Hours before Rolf had arrived back from Archduke Bjorn's territory, Rhea had arrived at the Einherjar household in full force.
She knew that the people around Rolf were harming him and she understood that she needed to become stronger to help Rolf. As a noble beast with sentience, her instincts and thoughts told her that Rolf was priceless. He began raising her and caring for her after she was badly injured and tired from escaping from the beast who wanted her bloodline.
As a beast with a powerful, noble, or pure bloodline, almost all bloodlines could be absorbed by devouring the beast with that bloodline. The only limitations were that beasts with a bloodline were usually extremely strong compared to the average beast and that even if they were to be devoured, the beast would never fully be able to absorb the bloodline entirely. Unfortunately for Rhea, because she was only a newborn she was extremely vulnerable and even her parents were tempted to devour her in order to strengthen themselves.
After escaping and surviving by herself for some amount of days she heard something in her mind and began moving towards a large manor. The closer she got to the manor, a faint scent of something sweet and delicious assaulted her sensitive nose and led her into Rolf's room. Ever since then, she always felt her getting stronger after spending time with Rolf. During the days that she was unable to spend with Rolf, she was always hunting and strengthening herself in the forest. Killing off the beast that first targeted her and refining her instincts and battle prowess she became one of the forest's top predators.
For 5 years she strengthened herself alongside Rolf even if he didn't know it. She didn't know what the feeling inside her was, but she knew that she would stay with Rolf forever. After feeling herself get stronger much quicker after Rolf began his magic training, she began scouting his household to attack because she knew the harm they were causing Rolf. During the time Rolf was gone, she spent every waking hour strengthening herself or getting more information on the Einherjar Territory.
After arriving outside the manor and on the border of the forest and the territory, Rhea was ready to carry out her plan. Her flames had many different elements contained within it and some of them were the key to her plan; her shadow and darkness elements. Among her elements they were the most powerful and most used ones, which was quite fateful considering one of Rolf's most powerful elements was darkness as well.
She planned to start a fire in one of the buildings and slowly pick off enemies a few at a time. With her shadow element she is able to go from shadow to shadow nearly instantly and attack each person as soon as she appears outside of the shadow. Executing her plan, an unknown amount of time passed and more buildings were being set on fire and the cold weather could only contain it so much. Not long after, the Lords of the territory made their way to meet their unexpected "guest".
Unexpectedly, Becky and Richard were most surprised seeing a giant and powerful wolf begin attacking them. Although powerful, Rhea was still technically only in her early adolescent stage. As the most important rule in fighting is "Never underestimate your opponent", Becky and Richard took this seriously. Becky had seen the beast once and knew that if she were to grow up then she would become a real threat to her plans especially if she were to stay connected to Rolf. Even if she wanted to use Rhea as another experiment she would need to find a sure-fire way of getting the beast under her control.
Richard, as the battle maniac he is, immediately charged in only for his chest to meet with Rhea's paw, smacking him dozens of meters away and a thin stream of blood to trickle down the side of his mouth.
Clicking her tongue Becky began casting magic to attack her from afar, only to be surprised to see another spell already coming for her.
'Shit, that damned beast is skilled in magic, if I can't buy time for myself to cast magic then we'll be done for in no time' she thought.
Seeing another fire spell come at her she used an already deady body as a shield against Rhea's deadly flames.
After running out of bodies to use as a shield, she saw the unconscious Richard. Smiling devilishly she picked him up and threw him at Rhea to give her enough time to finally counter attack.
After casting the spell, her face gave away her plan. Within her spell was also poison, should Rhea get hit by it she would definitely be at the disadvantage, the more time passed, the weaker Rhea would get. Unfortunately for Becky, Rhea did something that even she wouldn't have been able to predict.
Rhea quickly shrunk into a smaller form and dodged, rendering the spell completely useless if not more damaging to their property which was already on fire.
Grimacing, Becky dodged Rhea's attack once more, throwing another body at her.
Like a chaotic game of catch, the 2 continued exchanging spells with little to no progress being made.
Nearly a half hour later, the 2 had finally gotten their enemy's pattern down and were ready to put their all into their next attack.
"AAWOOOO!~" as Rhea howled, she let out a large and powerful fireball that shot out towards Becky. If anyone were to be hit by that, the only thing that would remain is the question of whether or not you would turn into ashes after being hit by something so fiery and deadly.
"DIE YOU SHITTY BEAST!!" Becky shouted after casting her most deadly spell. The spell was a poison spell that would cause someone's organs to basically implode and turn them into a mass of bloody pulp. Even if used on a beast the damage would be irreparable.
Blinded by the fireball, both Rhea and Becky couldn't see each other. Confident, Rhea cast another spell in an attempt to cancel out Becky's swift spell. Unlike Rhea, Becky was not sure and quickly casted a healing spell on Richard, only to hold him up in front of her in an attempt to use him as a shield while running away to try and minimize the damage.
*BOOM*
After a large and deafening soundwave the fight was covered in a large cloud. Within the large cloud of dust and steam, the 2 were obscured and covered by the dense shroud. As the shroud died down and visibility became clearer once again, the outcome was definite.
On one side was a large furry mass of blood that was inanimate, and on the other was 2 figures lying on the scorched earth that were effectively passed out from the blast and direct hit. One was unrecognizable and the other was relatively fine compared to the other; only blackened skin from the dust, burns around her legs and half her face nearly melted.
As an unknown amount of time had passed, one of the figures had moved, and began regaining consciousness. Standing up and trying to piece her memories back together, Becky stood up and looked around to regain her self awareness to try and make sense of what happened moments before. Smiling and letting out a vile cackle, Becky cracked,
"KAHAKAHAKAKAKHAHA, YOU STUPID BEAST!"
