Fenrir’s Journey: I Shall Devour The Heavens - Chapter 73

After memorizing the location of the Blazing Sun Sect, and refusing several offers from Wen Xiulan to have someone accompany her, Fenrir took to the sky like a hypersonic bullet. Though she didn’t have the same kind of profound movement techniques as some of the Cultivators in this world, her potential speed was actually much higher. By creating a small barrier of devouring energy in front of her flight path, she was even able to cut through concepts like Gravity and air friction, accelerating rapidly without limit. In fact, the fast she went, the quicker her own energy would replenish from the membrane of devouring energy absorbing elemental energy and qi from the environment…

As a result of her enhanced speed, Fenrir found herself able to make what should have been a three-day journey in only seventeen hours. Though she had some trouble stopping, overshooting the location of the Blazing Sun Sect by several hundred kilometers, it ended up saving Fenrir a bit of time since most of their Elders had gathered after she bolted by. Some had even given chase, believing it was some great Senior heading towards a major event or having discovered a treasure. If it was an incident they could take advantage of, it was exceedingly common in this world to do just that. In the vent they were weaker than the other party, it was an opportunity to try and establish some fate and pay ‘respects’ as Juniors…

Fortunately, before the Elders were able to catch up to her, Fenrir managed to extricate herself from the large tunnel her crash had caused, tidying up her clothing a few minutes before a group of four relatively powerful middle-aged men showed up in the sky above. She saw the symbol on their robes so, before they were able to ask any probing questions, Fenrir gave them a quick once-over, saying, “I have come at the behest of the Devouring Moon Sect to teach the Blazing Sun Sect not to pry into the affairs of others. Since you want to bully others, do not blame Fenrir for bullying you…!”

Before any of the Elders were able to rebuff or rebuke her, as the looks on their faces expressed their intentions, Fenrir vanished from view. None of these Elders were even at the Nascent Soul Realm, completely lacking a Golden Core. Though she didn’t have the ability to determine exact Cultivation levels just yet, the absence of a Golden Core was all Fenrir needed to know in order to classify this group as ‘weak’. As a result, her [Shundo] allowed her to appear at the flank of one of the men, infusing a small amount of devouring energy into her [Severing Claws]. The two differing energies didn’t blend together very well, but it was still enough to completely cut the unsuspecting man at the waist.

The three surviving Elders reacted quickly while the oldest in their group shouted, “Scoundrel…!” in a righteous tone. If not for the fact his eyes showed an extreme amount of greed as he eyed her body, an outsider could have misunderstood the indignation and incredulity in his voice as genuine admonishment. Fenrir, however, simply snorted through her nose as she moved her palm to meet the sword of the nearest Elder. A thin membrane of devouring energy blossomed from her hand, causing the sword to break down faster than it could progress forward…

With her free hand, Fenrir ‘tapped’ against the air with her index finger, causing several icy loti to spread out and begin self-replicating as she vanished from the area with [Koku Shundo]. Though the attack didn’t hit any of the Elders, the surrounding temperature was dropping rapidly as the flowers continued to grow in size. This wasn’t enough to cause harm to most Cultivators but, with the Laws infused inside the icy lotus, everything within the immediate area would be suffused with the cold energy of Ice Elemental Laws. They would experience a cold that required a large amount of qi to resist, lest their bodies be slowed by the invasive energies…

At this point, the three surviving Elders had spread out, trying to surround Fenrir as they each released the same sword strike toward the blossoming loti. Pillars of vibrant flames dispersed the cold energy in the air, overwhelming the quality of Fenrir’s attack with quantity. Since she hadn’t used much of her own magic power in the attack, the qi of the Elders was able to disperse it. This was one of the main weaknesses of her shallow cultivation level, at least for the time being.

While the Elders had been dealing with the array of ice loti Fenrir had formed, she had already appeared behind her second victim. He was still in the motion of his sword strike when Fenrir swiped her [Severing Claws] across his back. His body was cut into five sections as his qi instantly dispersed outward, feeding into Fenrir’s own reserves as she brought her hands together, chanting, “Master, give me strength~! Gather, seventeen spirits of ice, cut apart my enemy. Magic Arrows, Series of seventeen Ice Arrows~!” Though it was possible for her to omit the chant, the strength of a spell was greatly enhanced when the full chant was used.

The two surviving Elders tried to evade the seventeen hypersonic ice arrows that were homing in on their position, using every means at their disposal to prolong their lives. Unfortunately, as the younger of the two Elders overestimated himself and tried to strike down the arrows with his sword, he learned the hard way that the complex structure of magical spells was far more intricate than a simple swipe from a sword. Though there were majestic flames formed around the blade, they were immediately extinguished as the man’s body turned into a large cube of ice that claimed his life shortly after smashing to the ground below…

(A/N: Fenrir’s Commentary: ‘Fenrir did not come here to talk…!’)