Ascension of Chaos

Ashley

To my surprise, unlike with the transformation to Chaos's little raven form, my other transformation hurts. A lot.

But only for a split second. Then it surprisingly feels weirdly liberating. Like I was freed or something.

Other than the pain though, I find myself… a lot larger than before. To the point that I'm larger than I was in my raven form as well.

I think I am probably around seven or eight meters tall.

When I look down at myself, I find that I seem to be… some sort of mishmash of other creatures. Although the predominant one does appear to be reptilian. Specifically kind of like those dinosaurs from the Unique Domain.

Other than that, I still have my wings on my back, except with them being even larger than they were in my raven form. Meanwhile I obviously have my Gaze still considering the damage it's doing to my Spire's roof. Which I'll need to get repaired at some point.

My overall form seems to be a little similar yet different from the King of Destruction's form. With slightly longer arms and legs and a bit more of a draconic appearance than it had. Which is good because its arms were tiny.

Then there's a couple other oddities.

For one, I have armor on. Black and crimson in color and a little similar to the armor that the kobold lords were wearing. And for two, I have deep crimson scales with glowing crimson cracks running through them.

But the oddest part are the random patches on some of my scales. Some of which are just slightly different color scales, others of which are very differently colored. Like blue colored instead of crimson, even if they still have the same glowing crimson cracks.

Overall, I look odd yet intimidating.

I'm also pretty sure it shouldn't be possible to look at your own back like I'm doing, but I'm doing it anyways. So I guess I'm flexible, since my neck isn't too terribly long or anything.

Oh, and my claws are coated in poison.

"It looks like our assumptions were correct," Chaos declares as he walks around me in circles, studying my appearance. "It would appear that this form is influenced by the skills and Skill Trees you currently have. And since your skills are currently dominated by the Queen of Destruction Skill Tree and the other Skill Trees from the Unique Domain, the destruction element and those monsters' appearances seems to be dominating."

Yeah. It's certainly something.

As for the drain on my energy from what I can see? This form seems to take more than the other form by a large margin. While the other form took one chaos energy every ten minutes – according to Chaos – this one seems to take one every two minutes.

Which is a large jump.

"It very well may change as you gain more Skill Trees," Chaos says with a shrug as I return to my normal form, once again finding myself still in my usual outfit. "We'll see as that happens."

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Right.

Also, something I just noticed.

I narrow my eyes a little on Chaos as I ask, "Is my Gaze of Destruction just not affecting you? I didn't notice before, but you haven't shown even the slightest hint of taking any damage since getting here. And I forgot to not look at you."

Chaos for some reason looks a little amused before patting my head. Which has me blinking in surprise as I alternate my gaze between his face and his arm. Both feeling confused as to what's so amusing and as to why his patting me doesn't bother me.

Is it because I'm starting to view him as a father figure or something?

Maybe.

Doesn't really matter right now. I just want to know the answer to my question.

He chuckles at my thoughts and answers with a question of his own, "What do you think my level would be if it could be categorized by the System? Remember that Class S hunters are at least level 2500."

I blink at that before shrugging and answering, "Maybe ten thousand? Or twenty thousand?"

Chaos shakes his head, so I up my answer, "Fifty to a hundred thousand?"

He shakes his head again as his smile grows wider.

I purse my lips for a second, only to take a wild guess and answer, "In the millions?"

He nods his head with that same wide smile on it, not saying a word more.

Huh.

That's… huh.

He really is strong.

"Well that's enough about me, you should go check on the news with your brother," Chaos says, reminding me that Blake is here too. And he's currently staring between the two of us.

Although I make sure to look at the sky next to him instead of directly at him so as to not hurt him.

And what I find is that he's already done with his transformation, and just like with what Chaos said, he really does just have some more spell circles in his eyes. Maybe some more glowing veins as well. But not many.

Come to think of it, I should ask him at some point what benefit his body has gotten from Etheria's blood other than the skills. Like Chaos's blood in my wings poisoning things. Or in my torso too now, I guess.

When I look back at Chaos, I find him to be gone without a trace.

"I'll talk to you soon, 'kay?" Chaos's voice echoes in my head as I look around for him, only to eventually close my eyes and return to using Enhanced Perception to see around me. Mostly because I'm not sure how much more my roof can take.

I really need to be more careful.

And that trial didn't really help, since I went all out and almost forgot about needing to not look at things with my eyes because of it.

On that note, it's not going to be pleasant being unable to see. What with the fact that I won't be able to read or watch any TV.

At least I can still hear though. So there's that.

I let out a sigh before turning towards the entrance to the Spire as I tell Blake, "I'm heading in to check the news." At which point I sense him nodding his head and following after me.

The two of us continue moving all the way back down to the residential area where we turn on the TV and sit down on the couches there. And what we find is rather interesting.

Every Spire in the city covers varying amounts of area, with the Spires each being owned by a guildmaster of their own guild. Meanwhile these guilds are all controlling the Gates that appear within the range of their Spires, making it so that only members of their guild are allowed to enter these Gates. Which is pretty much blocking regular people from entering Gates.

Or at least making it a lot harder for them to.

The only territory that has free access to Gates for anyone is, of course, mine. Since I've been gone so long and don't really care one way or another. Plus someone needed to deal with them and I wasn't around.

All of which is a large part of why there are so many people down in the forest below. Other than them just wanting to meet and make a connection with me.

What with me being the Queen of Destruction and Successor to Chaos and all.

All that said, there are also some more powerful guilds that control more than one Spire. Such as the Black and White Enforcers' guilds. Along with my older sibling's guild.

Then there are some other top ranking enforcers and some new people who grew to power after realizing their 'trash ability' was actually just the start of an incredibly good Skill Tree. And even a few people who had abilities they couldn't figure out how to use and were deemed to be without an ability before the System but are very powerful now that they know how to use them. Like me, for example.

My thoughts come to a halt when I glance at my inbox and notice the massive amount of messages filling it.

Right. I probably have a lot.

And I can already see a few priority messages that are marked for me to see.

So I go ahead and look at them before frowning a little.

Interesting.