Chapter 134 - My Dragon Wife is Overprotective

  I updated Cyl ohing that had happeo me in the Royal Capital, and we chatted for a while. She mentiohat someone had brought her food that week, but as usual, the person had run away in fear.

  “I told you not to scare them. Are you sure you're not doing it on purpose?” I asked.

  “I’m not,” she replied indifferently. “It’s their fault for being scared. I even tried saying a few words, but all they heard were growls and roars... Not that I care to talk to anyone, but I was curious if someone else could hear me besides you.”

  Cyl was still adapting to her new form, which shifted between the characteristics of her progenitors, and she ractig her abilities in that state.

  “So, is this beast form from the Aspect of Body going to be your perma form? You've been in it for a while now, and you just keep growing,” I ented, eyeing the t red dragon before me.

  Cyl hoenix, but her beast form had bee this massive red dragon.

  “It seems like it,” she responded. “But I might evolve a bit more in this form, and it could ge. I ’t fuse the traits of the progenitors anymore from here. It looks like there’s really that barrier of Iance my adult versioioo you. That same barrier also blocks the use of other Celestial Aspects... if I even have them,” Cyl mused, refleg on her limitations.

  Over the st four years of training, Cyl had also been honing her skills with the Celestial Eyes. She retained fragments of knowledge stored in her mind. Not every member of her race possessed all six Celestial Aspects, and even those who did rarely had equal power in each Aspect. What she knew for sure was that the only power every phoenix had from the Celestial Eyes was the Aspect of Body; the other Aspects were reserved for the most gifted. Among the phoehat had more than one Aspect, few had more than two, and those individuals were sidered extremely powerful and special.

  I, oher hand, possessed the Celestial Eyes with all six Aspects, in addition to hiddes and powers that the eyes cealed, guarded by an immense creature residing withihis monster rarely stirred; most of the time, it slumbered in the shadows of my mind.

  The creature was a massive serpent. Its face resembled that of a dragon, but unlike dragons, it had no wings. Still, its presence was as formidable as any winged dragon. Its size was beyond anything I could prehend. From the few glimpses I had, it always seemed close, but iy, its colossal size created that illusion. It was much farther away than it appeared, its serpentine body stretg across an unimaginable expanse. Cyl’s current massive size didn’t even pare to the length of one of this creature’s teeth.

  “Have you been practig these days?” she asked.

  I shook my head.

  “I couldn’t risk making my mana even more uable before the exam. But I did use the eyes for a brief moment... For now, the only side effect is losing trol over my elements when trying to bihem. Other than that, I’m fine.”

  “That’s good. I’d hate to see you defenseless.”

  “o worry, no one would dare harm me.”

  I was still struggling with the side effects of using both pairs of eyes. I had two sets of eyes that I was still learning to trol, and the biggest challenge was activating both at the same time. When I did, my mana became chaotid I hadn’t mastered the teique yet.

  Cyl stretched and stood, watg me with .

  “People are greedy. You’re already in danger just for having your Special Eyes, which makes you a target. If they find out your eyes surpass everyone else’s... I ’t even imagine what they’d do to you.”

  I patted her tough scales, trying to reassure her.

  "Don't worry about that, Cyl. No one would dare harm me. Adrihna also has a special eye, and nothing happeo her. Maybe if they found out about my eyes, they'd just try to buy me off or something, but nothing more. Humans are greedy, sure, but they still follow the ws and are civilized,"

  I said, trying to sound fident.

  But Adrihna is from another kingdom... I’m not sure what the human royal family would do if they discovered my eyes. Better to keep quiet about that with her.

  Cyl stared at me with her glowing eyes and replied bitterly.

  "For the sake of the humans, they'd better not try anything," she said, her tone sharp.

  Here we go again with that promise...

  "What did I tell you about this? No more saying you'll do those things. I don't want you being violent towards people," I replied, trying to calm her down.

  "Then they just shouldn't do anything. Because if anything ever happens to you, I'll kill everyone and burn this world to ashes until all life is extinct."

  I scratched my head, a bit worried about her iy.

  "And my family?"

  "There would be no reason for this world to tiing without you," she replied, lying down again, pletely indifferent.

