Chaos and Order – A Multiverse Fanfic

The sheet of the blue parted as Gyarados-Kai leaped out of it and landed on Actaea.

He canceled his transformation lest any storyline Character saw him by chance now that the chaos had ceased, calming the sea around him. When he looked over his shoulder, he could still see the aftereffects of Hyper Beam, though.

The sea was still churning, whirling, devouring the remains of a long galley.

What an insanely powerful Skill, Kai analyzed, his reptilian hazel eyes beaming. However…

Before coming out of the sea, he had already tried to use Hurricane, the D graded Skill granted by the Gyarados Blood Essence.

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Skill: Hurricane

Grade: D

Specification: The user attacks by wrapping its opponent in a fierce wind

 

Requirement:

 1. Correspondence > 10

 2. Perception > 12

Attributes:

 1. Mark any spot within a 100 meter radius as the Hurricane's Eye

 2. Eye Diameter: 5 meters

 3. Eyewall Mana Gale Force: 150 km/h

 4. Time Limit: 10 seconds (Gale Force peak at 5th second)

 

Effect:

 1. Max Base Damage (at Eyewall): 140 HP

 2. Minimum Base Damage (at Outer Bands): 25 HP

 3. Mana Consumption: 150-250 MP

 4. The further the Eye, the larger the Mana Consumption

 

Warning:

 1. 0 Damage at the Eye

 2. Skill Cooldown, if any, will include the Skill's Time Limit

 3. Base Damage's calculation assumes a stationary target for the entire Time Limit

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…

Of course, the Skill's activation had failed, despite consuming his Mana.

I will need to be careful with it, Kai noted, pushing back his wet, white hair. One miscalculated use of Hyper Beam, and I will be in huge trouble.

A dull thump reached his ears from behind. Kai doubled back and saw Meg, her face as pale as the sun behind a dust storm. She had lost her paper wings and turning them to steel, even momentarily, had sucked her dry of her MP and SP.

But Kai's eyes weren't only on her slave.

Embraced in Meg's arms, he noticed, was Totodile, bloody and torn, with Cyndaquil sitting worriedly by her feet.

I completely forgot about the fucking Pokemon! Kai exclaimed inwardly, shaking his head. Where in the seven hells was it, to begin with?

Meg noticed him looking at the Pokemon. "Totodile was ever so brave, master," she told him faintly, but with pride, coming closer. "It didn't let go of the Gyarados' tail even once. Kept biting it, I saw."

"Toto… dile…" the Pokemon cried meekly, panting.

Kai looked at it, now deeper than he had before. Several of Totodile's teeth were missing, and a few seemed loose. A gash was running across his blue snout, blood dripping off it in several pauses. Yet, it was the Pokemon's eyes that caught his attention the most.

Red, barbaric, and determined.

A fury was pulsing in Totodile's pupils, Kai sensed. He almost smiled.

Maybe… Kai deliberated upon something, thinking of the future. "I will take your word for it, Meg," he told her. "Work upon Cyndaquil, too. Make them stronger and then catch me a Pokemon worthy to be devoured."

Meg kneeled, accepting the orders.

"Your Master Origami Creation's Proficiency seemed to have increased a bit, right?" Kai praised, remembering the simultaneous use of Origami Clones. "Making the opposite sex' origami, and that too in different forms, does work, then."

Meg blushed, or tried, at least. With her strength gone, dry lips, and shivering, wet body, it was impossible to tell her emotion only by seeing her face.

Kai felt amused. "Bravery must be rewarded, I guess," he said, taking out the Lure Ball. He threw it toward Meg, who caught it with fumbling hands. "Take good care of Totodile for me."

Meg nodded, finally smiling enough to tell it apart.

After she had sent both Totodile and Cyndaquil to Pokeballs, she stood up and approached Kai. "Master, a word," she said, looking around at the destruction. "Hyper Beam is… well and good. But you also missed quite a lot in exchange for … this."

Kai had been putting this thought away ever since he had used the Skill.

Every Contestant he had killed had been obliterated to smithereens, along with the 4th-floor Contestant Yannis. Then there was Charles, whose body probably was in a worse state at the bottom of the sea than Kai's victims.

Charles was Kai's first 5th-floor kill.

And it pained him to the core not obtaining Mission Credits or, at least, devouring Charles and Yannis' Soul to update his Soul Points.

Still, it wasn't like there were no rewards, beyond the obvious Gyarados Blood Essence.

…

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Your Kill Count is updated

Floor: 3 (1st Set)

Kill Count: (100/100)

…

Congratulations Contestant Kai Stormborn…

You have achieved a Title

…

Title: Poacher

Specification: Kill 10 magical beasts collectively. The magical beasts' grade must be equal to or higher than Contestant's equivalent floor number

Status: (10/10)

Effect: Agility +1, Perception +1, Charisma -2

Note: Only 1 Title can be equipped at a time

…

Conditions to upgrade this Title…

Title: Shady Hunter

Specification: Kill 30 Magical Beasts collectively at the behest of the main storyline Characters. The magical beasts' grades must be equal to or higher than the Contestant's equivalent floor number. Only 3 magical beasts out of the 30 can be of the same species

Status: (0/30)

Effect:

 1. Agility +4

 2. Perception +2

 3. Skill: Shade Scythe

]

…

Kai's shoulders visibly slackened as the weight of the strenuous task of achieving Kill Count finally lifted off them.

"Bring them out," he ordered Meg, sighing. "Let's finish the Main Mission."

As he saw a drenched Meg walking away, her curves threatening to melt with water, he shook his head. "Change first," he called her out.

Meg frowned, looked down, and blushed, tip-toeing to the Captain's cabin.

And she's over 100 years old? The thought passed by Kai's mind, making him chuckle.

*

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Morning, 27th day

Actaea

 

A week had passed since they had butchered their way through the ship of Contestants.

In the Captain's cabin, Kai was drinking wine, with Meg sitting opposite him. On the table between them, there were various documents that she had prepared for him to go through.

"Tell me about Occlumency," he commanded, picking the papers. "I know you have things regarding the Harry Potter World you want to talk about."

"As I had mentioned before," Meg began, seriously, "both Occlumency and Legilimency are branches of magic Contestants must learn, who have the Magical World of Harry Potter as one of their core Random Worlds. For the same reason, I was never a skilled witch, master. My core Random Worlds were Naruto, Pokemon, and a combination of both Harry Potter and One Piece."

Kai nodded, putting the papers back on the table.

"We must start with Occlumency, as it is the most important of the two in the beginning," Meg continued. "It is the magic of closing one's mind against the art of Legilimency, which penetrates the defenses within the mind to know the hidden and open contents. Occlumency helps protect one's mind in three ways. Thoughts, memories, and emotions.

"Thoughts linger on the uppermost layer of your mind and are most prone to Legilimency. Then come the memories of your conscious and subconscious mind. At last, we have emotions, the deepest and hardest to pry into among the three, it taken necessary precautions. You must learn to protect all three to resist an attack from a skilled Legilimens."

Kai deliberated upon those words, and couldn't help but commend his ability to lock his emotions. However, the moment he remembered Simon's words mentioning that if it was someone else, he might have pulled one over on them by hiding his emotion, he winced.

Kai's mind went back beyond those words, however, to his Initiation Mission.

Don't worry, Simon had said. You know, I am something of a magician myself.

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