Chaos and Order - A Multiverse Fanfic

Under Kai's narrowed eyes, the opened little chambers devoured the Inferius.

"What do you think, Petyr?" he asked.

Petyr Baelish walked out in his satin doublet, scratching his chin.

"You didn't get any notification," he commented. "Still, this legacy only mentioned the Dark Scroll, not the elixir itself. If you let Darcie obtain all the ingredients, but then brew the elixir yourself, then…"

"… then it will become an Item," Kai cut in, finishing Petyr's words.

Kai's eyes were shining like a beast's at the smell of blood.

Dark Scroll! This was a myth in the Harry Potter Random World, but in the Primordial Tower, it was as real as anything could be.

Meg had already told him about it, once.

But she had also said that below the 4th Set, nobody knew anything about it as if all the info on it was being suppressed by the combined efforts of the two Systems' Contestants.

Only one thing had slipped out of this suppression in the past — an ingredient of the Dark Scroll.

"You don't seem happy, my lord," Cersei observed, walking up to him. "What is it that worries you?"

Petyr chuckled.

"It must be the Lord of Azkaban, Ekrizdis, of course," he told Cersei, smiling slyly. "I am sure you wouldn't enjoy getting caught by another Anomaly, right? The way you were crying like a doll in Shadow Lord's hands… Haha!"

"You!"

"Enough." Kai put a stop to their bickering.

"Indeed, it's the Dark Lord, Ekrizdis," he nodded. "When the fuck did such wizards leave legacies behind? Heh!"

"You think it's a trap?" Cersei asked, shooting a disgusting glance at Petyr.

"Only one way to find out," Kai answered.

It was then the Dementors returned, bringing a chill with them.

One Dementor beckoned Kai, pointing at the corridor.

Kai's eyes shone with a glint.

Scouring the ruins, Kai and the two Characters followed the Dementors and arrived at a circular clearing.

It was almost the same as the circular hall where Darcie and the other had arrived, Kai noticed.

In the middle of the hall, there was a grave, and a gravestone was standing at its head.

When Kai approached it, he found the gravestone covered in the same writing as the doors that had brought the girls and Dobby into the 1st Circle.

The moment he translated it, his eyes widened with shock.

"What does it say, my lord?" Petyr asked, his voice brimming with a rare solemn tone.

Even Cersei, covered in shadows, couldn't help but become anxious at seeing Kai's expressions.

What could shock Kai so? What had he not seen and experienced?

"It's an epitaph," Kai told them, his breathing quickening. "It says —"

"— Here rests Sir Dagonet the fool of the Knights of the Round Table. In the name of Pendragon, may his soul know peace for eternity."

This?!

Both Petyr and Cersei looked at each other, stunned.

Creak!

Rumble!!!

The moment Kai read those words aloud, the gravestone split apart from the middle, revealing a circular opening.

A black marble was embedded there, glowing with a sinister color.

It was also then Kai felt the portkey becoming hot.

The name of the knight was still ringing in his head as he took out the Portkey and looked at it.

The sigil of the scroll was still there, but on the other side, a row of words had appeared — Chinese Fireball's Claws.

It was an ingredient!

The first of many.

It was also the same ingredient known to the Contestants, making this legacy true.

"Master!" Cersei squeaked. "Look, the same door is appearing there."

Sure enough, a door covered in markings and runes had appeared on the circular wall behind the gravestone.

It, too, had a stone slab over it with writings.

"So that's how it is," Kai mumbled, translating the writing. "There are thirteen Circles and thirteen Guardians in this ruin.

"Clearing every Circle will reveal an ingredient of the Dark Scroll alchemical elixir. But only after the 13th Circle will the legacy reveal the entire process of brewing the elixir.

"One can use the marble obtained from the gravestone of the fallen guardian to leave the ruins, and then use the Portkey as the key to enter the ruins from the main entrance."

"13 circles… 13 guardians… the Knights of the Round Table…" Petyr mumbled, ruminating over the clues. "Who do you think we will face in the 13th Circle, my lord?"

Kai licked his lips.

"Impossible," he shook his head but didn't believe his own words. "How can this be? Isn't he buried at Avalon?"

Petyr's sly smile returned. "Is he?"

Cersei didn't join the conversation, but remaining with Kai for this long was as good as becoming half a scholar.

She knew who was this he, and this understanding brought her no joy.

King Arthur Pendragon!

"I have been avoiding confronting Madam Villanelle with the king's topic," Kai muttered, taking a deep breath. "Not anymore, I guess.

"It's time for Darcie to converse with Merlin and to know the truth of it. I will nudge her curiosity the next time she meets her."

"Are you continuing with this, then?" Cersei blurted. "What if it's a trap?"

Petyr chuckled.

"It's Dark Scroll, my lady," he said, sneering. "If I am not wrong, our master must have already calculated at least a hundred scenarios related to it. Isn't that so?"

Kai didn't deign to reply.

After a few moments of contemplation, he continued where he had left off and said, "It's also time to dwell in Occlumency and Legilimency, finally. I hope Sir Arthur won't disappoint me."

Kai stood up and looked at Petyr.

"Even if it's a trap," he said, lifting the corner of his lips, "it wouldn't come to bite me in the ass before the 13th Circle, right?

"I will make Darcie come here, for only she can enter. Next time she will be prepared and then there's me.

"Even if the knight's strength increases upon advancing further, I must have those ingredients, no matter the cost."

"There's a slight problem, my lord," Petyr said, looking around. "The walls here are shifting continuously. Without magic, even Darcie can't…"

It was as if a bolt of lightning had struck Petyr's head.

"The Compass!" he blurted. "Of course."

"No hurry," Kai chuckled. "I will not let this dark business ruin Darcie's studies.

"She will return only after making significant advances in both alchemy and magic. It should give us a year's worth of time, at the least.

"Not to mention, the 3rd Stage of the Tournament of Worth will begin next Sunday. Before it, I have no plans of rushing anything."

"Reasonable," Petyr nodded.

"Let's go," Kai said, giving a last look at the grave and the marble embedded at the top of the gravestone. "It's time the girls returned home."

The Dementors melted into Kai's shadow and the group returned to the fallen heroes.

Kai threw a look at the Lethifold.

He reached into his shadow and pulled out a creature.

Mehhh… Mehhhh!

The baby goat kicked agitatedly but got thrown toward the dark creature, anyway.

Lilith preferred magical creatures, but with survival, anything went.

The Lethifold pounced on the kid, thin, needle-like tendrils flailing out of it. In no time, it consumed the lamb alive, leaving a bloody mess behind.

"I have a task for you," Kai told the Lethifold, clearing the blood and bones. "If it all goes right, Darcie will benefit a lot through it."

Lilith swayed and rippled in return, hovering above Daphne and Dobby, protecting them as per Darcie's last command.

Kai took that as a yes and put the Tales of Beedle the Bard back, lying down where he had woken up.

Kai drew a deep breath, his eyes shutting, his mind plunging into a sea of yellow mist.

And when those eyes opened again, he was Kai no more.

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