Ascension of Chaos

Ashley

I go ahead and give permission to the Tower of Chaos and Purgatory people to enter my Spire's lower floors. Floors 11 through 15 to be exact.

Of the floors in my Spire, floors 1-5 are public floors for anyone I actually let in. They serve as stores and gathering places for other people. Meanwhile floors 6-10 are my own personal floors where I live. With every floor after that just being whatever I make them.

So I'm just starting out by giving these people the eleventh through fifteenth floors to mess with.

It won't be a huge issue if they mess things up there, seeing as it's just five floors out of fifty. But it'll still give them a chance to get set up.

Of course, all of the other people camping at the bottom of my Spire start freaking out the moment the Tower of Chaos and Purgatory people show up. Simply because they're big shots in the universe.

Then they start freaking out even more when they casually walk past them straight into the Spire.

The Spire that has locked everyone out for months now.

But neither Dhalia nor Xander seem to care whatsoever about what they think, seeing as they just keep on walking by without a word. Without even so much as a glance at them.

Then again, they're probably used to ignoring people at the level of those camping outside the Spire.

I just watch this from amongst them for a while using an invisibility potion that the Tower of Chaos brought me to hide myself from their eyes. Of course, with my own eyes closed so that I don't accidentally kill someone. Or multiple someones.

Stupid eyes.

Not that I'm complaining about having a True Damage skill, but I would still like to be able to turn it off from time to time.

Anyways, after seeing what I want to see, I go ahead and fly into the air towards the city. Just to check out how the city is actually doing.

I haven't really seen anything other than the news – which destroyed my TV – and my forest park.

To my surprise though, a System Notification appears out of nowhere as I'm flying. One that has me raising a brow.

I grimace a little at the sight of the notification. Simply because of who that Planetary Leader is.

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The Black Enforcer.

From what I heard on the TV, along with the System Forums, there was a close race between the Black Enforcer and the Successor of Order. But in the end, the Black Enforcer won. Simply because of the people's opinion that the Successor of Order, while he has influence and power, was still a nobody before he was made the Successor of Order.

And they didn't want some random person taking over as their leader.

Meanwhile everyone knew the Black Enforcer, regardless of whether or not they liked him. And they know he's talented at diplomacy and leading others.

Even if he's a shit father.

What bothers me the most is that I can't actually disagree with that. Since the whole reason he was a shit father was neglecting us to be a skilled leader in the first place.

Guess I'm stuck seeing him again soon. But at least I don't have to directly interact with him.

I've got allies now after all. So I can make them do the talking for me.

A smile stretches across my face.

After looking at the news about the last meeting, I learned that it was normal to invite one advisor from another world along with one of your own advisors. And I can sort of do that.

I can at least trust the Tower of Chaos person as much as I could trust an advisor from Val. Simply because of how much he worships me.

"He would never do anything to harm your interests, so he will try his best to do whatever he can for you," Chaos agrees, making the corners of my lips rise a bit as I fly out of the park.

So I can just have Xander and Dhalia there as advisors, and make Xander my spokesperson so that I don't have to speak personally.
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"Be careful about your eyes," Chaos points out, making my smile vanish in an instant. "The privacy barrier around the booth can stop your eyes from harming those outside of it, but if the privacy barrier is ever removed then you will end up harming anyone you look at."

Got it.

After thinking about that for a few seconds though, my smile begins to return.

Actually, that could be a very good excuse not to have to interact with the Black Enforcer.

I can't step out of my private booth unless they want to end up dying by my looking at them. It makes for a perfect excuse.

Meanwhile I can have Xander represent me and Dhalia give me advice.

I can't seem to hurt her anyways. Either because she's too powerful or because she has a True Damage defensive skill.

Or both.

It's probably both.

She is a Class S hunter after all, even though she's a queen.

And it's not like my Gaze of Destruction does a massive amount of damage. It only does a very small amount of damage every instant that I'm looking at something. So if someone's regeneration is higher than the amount of damage it does, then it won't exactly hurt them.

That's why I'm not just brutally overpowered or anything in the System Events.

I get the feeling things will become a bit more challenging again when I start doing Class D Official System Events. Since the trial I did had people at the peak of Class E. So people who were lower level than me.

But Class D Official System Events will have people who are above me in level.

Although Gaze of Destruction is still very useful, and even if someone does have high regeneration, it'll pretty much counter it out. Making it as if they didn't have any regeneration. Or nowhere near as much.

Which is very nice.

And most importantly, and obviously, it's True Damage. So it can't be resisted no matter what it is.

At most the damage can be repaired.

Even the System can't seem to resist it, other than maybe the private booths in the Planetary Council.

"They can't resist it either," Chaos answers before clarifying, "All they do is block the damage from going outside of the booth by taking the damage themselves and repairing themselves immediately."

Interesting.

So literally nothing can resist True Damage.

I guess that's why it's called True Damage in the first place.

"Except for True Damage blocking skills," Chaos points out.

Right. Except for those.

Anyways, I just need to wait until the Planetary Official System Event so that I can wipe the floor with our planet's enemies and get that Skill Point reward. Then I can finally stop having to walk – or fly – around with my eyes closed.

A faint smile stretches across my face at the thought of being able to see again without killing people in the process.

Hey, what do you think is at the end of the Queen of Destruction Skill Tree?

"All I know is that once you reach it you'll be nearly impossible to kill outside of mental attacks," Chaos says, surprising me a little. "Do remember that Destruction Resistance was a skill every single other monster in the Unique Domain had. And the Unique Monster will always have the highest form of the main resistance in its Unique Domain."

Wait, so…

"Yes, at the very end of the Skill Tree will most likely be Destruction Immunity," Chaos answers, sounding rather smug for some reason. "You will be immune to damage to your body at that time. Weak only to damage to your mind."

Holy shit…

Too bad it's still rather far away. I also don't know which route it's down. So I can't really see myself getting it for a long time.

But that's a nice goal to shoot for.

"That it is," Chaos says with a smile clearly audible in his voice as I fly through the sky. Eventually arriving at the city streets.

Alright.

It's time to check out the city.