Devouring Monarch: Rebirth of the Profane Phoenix

Chapter 140: In The Time We Have Left - See Me For Who I am

A resounding clash of steel sounded in the training room of the Fenix mansion; Mu Xue's beautiful, thin sword clashed with Asura's lance for the hundredth time today, a flash of blue magic fluttering as she created small patches of ice to glide across the floor.

Otherwise, she couldn't match his physical speed. Mu Xue knew that Asura's speed exceeded hers, but how quickly he caught up to her shocked her, and now regretted holding back her breakthrough.

She didn't expect to be suppressed so badly now and wondered: when had Asura gained such control over his aura, body, and magic? How did he close the gap so fast?

"Don't lose focus!" Asura lectured Mu Xue with a strong lance strike that nearly pierced her heart, the force of the black flames flickering from the blade causing her ice to melt.

'Eh!?'

With the flick of her wrist, a wall of ice contained the lance and flames for, but a moment, as she realised, she might have taken that blow if he didn't speak.

Sweat dripped down her delicate forehead as Mu Xue rushed out of his attack line, changing her breathing technique to a rapid flow as if to recover from the aching pain in her stomach.

The rush of his anima nearly suffocated her with sheer power as it devoured her aura.

"Haa... Lord Asura..."

'When did you become so wonderful? Not the boy I knew?' Mu Xue bit her pink lips, changing her weapon from a thin sword using her empowered devil ice into a broadsword shape. 'Help me, Hyouka.'

She strengthened her anima as the light particles reacted, a beautiful storm of blue ice dancing around her body as she naturally entered her half-devil form, the beautiful blue horns, her pale blue skin, and her devilishly sexy body making her clothes almost too tight.

'Let me enjoy this feeling more, Asura. The boy crying in the rain, unable to use magic, who nursed me to health, stole my heart.'

Mu Xue lifted her broadsword, holding it one-handed as the sharp ice vibrated with a resounding roar.

"Let me savour it a moment longer."

Asura held his lance up as Mu Xue suddenly sped up, a boom of blue ice shattering under her feet as she danced towards him like a blue oni.

Cracks reverberated in his ears as Asura changed stances, strengthening his aura as a smile crept on his handsome face, understanding Mu Xue's situation.

"Finally, taking me seriously... I am so happy. Mu Xue!"

She knew he loved her, but the way he spoke, it wasn't the women he loved he wished to accept him, but the Knight and former eastern princess Mu Xue he was fighting.

'Ah... How stupid of me. You wish to embrace all of me, including these elements.'

Mu Xue moved quicker, her blue sword and the lance, who deflected it, creating shockwaves across the hall. 'Let me accept you. Even if you've changed, even if you become something else. I will accept it all.'

A black hand reached out as their blades clashed, Asura's Liberacíon taking a form she had never seen before as his entire body became covered in black scales with red patterns and thick horns wrapped in molten anima.

She marvelled as his wings, armour, and aura released a devil-like force and even more! Asura grinned with a brilliant smile of love that shone brighter than any sun.

"Then Mu Xue..."

"... Ah, Asura Fenix!"

Sharp black ice covered her left hand, forming deadly claws that clashed with his right, forcing his extended hand to recoil as hundreds of small ice shards formed behind her; his body glowed with black fire.

The burning desire they never expressed, maybe worried about rejection, they had accepted each other only superficially, creating this embrace of devils that no person had experienced as Asura wrapped his powerful black scales, large wings, armour, anima, and arms that were turning black with billowing flames.

"I wanted to fight you as an equal for so long, Xue'er! Don't hold back!" Asura's lips opened, revealing his sharp teeth; as they curled, they formed a distorted but beaming smile.

'How long did he dream of this?' She wondered as the large black and blue wings above their heads shot off anima, igniting the room with sparks as Mu Xue resisted his fearsome, overbearing aura with her beautiful half-devil form, a feeling of excitement and arousal constantly mixing and alternating.

Her sharp black ice clashed with his brutal fist while his tail blocked her left knee, aiming to crush his ribs.

A constant dance of violence mixed with euphoria; Mu Xue could feel his heat inching closer to her supple, ice-like skin, even a tickle of anima enough to make her blush as the passion erupted and turned to fire!

'I regret treating you as weak for so long.'

Mu Xue only realised that she treated Asura like a precious treasure and always tried to stop him from fighting, and even now, she still couldn't stop treating him as so, as she watched a beast awakening within his strong, fiery, scaled hands.

Realising that Asura no longer needed her to be his protector or guardian, he suddenly became a fine warrior and fully grown adult.

