NOVEL NEXT Chapter 262: Wonderful Experience, Trouble
After leaving Dimensional Battlefield once the match was over, Aleron went to Duel at the Summit, using the code and adding this game to his profile.
[Your first five battles are placement matches. Your rank will be determined based on the results from the five battles. Good luck.]
It was a 1v1 duel on various types of arena maps. At the peak of the mountain, near the river, on top of an ocean bed, a lavascape, an icy cavern, and so on.
Aleron's first match was against an elf in a simple cloth outfit. Nobody could use any items in Super Brawl Arena, so it was all based on their one's real power. Of course, Innate Geno Gears was a different matter. Since it was within one's body and a part of it, their powers were perfectly reflected in the virtual world.
The elf conjured a magic bow during the countdown while Aleron conjured his chaotic blades as six blades floated circularly, their tips pointing at the elf.
The moment the countdown hit 0, Aleron attacked while also using the Event Horizon Barrier, his strongest defense skill to date. It had extreme gravitation wave points designed to forcefully absorb all kinds of energy and send them to another spatial layer, and he could even send it to the opponent if the attack wasn't strong enough to break through his skill.
Alas, the elf's bow glowed before a stream of glowing arrows obstructed his view instantly. The countdown hit 0, and while his chaotic blades had also attacked the elf, Aleron simply lost before the elf was hit because those arrows shredded through his defensive skill before destroying him.
The elf disappeared while Aleron remained on the map with an option in front of him.
[Do you want to start another match?] or [Exit?]
Aleron wryly smiled. 'Why are they so strong? I mean, are their body stats even higher than mine on top of their arsenal of power being advanced?'
[Gachapi: Phew, finally connected here. Now we can talk while gaming, and I got your question, Master. You are right, the opponents you are facing are stronger than you stats-wise, even in body stat.]
'I see,' Aleron started another match and soon got an opponent as the map changed to a ground with two raging river streams flowing on both sides.
His opponent was a muscular man seven feet tall.
"What's up? You look quite fit, eh?" the man said as he looked at Aleron while grinning.
"You too," Aleron smiled.
"Well then, let's have some fun. I will only use the sword and only attack your incoming attacks," the man said as he conjured a huge black sword.
[Gachapi: he can see that you are quite weaker than him, so he wants to play a game, Master. This is good. He is one of those types who likes to help others.]
"Thank you," Aleron cupped his fist and conjured six chaotic blades. "I am Aleron."
"Call me Zathor."
The countdown reached zero, and Aleron released his first chaotic bade, spinning like a drill as it conjured a dark infernal flame vortex around it with destructive black sparks in internal flow—void motes.
Aleron had learned that combining space and time in a way that negates both of them via gravity can create a real power of "Void," the element of nothingness that literally erases everything. Pairing this with flame and wind as he did, this version of the chaotic blade was Aleron's strongest.
'Interesting,' Zathor smiled. He didn't even move his sword and stood in the same position, but a dark, fiery, windy, swirly patterned slash unleashed from his body, giving Aleron a feeling that he had become a sword himself when that slash appeared.
The attack actually shredded Aleron's attack into pieces as he lost all connection to the chaotic blade. The pieces had stopped moving forward upon the impact and just floated, surrounded by the dark, fiery, windy patterns!
'Woah, what kind of power is that?' Aleron was amazed.
"It seems you have a lot of stuff in store, Aleron," Zathor said with a laugh. "Come on, show me your everything."
Aleron was thrilled. He could already feel that just watching Zathor was giving him insight and ideas, especially that feeling when he perceived Zathor as if he had become a sword.
"Alright, I am going to throw my everything to you!"
Aleron started unleashing skills, even using Level 7 Magic Prints to enchant skills with various exotic boosts and increasing their attacks with Body Ki!
Celestial Nova Burst Blade!
Enchanted with level 7 Magic Print: Nullking Condensement.
*BOOM!*
Zathor effortlessly sliced the attack into several pieces again.
Eternal Void Frost Blade!
Enchanted with level 7 Magic Print: Frezen of Eternal Frost.
Zathor attacked it to destroy it, but right after that, a blast streamed at him, freezing him while Aleron was already ready for the next attack.
