The Vampire King's Pet-Chapter 362: Green Fire

But barely had Zyren succeeded in distancing the massive beast from them when the second one attacked.

Liora’s sister.

She struck without hesitation, without warning—her attention fixed squarely on Aira. Not Zyren. Aira.

She saw her immediately as the weakness.

This time, she went all out, almost as if she had been waiting for the exact moment Zyren would lower his guard even slightly.

Long, razor-sharp arrows formed from blood shot through the air, whistling with lethal intent as she lunged forward at the same time. Her body surged unnaturally fast, mouth open, claws extended—aimed directly at Aira’s throat.

She’s going to kill me.

Zyren moved instantly.

He tore some of his shadows away from the Zygon beasts he had frozen, redirecting them in a violent rush to seize Liora’s sister mid-air. The shadows wrapped tightly around her, snapping her back into place and freezing her just long enough.

Long enough for him to turn.

His gaze snapped back toward the massive leader beast just as it returned.

It came flying back with a deafening whoosh, fury etched clearly across its face. Its expression was twisted, enraged—far more pissed off than before. It didn’t even bother landing in front of Zyren. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

Instead, it opened its mouth wide.

Flames poured out in a violent torrent.

Aira gasped, stumbling backward as heat scorched the air around her. Fire rushed toward them in a roaring wave, forcing her to move quickly to avoid it.

Zyren, on the other hand, didn’t retreat.

He realized in that instant that he could no longer afford to take things lightly.

He vanished.

Phasing back and forth through the space around the beast in blinding bursts of movement, a blade formed in his hand as if summoned by will alone. He struck again and again, cutting deep into the leader’s body—each slash precise, vicious, and deliberate.

It was almost as if he was trying to carve the beast into smaller pieces.

Liora’s monstrous form continued to cry and wail behind him.

"Aira... sister... help me!"

The sound clawed at Aira’s chest.

But even though her emotions churned violently, she wasn’t stupid.

Her sister had tried to kill her.

Twice.

If she allowed it to happen again, then she might as well have lost all sense of self-preservation entirely.

It took a while, but it soon became clear that Zyren was going to kill the leader beast.

That was when everything suddenly got worse.

Zyren jerked his head sharply to the side, a deep frown forming on his face.

He still held Liora’s liquid body bound as tightly as he could, shadows coiling and constricting her form—but it was obvious now. Blood tendrils were spreading outward, killing Zygon beasts indiscriminately even as she dragged their bodies back into herself.

The speed of it was terrifying.

In mere moments, she had doubled in size.

And she was clearly growing stronger.

Aira noticed it too.

The Zygon leader he fought continued its assault, spewing fire everywhere it could. Flames rained across the battlefield, igniting buildings and streets alike. Houses and shops that had once belonged to ordinary citizens burned violently, collapsing into blazing ruins.

The air smelled of smoke, blood, and ash.

Aira had been calm before.

But now, she could no longer afford to stand passively.

Her sister had been influenced—yes. But in that moment, she was also a monster actively trying to kill her.

Zyren moved faster and swifter than before, channeling even more shadows toward Liora’s body, which was dangerously close to dissolving into nothing but liquid.

Aira began to move too.

She kept her distance instinctively, realizing that whatever those blood tendrils were, getting close would mean death. She maneuvered carefully, avoiding the spreading carnage even as the number of beasts continued to increase.

The lords and guards had already arrived, fighting desperately to thin the Zygons’ numbers. They were doing their best—but it was painfully obvious that they were barely making a dent.

Aira found a weapon.

It wasn’t much, but it was something.

Even then, it barely helped. Each Zygon beast was monstrously strong, far more resilient than she had anticipated. Worse still, the beast Zyren was fighting was riddled with wounds—holes torn clean through it—yet it healed faster than it was being injured.

Then Zyren’s voice boomed across the battlefield, powerful enough for everyone to hear.

"Get me green fire!"

The command sent a sharp spike of fear through Aira’s chest.

Green fire...

That kind of flame was almost impossible to extinguish.

She wanted to call out to him—to ask if he was sure—but one glance told her he had no space to listen. The battle demanded everything from him.

So Aira turned instead toward the Zygons that had been frozen earlier, forcing herself to fight. Each one she killed freed more of Zyren’s shadows, allowing him to reclaim strength he had expended holding them still.

Still, the thought of green fire gnawed at her as she watched guards rush past the frozen beasts and straight into the heat of battle.

One of them tossed a sealed bottle toward Zyren without hesitation.

Without fear.

Zyren caught it effortlessly.

The largest Zygon beast saw the exchange and immediately backed away.

Its true mission had never been to fight Zyren.

It had come to devour Liora.

To swallow her body whole and claim her power—power her own form could not properly process, which was why she was turning into something more beast than human.

Its body, however, would have no such problem.

It had prepared for Zyren’s presence.

But nothing—nothing—had mentioned green fire.

The moment Zyren hurled the bottle, it shattered among the beasts, and green flames erupted instantly. Zygons screamed as the fire consumed them, flesh and bone burning relentlessly.

Liora’s sister moved at once.

No longer pretending she was limited, she shot outward violently, blood tendrils striking every Zygon within reach. Zyren was done with the leader beast now—it howled in agony, engulfed in green flames.

The tendrils didn’t stop.

They extended farther—dangerously close to Aira.

She saw the intention before they reached her.

Zyren saw it too.

In the very next moment, he flung the remainder of the green fire directly at Liora’s nearly dissolved body.

Green flames latched onto her instantly.

She burned.

Her screams sounded human again—terrifyingly human—as she screamed at the top of her lungs, louder than anything before.

"Aira!!! Please—it hurts!!!! Help me!!!!"

Aira stood frozen, unable to move, unable to scream.

Green fire did not stop burning easily.

And water alone would never be enough.