'Ah! I want to sleep with you!' Mu Xue finally admitted before an icy storm, mixed with black flames and Asura's incredible anima, ripped open the windows, making them realise how long this battle lasted. 'He won't judge me, and he accepts everything about me. So can I accept everything about him!?!'

Mu Xue felt pure sexual attraction, love, admiration, and deep respect for him. He no longer needed her to hold his hand, but to hold his heart with her devil's instincts and eyes, finally realising how much Asura loved her.

'I feared he would no longer need me the stronger he became, but I was wrong... Now I can fight beside him, not in front of him, together!'

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"Xue'er, let's finish this."

"Yes, my beloved husband."

Her eyes closed, holding Hyoka above her head, gathering all the magic she could, a feeling of shallow pain as she wrenched it from her organs and core, like squeezing a bottle of nearly empty sauce.

Asura repeated the same.

His long lance pulled back as he squatted down, forming a sharp tip of black fire at the end of his sword lance. A roaring cyclone, mixed with fire, anima, and vibrating ripples, pulled all the anima nearby to the lance's tip as he added the elements within his domain.

Fire, Earth, Wind, Ice, and Darkness all fused, swirling into the black flames as if that fire kept them obedient.

"Asura's amazing..."

"Xue'er, this is everything I have! The limit of my power that doesn't endanger myself!"

Asura's cyclone pierced forward like an explosion of black and multiple colours, forming a twirling vortex of magic and elements as Mu Xue jumped. She shot herself forward using her wings, lowering her posture as the icy blade shone with a beautiful light reflecting the sky outside.

Their combined elements formed a devil storm of magic, pushing walls and debris aside as a shockwave echoed within the hall.

A beautiful collision of magic and love.

Mu Xue pushed Hyoka forward in a vertical slash; Asura twisted his lance, and magic clashed with magic as a massive impact caused the mansion to shake, the intense clash ending in a bright, blinding light and a loud boom.

Mu Xue nearly fell over until the heat, warmth, and scent of a gentle love tickled her cheek. His black armour and wings fell apart, with Asura smiling as his handsome, relaxed face cradled her light fall.

'No... I still have my other!'

With one last attack, her left hand grasped an identical sword to Hyoka, but encased in black flames, her body in the arms of Asura as it sliced his cheek, sparks flickering as his beautiful raven scales deflected the second sword strike.

Their faces, inches apart from each other and breathing the same air, his blood dripped onto her cheeks. Mu Xue regained control. She slowly realised Asura never fell to one knee or passed out like most magic knights from pushing their magic too much.

He held her tightly in his arms with a warm smile as the flames of her second strike died out.

Asura softly kissed her cheeks. Mu Xue yielded to him; they no longer needed to test their swords.

A beautiful blue horn, the only one that broke on her beautiful body, had already begun restoring as his lips sealed the small blood that fell from her snowy skin, tickling her cheek. Mu Xue fell into Asura's gentle arms with a cute smile; he rested his nose on the crown of her head, cradling his second love in his warm embrace.

"Was that to your satisfaction, Xue'er?"

"It was. I treated you like the master without a core for so long." Mu Xue suddenly frowned with tears in her eyes. "I'm sorry!"

Asura shook his head as he watched her with round dragon-like eyes, his chin resting on her head while a calm silence descended.

"So, am I finally an equal in your eyes? Will you serve me as your lord and husband?"

Mu Xue snuggled up close in Asura's arms, nearly laughing as he waited so long to ask that. Her cool devil skin and her natural fragrance made it difficult for him to resist kissing her as Asura smiled patiently.

"Ah, I admit defeat as your knight."

Mu Xue tried to escape his warm, scaled, protective arms, only able to escape so far before the stubborn young devil wrapped his hand around her waist, bringing her slender hips next to him as Asura frowned.

"But ONLY that!"

Her lovely face glowed with a beautiful smile as her eyes shone with a vibrance. Mu Xue no longer wanted to protect him but to smile beside him, standing shoulder to shoulder and equal with him.

"I won't lose next time, husband."

"Don't hold back!"

They shook on it like real knights and lords as a fiery passion returned, Asura taking her soft devil lips with a greedy tongue.

"Ah~ Asura, we can't! Mother-in-law asked me to help with dinner tonight."

"Tsk... Well, I will train with Lucretia or Xavida while I wait."

With a loud smack, Asura caressed Mu Xue's rump before patting her away. She looked at him with narrow eyes, warning him before she skipped away, practically humming to herself.

'Hehe, I feel so relaxed even though my magic is empty~ was life always this fun?'

With only six days before he departed for Drakkur, Asura could finally remove a hidden obstacle in his heart as he planned to train with each of his women and father daily before they left.