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The things that followed were truly a sight to behold.

Holding nothing back, Fay, cloaked in nothing but her aura, slashed away with her flames at the already dying beast, corrupting the space whenever she wanted to cut.

In a sense, her flames never came into contact with the beast itself, only ever corroding reality and splitting it in the path her targets would take.

This thought…

I couldn't tell for sure whether this observation of mine influenced Fay inside of her trail or if we simply got the same idea at the same time, Fay flared up her dignifying aura, making it seem as if white, see-through flames became loose, upturned coat, cloaking her from her ankles to her neck.

And with the very next moment, the intensity of Fay's burning aura diminished, with all of the raging power condensing at the tip of her elegant finger with which she touched the leftovers of the heretic beast's main body.

WHOOSH!

What followed ended up burdening my mind quite a lot.

The instant Fay's incandescent flames descended upon the fragments of the illusory beast, the entire thing simply whisked away like a blown flame, leaving no physical trace behind… For it turned all of the illusory beast's body into energy.

Into an aura already etched with Fay's intent and thus perfectly fine for my dearest to absorb.

The space of Fay's trail started to twist and turn…

Only for a new, even bigger monster to come out. This time, it was a three-headed hydra, with each of its long, dragon-like necks as long as the entire first beast was big.

This time, the beast didn't bother sizing its opponent up. Instead, two of its heads reeled back to gather breath, while its middle head shot right for Fay's flame-adorned body.

But Fay was no longer the small pup, cowering in fear at the sight of a massive, abnormal predator.

Now, Fay's eyes burned with greed and hunger.

'Her appetite grows the more she eats, I guess?' I noticed, only to watch Fay invoke her flames once again…Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Only to jump forth onto the tear of space she created, riding its edge to appear above the enormous hydra in a single move. There, rather than condensing her flames into thin forms capable of tearing through space…

Fay created a massive yet thin dome of her flames and then simply cast it down.

The hydra was massive, with each of its necks as long as three, or four school buses stacked one after the other. And that was its necks alone, with one of its heads still trying to rush for Fay to swallow her, while the other two heads just came back to blow fire and poisonous, green cloud at the place Fay was at just before.

And with the flames striking the poison mid-air, the two breaths combined, turning Fay's former location into an inferno of corrosive flames.

If her half-naked form were to still be there, there would be nothing left of her.

But by now, Fay dropped down at the opposite end of the arena, watching how her net of flames fell upon the hydra…

Only to nearly instantly stretch towards the ground, pin the monster down, and then like a cheese grater, cut the whole thing into long candles of dead beastly matter that then turned away into even more aura.

The process then repeated with the third, fourth, and fifth beasts, each a whole order of magnitude more massive and dangerous than the last.

And upon Fay's fifth easy victory in a row, the intent of her actions finally translated into the instructions for the force that rearranged her inner flow.

Realizing I kind of stopped paying attention to the process, I distanced my perspective…

'Oh damn…'

If my aura weave was the epitome of using math and schematic design to bend the limits of physics, then Fay's new inner form was the perfection only the fractal foundations of nature itself could produce.

Just like bees built their hives with hexagons at a base, just like various particles always arranged their molecules in the very same way…

All of Fay's strings, streams, and flows arranged into an example of a shape with perfect, geometrical qualities.

And just like it was in my case, all of her flows gathered in a single point, turning her former system of four burning suns into one, bright spot brimming with untapped potential.

'She did it,' I thought, a sense of superior pride filling my soul and mixing with relief I felt when I saw Fay's complexity improve.

Wiping the sweat off her forehead, I confirmed that her increased temperature started to drop, just when her heartbeat started to normalize too. Find exclusive stories on empire

The entire subspace of the trail started to collapse. And with it, both my presence and Fay's avatar…

Yet, before everything could come to an end, Fay turned her head… and despite how there was no definite spot where my being concentrated, she somehow managed to look straight into the seat of my point of view.

Now that her trail was over, the flames of Fay's aura started to die down as she once again could control them… But in the process of doing so, the naked skin of her avatar came into view, reminding me of the endless depth of grace and elegance Fay's fairy-like form embodied.

Fay looked right into me… and then, her sharp expression melted down into a simple, straightforwardly happy smile.

The subspace of Fay's trail collapsed, allowing her to finally wake up from her prolonged dream.

Yet, the moment she did so, the barrier that kept her from our bond shattered too, opening me up to the influence of Fay's rebirth.

'Well then, it's my turn I guess,' I thought, prepared to face whatever it was that was coming…

Jumping up from the mossy floor, Fay reached out and grabbed my shoulders, most likely coming to the same realization that I just did…

But after a few moments of staring each other in the eyes… nothing really happened.

'Wait, could it be…'

Thinking about it, I only had a single core already. This single focus point for all of one's aura was what changed in Fay's aura weave when she was reborn as a supreme.

"I think I've somehow reached it while you were overcoming your trial," I admitted…

Only to see Fay's face break down as an immense wave of relief washed over her.

"So you will be alright?" Fay asked, tearfully raising her hand to my cheek and giving it a gentle caress.

"It looks like I will," I smiled back at her… only to push her right back down onto the moist moss of our floor.

Thinking about it now, the fairy-like elegance she had back during the trial… it was just a reflection of the form she presented me with when she first revealed this love nest to my eyes.

And right now, Fay successfully reached the rank of the supreme, taking a step towards a perfected version of herself.

Looking down, I caught Fay's curious glance.

She could feel the turmoil in my soul as I rose up on all fours above her and took a long look down.

'She's… just like back then…'

Fay's hot body awaited right below me, cradled on a comfortable, relaxing backdrop of the aura-born nature.

Our whole apartment turned into a nest for two beasts that we were at our cores.

And right there, within the reach of my hands, Fay's heavy breaths struck me in the chest while she looked up at me with those huge eyes of hers that were so intensely blue, they were starting to turn white to match the color of her hair and her incandescent flames.

And just like those flames of hers… I could tell just how hot she was right now.

A heat she would most definitely be happy to share.