Chaos and Order - A Multiverse Fanfic (Part I)

0125 Looting the Strongest 4th-floor Contestant - Cuteness Overload!

A crack resounded as Kai flicked his tail like a whip, cracking his neck.

The hairs were vanishing all around him, turning into tiny blue globules. Near him, lay pieces of a broken red skull and a dull red hairpin broken in two, which once could have glowed demonically. Not anymore.

Kai's chest heaved up and down as he took deep breaths.

This entire mission had cost him a vast supply of HP capsules given to him by Red Sun, the 9th-floor Contestant. From what Meg had told him, the HP Capsules restored 250 per pill. It was a ridiculous amount.

If a Contestant were to take the second HP/MP/SP capsule within a 3-hour window after taking the first capsule, then he would get only half the original amount the capsule would have restored after the Cooldown was over.

Despite this restriction, Kai could take two pills back to back without worrying about the loss of HP. The second HP capsule he had taken, to heal his charred self after the explosion, had given him only 125 HP, but it was still well over his HP.

Now, he only had 12 of these capsules left.

There was no other choice, Kai thought, consoling himself. I could have saved them if I had the time to do these things in a roundabout way. That would have taken much time, though. Using these HP capsules was the shortest and most effective way to get to the things I had planned without losing time.

When Kai shook off the drowsiness creeping over him, he looked at the notification.

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Advance Slither Footsteps: Proficiency 2% (+2%)

Elementary Telekinesis: Proficiency 40% (+15%)

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Your Kill Count is updated

Floor: 3 (1st Set)

Kill Count: (60/100)

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Kai wasn't surprised to see the 15% boost in Elementary Telekinesis.

After jumping to the top of Hair Tower, he had forced this Ability beyond his limits, pushing against all objects to stabilize himself. Otherwise, without the ability to fly, he couldn't have used the Iron Tail with such precision in midair.

Kai neared the broken red hairpin then and lifted it.

It looked ordinary to him after breaking in two, but in the scant moment when his Iron Tail had broken it, he had felt the demonic aura hidden within it. Now only a holographic treasure chest hovered over it.

Kai stared at the treasure chest with greedy fascination.

2, that was his Luck value when he had started his journey. Not much time had passed since then. Some 3 months, to put a number. At this time, his Luck had risen to 5 with the help of Title, Coin Master. To gamble on Luck or not, had always been a question Kai asked himself at these times.

He could get some regeneration capsules, Explosive Kunais, or even the... Named Sword.

Cough! Kai smiled wryly. Too far. I have gone too far in wishing that.

Still, out of the six 4th-floor Contestants he had killed so far, he had only tried his luck out with Lee, getting the Beyblade, though without its Bit-beast. Nyra was the strongest Contestant he had fought so far and killed single-handedly. Now that Meg was his slave, she was but another Item in his arsenal. If he could store her in his Inventory, then he would have done so by now.