Galaxy's First Ruler Chapter 245: Chaos

"On the thread of Destiny, there are countless nodes, each representing a coincidence more bizarre than the other."

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It didn't take Aldrich any fancy calculations to know what these expressions on Maya's face ant.

He had expected these presences as an outco of his plan, but in his mind, the point of light that had decimated the two Divine Spirits was the limit. The Spirits summoned by a Marchioness and Duchess were enough to make a Duke salivate, but the Kings and Queen shouldn't have given it much thought.

'Why?..'

Aldrich mumbled.

He didn't understand why the KING himself had co here. Aldrich couldn't comprehend that the leader of Hallowed Phantoms was just behind that crack in space, and not one other King had taken any action yet.

'Why?..'

Aldrich couldn't make any sense of this illogical thing. Aldrich's plan hadn't failed, and he knew it. Every step was as he had thought it to be and as he had accounted for it to be. He made the Golden Luan weaker for Vritra to overpower it, and the King's attack annihilated them, giving Aldrich this opportunity.

But when the movie was about to finish, these sudden unplanned after-credits bewildered Aldrich. Facts told him there should be other Kings here already, fighting off the Being behind him. Truth told him that there can't be anything in this Galaxy other than himself who could foil his plans.

All things were jumbled up, like countless threads entangled in a complex structure.

Everything was confusing.

Everything was in a state of...

"CHAOS!!! Oh No! What did I do?!"

For the first ti, Aldrich realized that what he thought to be the pinnacle of Laws, the Darkness, was nothing but a re child. In front of this Chaos, which he didn't even know when it materialized and took over the Laws around the Planet, his calculations ant nothing.

Aldrich's teeth clattered, and he muttered.

"No wonder... No wonder... So that's how it is... So that's why the Devil said that to ..."

Aldrich rembered the Devil Aldrich's words, telling him to et him on the other side, and got to know the Devil must have already perceived these changes.

"Daddy..."

Sha called to him, and shook his neck, making him co out of this stupefying and rarest of the rare monts in Aldrich's life.

Aldrich gently closed his life and took a deep breath. In one breath, he let go of everything. He let go of trying to understand when things beca chaotic, and he let go of trying to learn and understand this Chaos for now, too.

This mont was the second ti in Aldrich's life when he had given up on sothing temporarily. The first was the ti in his dream when he had to forgo the Question, What am I, and instead had chosen another question to answer.

Ti was different, the place was different, but the stakes were the sa and so was the man.

Sigh!

Aldrich snapped his eyes open, but they weren't as clueless as before. The conviction with which he had begun his plan returned with full strength. Aldrich stepped out into the real world. His skin was on the verge of peeling off, and his stomach almost bulged. But Aldrich was calm, calr than Sha, who trusted Aldrich more than anything.

A breath ca out of his mouth, and along with this breath ca out a sound. But this wasn't a normal sound, this was the language of Law. Not one, not two, but only Aldrich knew how many Laws he understood, full or partial. A blurry image of a hole opened up in his forehead, and an illusory three-leafed Dark Sapling materialized behind him.

Darkness, Devil, Death...

Fire, Water, Earth, tal...

Electricity, Wind...

Gravity...

Attraction, Repulsion...

...

"Hissss Hesss Sheh Sah Sehah!!!"

SERPENT SLITHER!!!

The words that had co out of Aldrich's mouth weren't normal. It was the language of snakes. By now he had already understood that there was a strange phenonon about this language, stranger than the fiction and truth. The mont he had almost gone insane from listening to the hissing sound, Aldrich got to know that only this sound could counter it.

Who would have known that a Skill which Aldrich had casually chanced upon would bring these unexpected results to his present and future?

If this wasn't a coincidence, then what was?

Snap!!!

A snapping sound originated around Aldrich. Only he knew which Ancient Saying he had relied upon to break the constraint of mutation. The space around him fluctuated, the sa as Boudicca's, and he beca isolated from the real world without leaving it.

But this isolation didn't co without any consequences.

Serpent Slither was a Passive Skill. And according to its description, it wouldn't matter if Aldrich wanted to or not, it would exact a heavy price on his Perception. Veins, blue and purple, popped up all around his body, and Aldrich felt the sa feeling which he used to feel after finishing a Rumok.

His Divine Sense was getting consud at a fast rate. He knew it wouldn't be long before he would beco as useless as Harold, who was still flying maniacally in the sky with snakes bursting out of his stomach.

"Sha... don't wait for if you find it."

Aldrich didn't turn back to look at Sha and spoke out. Sha too seed to sense the urgency in Aldrich's voice and plunged in his shadow.

Aldrich did nothing without a aning behind it. There were countless snakes, getting sucked by the crack behind him. But even after knowing the ti was running out, he didn't want to let Sha devour just any mythical creature. He would get only one chance, and in this one chance, he had to make sure that he would get the better end of the deal.

What Aldrich was looking for was a mythical snake of Dark Attribute.

Aldrich had always wondered why the Devil made the Darklings co out and used them as a part of his body. But even in Sha's mories, he couldn't figure it out. The mont he brought the Devil Aldrich as undead, through the strange bond between them, he confird his theory.

In El Cid's Dungeon, it wasn't like the Devil was otherworldly strong or sothing. The strength he had used didn't just co out of the blue. That strength belonged to Aldrich, and Aldrich's Class. The Darklings weren't just pieces of jewelry for the Devil; they were the manifestation.

A manifestation of Creatures of Darkness.

And the Spawn of Darkness had the Authority to beco almost invincible in the presence of Darkness.