Collecting one more beast core the brown fox made her way back to bury it with the rest.
"Huh?" The brown fox looked down into the dug up dirt in confusion.
The location where she had placed all of the cores had been dug up completely and not a single one was left. "Damn! I have been noticed..."
She held the beast core in her mouth and grit her teeth in frustration, leaving a small crack on the beast core. "I guess I have no choice..."
Looking around her to see if she was still being monitored, the fox let out a sigh before climbing up a tree.
Taking a little effort she finally sat on a stable branch looking below where her treasures had been stolen, her eyes showed a decisive glow as she swallowed the remaining beast core.
In the wild where many beasts live, if a beast swallows a beast core with the intention to break through to the next stage they will definitely take risks of being attacked while absorbing the energy in their body.
If interrupted suddenly when refining the energy it can cause the beast to lose control of the energy and risk failure to a breakthrough or damage to the body.
The fox chose to swallow her remaining beast core on the tree branch to avoid any incoming dangers during her breakthrough.
Refining the beast core inside her body, it began to break down and crack apart before dissolving.
As this was happening the fox showed a great deal of concentration guiding and controlling the energy in her body left from the core and guided a small part of it towards her own beast core.
Little by little small wisps of energy began to merge with her beast core when she began to smell the bloody smell was a lot heavier than before. "I am such a fool, I should have just left and given up instead of trying my luck! If they target me once they will continue to do so until I am dead. Even though we are from the same family how could they treat me like this!"
Of course she knew who was behind the theft but what could she do about it?
Her mother and her are outsiders to the clan, even with her strength she is alone while they have many.
They could steal her hard earned beast cores but could she prove it?
So she chose to improve her strength further and seek a chance to turn her situation around.
If she had enough strength who could bully her and her mother?
Sadly she forgot that certain individuals just would not let her go whether she fought back or not because she is merely a thorn in their side.
Gritting her teeth angrily the brown fox glared menacingly with red eyes. 'Bitch, if you want me dead then so be it! Come face me you coward!'
Growing up she worked hard to gain the clans acknowledgement, she quickly became recognised as one of the young geniuses on the mountain.
She hoped to see the look of praise, recognition and love on the faces of the fox clan but instead met with jealousy, contempt and calculation.
Jealousy from how fast she had grown, contempt because she was not recognised as a family member of the fox clan anymore, calculation because the clan elder had been trying to keep his ace hidden and pushing her forward to be a big target would benefit the clan greatly.
Naive in her youth she proudly contributed towards the clan but their gazes towards her never changed.
A year ago her mother told her to no longer have any interaction with the clan and informed her about why she would not return too.
A battle was coming on the mountain and the clan was pushing her onto the front lines to sacrifice herself for the family, how could her mother let that happen?
Enraged her mother stormed into the clan and warned the elders of the fox clan to keep away from her daughter or she would kill them all!
Later her mother told her to keep an eye out for a certain fox within the fox clan, it seemed like the main goal was to push her to the front to catch the attention of the old monkey king so that he would not notice the fox that they was were raising in secret.
Sadly the fox was very narrow minded, seeing the brown fox shining so brightly enjoying recognition from those on the mountain her jealousy and hatred grew until she would begin to try to harm her in secret.
Now she had an opportunity to steal from the brown fox, she took it.
Given the chance to end her life once and for all, she took it decisively.
Anger erupted within the brown fox causing her to lose control of her energy for a moment resulting in a backlash.
Coughing up blood she closed her eyes and grit her teeth to suppress the pain she was feeling and began to gain control of the energy once more.
Gaining control once again she heard a loud noise not too far from herself causing her to feel uneasy...
"Roar!!"