“Suuep―puhaaaa―...”

It wasn’t just her pupils that changed. Steam curled around her lips and nose as she exhaled slowly. It was very much like she was standing in the snowfields of the north. But this steam came from the extreme difference between Veronica’s body temperature and the temperature of the atmosphere. If Theo were to compare an ordinary human body to a normal hot water tank, Veronica’s body was now a boiling furnace.

The steam was just the aftermath. The blood of a red dragon could reach hundreds of degrees, and it was starting to evaporate the moisture around her. Every time her heart pulsed, Veronica’s body drew closer to that of a dragon than a human. The quarter blood of a dragon used her eight Circles as a substitute dragon heart.

Scales grew on Veronica’s white skin, and a pair of small, pointed horns popped up on her head. She almost seemed like a humanoid dragon.

“You want to reproduce the power of a dragon with the lineage of a quarter dragon? It’s an interesting idea, but it won’t last long with your human body.” Invidia instantly saw through...