Epic of Caterpillar
chapter-2348

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There were more "players" to this whole event than I imagined. From Surtr, Freyr, Odin, Freyja, and even Freyr's wife. It seems that not only Odin, who allied the corrupt empress of the Spiritual Plane had taken away Freyja's child for some reason, but he also kidnaped Freyr. No wonder she and Freyr's wife are searching for him.

But it seems that in their way to doing that, they ended unwillingly confronting Surtr, who had become another vessel of a Supreme Spirit, perhaps one of fire? Which made him go completely mad.

I had heard very little about Surtr, but he's apparently a powerful Fire Titan that has been slumbering on his own Realm named Muspelheim for eons. I believe most people had given him for dead, but it doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

I don't know why he just started burning and killing things out of nowhere, but maybe that spirit is commanding him, or brainwashing him, or controlling him... Depending on what he's doing and everything else, we might have to slay him.

Perhaps I should ask the other Supreme Spirits with us... Well, one of them is with Skadi and went away, but Poseidon is still with us, so we can ask that girl, at the very least.

"Anyways, anything else do you guys remember?" I asked.

Wagyu and Kekensha tried to remember more, but they waged their heads.

"No, that's all master, sorry," Wagyu sighed.

"I wish we could help more," Kekensha groaned. "Hahh... I'm tired."

The two ended quickly going to rest on their large beds especially designed for giant

creatures. Despite having woken up, they still were rather exhausted.

"Alright then, rest for now, no need to follow me around," I said. "The same would be for Mao over here, but she really doesn't want to listen!"

"I want to stay with mwaster!" Mao pouted, waging her tail around.

"Hmmm, is that so?" I sighed, petting her head.

I guess she really doesn't want to be on her own after all this time, and after I've accepted her love and even crowned her as one of my wives, there's little I can do.

It's fine though, not like I really mind her presence, she's cute and lovely... I'm just worried about her health.

"Oh well, let's get going then. Thank you for everything, Yerze," I thanked Yerze. "Is there anything else we need to check on?"

"Not at the moment! As I said before, Lady Flora recovered on her own and then went away," said Yerze. "But as a doctor I am still quite concerned about her as she was my patient, would it be okay for you to go check on her?"

"Of course, I'll be on my way then," I nodded. "Let's go, Mao."

"Okay!" Mao smiled, hugging my arm before she wrapped her tail around my waist. FLASH!

I quickly teleported away, appearing on an endless grassland surrounded by forest to the west and jungles to the east.

In front of me was Flora, resting, meditating and cross-legged over the grasslands. Aura and Lucifer were with her sitting and talking.

"Oh well, look who's here," Lucifer greeted me. "I thought you were busy with your gigantic family?"

"Sorry, I was rather busy indeed," I nodded. "How is everyone doing? Aura are you ok? Flora?"

"I'm fine, thank you Kireina," Aura smiled gently. "I did rest quite a lot after our battle against the Outer Gods. I've heard quite a lot of things happened once you reached Abyss... You stole their sun... Is that true?"

"A-Ahahah, yes," I laughed nervously. "It was necessary to get to Star Eater Realm after all. Had to take down several of those Recessed on the way and... Uh, I might have unsealed a very powerful being called the Sun God into Abyss, making a big mess."

"Hahhh..." sighed Flora. "Well, who wouldn't expect that from someone like you, Kireina. Recklessly doing things without thinking on the big picture, and what might your actions cause to others. Or well, not like you couldn't, you simply don't care, don't you?"

"Ouch, that one hurt a bit Flora," I groaned. "You're not wrong though, I couldn't care less about that Sun God or whatever. Even less about the majority of the wicked vampires of that world. I'm more worried about Genesis right now. Once I'm done picking up my people, we're getting out of here and back home."

"Well said," she nodded. "And... Well, I wanted to talk to you about something right now, Kireina."

As I walked to Flora, I suddenly noticed that her appearance had changed.

I didn't know if this was her new sense of fashion or whatever, but she was definitely different.

Her body had... two different halves.

Yeah, the left side of her body was the same as before, white yet slightly tanned skin, several emerald-colored tattoos of plants, trees, and plants themselves growing over her body, long blonde hair, resembling strands of gold, a sharp emerald, glistening eye, and antler-like horns, made of apparently, Yggdrasil Trees.

However, that's where her looking the same as before ended, the other half, her right side, had given a sudden shift in colors, completely pale white, almost the same color as a cadaver, her hair turned silvery-white, discolored, with strands of black here and there.

There were no plants in that side of her body, but black and phantasmal wisps seemed to surround them, the bones of countless creatures covered her, decorating her as if they were part of her flesh and bones.

Venerables bodies were very interesting, like living works of art. Flora, Aura, even Lucifer, although Flora was perhaps among the most unique.

Her right-side eye opened, revealing a crimson red eye, and her antler was also made of black

bones and not wood.

"The hell happened to you?!"

"Hah, I guess you just saw what I've become... The changes occurred a couple of hours ago, when I ascended into a Cosmic Entity, as they're called, or something."

"Uh-huh..."

"Well, to summarize, when I was corrupted by that power and became... a monster. Within me, the powers of my Daos and Supreme Divinities resonated with that corruption, awakening within me this "other half", which suffice to say, it's quite abhorrent."

"I don't know if abhorrent, but you look kinda cool!"

"...Cool?"