The Empress of HellFire. The Emperor of Ice Storms. Together as one, they will tear the world apart. Stranded in a kingdom with their paths intertwined, the fight to reclaim what was once lost will draw nothing but blood and fury.
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Venix Draywin...
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"Be in tune with everything around, Lucien. Focus on the trees and the mountains. The slight breeze in between and expel the energy forward. As an attuned siphon, your greatest asset is syncing your energy with the rest of the world around you."
Lucien closed his eyes tightly, feeling his fingers dig into the palm of his hands as he took a breath. He let his ears hear the hollow of the wind whip past the peak of the mountains and the top of the trees while his body felt the shivers of the world around him.
The sun, the wind, the voice everything and everyone around him. It suffocated and overwhelmed his senses, and he felt the power rush to his head, and shake through his body. Everything around him was spinning violently, ripping through his body and he could no longer keep his eyes open.
He opened his eyes to see the world around him just to see the violence he had caused. The slight breeze had become a torrent and the trees swayed violently, bending off their stem. The mountains shook, the snow-covered top forming an avalanche as they collapsed into a bottomless pit.
Celeste's laughter cut into the chaos, her hands raised in the air. "Good start but not quite! Your powers need to be more contained if you're going to be the leader someday!" she screamed over the chaos.
"Do you know how to stop this?" he asked, whipping his head around.
She nodded, folding her hands together and closing her eyes. Lucien watched as the ruges on her arm lit up in exaggerated colors, her eyes glowing iridescent. Her powers radiated off her body in hot rays, connecting with the world around her as her body synced with the world.
Just as it had begun, the wind died to the light breeze it once was. The trees stopped bending and the mountains stood still, the world around her in peace once again. "You make it look so easy" Lucien commented, earning a playful glare from Celeste.
"Only because I've been perfecting my powers for thousands of years" she reminded him, shaking her head. "Back then, everything was much simpler than now. If you can perfect your powers in this element, nothing can stop you, Lucien."
"But you've seen how much control I have over my powers," Lucien said, raising her brows.
Celeste chuckled again, tucking away the book in her lap. "Trust me, I see great success in your future. We just have to practice more" she said, cracking her knuckles. "Are you ready to try again?"
"Do I have a choice?" he asked.
She chuckled again, pushing back her dark hair. "That's the spirit" she teased, earning a suppressed smile from him. "Okay, I am going to scale you back. Bring you back to the basics of simple elements."
Lucien watched as she rolled back her sleeves, revealing tattoos on her left arm and Ruges on her right. She closed her eyes, chanting spells in an ancient tongue. Her face contracted, black veins creeping up the curve of her jaw and down her forehead. In her hand, a single flame erupted gently free-floating from her hand.
