Will of chaos

Author: Thanks to whoever pointed out the wrong chapter.

Fixed

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“I don’t hate you, I just didn’t love you enough to ruin my life.” (???)

“(Stay focused, Zenos!)” (me)

“(Forget that Demon from the past!)” (me)

I tried not to look at her, tried not to think about anything, I wasn’t afraid or anything else about this matter. I’m no longer the abandoned child from that time who felt alone. I’ve matured in my past life, and in this life, I’ve gone much further than that. To lose sight of the importance of what I’m doing now will take much more than that.

I focused all this power to circulate between the two Weapons before flowing into myself, but I couldn’t refine or seal it as planned. My body was weakening, and it was getting harder and harder to ignore that damn voice inside my head.

That’s when my eyes opened, having been controlled by Orion. That’s when I opened my eyes and realized what had happened. There were still hands around me, around 13 or 16 hands, all of them emanating Universal Power or the power of some Concept.

The Dragon disappeared along with my technique while my power was draining. I felt that my Power of Law, especially, was unstable. I hadn’t had time to stabilize my Law of Chaos since I reached level 7. I didn’t fully understand this level yet, and the Ascendant Laws are precisely about understanding.

Lena and Cortana soon came to me, both of them perched on my shoulders as their Concepts flowed into me, helping to control this wild, irrational energy within me.

But I wasn’t calm. Knowing those hands still existed was bad. It meant there was still power to maintain those hands. The enemy wasn’t defeated. I should have known that simply devouring its supposed body would be useless. It never had a mind or a soul, there was no vital point from the start. Even the idea that there might be some kind of chaos core inside was just a guess.

“You can lie to everyone, but not to me.” (???)

“You hate me, you always have.” (???)

“That was always irrelevant to me. After all, your feelings toward me have always been irrelevant.” (???)

The hallucinations were getting stronger. I couldn’t refine or seal this energy. I could sense something missing, and it must be those hands. I, the oracle of all things, sealed this thing.

“Abandoning you was a necessity. I couldn’t care for such a fragile child, and apparently I wasn’t the only one who felt that way.” (???)

Her words became more aggressive, different from before. It seemed to be due to the influence of Hate.

“(Stand firm… just a little longer…)” (me)

I could feel the silence within me. All my Familiars were within the illusion, with so much of this obsession within my weapons as well as within myself. The only reason I even tried to maintain myself like this was due to the power of Chaos.

“Let me go…” (me)

“Can you?” (Lena)

“It’s just a few hands…” (me)

“They’re hands that possess the power of various Concepts.” (Cortana)

“Concept of Body… Concept of Soul… Concept of Ghost… Concept of Death… Concept of Pain… Concept of Desire… Concept of Madness… Concept of Obsession… Concept of Hatred… Concept of Shadow… Concept of Mind… Concept of Illusion… Concept of Corruption… Concept of Demon…” (Cortana)

Cortana listed each of the hands, and each time she spoke, I could see the image of that creature being created, Obsession and Madness at the center. Meanwhile, Soul, Death, Ghost, Demon, and Corruption formed that physical image. Shadow formed that trail of hand shadows, its Aura carrying everything else.

Aside from Hatred, who had just emerged, all the others were too closely allied with some kind of tragic history. I could sense that all these Concepts, except Hatred, were incomplete. Only Madness and Obsession were together, their hands joined, their fingers intertwined, forming what I remembered as their face.

I see all the other hands surrounding these two as their palms move apart. Several hands begin to appear, and I try to attack. I don’t want to let them attack first, but Lena holds my advance with her Aura. Cortana gathers power, and I just stare like an idiot. Several hands emerge from between those hands, pulling something I can’t see. That’s when the creature’s body appears again.