"IN THE END YOU WERE NO MORE THAN A YOUNG SHITTY CUB!!"
"You'll serve as an excellent specimen for me to dissect and an even better source for Rolf's despair!!!"
As she said that, she looked back down to see Rolf next to Rhea hugging her with tears streaming down his face. He was also muttering something that she was unable to hear.
'HAHA this is better than I thought. After I clean this all up Rolf will finally be completely in the palm of my hand, dancing to my every order.' Becky affirmed herself.
As she herself began walking towards the boy and the beast, Rolf let out a gastly cry. As his bellow came to an end, a strong wind began to pick up and the dust from the damaged earth began forming a vortex that was being sucked into Rolf's body right around his abdomen. Soon everything around him began to shoot towards him like a strong gale.
Seeing the unusual occurrence happen around Rolf, Becky began backing away with alarm and panic spreading across her disheveled and revolting face. Her pace began to pick up when Rolf had soon become a living tornado. The wind was so strong that everything near him became obscured and darkened. Everything around him, including himself, began to become dark as if he was the embodiment of the Abyssal Void itself.
As the vacuum that Rolf now was, Becky was finding it hard for herself to even move without using her magic which had strangely felt weaker than normal. After pumping more and more magic into her body she had reached a point that her efforts ceased and she was stuck in a deadlock. Resolving herself, she decided that the only way to survive and not get absorbed into whatever was happening to Rolf, she would have to use one of her rewards that she had received from Lord Ankou before the start of Rolf's experimentation. It was a plain and round object in close resemblance to a medallion that would allow her to teleport to a safe place when in danger.
As she began to quickly chant the charm that would allow it to function, she saw the manor itself being torn apart and being sucked into the darkness that was now growing large enough to fit the dead bodies of those around the former battle ground. As she chanted the last stanza of the chant, she saw Richard's quasi-alive body swallowed into the darkness that was Rolf. As her vision slowly blackened from being teleported she was surprised by seeing Rhea still laying next to the darkness, seemingly unable to be swallowed by the abomination that Rolf was.
After Becky disappeared, the darkness became unstable and in an instant it exploded and immediately devoured everything within the Einherjar Territory and swept over 10km (6.2~mi) of the forest around him in an arc.
What was left was a massive crater that revealed valuable elements within the frozen land and a dark and motionless figure at the center of it all. Nothing remained, not even Rhea's body…
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'Where am I? What is this' Rolf thought to himself.
Waking up from his despair of seeing the battered and motionless Rhea, Rolf woke up to find himself surrounded in darkness. He was unable to tell whether or not he was floating or standing up right. He was in a pitch black limbo of where he was trapped by himself, alone, and with his memories and emotions. Slowly he felt something warm, yet cold at the same time.
Looking around himself, he found a dark orb that was seemingly illuminated within the darkness that was around him. Coming closer towards the orb, he felt an astounding closeness to it. Reaching his hand out to touch it, he felt his body shiver, as his hand came closer and closer to the orb he felt his hand simultaneously freezing and melting. As if he was being pulled in, he continued, although he felt the aura it was emitting he couldn't feel any malicious intent from it and it actually felt like he was gaining something back that he lost or perhaps something that was present the entire time but at the same time not.
As he continued reaching in, he felt a vast amount of knowledge surge into his brain causing him to pass out from everything flowing into him at once. As he lay there, suddenly a divine woman with a bewitching figure arose from the darkness. Her silhouette was enough to cause a massive war to break out, with her looks completely concealed by blackness, only she knew what would occur from her looks.
Walking around the darkness, she slowly made her way towards his soul. Unbeknownst to Rolf, he had finally become a soul magician, and that the black orb he was touching was actually his soul.
As she arrived towards his soul, she reached out to feel it. As she reached out she felt a slight backlash and pain throughout her body, despite the pain she felt she continued. Slowly but surely, she was finally able to touch Rolf's soul. In normality, should anyone come across someone else's soul, they are an immediate threat and whosoever is more powerful and has an advantage can completely destroy someone's existence, and yet she showed no harm, if anything she began to emit a gentle and warm aura; almost… motherly?
Slowly Rolf's soul stopped emitting the previous aura and became neutral. She slowly wrapped her other arm around his soul, bringing it into her embrace. Surprisingly, Rolf's soul began vibrating and changing shape into a manly figure, who just returned the hug. Releasing the hug, Rolf's soul vibrated once more and warped back into an orb, but this time smaller than before.
After releasing his soul, the woman walked over to Rolf's body that was on the floor. Kneeling down and putting his head onto her seductive thighs, an angelic voice resounded within Rolf's soul space. Neither loud nor quiet, the voice was intoxicating and was indescribably beautiful.
"Ah~ how you've suffered. I'm sorry, it's all my fault. It's okay now. I've sent someone to help you on your journey. I hope that you can recover to how you once were. You've truly helped me too much you stupid man…"
For only she knows how long, she kept talking to the unconscious Rolf, and only after whispering something into his ear, she got up and went to his soul one last time and spoke to him.
"I'll be waiting, no matter how long it takes, I'll always be by your side fufufu~, I hope you enjoy the surprises waiting for you… please don't keep me waiting too long, afterall, there's somewhere that you truly belong."
After saying her goodbyes, she hugged both Rolf's soul and his body, and her concealed figure leaned in towards his face seemingly giving him a kiss on his cheek before completely disappearing, leaving only the darkness of his soul.
'I can't wait to see you once more, may we be together… again…'