Ascension of Chaos

Ashley

I continue to stare at the corpse for several seconds before I realize that the corpse is slowly being covered in glowing crimson cracks. Only for small parts of it to begin disintegrating when the cracks grow too numerous in any particular location.

Then I finally blink and turn my attention to the remaining System Messages I got that were covered by the last universal notification thing.

Including the quest completion messages.

Objective 1 complete! You have slain the King of Destruction! Now bask in your rewards!

Objective 3 complete! You have survived The First and Last Hell of the King of Destruction! Now bask in your rewards!

To all the participants of the quest, The King is Dead, Long Live the King, the quest has been updated!

♢– The King is Dead, Long Live the King! –♢

You have slain the King of Destruction!

Thanks to the King of Destruction's death, the Unique Domain will now come to an end.

Objective 1: Kill the King of Destruction

Objective 2: Conquer all twenty-four fortresses

Objective 3: Survive

Objective 4: Slay the five Grand Lords of Destruction

Seconds later numerous red orbs appear in front of me. And when I reach out to touch them, items begin falling down to the volcanic ground.

Amongst the items are a crown that looks very sinister and clearly made of scales with a single blood red gem at the center and numerous scales on either side slowly growing smaller as they go to the sides of the crown. Each with their sharp sides pointed upwards. Along with two rings, one of which is pure silver and is labeled as the survivor ring, and the other also has scales of the King of Destruction used in its construction.

Then there's a single horn. One meant for someone to blow into to call out a loud sound, not an actual monster horn. And it is also made out of scales. Followed by a full set of clothing that is labeled as the armaments.

Clothing that is actually not too much different from my current outfit.

It's just a single t-shirt with a wide but not too wide collar, a jacket, pants, a belt, and some boots. All of which are black in color except the jacket which is black with a crimson inner lining.

The only special looking thing in the armaments is the single glowing crimson crystal at the end of a necklace.

But the benefits the armament gives are incredible despite its plainer appearance.

Then again, that appearance is probably because that's the type of clothes I prefer.

Because armor sucks to wear.

My thoughts slow down as I realize the armaments seem to be taking some damage just from me looking at them.

Shit. There better be a way to turn off this gaze mutation.

I quickly reach out to grab the crown and put it on my head, following which I grab the armaments. And the moment I do, they stop taking damage and actually begin to repair themselves. Even with me still looking at them.

Good. That full immunity from destruction magic does seem to work for my True Damage skill as well.

So with that thought in mind, I avoid looking directly at the other items as I grab them all and equip them. Since I'm pretty sure some of them don't have that repair feature that my armaments apparently have.

Also, there's another issue.

All of my previous rings and my gauntlets and bracelets?

They were all destroyed in the King of Destruction's attacks along with my arms at the time.

The only things that survived were my blades.

So rest in peace over half of my gear.

Before I look for Blake, I open the description of my Gaze of Destruction skill and begin to test it out as a System Message matches my pulling up its description.

{As the first user to obtain a Unique Skill and a Unique Skill Tree at Class E, you are now rewarded with 10000 Skill Points. A Unique Skill is special in that no one else in the universe has the same skill nor any skill that does the same thing as it. And all beings with Unique Skills are classified as Unique Beings by the System as there can never be another just like them in the universe.}

{Gaze of Destruction – UNIQUE SKILL – Makes the user's eyes deal out True Damage of the destruction affinity to all that is gazed upon by the eyes of the Queen of Destruction.}

My eyes narrow a little bit at the message and the skill's description.

Yeah, doesn't look like I can turn it off. Interesting to know exactly what Unique Skills are though. And that's a second set of 10000 Skill Points I've received.

At this point I have over twenty-thousand Skill Points saved up.

Enough to unlock an enormous number of skills.

Or probably just some of the Queen of Destruction Skill Tree's skills.

Anyways, before that, I need to figure out what is up with Gaze of Destruction. Because I don't want to end up hurting Blake when I go to him.

Fortunately I can sense him right now even if I'm not looking, so I know he's at least alright.

But I'd rather go check on him in person.

So time to start testing the skill.