Fenrir's Journey : I Shall Devour The Heavens!

After killing the girly man, Fenrir stayed in the shadows and watched the events unfold. She hadn't cared about the man, nor his purpose for trying to kidnap her, but it didn't mean she wouldn't find out about it. Though she didn't care to hear it from him personally, Fenrir still wanted to know how the information about his death would affect others. If he was someone of high status and had been acting with the support of other people when doing his despicable acts, Fenrir would kill them as well.The only thing that had kept her from going on a rampage after entering this world was the concern that her Master would have been disappointed in her. However, one of the things she had been allowed to do, even after first obtaining her name, was defend herself. If people were targetting her for their own selfish reasons, Fenrir had every right to kill them, especially if they used such despicable means. A girly man who had other people carry him around on a carriage, publically played with a woman's body, and used drugs to try and kidnap people...Fenrir would never believe such a person was 'good'...Shortly after her attack, Fenrir saw numerous different groups of people show up, including some wearing robes who stood at the top of buildings, looking down on everyone else. There was even one old man, wearing a green robe with golden lining, who tried to attack the pillar of ice she had made with a sword. Fenrir snorted as she watched him try to break her attack with the toy in his hand, especially after she had condensed so much magical energy into the attack. Even her Master would have to put a lot of effort into destroying it Fenrir didn't believe anyone in this city could even come close to her Master's power.As expected, even though the man jumped up high in the sky and made a large phantom blade, stabbing it towards her ice pillar, it simply broke after colliding for a few seconds. When he landed on the ground, doing his best to appear as though he hadn't tried too hard, the only sign he had even attacked was a small chip of ice that had fallen onto the compact dirt road. Fenrir's ears perked up when he turned to one of the young people next to him and said, "This attack must have been performed by some Senior at the Seventh Foundation Stage or higher...I'm not sure who the fourth Young Master of the Flame Jade Sect had offended, but it seems his karma had come to collect upon the debts he owed..."Fenrir wasn't sure how her strength compared to other people in this world but, through her observation in the past, she knew there were several different distinctions used to categorize strength. She hadn't yet learned all of them yet but, according to the old man who failed to break her ice, it seemed like her attack had been at the 'Seventh Foundation Stage'. Though she couldn't ascertain how he knew this, as he had been barely able to scratch her attack, Fenrir still decided to use it as a basic metric. That had been only a small portion of her actual attack power, as she mainly used external energy to form the sphere, so Fenrir could at least claim that she was stronger than a 'Senior' at the Seventh Foundation Stage...(Fenrir's Commentary: 'I'm not old. You're old! Your whole family is old! Fenrir is Ageless~!')

