Ascension of Chaos

The Spectating Stadium for System Event #1,101,021

"And off she goes, beginning her hunting spree like a true queen!" Crystal Fallian exclaims, her voice echoing throughout the stadium with more than a little excitement filling it. Meanwhile the crowd goes just as wild as she is. "The Queen of Destruction is tearing through one monster after another, and it seems even the beautiful snakes of the island are going to have to realize that biting the Princess of Chaos is a quick trip to death! Or they'll just go extinct."

Laughter fills the stadium at her comment as another serpent jumps out of the bushes and bites Ashley on the leg, giving her yet another bite mark that heals almost immediately. With the serpent that bit her having trouble with its mouth beginning to morph into something that is unmistakably not a mouth.

"While are little queenly princess gets her hunt on, let's see what the other Successors are doing right now!" Crystal exclaims before turning the secondary screen floating high above the main screen acting as the floor of the stadium to show the Successor of Sin. Specifically right when the man cackles like a madman at the sight of the monsters around him all tearing each other apart, with a single symbol floating above the section of forest he is in. "And it looks like he's using the Symbol of Wrath to make the monsters kill each other as he watches."

Crystal flies up to the screen before stopping and explaining for first time viewers of the Successors of Sin, "To those of you who may be unaware, each Successor of Sin is generally categorized in terms of their strength based on how many Symbols of Sin they manage to obtain through their Successor Skills. And Symbols of Sin are symbols they are able to use to enforce their Sin onto the bodies and minds of others, locking them under the control of the symbol." She flies away from the screen again with a serious look on her face. "But these symbols are double edged swords, for they can hurt the wielder just as badly as the targets."

Most of the audience already knows all of this as they chat amongst themselves about the battle or make bets. With most of the bets all revolving around the three Successors in the event.

Unlike with the previous bets though, when Crystal looks at all of the betting pools opened up for the event, the vast majority of them are all betting on the Queen of Destruction to win. With the exception of the Cult of Erebos. The worshipers of the Primordial of Sin.

But whether it's because everyone has learned not to bet against Ashley by now, or because it should be a two versus one between the Successors, Crystal isn't sure.

At this point most of the universe knows that the Primordials of Magic and Chaos are both at war with the Primordial of Sin, so it would be more surprising if the Successor of Sin won.

Except that Crystal knows there is a way for him to win.

All he has to do is make use of his Symbols of Sin in a way that will grant him victory.

"What many of you may not know is that this particular Successor of Sin, Nidvar Delran, has control of three different Symbols of Sin," Crystal says, gathering the attention of many of the audience once more with her words. She then raises one finger. "He has the Symbol of Wrath, which locks everyone within its range, including the caster, into a berserk rage where they attack anyone and everyone around them." She raises a second finger. "He has the Symbol of Gluttony, which drives everyone nearby into a starvation-caused frenzy where they try to eat everything around them." And she raises a third finger. "And the deadliest of the Symbols in a one-on-one match, the Symbol of Pride. A Symbol that forcefully tests the willpowers and prides of the two participants – the Successor and his target – to see which one has a stronger willpower and sense of pride. After which it will grant incredible power to the victor of the two."

Silence fills the stadium amongst the majority, leaving only some whispered voices from those who already knew of the Symbols' powers. But Crystal doesn't pay this any mind as she crosses suddenly begins to fly around the screen with an excited smile on her face while exclaiming, "So we may very well see an exciting display of powers between these Successors depending on how this goes! All the Successor of Sin has to do is separate one of them and he will be able to test his willpower and pride against either princess!"

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A part of Crystal finds it an even more exciting coincidence that both of the female Successors are considered princesses fighting against the dark prince of Sin.

She's always loved this sort of drama. Ever since she can remember.

On that note, she goes ahead and changes the secondary screen to show the other Successor as she says, "Now how about we go ahead and check on our other lovely princess?"

