Gwen stood with his spear in hand, his pure-white cape behind him seeming frozen in time. He watched Nanook's figure gather within the starry sky, gazing back at him with indifference. He met the eyes of the Aeon of Destruction, Nanook, rumored to be perhaps the only Aeon to appear in human form.
Gwen was not surprised that Celenova had somehow managed to summon Nanook's descent—
After all, an Emanator did not necessarily share a close connection with the Aeon who granted them the power of their Path. Take Shuhu, the Emanator of Abundance: his actions ran almost entirely contrary to the altruistic nature of Abundance and Yaoshi's mercy. The Xianzhou generals also found it difficult to contact Lan of the Hunt, even needing the Divination Department's Cloud-Gazing Mirror to attempt to call upon the Reignbow Arbiter.
But Great Extinction Lords, who both walked the Path of Destruction and acted in accordance with Nanook's will, being able to contact their own Aeon was hardly strange.
Besides, Gwen's pursuit of Celenova had not been entirely free of the desire to see what an Aeon truly was.
And then, Gwen met the Nanook Celenova had called over like a parent.
That will of destruction, countless times stronger than Celenova and the previous War Furnace—so different in essence that they were nearly not even the same thing—made Gwen's acute senses nearly run wild in an instant.
The reason he felt something he had not even felt upon seeing Noah was not because, in Gwen's eyes, Nanook was stronger than Noah. Rather, with Nanook's appearance, the entire starry sky had been dyed with his will, turning into the color of destruction—
That utterly pure will of destruction, devoid of any malice yet completely undisguised, gave Gwen, who had awakened the Eighth Sense, Alaya-Vijnana, the