Reincarnated with a lucky draw system

Chapter 532 532: POSSESSION

"This is good enough," Aaron said, his voice echoing with quiet authority.

He waved a hand, and a magnificent throne of living flames erupted beneath him.

Crimson and black fire twisted together, pulsing like a heartbeat, waves of heat rippling outward while cool shadows danced along the edges.

He settled onto it with effortless grace, eyes locked on the young girl standing before him.

"Now tell me," he continued, leaning forward slightly.

"Why were they after you?"

Shen Lingxue stayed silent for a long moment, her fingers twisting nervously at her sides.

Fear flickered across her innocent face as she wrestled with whether to speak.

Eventually, she drew in a shaky breath and steeled herself, deciding the truth was her only option.

"I was captured as a slave," she whispered, voice trembling.

"A lot of us… we were meant to feed a particular being."

Her eyes grew distant, haunted by memories she couldn't escape.

She could still hear the screams of each girl dragged away into the darkness.

The agonizing silence that followed when none of them ever returned still chilled her to the bone.

"Hmm. So you guys were food to it, huh?" Aaron replied, tone calm but curious.

"Next question. How did you escape?"

"I… I don't know," she answered honestly, staring up at him with wide, guileless eyes.

Pure innocence shone through every word.

"Hmm. You really don't know?" he pressed gently.

"No." She shook her head.

"It was my turn to be offered. Out of pure terror, I blanked out completely. When I finally woke up… the ground was covered in corpses of soldiers. I ran. That's all I remember."

"Hmm. That's truly all?" Aaron asked, tilting his head.

"Yes." She nodded firmly.

"Then, to force her out," Aaron said, his voice dropping to a dangerous calm, "I will have to take your life."

In the very next heartbeat, his aura exploded outward like a supernova.

Every ounce of his Nightflame essence surged together, shadow and inferno fused into one unstoppable force.

A single streak of eternal night flames, blacker than void yet burning with cold, devouring heat, shot straight toward Shen Lingxue.

The girl stared in frozen shock, unable to move, unable to breathe.

Terror clamped around her heart like iron claws as death rushed toward her.

She squeezed her eyes shut, resigning herself completely to whatever came next.

Aaron watched with open amusement, a faint smile playing on his lips.

Until the flames reached her.

"Oh?" His smile widened, genuine surprise flashing in his cosmic eyes.

The young girl, who shouldn't even possess power close to S-rank had not only survived an attack near the Paradox level… she had seized control of it.

The black flames twisted around her body like obedient serpents, flickering at her command instead of consuming her.

"You!" A more mature, sweet, and dangerously feminine voice rang out from her lips.

Boom!

The entire training hall shuddered violently.

Stone walls cracked and crumbled in an instant as the young girl launched herself forward.

She spun mid-air with terrifying force, delivering a powerful kick straight at Aaron.

He blocked it just in time, but the shockwave alone shattered the reinforced hall Aaron himself had created.

Debris rained down in a deafening roar.

The impact flung him backward like a ragdoll.

He tore through the floor, crashing deeper and deeper until he had driven over a hundred meters into the earth below.

"Well, wasn't that quite dangerous?" Aaron called out, voice laced with excitement.

He rose smoothly from the massive crater, dust and shattered stone cascading off his clothes as he floated upward.

The young girl hovered above him now, staring down with cold, piercing eyes.

"Who are you?" Aaron asked, curiosity sharpening his tone.

No reply came.

Instead, she struck again, faster this time.

But Aaron was ready.

He deflected the blow with casual precision, the clash sending sparks of nightfire flying.

"I won't ask you again," he warned, voice turning ice-cold.

With a single thought, he seized control of time itself.

The entire area froze instantly, dust suspended mid-air, falling rubble halted in place, even the wind silenced.

Everything and everyone became perfectly still.

"You have got to be kidding me," Aaron muttered, a delighted grin spreading across his face.

Shen Lingxue remained completely unaffected.

She moved freely through the frozen time, untouched by its grasp.

Then she did something even stranger.

She opened her mouth and inhaled.

It wasn't just air she pulled in.

Every element, every trace of qi, every concept drifting in the atmosphere rushed toward her in a violent vortex.

Color itself drained from the world around them.

The vibrant training hall faded into a stark monochrome of black and white.

Not a single spark of energy remained, only emptiness and silence.

"Dope," Aaron said, genuinely impressed, his smile turning predatory.

"But I don't really rely on the essence of the surroundings."

He shot forward in a blur of motion, closing the distance in an instant.

Dark flames mixed with raw terra energy coiled powerfully around his hand, crackling with destructive force as he prepared to strike her down.

But contrary to Aaron's expectations, the moment the dark flames and raw terra essence coiled tightly around his fist, they simply… died.

The power snuffed out like a candle pinched between invisible fingers.

It flickered weakly once, twice, then drifted harmlessly toward Shen Lingxue, absorbed into her monochrome aura without a trace of resistance.

"Now this is troublesome," Aaron said, a slow, crooked smile spreading across his face.

He was starting to realize this might not be the quick, one-sided thrashing he'd anticipated.

The girl, or whatever she truly was, had already turned the battlefield into her personal domain.

"Not like I'm cooked, though," he muttered under his breath, rolling his shoulders.

His chaos physique still thrummed defiantly, shrugging off the colorless, qi-dead world around him.

His Nameless soul burned steady and untouched, refusing to bow to the suffocating emptiness.

The monochrome haze pressed in from every direction, but it couldn't quite reach his core.