Ascension of Chaos

Ashley

Unlike what I was expecting, there isn't any actual pain involved with using the skill itself. For some reason I was convinced it would hurt like hell to use. Just like that ascension to Class D did. But nope. Not even a hint of pain.

Although it does feel a little weird. And by the time the transformation is finished, I find myself a decent bit larger than I was before.

Although nowhere near as a large as I've seen the videos of Chaos being. But I look almost just like his raven form. Except far smaller.

Whereas Chaos is larger than a planet in his raven form, I'm just about four or five meters tall. Somewhere in that range.

It's kind of hard to judge myself without a mirror or something.

I have the same mostly black and crimson coloring as Chaos with bits of purple mixed in, four talons on my raven feet, and my wingspan is quite a bit longer than I am tall. And when I bring out a reflective item from my storage to look at myself, I notice two things. Continue reading at My Virtual Library Empire

For one, I can still access my storage rings despite not having any fingers right now for said rings to go on.

And for two, I have different eyes from Chaos. With mine being the slit versions that I have in my regular form.

Oh, and the item I use to look in my reflection kind of cracks and falls apart because of my gaze.

So rest in peace item.

It wasn't important though so it's fine.

Guess it's both good and bad to know that Gaze of Destruction still works even in this transformed state. The next thing to try though is to fly into the air.

So I do just that and flap my wings, flying up into the sky. And I immediately find it easier to do than it was before transforming.

Probably because the human body – or a humanoid body in general since I wouldn't exactly call myself a human anymore – isn't as designed for flying as a raven's body is.

I fly around for a bit, feeling a rush go through me as I do so. Almost as if flying is just natural and freeing to me or something.

Maybe some sort of instinct that comes with the transformation?

I glance down at the ground to find the rather large crowd waiting at the base of my Spire all staring up at me. Whether they're people lined up at the entrance for some reason or people literally living in a tent who are standing at the entrance looking up. Even some of the people who made fucking houses in front of my Spire are standing on a balcony or at the entrance looking at me.

Why the hell people made houses in front of my Spire is beyond me.

They better not damage the park. I rather like this park after all.

Interestingly enough though, from what I can see, the majority of the people who made homes down there look to be public figures that I actually recognize. Famous enforcers mostly.

Out of nowhere everyone begins panicking and running inside of their homes or furiously looking away for some reason.

It doesn't take me long to figure out why though. Not when I hear Chaos's voice echoing from around me.

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And not in my head this time.

"They're all trying to join your unestablished faction and benefit from it," Chaos states, making me turn around to find him literally just floating in the sky in his humanoid form. Looking just as laidback as always.

The man has the same hair as me for the most part. Black with crimson and purple highlights mixed in. And it's long enough to reach his lower back at least. Meanwhile his eyes are pools of liquid crimson that make it difficult to tell where he's looking, and if it weren't for his face that shows rather clear amusement, how he's feeling.

As for his clothing? This time around he's wearing clothes that look a lot like mine. A black jacket over a black shirt and black pants with a red inner lining to the jacket and boots. All with a belt as well.

"This a clone of yours?" I ask while tilting my raven head.

"Yep!" he exclaims while giving me a thumbs-up and a grin. "Wouldn't want to kill everyone down there just from arriving after all."

Right.

"And why are you here?" I ask, feeling the urge to cross my arms as I do so only to realize I don't have arms to cross right now. "I didn't realize you were even allowed to come here this soon after the initialization."

"Oh, I can do whatever I please, sweetheart," he says with his grin growing even wider. "But to the point of your question, Justicar doesn't care so long as I don't do anything."

Okay then.

"Is there any sort of time limit for how long I can stay transformed?" I ask while looking away from Chaos at my transformed body.

"You can stay transformed for as long as you have the mana and energy to do it," Chaos explains as he begins to just float around without even flapping his wings. Which briefly makes me wonder why he has those wings in the first place if he's not even using them. "This transformation can be sustained with just a single unit of Chaos Energy every ten or so minutes. So it's not a very costly transformation."@@novelbin@@

That's good.

I glance down at the ground again to find some of the people there looking up at us only for them to look away when I see them. Of course, with me, as usual, only looking between them and not at any of them in particular.

Wouldn't want to kill them on accident after all.

That would be awkward.

Also, there seems to be quite a few Class D users down there. Which is a little surprising.

Especially considering that they're all so much lower level than me despite that.

I look at the Spire again before flying to it and landing on top of it at the same time as when Blake appears there. Clearly having just finished his trial.

His own evolution starts without giving him so much as the chance to look at me though, so I just return to my regular form. Of which I appear in while wearing the same outfit I was in beforehand.

Right. That could've been awkward.

If I appeared naked or something.

"I would've warned you," Chaos says as he floats down to land on the top of my Spire next to me.

Hmm. Right.

I look down at Blake with a slightly worried expression on my face. A face that I'm not really used to making. To the point that it feels a little uncomfortable on my facial muscles.

But out of nowhere, I feel arms wrapping around me, startling me into jumping a little in place. And when I look behind me to see who it is, I find Chaos hugging me from behind and putting his chin on my head.

A wave of confusion fills me as I wonder just what the heck he's doing.

Then I hear him mutter, "I'm so glad you're okay…"

I freeze for a moment before relaxing and deciding to just let him do what he wants as I look back down at Blake.

What would his mutations look like anyways? I actually don't know what the Primordial of Magic looks like.

"Most likely just some additional spell circles and runes in his eyes," Chaos mutters while sounding only half focused on what he's saying. "Maybe some glowing veins too…"

Interesting.

Then again, guess he would know. Considering he and the Primordial of Magic were apparently an item.

Chaos doesn't say anything in response to that, so I'm guessing he's just out of it now. At which point I turn my attention to the other form the skill mentioned having.

If I had to guess, this form most likely has something to do with one of two things.

Either my status as the Queen of Destruction. Or something to do with Assimilate. Like maybe it is a form that fuses together aspects of all of my different Skill Trees or something.

Well, I won't know until I try it out.

Right as I'm about to activate the skill again though, I realize a certain Primordial is still clinging onto me. So I just sit back and wait.

But as I do that, I feel my eyes beginning to droop closed for some reason.

Why does this feel… so relaxing? Like I'm being hugged by the parent I never had… or something like that. Maybe.

I hesitate on that feeling for a moment, only to shake my head and finally ask out loud, "Would you mind letting me go?"

My words snap Chaos out of his little stupor as he backs up, giving me the space to finally activate the skill.

Let's see what this thing does.