’Speaking of possible emotional damage, what is it that you gave my girlfriend, fiancees and...whatever Rianna sees as?’
=Possible stud for her future brood?=
’Sure...seriously though, Pathos what did you give them?’
’Ominous little-see, this is why I don’t default to your judgent when it cos to other people. You enigmatic clown!’
__anwhile, those aforentioned girls..._
In a private part of the Zhen Clan estate, which consisted of an outdoor garden/training area, the Seventh Lady of the Zhen Branch Clan, Daria Nerissa-Zhen, was examining several different accessories that varied in terms of decorations, but had similar enough designs to one another to suggest that they were part of a set.
The accessories in question all appeared similar to hairpins, but looked so different from each other that one would be hard pressed in assuming that they were such things.
Accompanying her at this ti were also all of the won that were romantically involved with her son, Zhen Liu, in so capacity.
As to why they were there, it was because they were the source of these strange accessories. Well, four out of five were. Princess Jinju Ren didn’t have one of these accessories, because her innate dragon force was incompatible with the innate [Chaos] that were a major component of these accessories.
Needless to say, she was a little annoyed about that fact.
"No fair, I wanted a custom made [Chaos] accessory too," Jinju Ren grumbled with a pout on her face. A sharp contrast with her usually fierce look of beauty.
"You have a magical sword that can seal and channel the power of other dragons," Jin Fang pointed out, "I think you’re fine in terms of needing an external power boost."
"Not the point, you know what I an. You never had those thoughts when you were younger of so prince charming showing up with a handmade gift?"
"Well..."
"So...you girls received these gifts from the Library’s curators themselves?," Daria interjected before the girls began to discuss over sothing banal. They weren’t here for romance talk, after all.
"Yes," Bellona answered for the group. "It was around the first or second ti we went to the library. Pathos ntioned making us gifts and gave us those in these little lacquer boxes. The boxes were mundane though."
"I got mine at a different ti," Rianna chid in. "Like...I think it was my third or fourth ti visiting overall?"
"Regardless, since we got them we figured out how they could help us cultivate [Chaos] like the kaijin, Xiao Liu and...you, apparently...and that we could use them to communicate with each other to an extent, but...," Alicia continued.
"Other than that, we’re stumped. We’d figured aside from Xiao Liu, and the curators, you could help us with this since...ya know... your history," Jin Fang added as a final detail.
"Fascinating...Unfortunately, I have no idea what these things are either," Daria stated as she placed the accessories back on a table they had all been sitting around. "teorhorn taught a lot of things related to [Chaos] and kaijin, but this wasn’t one of them."
She had been taught things related to [Chaos] cultivation, a smattering of [Chaos] arts and how certain strange locations in the world may have been the direct result of the kaijin doing their thing, but anything regarding Kaijin Consorts and the like wasn’t shared with her.
Whether this was due to the [Star Caller] being single during her reign, or the fact that teorhorn realized such topics would be hair sensitive to Daria at the ti was unknown, but it unfortunately led to this modern gap of knowledge.
Then again, it didn’t help that Logos was being a cagey little troublemaker about the aning behind these accessories either.
"Figured," Alicia sighed as she retrieved the accessories for herself, Jin Fang, Bellona and Rianna. "Guess it’ll remain just a cultivation tool for the ti being."
’Wait a minute...’
As the girls redistributed the [Chaos] accessories amongst themselves, Daria gaze wandered until stopping on Rianna’s inherited saber.
From what she could rember of the lessons that teorhorn taught her, was that anything that the Kaijin Lord created has a tendency to have a bit of life to them.
Whether that was a quirk of the formula or of [Chaos] was unknown, but the fact that accessories didn’t exhibit any obvious signs of being alive like Rianna’s sword got her thinking.
"Maybe it’s just a matter of input."
"Mistress?"
"Rianna."
"Y-yes?"
"Can you show how you use your saber? The one that my son made you."
"Technically he just modified what my father-eh, you get the idea."
Standing up to her feet, Rianna proceeded to draw her saber and give it a few practice swings. Evidently, this what she thought Daria wanted to see.
It wasn’t.
"Impressive saber play, but I an...can you show how you channel your power through it?"
"Oh. Sure, but I need a practice."
Snap.
"Oh cool."
With a snap of her fingers, Daria Nerrisa-Zhen summoned a wooden training dummy so that Rianna could go full force. The thing was typically designed with Aether Masters to Grand Masters in mind, so it would’ve been unhard against normal warriors.
Daria was anything but normal.
Against the wooden dummy, Rianna began channeling [Chaos] into her saber, causing it to glow with a bright red fla.
"Ha!"
Once the energy saturation of her blade reached a satisfactory level, Rianna lashed out with her blade and slashed the dummy into two burning pieces of wood. The attack was rather impressive, but the girls failed to see what the point of this act was.
Daria didn’t though.
"From the looks of it, you’re able to channel [Chaos] as easy as you channel aether."
"Yeah."
"Why is that?"
"Oh. Uh..."
Rianna had never really thought about how she was able to do what she does, because she usually ran on instinct when fighting and cultivating. But now that she was confronted with it...she still didn’t have an answer.
"I don’t know, I can just...sort of do it?"
"Lucky."
"Can you do what you do with your saber on the accessory that Pathos gave you? Call it a feeling."
"Uh...sure."
Other than that ti in the [Monkey’s Ruins] that got interrupted, Rianna hadn’t really thought about channeling [Chaos] into the accessory that Pathos gifted her.
In her head, it was already sothing that she could circulate aether into to help her cultivate [Chaos], so it felt redundant to add [Chaos] into [Chaos].
Evidently, she should’ve done this a lot fucking sooner.
"So I just-"Sound of sothing finally activating after only the gods know how long -"Whoa!"
"That’s new."
"Damn that’s bright!"
The mont Rianna channeled [Chaos] into her accessory, the gem embedded inside of it began to glow with a bright, warm light.
In response to this sudden flash of light though, the others montarily recoiled and did their best to shield their eyes with their hands until their vision adjusted to the new brightness.
As it glowed, the surrounding aether began to beco significantly more wild, as [Chaos] began to build up and solidify.
The mont reminded the girls of the ti they had seen Zhen Liu create the kaijin or the tis he channeled their power.
However, the scale of which this was occurring felt a lot smaller.
"Should...should we be interrupting this or-’"
"I don’t know! It doesn’t feel malicious."
"Rianna! Are you okay?!"
"I think so," she replied while still channeling [Chaos], "it’s just...I’m staring to hear a voice develop on my head."
"Say what?!"
A couple seconds after making this ominous ass statent, they all started to hear a voice.
[Bzz...bzz...buzzy? Is it ti for to appear now?]
As soon as this voice was heard by all the girls, the [Chaos] and aether in the surrounding area began to take shape...
...
’Why do I have this sudden feeling of dread, anticipation and cringe?’
=Because you’ve been wondering in the back of your mind if introducing Cornelius to your ti-slipped girlfriend is a good or bad idea. If it helps, this version of Cornelius technically has no relationship with the Storm Queen that isn’t just a vague mory.=
’Maybe...wait a minute, Pathos, why are you feeling as giddy as a schoolgirl? That’s normally a bad sign when it cos from you.’
’I don’t think that’s necessarily a...wait a minute, Dafuq? Adopted grandson? Don’t you an adoptive father.’
’I...I don’t know if that’s how that works, and I don’t think that’s accurate either...’
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