Final Warning

Alistein let out an impatient sigh. "I'm way past this conversation, Blaze. I must do this and the root cause. This is my final warning…," he said coolly. "Get out of my sight or I'll execute you first."

He remained his stoic demeanor as his dragon's will manifested once again, the markings glowing green as it spread over his body. Eventually, his whole self was hidden under a veil of flaming green energy. Inside, he was not furious nor disappointed. He felt nothing. But that was what made him dangerous. His mind was set on one thing and one thing only: to kill his father. And he would do anything to accomplish this goal.

"If I were you, I wouldn't underestimate a genius martial artist, amateur." Blaze raised her arms and began hopping in place to loosen up. If Alistein thought she was going to back down just because, then he thought wrong.

"Be careful, Blaze," Azurion said with worry in his voice. "That man can already access the third stage, the Awakened Stage."

"Yeah, I know. This is not my first time facing a person who can access that much."

The lioness of the Ember Tribe stood strong and proud, crimson-red markings tattooed over half her body. In the center of her upper chest was the face of a lion. Specifically, the tattoo of the Infernal Tarrasque's lion-like face.

The strange sensation she felt from Alistein's power long before had now changed. The very same nature of the power she couldn't comprehend in her previous encounters was now clear and perceivable – the Draconic Energy.

After the system altered their body's functions, they became like dragons. The indecipherable secret of the dragon's power the human civilization couldn't figure out no matter how hard they tried was now fully revealed and explained in Blaze's mind, thanks to Azurion and the system.

The millions of microscopic pores in the skin of her body were now directly connected to her core – the dragon core in which all of natural energies and oxygen will go.

Blaze continued to bounce in place, guard up and eyes locked in on Alistein's stance as she circulated the energy inside her circuit. Based on Azurion's description, there were several processes within the Dragon Circuit.

The primary part consisted of three processes – Absorption, Fusion, and Discharge. All functioned for the flow of natural energy into the Dragon's Will user's Dragon Circuit.

The absorption process was to assimilate external energy into the body from the unperceivable but infinite supply of natural resources prowling around in every corner of the world. These natural resources are called natural energy. However, the amount of natural energy was not equal all throughout, for some places were dense, and others sat thin.

Blaze could feel the energy swirling around her like a soft breeze brushing against her skin, the only difference now being the fact that she could absorb them through the pores of her skin like how sea creatures absorb water through their gills. With this, the natural energy could now enter a human-dragon hybrid body using the system-arranged pores as the gateways.

After the natural energy entered her body, they would pass through several energy vessels called Dragon Paths that Blaze had only recently unlocked upon her unification with Azurion. Once the energy has gone through the Dragon Paths, the Dragon Points, the closest organs within the Dragon Circuit, were the first important checkpoints these energies would stop by.

Blaze inhaled once more to feel the flow of energy through her body and identified where these Dragon Points were located in her body. She was certain all of them were located exactly at each pressure point.

From the Dragon Points, the eight temporary Dragon Channels distributed in different sections of the Dragon Circuit would strictly dictate the flow of energy throughout the Dragon Circuit until all the energy reach their first main destination located in the abdomen: the Dragon Core, in which the Fusion process would take place.

The Dragon Core's job was to equal the ratio of air from the lungs to energy from the Dragon Circuit. The Dragon Core would then condense both elements until they reach the point where the elements are successfully integrated. Hence the birth of the more complicated element called Draconic Energy.

From the Dragon Core, the Discharge process will be initiated by the release of Draconic Energy towards the augmented physical heart in Blaze's new hybrid body.

The final part consisted of another round of Absorption, Fusion, and Discharge just as the primary part. While the primary part focused on getting the natural energy into the body, the final part was focused on the application of Draconic Energy to intensify the body's capabilities to be able to perform inhuman feats like those of Jarak's Blaze experienced in their battle.

The absorption process of the final part is when the augmented physical heart consumes the discharged Draconic Energy from the Dragon Core.

Because the air from the lungs traveled through the Dragon Circuit instead of going directly to the heart, the heart would recognize the new element, the Draconic Energy, as the replacement for its lost element, oxygen. The heart would then pump the Draconic Energy through the body with blood as the carrier, and transition to the Discharge process.

The blood would deliver the Draconic Energy to the muscles, giving rise to a more potent body. The Draconic Energy would break down the glucose in place of the oxygen and create more energy to feed the muscle cells along the way, and then release them through the body's gateway, the pores. Those released are responsible for developing the fearsome energy that surrounded the body: the Dragon Aura.

'Hey, are you sure I can use Hyper Surge to its full potential?' Blaze asked Azurion inside her head.

The image of Azurion's face flashed through her mind, proud and laughed. 'Keh! That measly human technique can only exhaust you now at best. I can guarantee that you will not die from any backlash with your current body.'

Blaze took the dragon's word for it. Without warning, her skin began to redden, veins bulging all over her body.

'Hyper Surge… I'm not surprised,' Alistein thought. 'I've already seen your father do the same. And I heard you gave Jarak a run for his money, eh? But even so, you still can't hold a candle to the third stage, Blaze.'

Blaze leveled her gaze on her target.

Breathe in.

Go.

Boom-!!

Shockwaves pushed everyone back. When they open their eyes again, Blaze had already sunk her fist deep inside Alistein's solar plexus, vanquishing the distance between them in the blink of an eye.