Devouring Monarch: Rebirth of the Profane Phoenix - Chapter 88

Chapter 88: The Competition Starts For Real!
After a wonderful night, secure from the outside world. Princess Vela recovered from the poison thanks to her expensive potions and elixirs. Mu Xue helped her all night and was now ready to go out and fight.

“Are you sure you’re alright, Vela?”

Mu Xue no longer called her princess after they spent the night talking about Asura. Instead, she overwhelmed the poor princess about how amazing he had been since childhood. She even took out his young bathing pictures, causing the princess to turn bright red.

“Mmm, there seem to be no issues.”

Vela rotated her shoulders before slashing out rapidly using her eastern sword, causing the air to vibrate as the blade sliced through the rock wall.

‘Hmmm… She uses a fast sword style despite being an Earth-element warrior.’

The two women left the barrier with light movements.

Now too far from Asura’s base, to meet up with him as today they would hunt towards the south while he moved to the east. Once again fighting in the danger zone with Xavida.

Mu Xue wore full leather and chain mail armour because of Asura’s warning to leave no skin exposed. This request was both his possessive desire and worry she might get poisoned by a stray spine or claw while wearing her dark blue kimono over the top.

“Let’s go!”

“Ha!”

‘I wonder if the Master is missing me… Or did he already use that lizard sex toy?’

Like a gust of frozen wind, the two women rushed towards the southern forest, prepared for a day filled with combat and danger.

Mu Xue’s eyes seemed to glimmer with a sense of danger and madness thinking about her beloved master and Xavida spending the night together.

The power of her aura caused many Stage Two monsters to freeze in terror. Her ice was so intense their hearts stopped, causing the scores to narrow without the pair knowing.

⁜ Xavida POV

Meanwhile, the two dragons were flying through the central forest, their wings tearing through the atmosphere with a cracking howl, ignoring the monsters below them. Their eyes fixated on the gloomy, grey forest in the distance.

The wind, as if alive, gnawed at their bodies, soft at first, but the closer to the danger zone, the more damage it dealt, as their bodies enveloped themselves in scales a beautiful pink wrapped by a large black-scaled body to protect Xavida from harm.

‘I don’t understand why, but it seems my scales are built for defence, while Xavida’s are built to amplify her element…’

“Xavi, we should drop down. It seems you cannot fly in this area.”

“Mmmm. I will do whatever you say.”

When things were serious, Xavida became obedient to Asura after they mated. Her eyes filled with sincerity while she stroked his wounds with her fingertips as they dropped onto a thick black tree over fifty metres in the air.

With a subtle shake of the branches. Many little shards of black flicked off the branch down below before a low growl sounded from the depths.

“It seems we attracted someone to play with.”

“Hehe~ Xavida will beat him.”

Asura wanted to stop her momentarily but remembered he needed to let her become stronger and not hog everything as she fully armoured herself in beautiful scales, layer after layer, hiding all but her lovely pink eyes flickering with lightning.

“Watch me!” Xavi said in a distorted voice.

Her body dropped like a meteor towards the armoured beast, like a huge bipedal wolf with long claws. Its fur was pitch black, and its fangs sharpened to a deadly point.

⟪White Dragon Arts⟫

—Chainsaw!

Suddenly grasping, flapping her wings, Xavida’s body rapidly rotated with a single leg extended, her figure like a chainsaw blade looming down on the monster, her foot covered in sharp white and pink scales.

Bang!

Crack!

A loud explosion occurred when her foot smashed into the creature’s head, causing the ground to crack and break under the pressure. The wolf whimpered in pain as blood leaked from its mouth, its eyes rolling back into its skull, but the wolf soon bit down on its tongue, swiping a Xavida’s chest.

“Humph!”

Xavida snorted before spinning again, her wings cutting the air as she flew up once more, her body becoming a drill, twirling before digging into the wolf’s stomach.

Crack!

Blood splattered everywhere as she drilled deeper and deeper, causing the wolf to cry out in pain, but Xavida didn’t stop there. She continued to spin until she reached its heart, ripping it apart with the sharp-bladed scales growing from her elbows before crushing its organs with her feet.

“That was easy…”

“…”

‘Was my dragon lover always this brutal? The wolf was stage three, and she just destroyed its insides like a joke.’

Asura shook his head while Xavida pulled herself out of the wolf’s stomach, covered in blood and gore. Her pink eyes flickered with lightning as if she enjoyed killing the wolf.

“Master, can Xavi eat the meat?”

“Sure, go ahead.”

