Chaos Devourer System: My Classless Ascension-Chapter 38 - 37:

I couldn’t tell if the creature’s acknowledgment was a good thing or bad thing...

Crasssshhhhhhh!!!!

The claw ripping through my armor answered that question for me instantly..

"Bad... definitely bad.." I groaned, plucking myself out of the floor..

After acclimating myself to my newly evolved skill I’d decided to initiate round two...

That’s when everything changed..

If before the creature had been playing with an insect, now it was fighting like it actually meant it..

And what did that mean for me?

Clankklkk!!!!

Absolute mayhem...

The massive blade in my hands clashed against the hard claws of the beast...

It’s massive claws easily able to flatten a building...

Roooarrrrr!!!

The creature roared.

I could feel dissatisfaction in its voice...

Almost as if it was saying "this wasn’t what I wanted" it seemed disappointed in what I’d been showing the last few clashes...

"Hooooo...alright... get your head in the game D." I tightened my grip on my sword...

The newly evolved <Divine Apotheosis> churning violently within me...

I could feel my control over the atmosphere subtly returning.

I wasn’t so helpless anymore..

With that thought, I willed myself forward..

Boooom!!!!!

The air parted as I swung my sword upward..

Swoooooshhhh...

A claw strike descended like judgement from the skies...

The clash looked comical, like an ant trying to shake an elephant..

And truly, I was an ant, but only in size, because the moment out attacks collided...

Booooom...

The sky ruptured...

Booom...

The surrounding terrain shifted...

What was once a majestic mountain range had been turned into a field of pure carnage and destruction...

We didn’t care..

We moved..

Faster than sound..

Faster than thought..

Each strike seemed to strengthen my next attack even more, yet it wasn’t enough...

Boooom!!!! 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

My sword met its claws...

The impact folding the air like paper...

Boooom!!!!!

Its tail slammed into my side..

I was sent flying..

<Divine apotheosis> willing the atmosphere to sustain my flight..

I had lost my leverage with <atmospheric control> being too weak to matter, but this skill made up for it...

Yet, although it was powerful, it had one flaw that set it apart from my talent..

The cost..

I could feel my energy dropping faster than it’d ever had..

I had always felt like I had a monstrous energy tank but this.. this made me feel the drain..

’I need to end this fast..’

Better said than done when you had a prehistoric behemoth swinging a house sized tail at you...

Fwoooosh....

I swung my sword, trying to parry..

Boooooommmmmm!!!!!!!

The clash was apocalyptic.

Sound vanished for a heartbeat.. then everything collapeoay once..

I was sent flying back...

Rooarrrrr!!!!!!! The creature’s frustrated roar rang out once again...

"Damn it..."

Somehow it felt worse knowing I was disappointing this creature than it did being beaten..

"I’m not done yet.."

I attacked...

And attacked...

The creature merely responded..

A claw swipe here...

A tail bash there...

Nothing was working...

<TRUE DAMAGE> was about as effective as as snow against lava..

This thing was shrugging it off like it was nothing...

Rooooooarrrrrrrrr!!!!!

The atmosphere shifted with that roar..

I could feel it..

The storm had returned....

The creature’s massive wings spreading out..

They beat once..

Wooosh....

The storm responded..

The atmosphere turned dark...

The air got heavier...

I felt myself trapped...

The earlier power surge from <Divine Apotheosis> trying and failing to keep me steady..

The skill was powerful. Incredibly so..

But it wasn’t enough...

Not against THIS...

The creature’s gaze turned towards me as it opened its maws....

I could feel a dreadful amount of power gathering within those jaws....

A swirling mass energy condensing within it, lighting raged, winds lashed out, the sounds of heavy waters crashing against shores deafening..

A torrent of atmospheric forces plunging into the creatures body as its power spiked even further...

It was done playing..

I could see it in its cold gaze..

Since I couldn’t give it the satisfaction of a challenge, then I’d just be erased completely...

Rooooooarrrrrrr!!!!!!

Woooooooooshhhhhhhh

With a thunderous roar the energy crashed towards me..

A beam of pure carnage and destruction..

I tried to move, but it was futile.

Its grip on me was final..

Booooooom!!!!!

The attack struck true...

And I felt it instantly...

It tore right through my torso, tendrils of the condensed energy spreading throughout my body...

I could the essence of the attack slowly undoing my very being..

This wasn’t an attack..

It was an unmaking....

<Chaotic adaptation activating...

<Chaotic reversal activating.....

...

.....

Everything acted at once, trying to stop me from unraveling...

It wasn’t working...

I could feel myself slowly coming undone...

If this attack succeeded, I knew it right then, nothing was bringing me back....

My eyes turned bloodshot..

I poured chaos energy into everything I had..

The spare crystals within my inventory I devoured ravenously, trying to raise my Chaos energy reserves..

<<You have devoured E-Rank crystals +100mp....

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<<You have devoured C-rank crystal +10,000mp...

My chaos energy reserves were filling up, not fast enough...

More... I need more damnit...

I was running out of time...

I could feel the creature’s breath attack drilling into my very existence...

I couldn’t even feel fear at this moment because..

I was angry...

Angry at myself for being so weak. Angry at this thing that was getting in my way. Angry at the fact that something was proving superior to Me! ME WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE EMBODIMENT OF CHAOS!!!!

