Fenrir's Journey : I Shall Devour The Heavens!

For a long time after her mediation had come to an end, Fenrir was lost in thoughts of loneliness, wanting nothing more than to return home to her Master's side. She almost felt like it would be easier to just stop caring about everything and [Devour] the entire world, especially if it would make her stronger in a shorter period of time. Though she still felt queasy just thinking about it, Fenrir noticed that her strength had increased noticeably after her devouring energy destroyed him. His energy was refined by the core in her body and, though it wasn't a perfect addition on top of her previous power, it still increased her own reserves by nearly 30%...With this, and the fact that her Soul had already increased in Tier, Fenrir realized she didn't actually need to Cultivate in order to become stronger. Cultivation would be a means to increase her self control and her ability to make use of the energy within her body. If she just allowed her strength to increase without any regards for her own mentality, Fenrir knew it wouldn't be that difficult to become strong. As a result, however, she would also lose her sense of self, the person she had become in order to be happy and stay at her Master's side...Raising her head towards the ceiling, Fenrir extended her paw and willed the energy shrouding her body forward. The moment she did so, it coalesced into the form of a wolf's head, appearing like a phantom as at barreled forth. By the time it reached the roof, it was nearly 3m in diameter and cut through the dense stone of the mountain as if it were air, passing without any discernable resistance whatsoever.After a few seconds, a second hole had been formed in the mountain, this one giving Fenrir an unobstructed view of the perpetual moon overhead. Staring up at this moon, she was taken back to the first nights after she had entered this world, remembering the convictions she had found when her emotions had yet to stabilize. She had resolved herself that, if it could allow her to return faster, she would devour anything that stood in her way in order to reach her Master's side once again. However, at the same time, Fenrir didn't want to become a 'monster' that her Master would be ashamed of...Releasing a profoundly exasperated sigh, Fenrir fought hard to collect her thoughts and tried changing her perspective of the current situation. Since she wanted her Master to be proud of her, Fenrir began to think about what he would do in this situation. She knew that he would probably do his best to help people and, with his charismatic nature, people would flock to his side to help. Though she didn't have that same charisma, and would never 'want' people to flock to her side, Fenrir knew she could still help people.She could still remember the time when her Master went to a foreign country where the rulers were cruel and vicious. He didn't attack them directly but, as their border fortresses would capture, prison, and torture people, her Master had destroyed them all. Any of the bad men that stayed behind were killed or crippled, meaning her Master would also take the lives of evil-hearted individuals if the need arose...Though she knew he would probably admonish her for devouring the girly man, Fenrir knew her Master would likely take pity on her and, after a while had passed, he would inevitably forgive her. Her Master would even try his best to understand people that had killed thousands of people, especially if he learned they weren't in full control of their actions at the time. As long as she worked hard to never repeat her mistake, Fenrir was confident he wouldn't even bat an eye, instead, he would probably try to console her burdened heart...With this thought bringing her a great deal of comfort, Fenrir turned her head back towards the moon above and could feel the conviction rising up inside of her. She had been killing a lot ever since entering this world, but her power was such that she didn't have to go out of her way to take lives if she truly wanted to avoid it. Instead, she could simply cripple all of the bad people she came across, especially those that harbored intentions toward her. As for increasing her strength, she would devour the cores of monsters and, if they were anything like the girly man she had devoured, Fenrir would take their cores as well...(Fenrir's Journey: Fenrir will cripple and kill all the bad people...this world is a rotten place...I will try to fix it, at least a little bit...)

Since she lacked the charisma to draw people to her side naturally, nor could she see the auras of people to discern if they were 'good', Fenrir knew she would have to use force to get her point across. Just as Eva had taught her in the past, Fenrir decided she would become strong enough that any decision she made would compel others to follow her orders. Even if they only did so out of fear, it would still be better than the current state of the world. Presently, there were too many hypocritical and arrogant people, especially the various girly men who seemed to live at the expense of others. Their 'pride' was one of the greatest farces Fenrir had ever seen, as the truth of the matter was that the men were just vain cowards who tried to elevate their own status by putting other people down...Though she knew that not everyone would be like that, or else this world would have destroyed itself, Fenrir could tell it was the 'norm' just based on how everyone acted. She didn't know how her strength stacked up against the pinnacle powers in the world, but a large Sect that had thousands of members was lead by people that were weaker than she was. As they had been in existence for more than a thousand years, it meant that they were either adequately strong or that 'stronger' people simply didn't care to interfere with them. However, considering how that woman, Wen Xiulan, acted, Fenrir believed she had to be decently powerful to avoid having her own body tainted by the arrogant girly men of this world...Thinking of Wen Xiulan, Fenrir decided she would return to the Heaven Moon Sect to obtain information. Though she had plenty of places where she could venture to increase her strength, Fenrir wanted to learn about other large Sects and how the balance of power on the continent was truly divided. If she learned that any particular Sect was full of cruel and evil people, that would become Fenrir's current 'goal'. She would work to increase her strength until she was able to kill or cripple the cruel and vicious people that had risen to the top of the world by using other people as a stepping stone.It would take a long time, by Fenrir was confident that people would begin to change how they acted if she went around killing and crippling anyone that lived at the expense of others. If she met any kind or capable people along the way, Fenrir would put them in positions of power and, even if she had to do so by fear, Fenrir would change this world through action. Eventually, her Master would either reach this world to save her or she would reach a point where she was able to return to his side. In order to do that, Fenrir needed to greatly increase her strength until there was nothing in this world...no, nothing ANY world that could stand against her!Fortunately, though she would never forget Eva's advice that 'there was always something stronger', Fenrir had her devouring energy to rely on. Even if there were things that could resist it, that only meant her control and understanding of the energy wasn't strong enough. Since Devouring Laws, according to her Master and Eva, were some of the most powerful in existence, Fenrir knew she had a major advantage. Just the fact that she could turn anything into her own energy gave her advantages that other people could only dream of obtaining...(Fenrir's Commentary: 'Even if I do not devour everything, I can still devour all of the riches and resources that the bad people keep for themselves...')