Asura nodded while watching her rip open the wolf’s stomach, pulling out a sizeable chunk of bloody meat, pursing her lips and blowing a purple flame filled with lightning to cook it and then devouring it like a wild animal.

⁜ Gained 2000 Essence from devouring the enemy!

⁜ Gained 10 Assessment Points: 125!

⁜ Cultivation Progress Increased: +1%! (1%)

⁜ Cultivation Progress Increased: +2%! (Xavida)

⁜ Monolith – Status ⁜

Devil: 53632/100000 (Stage Two)

Dragon: 53632/100000 (Stage Two)

Asura: 53632/100000 (Stage Two)

Devour: 53632/100000 (Stage Two)

Rebirth/??? :49188/50000 (Stage One)

When Asura felt the changes, he looked at the small display on his wrist. He could feel the rebirth monolith throbbing with excitement while his heart filled with the desire to fight and crush the enemy. His feelings were so intense the scales on his fists became sharp like blades, while his body sent out huge pings of aura to attract enemies.

“Xavi, we should move further south.”

“Okay~ Master!”

Xavida licked her lips clean before rushing towards Asura, wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing his lips passionately. The scent of cooked meat lingered on her breath while her eyes flickered with lightning as she whispered.

“Xavi wants to mate again tonight~ hehe.”

***

Asura’s bloodlust became unbearable, his feet covered in black scales stomping the ground with deep craters while he sprinted at full pace towards the nearest enemy, his hand holding his sword-lance as if it was a couched hooked into his shoulder while the huge toad-like creature came into sight.

“This one’s mine, Xavi!”

Instantly after speaking, his huge black and white wings flung forward, creating an immense speed boost as he charged the huge stage three frog with pure power and speed. His lance pointed towards its chest.

He didn’t use any arts or special powers. It was pure physical power as if showing off to his mate; Asura let out a low dragon-like growl before the frog turned to face him, less than 5 metres apart.

Its enormous tongue shot out like a whip towards Asura, but he simply smirked before slicing it off with his lance, his muscles bulging as he used the force to propel himself forward, stabbing his lance directly into the frog’s throat.

“Ribbit!”

The frog croaked in agony while Asura smiled coldly; his wings flapped backwards, causing his body to twist like a corkscrew drill, ripping through its throat before landing behind it; his wings thrashed again, causing him to fly upwards before swinging his lance downwards with all his strength.

Bang!

Asura’s powerful blow sliced the frog in half, and his body landed in between the corpse, laughing manically, his eyes flickering with black flames while Xavida watched in awe, her hands between her legs, stopping her tail from rubbing her private parts. “So cool…” she whispered.#

⁜ Gained 2000 Essence from devouring the enemy!

⁜ Gained 10 Assessment Points: 135!

⁜ Cultivation Progress Increased: +1%! (1%)

⁜ Cultivation Progress Increased: +2%! (Xavida)

⁜ Monolith – Status ⁜

Devil: 53632/100000 (Stage Two)

Dragon: 53632/100000 (Stage Two)

Asura: 53632/100000 (Stage Two)

Devour: 53632/100000 (Stage Two)

Rebirth/??? :1188/500000 (Stage Two)

“Ahh…!”

He looked back at Xavida, giving a grin. Her face watched him with a smile. Several monsters were heading their way because of the immense aura the two dragons dispersed. The taste of dragon flesh was a delicacy to monsters.

The next moment, a burning pain filled his body; it started with a small flicker or ember… Until the fire burst from his pores, covering his entire body with an eerie black flame of extreme heat that melted everything around him.

⁜ Rebirth Monolith has activated!

⟪Dark Phoenix Arts⟫

—Dark Phoenix Fire (Passive)

A fire hot enough to burn the lowest levels of hell, created through profane experiments with the world’s fire-breathing monsters because of its destructive and powerful nature. The flame absorbs and accepts all others, increasing its temperature and ferocity with each flame gained. Increases effective damage of breath-type attacks by 500%.

Another name for this flame is Void Fire.

‘My dragon fire… has been devoured…’

Asura could feel a strange sense of loss for a moment before he felt it return…

This strange dark phoenix flame completely devoured the dragon flame that had helped him so far. Yet once the effect settled, he could feel the dragon fire inside the black flames that melted the frog into nothingness.

Not only did he notice the loss of his flame, but for a moment, Xavida’s body seemed to tremble in terror when looking at him.

He looked into her eyes, feeling a sense of anger and pain that she would react that way, only for five monsters to lunge out of the bushes: two wolf types and three of a variant they didn’t see before.