Epic Of Caterpillar

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As Apollo and most of the other Gods of Zeus Pantheon that were made into Kireina's clones constructed the special spatial formation that would trap all the gods in place, Kireina's Artemis clone remained within her Divine Realm monitoring, someone…

This, someone, was a beautiful young elven woman, with a slender figure and charming beauty, her silky pale-white skin, her emerald eyes, and her long blonde hair made her look like an innocent elf girl, but she was a mentally broken woman who had been abused to the point of insanity and had naturally awakened the Sin of Envy, becoming the Realm Menace of Envy against her will.

Her long and silky hair reached her waist, and her gaze seemed tired and filled with turbulent emotions.

She had recently become a Rank 1 Goddess thanks to the efforts and resources of the family of Zeus who wanted her to be as strong as possible against Kireina, and her divinity had become the Divinity of Envious Darkness.

However, although she seemed tranquil now, she was a Realm Menace, and a being who wielded the powerful and dangerous attribute of chaos, her control over her own Miasma was outstanding, and even Gods feared to provoke her, as she could easily corrupt their pure divine souls using her Miasma, which had become even stronger after she became a Rank 1 Goddess.

She had enough power to easily kill Gods above her Rank, so she was left mostly isolated and by herself by Artemis within her Divine Realm, often not even spoken to.

Deep inside, Faylen felt alone. Since her life broke apart and everything became twisted and insane that she had felt incredibly alone and hollow inside.

Her desires became so enormous, desiring the happiness, strength, and everything anyone had that she lacked that her envy became enough to make her worthy of wielding the Sin.

When she was absolutely alone, she seemed to become dizzy, as if her destructive desires couldn't handle how she was in peace, making her mind turbulent.

After all, Sins were not made for their wielders to stay still, they were made to convert them into complete Menaces of the Realm, they held powerful effects, but also held even more powerful side effects.

Wrath gave an immense boost of strength that can compare to Gods, but your soul is constantly consumed at a rapid pace, and you become completely wrathful, losing all kinds of sanity.

Pride gives you more power and energy depending on how prideful you are, the more prideful you are, the stronger you grow, but the moment your pride is broken by even a small mistake, you become weaker and weaker, and the Sin ends up backfiring.

Lust grants the user the ability to manipulate emotions and enchants others into doing the bidding of the user, but it gives them an endless craving for lustful acts which takes over their mind and sanity.

Greed grants the power to steal the power from others permanently, but it also makes the user never become satiated by what it has, and always desiring more, bringing its own demise by foolishly pursuing things it can't beat yet prematurely.

Gluttony grants the power to devour anything and acquire their power, assimilating it into their very existence, however, the more one devours the hungrier you grow, the never becoming satiated, and feeling so utterly hungry you grow insane and become a wild beast.

Sloth grants the power to grow in strength by doing absolutely nothing, however, if the user does anything productive, their own power is lost, and they could even die.

And lastly… Envy granted the power to temporarily copy the powers of any foe, no matter the kind, but unlike greed, this is not permanent, but also unlike greed, it has no limits to what you can copy or not as long as it's not a foe two realms above the user. The side effect is that the user grows envious of everything, and it can never reach happiness.

Of course, Kireina was an exception, as she had the unique power to tame and devour the sins, gaining their pure powers with no drawbacks, and always using them in battle, giving her an exponential growth in strength. However, she uses them all as mere passive effects.

And of course, all the stronger powers such as Envy cost a lot of Divine Energy, which she was not willing to waste if she had quicker methods of getting rid of her foes.

Faylen, who possessed Envy, was slowly falling into an endless nightmare inside of her mind, the Envy Sin was vicious, and it didn't even let her rest for a single second, constantly showing her memories of her life and how much she envied everything else, constantly reminding her of her horrible traumas and more.

Faylen seemed calm because she had grown used to the pain already, but nonetheless, it was slowly killing her mind, fragmenting her bit by bit… soon enough, she would lose everything that made her once "Faylen" and she would simply become the empty vessel of Envy and nothing else.

Such was the destiny of all Realm Menaces… even Vretrion had foolishly become the vessel of his own sin, becoming overly foolish and confident, and bringing his own demise when he finally fought someone capable of overpowering him.

Within Faylen's mind, there was only pain and more pain, continuous pain all along, the darkness was consuming her as she stood still, her eyes slowly losing more of its light, whatever she once began to disappear.

"Envy… envy… envy… envy…"

Within her mindscape, she was caged within endless darkness as countless tentacles made of miasma began to slowly consume her entire being, she appeared but as a little elf girl, like the one she once was before all of this accursed tragedy were to strike her life.

"No…! Stop…! Let me go…! Sniff… Mama… Papa… Brother!"

"GYHIHIHIHIHI…"

However, to her cries, there was only the shit-eating grin of an entity above the darkness, a large sphere of complete abyssal darkness with a single organ, lips, and teeth, forming a sickening and wide smile with meaty red lips, and nothing else.

This was Envy.

"Your mother and father had forgiven you… and your brother was a monster that raped you! Why are you asking for their help now? They are all just garbage! And so are you, Faylen! You are my mere tool! GYHIHIHI! I, as the strongest of all Sins, had attained consciousness! And I shall conquer the world as I see fit! You are my mere vessel…!" laughed the Sin of Envy.