Hell's Cairon Blade!
Alas, before it could hit Zathor, he had already freed himself as the ice around him shattered with a multitude of blades that also destroyed Hell's Cairon blade.
"That was impressive. Are you making these skills from the get-go?" Zathor blinked.
"Yeah," Aleron grinned.
Zathor was amazed, "That's a rare talent to have. Be sure to hone it properly."
"I will," Aleron nodded and started unleashing more attacks.
Aleron was excited to see Zathor's attacks. He could feel a pure constructed intent in each one of them that rendered all of his skills useless.
Both of them fought for an hour as Aleron recovered his energy multiple times during the match.
"Ok, let's stop here," Aleron said, his eyes fiery. "I want to enter meditation as soon as possible."
"Haha, alright. Have fun, Aleron," Zathor said with a laugh. "Here, I'll show you an interesting thing."
Zathor moved his sword for the first time and slashed it at Aleron.
In that instant, Aleron felt his perception getting skewed and entirely changed as all he saw was a giant blade thousands of kilometers tall and a cracked sky with destruction around it.
Aleron's eyes widened, and his mind turned blank, or rather, trans, as he looked at the display of power out of his imagination. This attack gave him a feeling that it could actually destroy a whole world…a whole chaosverse.
The sword was suspended in the world as if it were the only thing that mattered. Everything else was there just to sharpen its blade and got destroyed in the process.
Aleron was completely transfixed.
And when he finally snapped out of it, Zathor was long gone.
[Gachapi: Master, you've been in trans for half an hour. What did you see?]
'Wait, you couldn't see that? I thought we shared everything,' Aleron was surprised.
[Gachapi: Yes, but not that. Zathor's attack was directed at your experience, perceived only by your instincts. Even if I read your brain, I can't see what you just experienced. Experience is personalized. Even if two people go through the same thing, the feelings they perceive are different.]
'Just how powerful is that guy?'
[Gachapi: Very powerful even in the ranks of the Multiverse realm.]
Aleron clenched his fist, thrilled to the maximum.
He didn't wait any further and left the game, logging out before entering meditation in deep focus.
He felt that it wouldn't be long before he reached level 3 in his Sever concept!
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On the other hand, the Path Guild also created their branch in the second region of Chaosverse.
Darzax, Riki, Hua, Fang, Lee, Ying, Jiang, Arran'tel, Nerathi, Roxen, and Elysia reached Unbound rank, so they arrived in the same city as Aleron.
The Path Guild branch in Desolate City was handed over to Geralt the Draconian and Minessa the elf, who were strongest after the Executives and Elysia.
Elysia's personality only had a minor change, but she was a different person in terms of her moral values as she had adapted to Aleron's ideology.
She had no interest in her family, who wanted to use her as a pawn, so after arriving in the Chaosverse, she only focused on getting stronger and broke through to Unbound-rank relatively fast, winning the second competition and getting a Symbios Gear for herself as well.
And since she already had some innate talents and knowledge due to being a resident of the upper cosmos, she broke through to Unbound rank relatively fast because she only lacked resources, and after Executives used up the resources, the priority was given to stronger members of the guild to get the remaining resources that Elysia won.
But something happened soon after they arrived in the second region of the Chaosverse.
Elysia felt the Bloodline Resonance, indicating that a member of the same Bloodline was in the city.
This also meant that the other person also sensed it!
Elysia informed executives about this as they gathered in the meeting room and were talking about it when suddenly, some uninvited guests appeared in their newly bought territory.
A group of five people, three Unbound-rank and two Transcendent-rank entered the courtyard and released their aura towards three wooden traditional castle-type buildings.
"Come out!"
The Transcendent-rank man looking in his thirties with golden-red hair shouted.
It was clear that he was calling Elysia.
The group emerged from the central castle's meeting room together.
The five of them instantly looked at Elysia who was giving Bloodline Resonance.
"You…so, it's you. The daughter of the King's mistress. You finally got captured," an Unbound-rank woman said, sneering as she added, "Don't even think about escaping."
"You all," the other Transcendent-rank man looked at Darzax and others with a deadpan expression, "If you don't want to get destroyed, give up on that woman."