Devouring Monarch: Rebirth of the Profane Phoenix

"Then keep Vela and yourself safe."

"This exam is no joke, and some monsters reach Stage Five, hidden in the depths of that vast forest... It is not a place we can go around acting like gods. Some viruses and diseases ignore your mana and magic defences..."

Asura took a deep breath before kissing her soft lips. The smooth, icy feel was something he would miss when she was gone...

"That's what the herbs and recipes I gave you are for."

She showed quite a jealous look, her dull eyes with swirling stars when he asked her to protect Vela.

Yet Asura was learning how to tame this wild horse. Kissing her neck and cheeks and nibbling on her cool skin instantly dissipated her jealousy.

"When you return, let's have lots of sex and visit my dad to make things official." He whispered while thinking about how beat up the princess seemed each day during practice due to him and this woman beating her.

However, the princess seemed to have gained more wounds because of his daily gruelling training with Mu Xue and Asura.

She could only fight for the assessment because Asura's Anima rapidly restored her wounded body from the inside out each time they fought, or rather, after fighting Asura.

Vela seemed injured, but that was because her body rapidly improving and tempering itself. Since he learned to make it more adaptive, he wanted to help his surrounding women as much as possible.

"Let's head out. The king and the academy like to make this a big thing..." Mu Xue tapped my nose, pointed to the sleeping Xavida, and pushed me back gently.

"You head together with Xavi. She is probably more nervous than me. The princess has arranged for me to stand beside her anyway, so I'll go first, okay?"

"Ugh... don't bully Vela, Xue'er." Asura was honestly worried and felt that if Mu Xue took things too seriously or fought too viciously, the Princess might die...

After all, they were both Stage Three Knights, but Mu Xue was a league ahead of the princess, who only entered that realm after repeatedly fighting with him and Mu Xue. Asura felt he needed to kill many beasts, beasts or humans during this task. Last time, there weren't many assassins who tried to kill him for being weak...

'But they existed. A rival Earl territory sent some. I imagine the prince and maybe others will send them this time.'

Asura intended to turn this event into a killing field. As long as he used his body, the recovery he could achieve with Xavida and his Liberacíon could quickly enhance his body to Stage Three and his monoliths to rank up, making his chances of staying alive greater.

'Hopefully, a month in another world of death and peril should increase my skills.'

"You are daydreaming again!" Mu Xue said with a smirk, tapping his cheek lightly, and pouting.

"If you can, try not to get in trouble. Look at Xavi. Her little face is so worried; please try not to cause a war..." Mu Xue snorted softly as she left the room, leaving me staring at her swaying ass.

Asura smiled a bit, seeing his Xavida crawling out of the bed and clinging to his arm tightly, looking sad and a little scared, "Bad guy... the assessment is dangerous... I..." Asura could tell she was thinking of the training from nine days ago... so he lifted her out of bed and held her tightly in his embrace, transferring as much Anima as possible to improve her mood.

"Hehe. Don't be afraid, little dragon. It won't be like last time; let's fight together when we enter. Full power, no matter how weak the enemy, okay?"

Xavida seemed half convinced as the pair walked towards the huge opening of the event with hundreds of people all screaming, shouting and full of excitement while it filled the second and third years' faces with terror.

The king was giving a speech to the school, Lorem standing beside him while giving Asura a wink as he held Xavida gently as they watched the gate open to a lush forest.

They called it the Green Wild, and over 20,000 students stood beside the princess, waiting to see the first 50 people through the portals and witness the excitement and chaos of killing...

The people who survived until the end would earn many treasures, gold coins, equipment, and magical items... But the risk was enormous.

Over 60% of students never returned, with the remaining 40% normally suffering mental scars from the event, from their partners dying or loved ones who were in different groups dying or falling for their partners... it was hell.

"Xavi... Let's have a bet to see who can become the strongest."

"Hmph... bad guy, you are so strong... I will fight so hard and beat you!"

'I will protect you so you can fight as you wish... little dragoness.'

Taking a deep breath, Asura watched as Vela and Mu Xue entered the Green Wild... his own heart racing as he remembered losing his right toe to a disgusting disease and rotting off...

'Damn, I hate this place.'

****

Unlike usual, Lucretia covered her body in black leather armour and high steel boots. She went around the teachers and nobles, making bets as usual, but only voted for one person. Asura Fenix.

"Come on~ you are only voting for one man. Is that a student you've seduced? Aha!" A male noble who looked at Lucretia with a sordid gaze complained, trying to reach for her wide hips, but he found she had broken his wrist in five points, and she only gave a wide smile.

"I did not seduce him... yet."

Lucretia winked with a sensual smile and flipped through the betting cards. After a month, her goal was to ride that large pole between his legs.

'I can tell the boy's feeling for the surrounding women is deeper than before. Since he has slept with two of them now... there is no reason he would reject and third virgin, right?'

She thought to herself as Lucretia, speaking to the male, became a mere clone that faded into shadows despite breaking his wrist so easily.

Since the day she felt an attraction to Asura, Lucretia no longer used her former way to cultivate her magic and core; instead, she now used Eight Clones to gather bets and make a list of her true body sitting in a dusty room filled with documents, drawings and text all written about Asura...

How to improve his physical combat skills, where he was lacking using the shadow skills... She had drawings of his body, completely nude with lines for his muscles, mana veins and movements, all as if she was writing a training method and booklet just for him...

It was a scene that made Mu Xue's obsession look like child's play...

'Ah... the boy's hair is a gorgeous shade of black.... like a raven, but it looks best when wet, all messy... after training...'

Lucretia enjoyed her fantasy, thinking of a bath in the night with him and how they would sweat, train, kiss and hug under the moonlight while they were naked, and her fingers, nails, and tongue caressed his chest while tasting his smooth skin...

"Lucretia... you are supposed to observe the assessment; why are you here?" As the students entered, her old friend's voice sounded, likely released from the king's protection.

"Asura is about to enter. Don't you want to watch him go... he looks so dignified today. It seems he popped the dragon girl's cherry... I can practically see the love-love aura oozing from them." Lorem teased.

"..." Lucretia was quiet as she finished the first chapter of the training manual... her eyes not leaving the page, or the naked image of Asura... even his cock was completely to scale in accuracy.

"Damn, you're one obsessive freak... asking me for his naked images was it for this?" Lorem seemed surprised to see her crazy friend so focused and obsessed.

"Shut up; he is entering." Lucretia felt her heart thumping, the original her, watching Asura take Xavida's hand, holding her gently and leading her through the portal before his face changed instantly. She watched from eight different angles, recording him on eight magic crystals...

"Bastards.... Mocking him... Should I just kill all the nobles now?" Lucretia's pitch-black eyes became eerie as she heard them insulting Asura because of his changes... calling him a filthy half-breed.

Although most of Silvaria had other races as nobles... the humans were now the most dominant and had the desire to wipe out non-humans and demote them to mere commoners... Their words made Lucretia angry.

"Calm down, Lucretia... wait and see his response; he can gain much from this event," Lorem spoke gently as she tapped her friend's shoulder... Seeing a fellow friend who never cared about humans and seemed emotionless since her parents died showed emotion and made her happy.

"Won't it be more fun to watch your lovely Asura grow and crush them himself?" Lorem added, to which the face of Lucretia changed, becoming brighter as if she had never thought of that.

"Lorem~ you are so smart! I have to finish this book... make a book that can suit his ever-evolving technique and movements..."