After thousands of years of existence, these beings, the Sins, which were created directly by the System attained consciousness after merging with the memories and minds of all their wielders, slowly building up their own personalities.

The ones Kireina had acquired through her Divine Dungeon Shop did not possess sentiency as they were merely created when she purchased them, but those that were old, the real ones, held strong personalities and egos.

The only Sin Kireina had ever found nice from the start was Lust, who seemed to have loved Kireina since the first time it was given to her, it seemed that her existence embodied lust so perfectly that she simply aligned to her in every way and became obedient and diligent.

However, all other Sins had their own selfish egos!

And Envy foolishly believed it was the only one because it had never spoken with any of the others, to begin with!

Envy had grown like this after becoming the vessel of many evil Realm Menaces, growing malicious and monstrously envious of everything, it desired Faylen to become its perfect vessel, and to tune with her, it needed to make her completely broken.

This little Faylen was but the last drop of sanity she had, which was already being slowly destroyed.

Her little legs were ravaged and bloody, being slowly devoured and dissolved by the miasma, and her little emerald eyes couldn't understand what was happening, she was suffering endlessly until her end were to come.

"You're lying! You're lying! Ugly monster… Sniff…! Go… away! Uaaaggh…! It hurts…! It hurts!"

"It hurts, doesn't it? Then stop resisting, Faylen, become one with me! We can conquer the world together! Gods? Great Gods? Supreme Gods? They are nothing against me! Quickly join! Or will have to forcefully devour your last drop of sanity left! GYHIHIHIHI!"

"No… I don't wanna…! It hurts… Mama… Papa… Brother! Someone… Someone, please help me… Uaaaagghhh…!"

"GYAHAHAHAH! Suffer a bit more! I envy so much that you have such a strong spirit to be capable of resisting me, a Sin! But soon enough, you will become one with me, Faylen! It is completely pointless to resist!" laughed Envy.

"No…! Nooo! Noooooooo!"

Faylen continued to cry endlessly, as Envy tortured her, the tentacles of miasma began to slowly dissolve more of her little legs, as her eyes were already getting dry of crying so much.

"How can you not understand, Faylen?! I've been waiting for this for so long! I provoked everything within your family so you could grow corrupted, yet you're still somehow resisting deep inside of your soul?! Corrupting your brother's mind to make him a sicko wasn't so hard, but you are overly resistant over all of this!" roared Envy.

"Sniff… Why? Whyyy…?!" cried Faylen.

"You're still asking why, you stupid little whore?! Because I am Envy and I deserve the world! And I will- Geh…!"

Suddenly, completely out of nowhere, delicate pale-white hands with long crimson-red nails grasped Envy's spherical body and squeezed it tightly, making its entire face disfigure as its tongue came out, releasing a shriek of pain!

"Grraaargggrraaaaggggghhhh…! W-What…?! I-Impossible…!"

"Shut up already, your annoying voice is making me sick… So, is this Faylen? Thank goddess you're still there, I guess you're a strong girl," said the voice of a mischievous archdemon fairy, as her entire figure was revealed beneath Envy, her hand was tightly grasping Envy and not letting it get away at all!

She was…!

"K-KIREINA?!" squawked Envy, as its teeth gritted, the tentacles of miasma slowly began to become weaker, as Faylen faintly looked upwards to her unexpected savior… this was Kireina, the one she was supposed to kill alongside the other Gods…

But why? Why would she come to save her?

Wasn't she portrayed as a senseless murder?

"Y-You're not supposed to be here! H-How did you got here?! Nnngh…! And how can you even grasp me like this?!" cried Envy.

"Well, as the Goddess of Sins, you are my belonging the moment I touched you," said Kireina.

"W-What?! DON'T FUCK WITH MEEEEE!" roared Envy, as it suddenly turned into liquid and slipped off Kireina's grasp!

"Oh? Quite daring today, aren't you?" she asked with a teasing smile, as Envy jumped several meters away from Kireina within this mindscape, controlling the miasma and chaos and creating a powerful downpour, throwing it against her!

SPLASH!

"Ah, come on… You really don't know who I am, don't you?" asked Kireina with a smirk, as she didn't do anything else than receive all the miasma head-on, which suddenly began to be absorbed by her figure as if it were a vacuum!

"W-What?! Impossible! The Chaos Attribute is merely handled by the Sins, how can you inherently be capable of… absorbing it!?" asked Envy, revealing one of the truths about Realm Menaces Chaos Attribute Affinity!

"Because I am the child of Chaos," said Kireina nonchalantly, as she waved her hands and began to completely fragment the entire mindscape, as she vacuumed Envy into her body without exerting any kind of effort!

"W-Wait…! Stop! We can… negotiate thisssss…!" cried Envy, as its body began to become liquid and slowly fragment as Kireina absorbed it!

"Negotiations with a Sin? Why would I do that? You're a mere tool," chuckled Kireina, as she absorbed Envy!

"Noo…! NO! NOOOOOOOO! I was… bound to govern this world…! If it wasn't… because of youuuuu…! NNNGRRYYAAAAHHH…!"

CRUNCH.

With a single bite, Kireina ate Envy!

"Ah…!"

Faylen glanced at Kireina as she fell into the darkness, but Kireina quickly grasped her hand and carried her like a princess outside of this place, flying upwards into the light.

"Don't worry, you are in good hands," she said with a motherly smile.

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