Using Davis’s body, K walked deeper into the forest, the stench of blood permeating across the air.
With every steps K took in Davis’s body takes a slight pain is felt inside his body, “What is this pain? I don’t get it! This body owner had already signed the soul contract with me, so why is it that every step I take felt like I’m walking on a shattered glass road?”
He soon stopped in front of a river
He closed his eyes and sat cross-legs under a pine tree, “My blood circulation’s normal, my mana is stable, and there are no physical injuries that were left after using the blood sacrifice” his calm expression became more and more irritated with every thought
As he sat there pondering about the cause of the pain, a pack of wolves nearby started gathering around him, they were drawn to the heavy stench of blood coming from Davis’s body since he was covered with the aura knight's blood, and they cautiously moved closer
Davis angrily opens his eyes revealing a red-crimson glow and shouts, “Fuck off” his voice seemingly echoes around the forest scaring all the wolves around him to scatter away.
His angry expression quickly diminished and his unnervingly friendly smile returned, “Now this is annoying… look like I can’t use his body for the time being” With that, he closed his eyes once again and dozed off right under the pine tree.
As the sun rose high in the sky, its light shines into the dark forest followed by the sound of bird chirping.
Davis awoke to the sound of animals drinking water from the river close by, and he immediately got up and frantically pat his body from head to toe with a distraught look “Was what I saw last night just a nightmare?”
“I can assure you that whatever you think you saw last night had indeed happened” K's voice was heard from behind.
Davis turns around but all he saw was a pine tree. “Up here” K’s voice was heard again but this time it was from above, Davis’s looked up to see a crow looking down at him.
“Where are you?” Davis ponder while yelling at the pine tree. “You just saw me” K replied, the crow flew down from the tree and landed on Davis’s head, “Surprise my friend?” K jokingly asked
Davis’s thought at that moment: [-_-]?
K laughed at his expression, “Don’t be so surprised my friend, this form is only temporary”
Davis snaps back into reality, “Where are we? And why are you… a crow?”
K replied, “I suggest you wash yourself up as I retell you last night event, your body reek of blood” His wing flapped gesturing at the river stream behind
Davis turns to his right to see a set of clean clothes on the rock by the tree, Davis goes into the river to wash up and K narrates to him what happened after he fell unconscious, of course he left out a few tiny details
Davis’s expression shifted as he turned to K, “Did sir Josh make it?” K replied in a friendly tone, “Who?… ahh, the knight, unfortunately, he didn’t survive last night's encountered and succumbed to his injuries before help could get to him”
Davis asks again, “Are you sure that he died due to the beast attack?” Since the contract between them stated that K couldn’t lie to him, he wishes to know if he had anything to do with it
K immediately caught on to the meaning behind his question, “My friend there are many things in existence that happen not because there is a reason that they happen but because they did”
“Don’t you think there are more serious matters that you should focus your mind on rather than lingering in the past?” K jokingly asked Davis
Davis didn’t get the answer he wanted but he stopped there, “Where should we go from here?” K replied instantly, “Deeper, 200 meters to be precise”
Davis asks again, “I’m asking about which direction leads us back to our original path”
K continues, “We’ll go Celestia later, right now we need to go deeper into the forest, to where it all began”
And K flew off, Davis followed behind, “I thought you said you would take over my body back then”
K landed on one of the tree branches, “Since when have I ever said that?”
“In my dream, you said specifically that you will use my body until all my wishes are completed” Davis replied while trying to remember last night's conversation
K flapped his wings and the contract appeared in front of him, “I said that I would use your physical body as I please, not that I will take over your physical body… we’ve finally arrived at our destination”
K flew out into an open area and landed on one of the hooded figures' dead bodies, he looked down at the circle they drew, “Hm? Interesting”
Davis came out of the trees and saw the bloody scene in front of him, He felt a familiar feeling as he looked at the bloody corpse on the ground, “Who are they? Why are they here in the forest?”
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K looked at the shaken Davis and thought to himself, “This kid seems to be unfamiliar with death, strange… why is there an enormous death aura coming from him similar to those who have experienced hundreds of deaths?”
K answered his question, “They’re the ones who enraged Fenrir, the circle they draw is a type of sealing circle… It seems that these people wish to use the circle to catch Fenrir. And since Fenrir's blood was on the center of the circle, they succeeded to some extent”
“But something unexpected happened that caught these guys off guard which allowed Fenrir to break free and secure them” K's eye turned to the small blood trail leading away from the circle
Davis clutches his fist, “So you’re saying that these fucker is the reason why my people died” K saw his anger and bloodthirst for vengeance and smile internally, “There is no reason to get all work up. After all, they’re already dead”
K flew into the cave that Fenrir used to live in, seeing that Davis followed behind. Inside the cave, they found a massive pile of treasures, gold, jewelry, and artifacts alike.
