Tasting Darkness

Chapter 62

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.

from the earth. Everyone jumped back and Gerald too, before nearly tumbling into the gap behind him before jumping toward

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

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

burned, just very naked and looking like a hairless cat. Even his eyebrows were gone. I snickered,

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

and jumped to his feet, rushing toward me like an enraged rhino. Lycus stepped over the gap. I cut into the ground and into his path.

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

let you keep

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 us,”

fire?” I

manifestation, except Darius. He is a dark elemental. Tobias has a few other gifts, the compulsion and his ability to tell if someone is

about Kalen?” I asked, already knowing

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