Chapter 195 - Dragon

The tinge of fear that bubbled up inside Azriel's heart after getting those blows from Adeline was enough to emit the aura of fear that was strong enough to wake the demonic power of Adeline.

Adeline's eyes suddenly turned blood red and she went into a state of trance. She spread her arms and closed her eyes. Then she began to filter the aura of fear and she slowly began to absorb it all. She was attracting the aura as though she was a living breathing magnet.

After she absorbed the strongest aura that she had ever absorbed before, she took a deep breath in and then let out a satisfied moan. Adeline felt a new kind of sensation all over her body. She felt as though a dormant side of her had suddenly awakened. She did not consciously realize what had just happened but she suddenly felt as though she could even take down Azriel if she tried.

Adeline opened her sapphire eyes that were full of newfound confidence and power, and she glared at Azriel.

Azriel was confused as to what just happened to Adeline. However, before he could make sense of what was going on, Adeline leaped the distance between them and threw a punch right at his face. He blocked the attack using his forearm but another punch came at him almost instantly. He blocked that and again he was attacked with a series of kicks from Adeline.

Their roles were reversed all of a sudden. Earlier, Azriel was throwing the barrage of attacks while Adeline was trying her best to block the attacks. And now, Adeline was the one to go for offensive while Azriel was going for defensive.

After a while of attacking and defending, a kick got through to Azriel's stomach. And for the first time, a human was able to send him skidding with their single kick.

Azriel's heart skipped a beat again due to fear. He gave a question glance at Adeline. She was behaving weirdly again, closing her eyes and spreading her arms as if she was… "As if she is absorbing some kind of aura," Azriel widened his eyes and muttered to himself.

He let Adeline do that weird thing that she was doing and he thought to himself, "She does that every time I get hurt. And both times I was hurt I felt… humiliated. I was afraid that I have been slacking off too much that even a human is able to hurt me."

"But she is not an ordinary human, is she? I am almost sure that she is feeding off of my fear. And no human can feed off of aura." His face beamed when an interesting thought entered his mind. "Has Theodore…" Azriel snapped his fingers, "Yes, that must be it. He gave some of his powers to her, didn't he?"

A mischievous smirk lingered on his face. "Oh, to think that the cold-hearted fool would actually be willing to share his connection with someone else, and that also with a human…" he chuckled to himself and whispered, "How interesting! This girl is more special than I initially thought."

Azriel flew and landed right in front of Adeline. Adeline shot open her eyes, which were still burning like hellfire. She was startled to see Azriel's face right in front of hers and she threw a punch at him instinctively.

But, Azriel caught her by her wrist and looked deep into her glowing red eyes. He could see the hunger in her eyes, the hunger for power, the hunger that could only be found in demons.

Adeline loosened her hand from Azriel's grip and once again she used her brute strength to push Azriel aside. She didn't just manage to push him but she also managed to topple him. And he could tell that her strength had grown far beyond what her human body was capable of handling.

"This is bad! It will be a problem if she keeps on sucking the aura at this rate. Her frail body won't be able to contain the demonic power if she absorbs my aura like this. I should make her release that excess power right now. Else she can get fatally harmed by her own power from within."

Azriel quickly lifted himself up in the air and his golden aura swirled around him. The aura engulfed him like a tornado.

Even Adeline could feel the immense pressure inside the arena. The tornado of aura was pushing her away and she had to forcefully hold her feet on the ground if she didn't want to get blown away. She watched the whole thing that was going on in the air very attentively because she didn't want to miss anything and be tricked by him again.

Slowly, the tornado of aura shimmered down and Adeline's jaw almost dropped to the floor. She could not believe what she was seeing. And she happened to exclaim out loud, "Oh my god! Why has he turned into a dragon? Don't tell me I have to fight him in that form!"

Azriel had transformed into a full-fledged dragon. His whole body was covered with shiny golden scales. His eyes still looked like blue stars but other than that, all of his features looked different. He had four legs with claws sharper than the tip of arrows. And he had a pair of massive wings that spanned almost a quarter of that arena.

Strangely though, rather than feeling terrified to see that massive dragon form of Azriel, Adeline was having an adrenalin rush because of excitement. She could feel this new energy flowing inside of her and she could not wait to test them. Who could be a better test subject than the Deity himself? There was almost zero chance of her accidentally hurting that dragon no matter how powerful she had become.

The dragon swooped down at her at great speed. He spread the claws of his front legs to pick Adeline up. Adeline clutched her fists and waited for him to get a little closer to her so that she could punch that dragon.

When Azriel's open claw was approaching her, Adeline ran towards that claw and used her full strength to hit him.

A loud blow was heard inside the arena. Adeline had tightly closed her eyes somewhat expecting to get her hand fractured. But to her surprise, she did not feel any pain at all.

She opened one of her eyes and saw that Azriel was swaying his foot as if her blow just hurt him. Adeline then kept on staring at that huge foot up close because she felt as though the Deity was just teasing her.. But before she could figure out if he was acting or not, Azriel flicked his claw and threw her towards the wall.