  I sighed and muttered, "I’ll ge your way of thinking one day..."

  I've had the same thought in another life.

  I sat back dowo the phoenix—or the dragon, as I wasn’t sure anymore—trying to sole her by saying I was fine. I still didn’t fully uand what she was. What I learned was that her phoenix form was her juveage until she finished processing her progenitors' traits and unleashed her bestial form. Cyl was nearing the end of that process, turning into a dragon, but there was a barrier preventing her full evolution. A part of me was worried about what she would finally bee—she was already terrifying enough as a dragon.

  She's a bit like Kinue in that sense. If her race is phoenix, would that make her equivalent to a demi-human? Cyl has her bestial form and was born as a bird, while Sisika was in her human version. Just like Kinue, who was born as a small fox, then became human, grew, and unlocked her bestial form.

  Cyl's species doesn't seem to belong to the normal society of this world. She definitely es from a pce even the people here know nothing about.

  Over the past few years, Cyl and I have tried to figure out where she came from. I searched through many a books, but none offered any clues about her race. There was only one possible answer.

  The ented metal used te the Cursed Bde, the ented relics scattered throughout this world—no one knows where these relics came from or who made certain strus. Everything points to the a civilization. At least, that’s where I believe we might find a clue.

  "I think I’ll get used to this size soon. I've grown a bit, and soon, I’ll revert bay phoenix form ohe effects of this bestial form wear off."

  Over the st two years, she sometimes had long periods of transformation where she preferred to isote herself in this ir due to her unstable size. In the past, she evolved from a phoenix te, fged phoenix that occupied my bed, but now her new size prevents her from staying in the castle when she loses trol of the Aspect of the Body and shifts into her bestial form.

  "This phase is passing, and I’ll regain trol of the Aspect of the Body again, and then I return to the castle. I want to be with you at the academy too," she said.

  "We’ve already talked about this… It’s better for you to stay here in Evenhart territory. My aunt even said you could roam the forbidden forests. There’s no ohere, and you could be free."

  Cyl stood up, irritated.

  "No! I want to go with you."

  I sighed.

  "If you say so, I won't start anument."

  "And what about your Aspect of the Body?" she asked me.

  "It still works the same, but I’ve mao improve a bit. Too bad I ’t turn into something like you."

  He looked at me, smiling.

  "Why? Do you want to bee a creature to get more romantically close to me?" she asked, bringing her rge face closer and rubbing her head against mine.

  "That’s not what I meant..." I said, embarrassed.

  She chuckled.

  "You don’t have the genes of the progenitors, so you 't use the Aspect of the Body to bee a creature. But even so, what you’ve achieved makes you something special."

  "Does your theory say that my Aspect of the Body works like the others? Or maybe it’s an exclusive ability?"

  Cyl seemed to think for a moment.

  "I don’t have the memories of what the previous wielder of your eyes did, but from what I know, the Aspect awaken different abilities in the user. Someoh the Aspect of Space won’t always have the same ability as another user of the Aspect of Space. The problem is that your eyes are the pinnay species. Normally, the Aspect of the Body just allows us to trol our physical forms, but maybe your eyes give that ability you gained... or it’s the World Destroyer’s soul sleeping within you."

  I began to ponder. I had spent time trying to uhe secret of my Celestial Eyes, but the guardian remained asleep in the darkness, showing no iion of waking up. Unlike my Special Eyes, which I awakened with knowledge, with these eyes, everything was trial and error for me.

  "The little we know doesn’t apply to your eyes. My Celestial Eyes are a geiheritance from my aors that I awakened, but you carry what remains of one of their souls. Your powers will be different from mine... and possibly even more powerful."

  We spent some time talking while I practiced the Celestial Aspects. This was the only pce where I could do so without the risk of being interrupted.

  After all, only my mother, Aunt Margie, and Chloe usually entered here. Kinue had left to live with Adrihna two years ago. She was studying in Apsalon, and even during the holidays, she didn’t return, as she was undergoing her magical training as the professor’s apprentice, along with her bestial form training. Kinue never got to see the ges in Cyl.

  I have the advantage of being able to master all six Celestial Aspects, but it’s not easy. Out of all of them, I’ve only mao use the Aspect of the Body better, and even then, with limitations.