Ascension of Chaos

Ashley

The first of the three priority messages is from that woman known as the Queen of Purgatory who was absolutely certain I would survive while I was in the Unique Domain. Which I actually appreciate a little bit, seeing as most people didn't think I would survive but she was certain of it.

Sender: Dhalia Velonna Blight

Subject: Partnership

Hello again.

If you would like to work together with me, I would be willing to establish a contract with you.

Through this contract, you would be able to stipulate terms that my people and I will not be able to break when you help bring me over to the new world. We will also be given a set number of slots to come over depending on the terms of the contract.

Please consider this as I believe my people can benefit you greatly during the Initialization phase of your planet.

If you would like to work with me, please send over a contract.

Goodbye.@@novelbin@@

Just as short and simple as the first time she messaged me.

Honestly, I'm not too sure about bringing otherworlders over to Val. But…

"You should do it," Chaos's voice echoes in my head, surprising me for a moment. "No one grows to power in newly initialized worlds without some sort of support from other worlds. And you can trust the Queen of Purgatory as she is one of Hel's three Successors."

Really?

Well, if you say so, I guess it couldn't hurt to try.

Before that though, I go ahead and check the next priority message. Only to find myself feeling even more surprised at the sight of who sent it.

Sender: Voriano Nether Val

Subject: Partnership

Greetings, Queen of Destruction.

My name is Voriano Nether Val, and I am the Lord of the Netherworld. Successor to the Primordial of Death. And a hopeful ally.

I'm sure you've already been contacted by my siblings with this same deal, but please choose wisely.

The Netherworld will always be open to you should you choose my partnership.

If you would like to work with me, please send over a contract.

Goodbye.

The… Netherworld? Also, his siblings? What does he mean by that?

And this is another Successor of Death?

I frown for a moment before looking at the next priority message. At which point I understand a little of what he meant.

Sender: Volcan

Subject: Partnership

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Queen of Destruction, I greet you as the King of Dragons. May we forever build ties between us.

As fellow rulers and fellow Successors to the Primordials.

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It would be my honor to sign a contract with you and be brought over to Val as your ally.

Should you wish it, please send over a contract.

Goodbye.

And another one. Is this guy a Successor of Death too?

"He is," Chaos says, sounding rather amused. "From what I've heard, Hel seems to be making you the benchmark test for who gets the position of True Successor for her."

Huh. So what is their test exactly? And what's a True Successor again? Is that the Successor who is currently the one set to succeed the Primordial once they retire or something?

"You are correct," Chaos confirms as I line up the three messages side by side in my vision. "Being a True Successor also grants you more Successor Skills though, and there are requirements for the System to allow a Primordial to designate a True Successor. There are also requirements for the Primordial to retire in the first place."

And what would those requirements be?

"The first requirement to be designated as a True Successor is to be Class S," Chaos answers, marking out any possibility of me already being a True Successor even if I'm Chaos's only Successor from my head. "A Successor also needs to have been one for at least a millennia for them to be able to be labeled as one. And there can only be one True Successor per Primordial. Meaning that if a new one is declared then the old True Successor will lose their position and be ranked as a regular Successor once more."

At least the requirements are simple. Even if they're not exactly easy to meet.

"Yep," Chaos says in a rather cheery mood. "As for the requirements for a Primordial to retire? Those I can't speak of, or the System will ban me from ever retiring as ordered by the majority of the Primordials."

Why should you care what the System thinks? I'm rather curious about this.

"We designed the System to drain power from us Primordials in order to function," Chaos answers rather grumpily. "So if we break the rules we ourselves set in place, the drain on us will magnify by several fold. Which isn't pleasant."

Makes sense.

"The requirement Hel set for her Successors to become her True Successor is honestly rather hilarious," Chaos says, moving on to the original topic with more than a little amusement in his voice. "She pretty much made it so you chose her True Successor by saying that whoever amongst her Successors grows closest to you will become her True Successor."

Oh. That really is hilarious.

I guess that means they really need to become my allies.

"The Queen of Purgatory was already trying to become your ally even before this was decided though, so I would stick with her," Chaos suggests, making me narrow my eyes at her message for a few seconds.

Tell me about the other two Successors first.

"First off, all three of the Successors are lacking in the emotions department other than a few specific areas," Chaos answers right away. "The Queen of Purgatory has no emotions at all and simply thinks rationally. The Lord of the Netherworld only has emotions when he is dealing with thieves stealing from the Netherworld. And the King of Dragons is incredibly prideful and probably never would've even deigned himself to speak to a Class D hunter like you if it weren't for the requirement."

Right. So that's a no for the King of Dragons.

"Yeah, but do try to reject him kindly, otherwise his pride might try to make him your enemy even with the True Successor competition they have going on," Chaos says with a little bit of warning in his voice. "I would suggest just sticking with the Queen of Purgatory since she was the one who believed in you before any of this and was already trying to establish ties without this competition pushing her to."

Those're my thoughts too.

If I'm going to ally with anyone, it'll be the one who wants to ally with me without being forced to.

Allying with the King of Dragons would just be hell if he's going to be feeling indignant the entire time and not want to work with me despite his words. And allying with the Lord of the Netherworld would also just be because of the Primordial of Death even if he doesn't look down on me. Which I'm not actually sure he doesn't.

So Dhalia it is.

Now then. How do I send one of those contracts? And what should I even make the contract anyways?

"I would suggest using the standard otherworlder contract with a few stipulations added on," Chaos says, sounding a lot more serious now than he was before. "The standard contract includes all of the usual things, such as a nonaggression pact between the two powers involved, the limit to how many forces the otherworlder side can bring over, and so on. But something you want to be careful of when dealing with a Successor is that they can come over to our world with a restriction placed on their heads by the System banning them from entering combat while here. And you want to make sure you tighten that restriction since they would still be able to kill one person before the restriction activates and forces them out of Val."

Interesting.

Alright then. Lets go ahead and get the contract ready and send it over.

"Sure thing!" Chaos says in a much more chipper attitude than before. "You should also get in contact with the Tower of Chaos at some point, since they're pretty much just free subordinates who worship you. So it'd be a waste not to. Plus they've been camping out in your forest for a while now."

Right.

Them.

Almost forgot.

I let out a sigh at that before muttering out loud, "Let's deal with them later."

And with that, we both set to work on the contract.