With abject terror on their faces, the disciples of the Heavenly Moon Sect watched as the young girl they believed had come to join their Sect defeated their Sect Master in a single exchange. They didn't even have time to process what was happening before they watched the girls energy morph into a wolf's maw that closed around Tian Gengxin. Strangely, even though the maw was transparent, the moment it closed down around the Sect Master, it was as though his body was broken down and disintegrated in an instant. There wasn't even a single drop of blood or any sign that he had even been standing in the air previously...Though she didn't understand what happened at first, Fenrir felt an influx of foreign energy flow into her body. Realizing what had she had done, a sudden urge to empty the contents of her perpetually empty stomach rose up within her. However, it was the urge to cry that won out and, without staying in the area for a moment longer, Fenrir used [Koku Shundo] and began tearing through the sky. She noticed that the energy around her body actually devoured the energies in the atmosphere at an incredible rate, allowing her to cut through the sky without any of the pressure she had experienced previously. However, discoveries like this didn't matter at the moment as Fenrir was currently overwhelmed by overwhelmingly heartwrenching anguish in her chest...It wasn't until she barreled into the side of another mountain, the energy around her body instantly boring through the snow and stone, that Fenrir stopped her momentum. Looking around, she could see that everything touched by her aura was broken down and processed by her body as energy, causing her anxious mind to race. She wanted nothing more than to just lay down and release the anguish in her heart but any attempt to even get near the ground just caused a larger hole to form. Thus, though there were tears pouring down her face, Fenrir tried to calm down and meditate while hovering in the air. She knew that a calm mind was necessary to control the devouring energy that had surrounded her body and, even though it seemed impossible at the present moment, Fenrir did her best to focus on her meditation technique...Unaware of the passage of time, nearly a month had passed in the outside world as Fenrir continued to hover in the center of the cave she had formed. The devouring energy, which was midnight blue on the edges but pristine white in the center, had shrunk from its original 3m radius and was now only a thin membrane that flowed around her body. Thin strands would rise from the aura, giving it a flame-like quality and, everywhere the strands passed, all of the ambient energy in the environment would be devoured. Then, finally achieving a calm mental state, Fenrir's closed eyes opened to reveal her previously scarlet eyes now glowed with an icy bluish-white light.Over the duration of her meditation, Fenrir realized that, for better or worse, her body had actually changed a great deal, something she was able to discern from introspective observation. The vortex of energy within her stomach had now formed into a stable sphere with small cracks located on its surface. From those cracks, the same energy that was coating her body flowed out, manifesting itself externally as the same devouring ability she had always possessed. This had greatly increased her combat potential but, at the same time, Fenrir was even more heartbroken than she had been after killing that arrogant man, even if her face gave her an appearance of absolute calm...As she had returned to her 'normal' appearance during her meditation, Fenrir used her claw and, even though her body was naturally immune to her natural severing ability, it was still possible to damage herself if she intended to. Thus, a thin line of blood appeared across one of her paw pads and Fenrir allowed it to drip towards the ground, carrying with it the same devouring energy around her body. It collided with the ground and began to eat through it like a powerful and unstoppable acid that seemed to continue eating further into the earth without cessation. It wasn't until it had gone nearly 30km that the energy surrounding the drops of blood finally burned out...This wasn't the most important thing, however, as Fenrir absentmindedly stared at her hand and watched as it naturally healed with the passage of time. Though her regeneration had always been extreme, this process was fundamentally different than what Fenrir had experienced in the past. Previously, it was like her body was 'reverting' back to its default form...now, after experiencing the 'change' in her core, Fenrir knew she had finally increased the Tier of her soul. She no longer had an ageless body, cursed to never enjoy the touch of her Master in the capacity of a woman...if this had happened in the past, Fenrir would have been incredibly happy...now...she just felt a heartbreak that rivaled the loneliness she had experienced within Eva's orb so long ago...(Fenrir's Commentary: 'There is no happiness for me in this world...')

Chapter 59: Conviction