While observing the large group of people investigating and discussing her ice pillar, Fenrir detected a fluctuation of energy before, from the distance, a thick pillar of fire flew across the city and smashed into her ice. Everyone backed away why the same old man that had been speaking previously exclaimed, "It looks like Huo Yan San has decided to show his old mug. Hmph, thinking he can accomplish what I had failed to do? With that puny flame?"Though Fenrir heard the man insult the flame, she noticed he still backed away with everyone else and pulled out his sword, shrouding it in a green glow. As for the pillar of flame, it had started burning with a brighter intensity, transitioning from a fiery orange into a solid white. However, the pillar she had made was comprised of pure Ice Elemental energy, meaning it couldn't be melted down into water, only dispersed back into the atmosphere when the effect wears off. Thus, other than a small amount of mist rising from the surface, the pillar remained standing tall, proud, and inviolable among the city skyline.When the flame finally died out, there was a middle-aged man with short black hair that spiked away from his temples. There were a few age lines around his eyes but, other than that, he had a youthful face that was currently filled with rage and indignation. When he turned to those that had gathered to watch, he shouted, "Who did this!? Who dares to kill this San's son!? I swear to the Heavens to seek vengeance for this injustice, or my name isn't Huo Yan San!"Hearing the man make his threats, Fenrir just snorted before turning away to go find another place to stay for the evening. It would be too difficult to find another Inn and, as she didn't want to bother with fighting over something pointless, Fenrir climbed into a tree leaning over a lake and curled up on a branch. She had spent many nights sleeping in trees with her Master in the past, so it made her feel a little more relaxed as she tried to calm her nerves. Deep within the pit of her stomach, a small urge to devour all of those foolish people had started to surge up and, if she hadn't retreated, Fenrir might have gone on a massacre.Though this world was full of terrible people, Fenrir knew that not all of them would be bad. There were undoubtedly people that were good, helped others, or needed help. Since she didn't have her Master's ability to tell if people were good or bad from their aura, Fenrir could only determine such things with her intuition and their scent. Most people that had a bloody and foul odor had a very high chance of being bad people, though this wasn't always the case. As long as they didn't bother her, Fenrir wouldn't go out of her way to kill people...From in the distance, Fenrir could hear the sounds of fighting and, every now and then, she saw someone flying through the sky on a sword. It seemed that the city had started to wake up, even though it was the dead of night, and chaos had begun to spread. Some civilians, wanting to avoid getting caught in the struggles, were retreating towards the periphery of the city. As for Fenrir, she simply ignored everything going on around her, muttering in the voice of her Master, "Fenrir is a good girl..." as she drifted off into the realm of dreams.(Fenrir's Commentary: 'Stupid...puny flame...can't even light a candle...zzz...')(A/N: Yo, I made an AUX Chapter talking about Cultivation. Hit it up if you're curious.)

Instead of leaving through the front entrance, Fenrir exited through one of the windows of the Inn and leaped up to a high wall. She had already memorized some of the scents coming from the bodies of the three men and had detected similar scents nearby. After moving around within the shadows for a few blocks, Fenrir found one of the strange 'carriages' she had seen used within the city. However, unlike a normal carriage, which had wheels and was pulled by animals, this one lacked both. Instead of wheels, it had eight rods sticking out of it and, instead of being pulled by animals, it was carried by somewhat muscular looking men.Within the interior of the strange 'carriage', Fenrir saw a girly man sitting with his back straight, looking very bored and impatient. Next to the man, there was a pretty woman but, instead of wearing the robes of a Cultivator, she looked like a dressed up civilian. She was using a golden fan to cool the girly man while leaning against him with her breasts pressing into his side. Even so, the man appeared disinterested in her 'appeal', even though his hand still moved around her body in a disgusting manner.Based on the red robe the girly man was wearing, and the strange pattern on the clothes of the servants, Fenrir knew they belonged to the Flame Jade Sect. She didn't know why they were looking for her but, after the men had obviously used a drug to try and either put her to sleep or poison her, Fenrir didn't care. Forming her hand into a claw, Fenrir began to gather ice elemental energy into her hand, condensing it into a pristine blue ball that, once it increased to a certain size, compressed before beginning the process anew. Each time the ball was compressed, its vibrancy would increase and, all around the spot she was hidden, ice began to spread across the surfaces.Though her observation, Fenrir knew that the 'strange energy' she had detected ever since arriving in this world was called 'Qi'. It was different than elemental energy and it didn't seem like most people in this world were able to sense the other forms of energy in the air, making their growth severely limited by their cultivation techniques. Since Fenrir's techniques used magical power, by condensing elemental energy, most people in this world couldn't even sense it, unless they were decently strong. As this didn't apply to the girly man sitting in the 'carriage', nor any of his servants, Fenrir took all the time she wanted to condense her crystallized ice sphere.Deciding her present was suitable for seeing off the unknown girly man, Fenrir used her instant movement technique, [Koku Shundo], to appear in the sky above the entourage. None of them had detected her presence at all, even when Fenrir threw the tiny sphere towards the carriage and jumped away. Moments later, a column of ice more than 50m tall, and 20m in diameter, had appeared where the girly man once existed. Fortunately, the roads in this city were very large so Fenrir hadn't had to worry about collateral damage...(Fenrir's Commentary: 'Stupid girly man...hmph...')

Chapter 36: Skulking