Selina and Mater returned to the Institute the day after.
The first thing they did was to check their spoils of war.
Selina was totally uninterested about the items and the gemstones. But her eyes lit up when she saw the mobile credits.
"This is... This is..." Selina breathed heavily.
Mater flipped his cat paw dismissively. His deep voice echoed. "You can take it. Just rember to buy good food for ."
Selina picked the cat up and spun around. "I’ll buy the best food in this world for you!"
Selina spent the morning counting the mobile credits. She had just received 50,000 credits from the Onoke Case. But now, she received an additional 2,350,000 credits.
"Two million creds..." Selina almost fainted when she finished counting.
That day was rather peaceful for the two of them.
Selina practiced the Chaos Skills that Mater taught her, Chaos Tentacles and Chaos Control. She would go to the stadium to practice Chaos Flesh, focusing mostly on strengthening her feet first.
Selina ran around the stadium while maintaining a strict control over the flow of Chaos, keeping Chaos Flesh active at all tis.
As for Mater, the black cat used Selina’s computer to dig into Zakharov’s network to learn more about them.
Zakharov, founder of Zauber Enterprises. It was one of the richest families in the entire country. However, they ran into a problem where no heir was present. The only one young enough was Levy but he didn’t have that much talent and was famously a brat.
He had an uncle but that man had abandoned the Zakharov family because of his disdain toward the way Zakharov practiced magic.
"Magic?" Mater took a closer look.
Magic existed in this world but was a little bit different from Mater’s Chaos Magic. The Red Keepers could also use magic but their magic ca from their Psycho Force, not a Chaos Circuit.
"Hmmm. It looks like this world also has a long history about magic users. But overti, when technology beca advanced, they abandoned this term and used a more suitable term. Psycho Force, Psychic Skills, and Psionics."
There were quite a few secret techniques inside Zakharov’s database. But Mater despised most of them. Zakharov relied too heavily on their ’servants’, which was exactly similar with Mater’s Submission Seal.
However Warlock also empowered themselves, servant was only one of the ways they could gain power, not the only way.
House Zakharov needed powerful servants so they deliberately created more tragedy to have more servants.
The David Rendell case. The Neo Mall case. But the Wilsons case wasn’t them. There were more hidden forces in this world that also actively aid to create more wraiths.
"I thought this was a progressive world. It is exactly the sa as mine. They only do things more secretly." The cat owed.
Mater continued to read anything that was interesting.
Mater found a page talking about the colorful gemstones. Those were called Emotional Spectrum Gemstones. Each color represented an emotion on the spectrum.
Red for Fury. Blue for Misery. Yellow for Envy. Those three were the most common types. There were also the rarer types of NCEs, which were Horror as Black, Despair as Green, Desire as Pink.
"Hmmm. I t a Despair once before. I also t all three Fury, Misery, and Envy. I haven’t encountered a Horror or Desire though."
Mater continued to read and saw what were the uses of those gemstones.
This world operated based on the NES. There was no technique to ’eat’ other Chaos Beings similar to Mater. Everyone generated their own chaos via emotions.
Emotional Spectrum Gemstones were a special material extracted from the NCEs for Psychics to use and increased their Supernatural Conversion Rate. The higher the SCR, the more powerful they were.
"Weird... There are no techniques to raise the capacity of their Chaos Singularity..."
Mater realized this world had a blindspot toward Chaos. They thought Chaos Singularity could only be developed through ti and effort. They didn’t even know a Chaos User could ’eat’ other Singularities to grow their own Singularity.
The black cat looked out to Selina, who was running around the empty stadium. It couldn’t help but smirk.
"You might actually beco a dark queen, Selina."
Mater took the Fury Gemstone out and took a look at it. Supernatural Conversion Rate was basically magic affinity.
In Mater’s world, affinity was raised by practice. While the Chaos Well was raised by foreign materials. In this world, affinity was raised by foreign materials, while Chaos Well was raised by practice.
"Why don’t we do both?"
Back in Dr. Avaline’s examination, Selina had an A rating with 75% Conversion Rate. Mater could teach her to practice her magic and she could also absorb these Gemstones. However, there was one problem.
"I don’t know if these things had any side effects..."
Mater opened his mouth and swallowed the Fury Gemstones. Instantly, he gained more understanding about the power of the Fury wraith. It didn’t boost his power by any ans but it gave him a foundation to create sothing new.
Inside him, an invisible rage erged. But it was quickly dissolved by his Chaos.
"I see. The emotions themselves are the side effect. It could break a mind. But I found sothing else unique about it."
The black cat smirked. Emotional Gemstones allowed for new spells to be made. It took ti to manually create a new spell. But the Gemstones skipped this by directly forming a new web of Chaos structure inside the mind.
"If I have enough gemstones, I can create any spell I want. Fury Gemstones seems to be leaning to offensive skill. I wonder what Misery and Envy are."
The black cat threw the blue and yellow gemstones in its mouth. New webs of Chaos spurred in its mind.
"Misery can create defensive skills. Envy can create skills that weaken the enemies. Interesting. But if I want to create a new Rank-1 spell. I need at least five nace Level Gemstones.
I don’t know how to create these gemstones from wraiths though..."
Mater had finally co across sothing he didn’t know to do. Fortunately, Zakharov did ntion that the Institute had this kind of technique.
"I need to tell Selina to learn that once she starts school!" Mater decided in his mind.
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