Ascension of Chaos

Ashley

I go ahead and watch the other video of a successful Unique Monster hunt within its domain, but it's largely the same. With the team that defeats the UM using the UM's own leftover True Damage skill to kill it. The items created from the skill and filled with its power that are scattered through the Unique Domain.

And after watching that video, I go ahead and watch some of the videos for the people who defeated Unique Monsters outside of their domains. After they've already broken out and taken over a world.

But every single one of those is useless to me, since the people fighting the Unique Monster in those cases aren't at the same class as the UM in question at all. In fact, some are multiple classes above the UM. And some are even using entire armies of people above it in class.

Yet they still struggle. Hence just how powerful a Unique Monster is.

Especially after they break out of their Unique Domains.

Because Unique Monsters only have static skills, and they don't have as many skills as other creatures. Generally just a hundred skills. It makes it easier for them to get all of their skills.

Something I didn't know about monsters is that they also get Skill Points. But their only sources of Skill Points are other monsters in their Domains, killing humans, and breaking their Gate.

With their biggest source by far being breaking their Gate.

Since they apparently get ten thousand Skill Points for breaking their own Gate.

Or to be specific, the boss or mini boss ruling over the domain in question gets the Skill Points.

So the Unique Monsters drastically increase in strength after breaking out of their Unique Domains. But at the same time, they're only open for a very brief period of time for someone to even enter the Gates. Making it so that most of the time no one who can actually deal with them before they break actually manages to get inside to deal with them in the first place.

As for the few Successors who actually managed to defeat Unique Monsters? They are currently the most powerful Successors in the universe. With some of them, according to the Successor Forums, having the potential to become 'True Successors', whatever that means.

I hear a murmur coming from my brother, making me glance at him.

"Ashley…"

My eyes widen a little before returning to normal. Then I feel a faint smile stretching across my face.

"About True Successors…" Chaos mutters, making me blink before looking upwards. "It's too early to tell you everything, but just know that Successors are called Successors for a reason."

Called Successors… for a reason…

I narrow my eyes a little bit.

That alone is enough for me to understand just what he means.

You're raising a generation of Primordials to replace you?

He doesn't answer.

But why would he? He said it's too early to tell me, so he likely won't.

I look down at my hand before clenching it and slowly climbing to my feet.

Without giving me a chance to take a step though, I hear Blake muttering, "Ashley?" Making me turn to find him now awake and staring at me.

I give him a nod in response.

He smiles back and climbs to his own feet.

"Good morning," he eventually says after a brief silence.

I stare at him for a few seconds before glancing at the cavern wall, where I can't see the outside. Not that I'd be able to see whether it's day or night anyways from that. Then I glance back at him.

"How do you even know it's morning?" I mutter in confusion while tilting my head a little.

Silence returns for a few seconds.

Then he starts chuckling while covering his mouth.

Why's he laughing?

I frown a little, feeling even more confused now.

Was it some sort of joke that I'm just not getting?

He just keeps chuckling, confusing me more and more in the process. But eventually I just give a mental shrug and ask him, "Did you get any gunpowder?"

That makes him stop chuckling as he asks in return, "I'm guessing you've watched the recordings?"

"Seems he's watched them as well," Chaos says, not sounding surprised in the least.

I nod my head in response to Blake's question.

"Good," he answers, only to glance at the wall of the cavern in the direction that I sense some of that gunpowder. The direction of what is most likely the closest fortress.

Before he says anything else though, I get a surprising notification from the system.