Davis stood there stunned, while Davis flew around scouting for any valuable treasure, as he did so he felt another sign of life further behind the pile of treasure he went to check and found a young wolf pup.
K called Davis to him, “You might want to come and see this”
Davis was curious as to what he could’ve found and went to check, “What did you find something back there” he stopped went he saw the pup
There is no doubt about it, this is the pup of the beast that slaughtered his group, he was angry he felt like he wanted to strangle the small pup to death, he walked closer to the pup, and his anger rose with each step closer
But after seeing the defenseless pup's eyes as it stared at him, Davis couldn’t do it he got down on his knee and pet the wolf's head with his shaky hand
The entire time K stood on the side watching him wondering if Davis’s rage would consume him and if he would blame all that happened on the innocent pup or if would he let go of his anger and move on.
After seeing Davis’s choice he nodded in agreement, “It seems this boy had yet to let his emotion cloud his judgement” K thought to himself
Davis made up his mind and carried the pup on his arm. Seeing this K asked, “What are you planning to do with the little puppy?”
Davis started walking toward the entrance, “I’m going to adopt him since his mother is dead I not gonna let this pup suffer the pain of losing its mother”
K continues in a concerned voice, “Wait, Davis listen to me first”
Davis snaps back at him, “That is my final decision and I’m not going to change my mind even if you disagree with it”
K's eye twitched a bit, “No dumbass, I’m talking about this pile of treasure. You’re not planning to leave it here for the animal to spend are you?”
Davis stopped before reaching the entrance and turned back with an awkward look, “Oh, right I was going to take care of it…haha” he tried to awkwardly play it off
But K saw through it instant and stayed quiet
His mood at the time: (-_-)
They search through it and find multiple special bags that merchants and rich people use to store large amounts of coins, he then starts to stuff everything he can grab into the bag. While he was doing this the small baby pup was running around K at the entrance trying to play with K
K asked Davis out of curiosity, “What’re you going to name him?” Davis thought for a second before turning to answer, “How about Sky?”
He saw that the little pup was playfully pulling on K’s wing with its mouth and K just stood there silently watching the pup seemingly unbothered, “Skye huh? Not a bad name” K answered while trying to get his wing out of Skye's mouth
Skye had a natural light blue and white color fur and as he grew older some parts of his fur would turn dark blue, similar to a clear blue sky.
Overall, not a bad name.
He packs everything in the cave into 3 different special bags, which he then ties up on the side of his vest. They soon left the now-emptied cave and K took the lead showing Davis the way toward his original destination.
On their way back Davis was carrying a sleeping Skye on his arm, “K? Why didn’t you just take over my body?”
K stopped from time to time on the nearby tree branches, “Why? Would you prefer if I’m the one inside that body?” K jokingly asked,
Davis hesitated to continue asking but he went on, “You’ve said it yourself that you wish to get back to your world. So, why wouldn’t you use my body to accomplish your goal rather than in a bird form?”
K laughs at him, “My friend, you are not wrong… I do wish to return as soon as possible. But I can’t take your body due to a few reasons”
Davis looks at him curiously, “Which is?”
K let out a sigh, “My friend, do you know the concept of mana overload?”
Davis nodded, “Yes, mana overload is a phenomenon of the body absorbing too much external energy which leads to catastrophic results either due to mana explosion or damaged soul”
K nodded to Davis’s answer, “Indeed, think of the soul and mana heart as the energy of some sort, and your physical body is a vessel to contain, absorb, cultivate, and manipulate that energy. While energy is endless as it comes from the universe itself, our body can’t withstand all that energy”
“After crossing that fallen tree ahead turn right and head straight for about 1 hour and we’ll reach the main road leading out of the forest” K pointed at the path ahead
He then continues explaining, “Your soul and mine are far too different, especially the power source that we use, so if I were to forcibly takeover your body then your body would be destroyed due to the enormous power of my soul”
Davis questioned him on his answer, “I don’t understand isn’t it just a difference in power? Why don’t you just use your power to the level that my body can hold, after all a being like yourself would have no problem adjusting and controlling mana”
K laughed, “You’re not wrong, controlling and manipulating the mana itself isn’t the problem but the amount of mana that I have to suppress is, also your body has grown accustomed to the world mana known as elemental energy”
He flew down and landed on Davis’s head once again, “I used a far more ancient and powerful source of energy than the one your body had experienced, it’s so deadly that anyone who practices my power recklessly will end up killing themselves in a very painful way, but if you’ve mastered even 15% of my power, you’ll become a force to be reckoned with”
“It's a double edge sword” K spoke again before closing his eyes and seemingly falling asleep
After following K's instruction for an hour they reach a clear path and follow the path not long later, and after a few days of traveling, they finally reach the end of the forest.