Chapter 18 Journey and Encounters (Patreon)

Hey there everyone, It's Luna!

It's been over a year since I started my training, and I was finally given the OK by Tiana. The chaos energy gushing out of me gradually weakened as I started controlling my chaotic energy. But as time passed, the surrounding environment mutated, turning the area into something that was unknown even in this world.

Trees Became warped and had rainbow leaves, strange plants have been growing all over the place and many bizarre things have sprouted from the ground.

I have improved and finally mixed my core with my current body, which was one of the reasons why I couldn't control the chaos energy leaking from my body. My core was still inside me, but its status had completely disappeared, or rather it was mixed with my current body.

My current status now looked like this.

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Name: Luna Chaos

Unique Race: Chaos Child

Body Type: Changeling (Human/Elf)

HP 35,300,000

MP 50,500,000

STR 300

DEX 240

VIT 290

INT 470

SPD 300

LUK 100

Unique Skills:
Unlimited Growth LV-, Soul Sealing LV-, Total Extraction LV-, Infinity Barrier LV-, Indomitable Shell LV-, Chaos Retaliation LV-, Chaos Manipulation LV-, Soul Shell LV-, Chaos Resistance LV-

Normal Skills:

Barrier Magic LV 6, Four Elemental Magic LV 8, Bow Mastery LV 3, Evasion LV 3, Sword Mastery LV 3 (New)

Passive Skills:

Magic Manipulation LV 3, All Elemental Resistance LV-, Mana Regeneration LV 7, Automatic Regeneration 4 (New)

Titles: Kin of the Goddess of Chaos, Unyielding Soul, Blessings of Chaos, The Only One, Representative of the Chaos Goddess, Favor of the Chaos Goddess

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Tiana also told me that she had updated the system so that it could register my soul and status to match that of this world. So now aside from my race, hp and mana, my status looked like someone that could actually exist in this world.

Well, some of my skills and status needed to be concealed, so Tiana already did some modifications that unique skills were not seen unless appraised by someone with divine eyes.

Since my Race was a long-lived race, I could just bluff my high-level skills as a product of my long training. I did technically train in the woods.

Tiana already reclaimed the direct communication orb, so I am now alone. It's a good thing that I had someone to talk to over the past year, or I would have probably forgotten how to communicate with people.

Now then, after so long, it was finally time to start my journey. I need to clean things up before finally leaving this place and exploring the world.

Manipulating my Chaos Energy, I spread outwards to cover up the whole area that had been mutated by my Chaos Energy. After having a full grasp of the area and all that I found to have been affected by my energy, I activated my skill.

[Total Extraction…]

After activation, everything within the grasp of my chaotic field was disintegrated and converted into pure chaos energy, leaving a soil dessert. Since this area was in the middle of the deep forest, it would probably look like a bald spot if viewed from above.

I didn't really need to do anything with the field because bald spots like actually happened in this world occasionally, when powerful beings fought.

I didn't want to harvest the mutated minerals and plants, that's why I disintegrated everything into chaos energy and absorbed it.

"This should be good enough!"

Pumping myself up for the continuation of my journey, I checked my map and marked my next destination. Not to the village that I encountered before, but to another village north of where I was. The previous village was south-west from my current location.

Tiamat did request me to first see the world in its current state and enjoy it. I don't plan to make improvements and such, nor want to rule over it. I will probably live a really long life, which I could not even imagine right now, so watching it change as time passed by would be something to enjoy.

The forest was several kilometers wide and filled with strong monsters. It will be a bit of a long journey north before I could come out of the forest, but it would be a nice long stroll. And I also wanted to see the wildlife here too, be it monster or beast.

And after walking for a few days from the deep forest, I finally encountered creatures of this world. By the way, the previous encounter with humans was not really an encounter, but just a glimpse from afar.

"What do we have here…"

What I found stuck in between rocks was a slime. A green slime, also known as forest cleaners. They were innately non-hostile and could eat anything rotting in the forest, be it corpses of beasts, monsters or even plant life.

According to the knowledge, I was given, slimes of different types spawn in any environment and were tasked as cleaners. Some of this world's people think that they were Gifts from Gods to help make the world beautiful. But in reality, they were just creatures that adapted a way of life where they could survive regardless of environment and situation.

Slimes could survive just by absorbing magic power, but that didn't mean they didn't want to eat. Despite being simple creatures as they were, they were said to have an excellent sense of tastes and were often trained by gourmets to select the best ingredients for their meals.

While I was looking at the slime trying to get out of its predicament, I sensed another creature approaching me. This one was detected as hostile and also one of the most common monsters found in fantasy.

A green skinned, bipedal pig head, that is both fat and muscular. An Orc, a common fantasy monster, though I wonder why it was alone in this deep forest.

After checking its condition, I found some fresh wounds from its body, so it was probably made its way here after a fight with something.

"Bumooo!"

Most likely still angered from losing to something, it aimed straight at with a club that looked more like a damaged branch.

"It's my first encounter! Now then, time to test my skills…"

Just as I prepared myself for combat, the orc suddenly stumbled. Then, looking at its leg, there was something like a string attached. Confused, the Orc started panicking, but it didn't it escape.

Slowly being pulled by the string as if teasing it, the Orc left a mark as it slowly disappeared towards the darker area of the forest.

How ruthless… and beautiful… this is nature… the weak hunted, the strong survive, if you are weak, you would simply die, unless you are so weak that other creatures didn't even bother recognize your presence.

I looked at the slime again, and found it successfully freeing itself, then after wiggling for a bit, it followed the trail of blood from the dragged Orc and cleaned it up.

After finally seeing the slime disappear in the distance, I also continued my journey. I look forward to what a normal town would be like in this world. Will it be harsh like those dark fantasy novels, or will it be tranquil like ones in a slice of life novel?

"That's something to look forward to"

I mumbled to myself as I continued my travel.