When the screen shows the Successor of Magic simply floating along with a dignified expression on her face as bolts of blue lightning rain down to strike and kill one monster after another, the audience goes wild. The princess herself has the usual point-tipped ears of a winter fae with their pale blue eyes mixing with the magic circles running through her eyes from the Primordial of Magic blood running through her veins. Meanwhile she's wearing a simple set of pale blue and black leather armor.

"Looks like the Princess of the Arcane isn't messing around either," Crystal says with her excitement growing by the second. Then the secondary screen splits up to show all three of the Successors in the round, with Crystal not giving a single ounce of attention to the other hunters yet as she exclaims, "You don't often get to see a lineup like this in a Class D Event, so enjoy it while you can everyone! I for one know that I will!"

If this weren't a Class D event, then she would never ignore the other hunters. But in a Class D event, most of the hunters aren't important in the slightest with only a few exceptions.

The only other hunters in this event that could put up a fight against the Successors would be the high elven princess. And even she is still a bit outclassed by them.

She is only one of over two hundred elven princes and princesses after all.

Why the royal high elves have so many children is beyond Crystal's capability to understand, much less how they manage to do it. But because of it, most of the royals of the high elves are only figureheads until they prove their capabilities.

And this one hasn't done that yet.

Within the three screens she has showing, the three Successors continue tearing their way through the islands. With the Successor of Magic killing the most monsters, followed by the Successor of Sin. With the Successor of Chaos being last in the race between the three.

Until the Successor of Chaos looks at the leaderboard and narrows her eyes.

Then she finally begins to grow serious as she flaps her wings to fly into the sky over the island.

"It looks like the Princess of Chaos is about to do something! Let's watch and see!" Crystal exclaims while enlarging Ashley's screen a little bit.

But it only takes a second for the MC's mouth to widen in shock at the sight of what the Successor of Chaos does next.

Ashley Sinclair Chaos spreads both of her arms out with their palms pointing downwards before narrowing her eyes a little bit. Then she appears to activate two skills at once. With one of them sending a wave of volcanic lava, molten rocks, and some ash out through her right hand in a massive flood, and the other sending a wave of pure destructive ash out through her left hand. Both of which merge in the air and spew straight onto the island.

And she doesn't stop there as the amount shooting out from her hands grows more and more until it forms a massive tidal wave that eventually envelops the entire island. Covering the entire thing as if a volcano had erupted on the island and easily slaughtering monsters across the island.

Crystal grows silent for several seconds with the audience doing the same.

Then she glances at the leaderboards to find Ashley's points skyrocketing over the other Successors in an instant.

Meanwhile her potential skills skyrocket as well, the Skill Thief – as some forums have started to call her – no doubt taking the skills of the monsters on the island.

"The Princess of Chaos- No! The Queen of Destruction has just graced us with her power!!!" Crystal finally recovers to shout, making the audience watching immediately break out into roars of their own. "She has completely turned one of the islands into a volcanic wasteland with just two skills!!!"

All of the other hunters near the edges of islands turn towards the island Ashley is flying over as they feel the intense heat the island is letting off. So much heat that the average temperature of the entire map increases by a few points.

But Ashley just looks apathetically at the island as her level rapidly rises.

Of course, more than a few higher level monsters manage to break out of the volcanic surge, albeit with parts of them missing, but the majority of the lower level monsters are nowhere to be seen.

Then the mini boss ruling over the island breaks out of it as well in the form of a massive serpent with wings.

"It looks like the mini boss of Ashley's island doesn't particularly like the new environment its home has turned into," Crystal says with an amused and excited grin on her face.

The audience roars its excitement out as the serpent turns its attention to Ashley, and the Queen of Destruction turns to face it with that familiar apathetic gaze of hers. Even if it's dulled out from what it used to be, and she now shows some emotion from time to time.

"And it's time everyone!!!" Crystal shouts, clenching her fists at her sides in her excitement. "For the fiiiiirst miniiii bosssss of the eveeeenttttt!!!!!"

The spectating stadium grows so loud that it would shatter a normal person's eardrum in a single instant if it weren't for the System protecting everyone within it.

Now to see how she fares against a monster a few dozen levels above her.