​"Everything that I am is a gift as well as a curse."

Rumors about an infamous Mage-sprout - Azalea "The Bewitched"- had been circling around the Hunter's Council. Such rumors tend to attract the attention of various organizations. It's easy to tell with the uncanny similarities the men enquiring often possess. These malicious gossips had produced troublesome situations for Azalea's demon hunting job. Most hunters are afraid to team-up with her and some people are reluctant to make a hunting request with her involved.

During her solo hunt in Dimatagpuan Region, four students from the renowned school, AB Academy, appeared before her with an odd offer. This academy's Headmaster had grown a sudden interest in her skills as a Mage and he wants her to enroll as one of his scholars. It is the most unexpected offer which might as well bring the greatest change in her current lifestyle. Is she prepared to leave behind her normal daily life of hunting and fighting, to turn it around into an unusual daily life of socializing and schooling? How will she respond to her new environment as she learns more about who she really is?

Defiant

“Elen is transforming,” that is the only thought that Azalea have in mind as she witnesses that weird event uncover in front of her. 


Elen's body gradually becomes more muscular, her hands grew claws as her fangs became more distinguished. Her blue body fit clothes stretches as her body grows and transforms. Cracking sounds resounds as if bones are forcefully breaking. Soon enough the black liquid, that covered her body is turning into a metallic-like armor protecting her vital parts. It looks as though it is tracing the curves of her body. The shadow-like spell envelopes her head then two horns spawn from her temples, growing forward up. At her back, wings attempted to form, though it only appeared as fleshless bones. 


Counter 22: At the End of an Eroding Cliff I