This time, without those hands covering its greenish body, I can see its true appearance. Although its body has feminine curves, there’s nothing truly feminine about it. There are bulging eyes everywhere on the back of its body. Its arms seem like mere translucent illusions. The four flower-like hands attached to both wrists have a mouth between them, with a long tongue protruding from it. On its back, there’s a crooked, slanted spout that covers its entire back. Where a face should have been, it’s empty of any features other than a hole filled with darkness.

“One more strike…” (me)

The Twins help me move my arms, my hands gripping my Sword and Dagger tightly. Before either side could move, a net that seemed to be made of strips of sewn-together human skin suddenly appeared, covering everything around me.

The net closed faster than my senses could perceive, squeezing all my hands together with that thing in the middle. The hands and claws tried to break free, causing the net to tear or distort. I had no time, and I used my strength to the fullest one last time.

“< Blade that Consumes Chaos >” (me)

This time, I poured everything, every last ounce of energy and Will into this strike.

My Sword and Dagger shattered during the strike, creating a large gash that tore through the space it passed through at an absurd speed. But my body was already weakening more and more, with the powers of the Twins’ Concepts keeping me awake.

It was through my blinking eyes that I saw the energy injunction made by the fragments of my weapons pass through the net as well as through the things trapped within it. From this cut, tentacles filled with mouths and sharp teeth emerged. These tentacles grabbed, bit, and pulled everything into the cut, which soon closed as that energy surged back up inside me, now complete.

“Why did you try to find me?” (???)

“If I wanted you, then I wouldn’t have left you in that orphanage.” (???)

“< Seal of the 7 Paths of Chaos: Circle of 7 Eternal Transformations >” (me)

Since I had no more energy to use, I resorted to using purely the Concept along with my own Vitality. This horrific ghostly energy could now be forced to form a true circle where seven points glowed with an Eclipse symbol in the middle and a Dragon coiled around the entire circle, biting its own tail at the end.

“< A Circle That Refines All >” (me)

“< A Seal That Transforms All >” (me)

The circle made that energy of obsession transform into different types of obsession: obsession in Love, Obsession in Hate, Obsession in Anger, Obsession in Sadness, Obsession in Joy, Obsession in Greed, and Obsession in Dominance.

Different obsessions in constant transformation, being refined in a continuous and endless cycle, purified with each transformation, and finally sealed without fail, possessed energies leaking out, contaminating my body in the process before the Twins’ powers pulled them out.

“Done…” (me)

“Leave the rest to us.” (Lena)

“Rest.” (Cortana)

Those were the last words I would have wanted to hear if it weren’t for the large, illusory woman who appeared behind the Twins, her shadowed face impossible to see as she spoke in that serious tone, but this time both the voice and the words carried far greater weight than any other time.

“Stay as far away from me as possible…” (???)

Whisper

After these words, a sudden, fleeting sadness came as quickly as it passed, my mind falling into darkness once more.

“(There were easier ways to resolve this situation~…)” (Paradox)

“…” (Me)

The moment my exhausted consciousness faded, I heard Paradox’s voice almost like a taunt, then came nothingness.

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Pov Lena:

I look at Zenos. His body was shifting into his normal Dragon form, but his Divine Beasts were still fused with him, now becoming stars circling his body with a stream of greenish energy escaping outward, my sister and I helping to expel this filth.

“Are these thoughts and emotions!?” (Cortana)

“Not only that, I also sense desires and Wills.” (Me)

“It must be everything she’s collected throughout her twisted existence.” (me)

“Nas hoped even the Concept of Hatred would shatter in his possession.” (Cortana)

“A being incomplete and flawed in its entirety, the wrong way to manifest Chaos.” (me)

“What do you two children understand about Chaos?” (Callidora)

“Just stop these useless thoughts and wake him up, I have business to finish.” (Callidora)

“No, he needs to rest, and if he tries to do anything, I will seal Niryna away for 500 years.” (Cortana)

“Don’t threaten me, Death’s Child.” (Callidora)

“This isn’t the time, and it’s certainly not the place for it!” (me)

“Let’s finish clearing the field.” (me)