Chaos and Order - A Multiverse Fanfic

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Chapter Begins:

Kai had already fallen into a mysterious state.

Inside his mind, those words that had originated from his very soul became runes.

Millions of millions of runes exploded, bombarding each other as Kai kept trying to figure out their essence.

If one were to look into his mind, then it was like countless stars exploding and birthing repeatedly, each explosion suggesting a new, unique rune.

Only this morning he had forced himself out of this situation when he was about to lose himself to the announced and heinous Comprehension of Luck at Two Extremities.

That could have resulted in his absolute death. No doubt.

Yet, this time was no less different, either.

10 minutes…

15 minutes…

30 minutes…

Crack!

Moraine's head banged into the blood layer!

As the 60th minute passed, a gigantic crack appeared in the sky, running from one end to another.

The world was finally giving out.

The horrifying powers brought out by Kai's Spiritual Awakening, and used by the Sword Spirit to create the Reality Marble, were failing to keep it intact.

Time was not in Kai's favor.

70 minutes…

Crackkk!!

Red Sun's body almost shattered, blood splattering everywhere!

80 minutes…

Rumbleeee!

Shadow Lord dropped, touching the silent blood ocean for the first time.

The moment he landed, his knees buckled, his old eyes never leaving the sight of the yellow stars as if… as if he could see a meaning in it.

120 minutes…

BOOM!

This was no mere crack anymore.

A piece of the very sky had fallen, and black and blue bolts of lightning rumbled here and there, concentrating on the gap in the sky.

Strangely, Moraine's body was still intact, and a reddish-black fog was seeping out of her heart, canceling the immeasurable pressure.

The Sword Spirit had already gone silent as if it would welcome victory or failure with the same expression; blank and ancient.

It was then, just as it seemed the sky wouldn't be able to take on the barrage of the bolts of lightning, that a sigh slithered into existence.

It was like someone was trying to breathe more than air, its breath rattling.

Kai slowly opened his eyes, a strange understanding shining within his hazel pupils.

The Chosen One of an entire world…

The Contestant worthy enough to have a Glitch…

The Promised King, Contestant Red, the Blood Demon…

… had once again shown the world, and himself, why he alone could vie for the throne at the top of the Peak of Absolute Power.

-So, it was like this… No wonder…- Kai hissed, his eyes looking at something more than the sky, more than paths, more than stars, and more than the broken world.

The Sword Spirit turned around and faced him, demanding an answer; the result of Comprehension, Epiphany, and Understanding.

-Limitless Blood Firmament- Kai hissed, looking at the blood ocean, his voice cold and ethereal. -The part Limitless of my Inner World is this ocean of blood. It incorporates the concept of Infinity.

-The part Blood Firmament of my Inner World is the vast Sky. This Sky; this Night; this vast blackness, incorporates the concept of Supreme.-

Kai then again looked at the blood ocean, which rippled for none but him and the Sword Spirit.

-My Inner World is not a Reality Marble to resurrect the beings that I have devoured.

-Limitless Blood Firmament is a… Seal!!!-

BOOM!

An ethereal boom rang out from Kai as if some kind of shackles were breaking under the might of Kai's understanding.

But the Sword Spirit had yet to look away.

Kai lifted his head and looked at the constellation in the breaking sky.

His eyes traced an unseen yellow path between the stars, his gaze deepening, along with his epiphany.

His mouth opened and closed as if…

… he was reading something, mumbling to himself.

With every next moment, the unseen yellow paths in his eyes become strokes; the strokes of a brush.

And if they were strokes of a brush, then the brush naturally followed the rules of a script.

Kai raised his arm and pointed at the sky. Then, using his hand as the brush and the Sky as the paper, he wrote, creating one stroke after another, connecting the stars.

-Know whiteness, Maintain blackness, and be a model for all under heaven. By being a model for all under heaven, Eternal integrity will not err. If eternal integrity does not err, You will return to infinity.-

Kai's hand looked to be moving straight, but it also looked like the tip of his finger was slithering like a snake.

-Limitless is the ink and the Blood Firmament is the paper,- Kai hissed, power rippling around him, the unknown shackles loosening even more.

-And where is this Ink?- the Sword Spirit intervened for the first time.

-In the 10th star of my Tree of Life,- Kai answered, looking at the constellation. -… in my heart!

-The ink is my Will, and like this blood ocean, my Will, too, is Limitless.

-When my Will touches the Blood Firmament, the Script is originated, sealing everything under heaven.

-This Script… is the true essence of my Reality Marble; my Inner World.-

-And the Script is…- the Sword Spirit asked with a touch of admiration in its voice.

Kai lifted his hand and pointed at the breaking sky.

The lingering power of Spiritual Awakening, still infinitely vaster than his own, got consumed by his Will.

And then Kai wrote, his finger tracing a distorted, hideous path that was neither straight nor curved.

All the bolts of lightning vanished, the gap in the sky closed up, and the world regained its silent dullness; sealed under the might of a single stroke.

-Parselscript!-

Crackkkkkkkkkkk!!!

The unknown and unseen shackles seemed to have shattered.

Suddenly, just as Kai said Parselscript, a brilliant light erupted from his forehead.

This light was almost similar to the starlight falling from the pale yellow stars, but it blinded everything and everyone.

A Sign manifested on Kai's forehead, between his brows.

This Sign was hideously beautiful, and there was a sinisterness about it, enchanting and disorienting all eyes.

To some, it looked like the number 3, written in a broken, twisting serpentine form.

To others, it looked like a round beast, flailing its long tentacles.

This was the Yellow Sign; a seal placed over him by the Existence in the Primordial Tower.

The same Yellow Sign, which the Existence had proclaimed to be the source of all languages written or spoken.

The same Yellow Sign, which Kai had theorized to be the key, belonging to an Old One — Hastur!

The Yellow Sign between Kai's brows wasn't yellow, though.

It was almost colorless as if it was just a transparent ink; hidden from all gazes.

Yet, the moment Kai said Parselscript, one of its three arms shone, letting out a blinding burst of light.

Little by little, starting from the end of this curved arm, the Sign began gaining color, and only when it reached half the length of this arm did this coloring stop from advancing.

By then, a full half of one of its 3 twisted arms was glowing yellow, hinting ancientness.

Strangely, this half-a-length looked exactly like the stroke Kai had drawn between the stars; and this half-a-length also looked like the slither of a serpent.

When the Sword Spirit saw this yellow stroke on Kai's brows, it broke out in a feat of an evil cackle, the entire world booming under its hisses.

This was indeed Parselscript, the true essence of Kai's Inner World.

Seal the beasts, Seal the man, Seal the earth, and Seal the heaven…

This was Limitless Blood Firmament...

.... a Reality Marble that could Seal the entire Universe.

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