Ascension of Chaos

Ashley

"Chaos Infusion is a skill I have that lets me directly compress and infuse my Chaos Energy into things, whether that's an object to make a Chaos Energy item like your knives, a liquid to make a Chaos Energy restoring potion with about the amount you infused into it being the amount you recover drinking it, or even air and other people," Chaos explains, making me instantly unlock the skill with some of the Skill Points I've built up from our hunts. "I wouldn't recommend you compressing it into the air or other people yet. Unless you're fine with making monsters that'll likely attack you without any other skill to control them."

Yeah, no making monsters for now.

"If you want a chance against the Unique Monster with Chaotic Source draining away your Chaos Energy reserves, you're going to need to stock up on a lot of Chaos Energy Potions," Chaos states in a serious tone of voice. "So you should get started right away."

Okay, so how do I do that?

"Get any sort of liquid and use the skill to infuse some of your Chaos Energy into it," Chaos says rather matter-of-factly. "It's not a very hard process."

Right.

I use Silver Barrier to create a small enclosure before using water magic to fill it with water. Then I place my hand in the water and activate the new skill.

Chaos Infusion.

And the moment I activate the skill, I see the same glowing crimson veins that light up my skin when I use Chaotic Surge appearing. Except with them pulsing in the direction of my hand. Like the Chaos Energy inside of me is moving towards it.

Once the energy reaches my hand though, it leaves it and begins to color the water an evil-looking black and deep crimson color. With sparks of crimson lightning occasionally bouncing around inside of said liquid.

"Keep infusing your Chaos Energy into it until you have infused about five units of Chaos Energy into it," Chaos directs as I continue doing just that. All the way until I've put five units in and cut off the skill, taking my hand out right afterwards.

Then I analyze the result of my efforts.

Chaos Energy Potion (Five Units)

Description: A special type of potion created by the Successor of Chaos herself with five units of her own Chaos Energy. Anyone who drinks it will gain the five units of Chaos Energy inside of it. But beware to those without the secondary energy of Chaos, for should you drink this, unpredictable effects may occur.

Affects: +5 Units of Chaos Energy to those with Chaos Energy. ??? to those without Chaos Energy.

Not bad.

"Yes, but the amount you made is a bit much," Chaos says, sounding rather awkward. "Keep in mind that the more liquid there is that you're infusing, the further out the Chaos Energy spreads. So to get the entire five units restored, you'll need to drink all of that water."

I raise my head to stare at the air above me, then back down at the rather large tub of water-turned potion in front of me.

Why didn't you tell me about this earlier?

"Because I made the same mistake when I first started and thought it would be best if I wasn't the only one," he says rather proudly, making my eyebrow twitch in irritation.

Well that's just petty.

"I'm sorry…" Chaos mutters, sounding like a wounded puppy. Which only makes me frown. "Aaaannnyyyyways, you should try to keep it to small amounts of liquid. Oh, and there's nothing wrong with making a potion and then drinking it down right away to make another one with the same Chaos Energy. It makes for good practice that way."

Uh huh…

I turn my frown down to the potion again before glancing at Blake, who looks rather interested in the potion itself.

Then I sigh and begin chugging down the potion.

This might take a while.

Over ten minutes pass as I chug down the potion, only managing to do it thanks to the fact that the potion doesn't actually end up going to my stomach or anything. It just dissolves the moment I drink it, turning entirely into Chaos Energy.

The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.

Because that would be rather uncomfortable if it did go to my stomach. Even if there is a bathroom feature in the Domains.

Which I still find to be rather out of place even if it's necessary so that people aren't just watching the hunters go to the bathroom.

Anyways, after drinking all of the potion and getting my Chaos Energy back, I proceed to have Blake make small little bottles using his earth magic before I fill them with water and start making several potions. Each restoring five units of Chaos Energy.

Then I pause to check my status when I've used up about half of my Chaos Energy.

I'll leave it at that for now.

Also, it looks like I should be getting more Chaos Energy and mana soon.

From what I've seen on the forums, after you reach 50 points in each stat, it starts to alternate in how many points of mana, health, and Secondary Energy you receive based on how many points you have in the stat.

Every fifty points except for the hundred intervals equate to a 5 point increase in mana, a five point increase in Chaos Energy, and a four point increase in health. Meanwhile every hundred interval is a ten point increase for all three.

With PHY affecting my health, MEN affecting Chaos Energy, and MAG affecting mana.

So another nine points to PHY and ten points to MEN should see me getting more health and Chaos Energy respectively.

I raise my gaze after storing the five potions I made into my storage ring, leaving the remaining twenty-four points untouched so that I can still fight as another thought comes to mind.

How does someone make a health potion if this is how Secondary Energy potions are made?

"That can vary based on the person," Chaos says with what feels like a shrug in his voice even if I can't see him. "Health potions can be made through many different ways. Some people use their own health to make the potions while others use their mana infused into certain herbs. It just depends on their skills."

Right. That makes sense.

"A healing potion and a health potion are two different things though," Chaos points out, surprising me a little bit. "A health potion will restore your points of health, while a healing potion will immediately set to work healing your body without affecting how many points of health you have."

Interesting.

There are a lot of different types of potions, aren't there?

"Too many," Chaos mutters. "But there are only a couple dozen skills that can create Secondary Energy potions. And they're all skills from us Primordials, like the one you just got."

So the vast majority of the people in the universe that can make Secondary Energy potions are Successors?

"Yep," Chaos says, sounding a little proud of that fact.

Certainly explains why they're so rare and expensive.

Wait, does that mean…

"Yes," Chaos answers without my even finishing my question. "You are the only person aside from me in the universe who can make Chaos Energy potions now."

Before I get happy or anything by that fact, how many people in the universe even have Chaos Energy?

He pauses for several seconds.

When he finally answers, he does it rather hesitantly, "A few hundred at most. And you're the only one with a purely Chaos Energy Skill Tree."

So it's not worth as much as it sounds.

"To most people? No," Chaos states as I glance at Blake to find him furrowing his brows while staring at the ground and rubbing his chin in thought. "To the couple hundred Class S hunters that do have Chaos Energy? Yes. They will most likely pay a fortune for each potion."

Oh.

That's nice then.

A chuckle resounds in my head as Chaos says, "Nice is an understatement. You could get rich off of these potions when you leave the Unique Domain."

Probably.

On another note, I still haven't converted my Val currency to System Credits yet.

I should probably ask Blake to get whatever money I had on Val before losing my memory. What with me having no idea where it is.

It wasn't possible before since I was avoiding my family, but I've grown used to being around Blake now.

So it's fine.

I feel the corners of my lips quirking upwards ever so slightly at that thought before I lie back down again and rest my eyes.

Time for a bit more rest.

Then we can continue the planning session.