The next morning, at Jiang Mian's home.
"It seems... worse..."
Curled up under the covers, Jiang Mian recalled what had happened the night before.
Those things had come to her in wave after wave, and naturally, she had welcomed every one of them.
Eventually, they realized they couldn't defeat her and abandoned their trapped kin, retreating without another thought.
The result was certainly good.
Absorbing them directly in her mental space seemed far more efficient than finding Suppressors in the real world and burning them afterward. At least she hadn't felt dizzy.
Perhaps it was because the space she controlled had a limited capacity, and they were burned up as soon as they entered, so they didn't count?
Just last night, the space she controlled had more than doubled in size. Her mind was unusually clear, even verging on overexcitement.
Because her territory only let things in and never let them out,
she strengthened its defenses along the perimeter, in case it got crammed full of intruders while she was away. She tried using "wind" and "fire" to build a high wall that could ignite anything that approached.
As for the fuel needed to keep it going, she could simply use whatever was on hand.
It was just that... her Calamity Transformation seemed to be progressing faster.
She held out her hand. Gray scales had appeared on her forearm, exactly like the ones she'd seen on her Mental Body.
With a thought, the scales gradually faded, as if they were an illusion and had never been there at all.
"If this keeps up, I'll be drifting farther and farther from being human..."
she murmured.
Last night, she had indeed felt an uncontrollable urge to devour.
Those things were incredibly nourishing to her, but they had also made her realize that