Otaku Witch
Chapter 880 - 880: 557. Unleashing the Beast Nature_2

She wanted to eat, to enjoy delicious food, but she had no appetite.

She even just wanted to get a good night's sleep, but damn it, she suffered from severe insomnia. Her body would say, "Sleep my ass, get up and party, you might just drop dead anyway."

...

If you lose your humanity, you lose a lot; if you lose your beastly nature, you lose everything.

The first sign of losing your beastly nature is a lack of will to live. All the self-defense mechanisms evolved for survival just shut down completely.

Although a witch wouldn't die from hunger, thirst, or shivering, the feeling of desire coming but your body being unable to respond was awfully frustrating.

So, to stop her pitiful Dragon Nature from so easily "committing suicide," Dorothy started painstakingly "caging" it.

Yeah, it was really hard. The best way to cultivate the beast within was to feed it with all sorts of unfulfilled desires. The accumulating discontent would make the inner beast grow day by day, eventually breaking through the cage of reason, turning you into a beast that disregards consequences.

So during those days, the homebody witch would cook a table full of delicious food every day but wouldn't eat a bite; she would look at her Face of God in the mirror every day but never reward herself; she would go to Magic Web Duels and get stylishly slaughtered every day; she could easily achieve worldwide fame but chose not to reveal her true identity; she had top-level Armed Witch Talents but insisted on being a civil engineering witch....

Yeah, she really just held back in all sorts of ways.

Well, honestly, apart from not eating delicious food and not rewarding herself, nothing else was that hard. Dorothy was just playing her role; her own personality seemed very suited for cultivating beastly nature.

Anyway, as of now, that Dragon Nature of hers, which would die as soon as sunlight touched it, had evolved from a small shadow into a writhing abyss of darkness.

This wasn't just beastly nature anymore; it was the sublimation of it—a kind of demonic nature.

If you stared into the abyss, you could vaguely see a huge, ferocious black Dragon Serpent within.

That was the form of Yemengade.

Though it still wasn't particularly useful.

It just looked terrifying, but it couldn't even break through the protective sunlight of Dorothy's Soul, let alone the even harder Oath of Heart within her Sun Core.

So this Dragon Nature was pretty harmless to her.

Though it was still a bit embarrassing, the Dragon Nature that had turned into an abyss was at least not as prone to sudden deaths. While it still occasionally tried to corrupt the "Sun" with its lack of wisdom, at least the sunlight didn't instantly kill it as before. It would just get severely injured and then go dormant for a while. Only when Dorothy fed it stronger desires would it make a comeback.

The homebody witch often felt that her inner beast was more cat-like than dragon-like.

Because it really was like a cat—no matter how much you fed it, it still looked down on you, yet you couldn't leave it and kept willingly providing for it.

What kind of cat lord is this?

But cat or not, Dorothy now often played with this "cat lord," for raising it this big would be meaningless if she didn't.

Whenever the homebody witch lost her appetite, she'd play with the "cat" a bit, and her appetite would instantly return.

Sick of looking at beautiful women and about to renounce the world? Just play with the "cat" a bit, and suddenly even a pig could seem as pretty as Diaochan.

.....

Hmm, out-of-control beastly nature could turn someone into a beast or demon, but controlled beastly nature was the best stimulant.

It was the same now.

As a Family Knight, Dorothy didn't want to clash swords with her family, but now, to save them, she had no choice.

Today, she was definitely going to give Sophia a good beating.

If she could, Dorothy would summon the Fairy King to fight for her. After all, the Martial Soul Incarnation of the Fairy King was merciless, even to "Esteemed Teacher" Mia or her own mother Euphilia. It would serve them with iron fists, unlike her main body, which might soften and hesitate.

But since she didn't have the Multitasking Talent to summon a Martial Soul Incarnation on this Witch's Night, the homebody witch thought of the "Dragon Cat" stimulant.

One puff of Dragon Cat's beastly nature, and she should be able to be ruthless.

A big part of why the Fairy King was so tough was that its personality contained a portion of beastly strength.

If an incarnation could absorb it, so could the main body.

Alright, summon the Dragon Cat, let me play a bit, and take a puff.

With that thought, in Dorothy's Sea of Consciousness, her shining Soul of the Witch in the high-hanging Sun reached down toward the abyss and grabbed.

Instantly, the previously wandering black Dragon Serpent in the abyss was weakly snatched up. As a beastly incarnation, it naturally couldn't endure such a grievance, so it tried to wrap its huge body around the Sun and corrupt it.

Though it had attempted this many times before, it had always failed.

But this time, something miraculous happened.

Actually, it wasn't that the Dragon Serpent's strength had increased; the Sun was simply cooperating, actively absorbing the beastly strength.

But the witless, instinct-driven Dragon Serpent didn't understand or care about any of this. It only knew it was finally going to corrupt the Sun and immediately put all its strength into it.

Thus, in this two-way "cooperation," the originally red Sun turned into a black one. The formerly sacred sunlight became cold and dark, like the eyes of an abyss, filled with cruelty and foreboding.

And in the Sun's core, the witch's Soul still shone, but her face now wore a contemplative smile.

"So this is what it feels like to become a beast? Surprisingly not bad."

With that thought, she handed over partial control of her body to the ecstatic, newly freed beastly instinct.

"Finally giving you some free time, make the most of it, chances like this are rare."

She laughed lightly.

So now, the homebody witch was exhilarated.

"Hahaha, the inferno of the abyss will end everything, and the cage of fate will be shattered by me."

The rampaging Magic Power around her body, initially tinged only slightly with scarlet, now rapidly transformed into an ominous red storm.

And at the center of the storm, holding the Fangtian Huaji on her shoulders and wielding the Dragon Horn Katana, Dorothy raised her head and laughed maniacally.

The severed tip of the Dragon Horn on the left side of her face now continued with a furious scarlet Magic Power, forming an illusory magic horn. Beneath the horn, her left eye, now devoid of reason, gleamed with the cold vengeance and brutality of beastly instincts in its dragon-black, gold-pupiled gaze.

She was no longer human, not entirely; she had become a humanoid Dragon Demon under the skin of a human.

The Dragon Demon laughed heartily, revealing rows of sharp teeth.

Yeah, the only bit of humanity left was perhaps in her right eye, where the Sun's fire still burned.

Through this eye, Dorothy's rational side watched the scene unfold.

In the next instant, the body dominated by Dragon Nature lunged forward.

It was time for a good hunt.

"Dragon Demon..."

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"So fast...."

Sophia's pupils constricted. She sensed something was wrong. What kind of skill did the young lady just unleash to become this crazy?

But there was no time to think. As soon as the young lady started charging up, she too had already activated her ultimate move.

"Sun Wheel, crown me."

She raised the Holy Fire Greatsword high, pointing at the Sun. The dazzling sunlight bathed her, transforming her Angel Halo into a brilliant crown.

Destiny Pattern, Child of the Sun: As the progeny of the Sun, your strength increases with the Sun's state, weakest at sunrise and sunset, strongest at noon.

And it was noon, so she received the maximum boost, a twelve-fold increase.

However, before the Pure White Angel could get used to the surge of power, a ferocious Dragon Claw gripped her face. A tremendous force erupted, sending her crashing like a meteor, breaking several mountains and kicking up a massive cloud of dust....

And a moment later, a sound akin to Dragon Roar resonated from where Dorothy had vanished.

"...Twenty times super resolution..."

.... As the earth shook....