shall we see what you’re really made of?” I

me like an enraged rhino. Lycus stepped over the gap. I cut into the ground and

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 may

let you keep it,

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

fire?”

Tobias has a few other gifts, the

I asked, already knowing