’Damn it... damn it all... you said creation was mine for the taking.. you said I can acquire if I devoured.. I don’t care what it is, I don’t care what you’ll choose, just devour..

"DEVOUR GODAMMIT!!!!!!!!"

The scream tore out me, raw,visceral...

<<process failed.. insufficient of—-

"I. Said. DEVOUR. goddamit...."

[Ding]

[Bloodline <??????>(sealed) is reacting]..

<<DEVOURING PROGRESS.....

<<DEVOURING SUCCESSFUL..

<<Energy converted 1000 CE>>

<<You have acquired the skill <Storm’s breath(S)>...

It worked, but it still wasn’t enough...

The creature wasn’t stopping..

My consciousness was blurring faster..

It was becoming harder to form coherent thoughts...

’Is this truly how I die?’.. I was unreconciled..

What about my revenge? What about Aunt V? What about Melissa?

Was I going to leave everything unresolved and just die?

Did I crawl out of hell just to die in a storm???

"IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!"

My will blazed, even against existential erasure, I refused. I wasn’t going to be stopped...

"Not here.. NOT EVER!!!!"

Click!!

[Ding]

The world seemed to slow this time around..

[LIMIT BREAKER in effect]....

Everything stilled..

The energy blast tearing through me..

The creature’s ferocious expression..

The storm raging overhead..

Everything seemed to pause in my perception..

[Skill <Storm’s Breath(S)> is evolving...

The change in the atmosphere was immediate...

I could feel control being bestowed upon me...

Up until now, I’d felt like I was up against nature itself, but now, I felt like I’d finally found my grip..

[DING]

[skill evolved successfully...

<Storm’s Breath(S)> -> <Storm’s Descent(SS)>.....

The moment the evolution completed, everything changed...

The blast stopped..

The storm paused..

The very atmosphere itself lagged behind..

Not just from my perspective but in real time..

Even in slowed time I could see the creature’s eyes widen in shock and dread, almost as if it had recognized what just happened before I myself even did...

This wasn’t just another SS rank skill, it felt like more..

And then, the world reacted...

Hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!

The clouds churned violently....

Boooooommmmm!!!!!!

A baleful aura erupting out of me..

I could feel control being ripped forcefully from the atmosphere..

What had felt like a one man show now had another act..

This wasn’t control anymore... it was ownership being contested..

My eyes blazed like the storm itself, lightning dancing through them in living circuitry..

I could feel it..

POWER..

Not in any figurative sense.. NO!

This was raw, unbridled POWER!!

The very forces that made a natural disaster churning within me...

My eyes met the creature’s and the world crashed...

Crackkkk....thoooooommmmmm.....

It felt like the collision between two sonic jets...

A collision of epic forces too strong for their arena...

Space imploded... shredded apart, the current of the void sweeping through in apocalyptic waves...

The power radiating from our forms had surpassed what any regular A- rank awakened could dream of wielding...

Roooooarrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!

The creature roared..

Excitement coloring it’s reptilian features...

But I didn’t share in it’s excitement..

This new form was powerful.. impossibly so..

But paired with the already active <Divine Apotheosis> and I could feel my Chaos Energy that was already low to begin with, bottoming out..

’10 seconds.. that’s all I’ve got.. let’s make this count..."

I steadied my gaze, my arm rose as a word left my lips..

"DESCEND!!"

My voice came from nowhere and everywhere at the same time..

It didn’t feel like a mortal speaking.

It felt like the heavens themselves had proclaimed it..

A massive bolt of black lightning tore through sky, descending with violent intent on the massive behemoth..

Roooooarrrrrrr!!!!!

It roared in defiance, wings outstretched as a beam of pure concentrated storm energy burst out of its mouth..

Booooooooommmmmm!!!!

The collision spread for miles around..

I wasn’t waiting to find out the results..

I was running out time..

A massive blade condensed from pure storm energy materialized in my hand as I swung it with all the force I could muster toward the creature that was fending off my earlier strike...

Roooarrrrr!!!!

It roared... Winds thrashing wildly around it, forming a sort of defensive barrier...

Riiiiippppppp...

Put up in haste, the barrier barely held before the storm blade tore right through it,..

Slashhhhh...

The attack connected, a deep gash appearing on the creature’s chest...

Rooooarrrrrrrr....!!

Its pain filled roar reverberated all around...

Its gaze turning towards me with violent intensity..

I wasn’t waiting..

’5 seconds left’

I swung the massive blade in my hands wantonly, drawing blood and rage from the creature...

Its aura spiked violently, it’s maws gaping open..

Another breath attack...

I couldn’t let it..

If that thing struck, I’d be done for..

’3 seconds..’

I channeled every ounce of energy within me, poured it into the skill and activated one final ability..

"Storm’s Echo!!!"

The world froze for a split moment and then...

Woooosh...woooosh...wooosh...

The attacks I’d landed earlier manifested once more, surrounding the creature on all sides, and in one swift movement, surged towards the unsuspecting creature....

Sliceeeeee!!!!

Blood spurted through the air as the world paused...

The blades going clean through the creature that had abandoned all defenses for that final attack..

Its gaze met mine.

And in that final moment..

I didn’t see fear..

I didn’t see regret..

I only saw acknowledgment..

A predator acknowledging a fellow predator..