Chaos and Order - A Multiverse Fanfic

0131 The Herald of Chaos Strikes Again!

A heavy gust of cool sea breeze hit them across their faces as Kai and Meg stood atop one of the Guardian Columns of Alto Mare.

Kai shivered.

He was wearing a pink shirt imprinted with foaming waves and Meg had a blue frock over her curvaceous figure, her long hair blowing in the wind like thin strands of red silk. They had come to this height to say a last goodbye to this unfortunate town that had gifted them so much.

Kai looked down and saw the entire town was almost underwater.

If it was before, by now the entire town would have lit up under the bright light of many street lamps, making it impossible to realize that the night was approaching. It would take a lot of time and unending efforts to go back to the same lifestyle as before, he knew. He could already see many of the residents migrating to the main landmass in their ferries.

-/I have seen enough,/- Kai declared.

Meg sat down first, her long legs dangling down from the column's edge.

Kai lay down on his back and put his head on her lap. He sighed and then whiffed deeply. She smelled of the wet earth after the pitter-patter of the first rain. He stared at the sky beyond her face and looked at the stars, as thousands of questions related to the things that had happened in the last month ran havoc in his mind.

-/Are you sure I can't store you in my Inventory?/- Kai asked Meg, adjusting his eyes to look into hers.

The question felt too absurd to ask even to him, let alone to Meg, who couldn't help but smile wryly upon hearing that. Yet Kai's intention was plain. She was his Item now, and Kai would do anything to get his hands on a way to store a live Contestant in his Inventory.

If there was such a way, then Meg didn't know it. "No." She shook her head bluntly. "You can't, master. But there is another way to have me with you in your next Side Mission."

-/Is it related to me becoming a Captain of Guard?/- Kai guessed.

When Kai had come to this world, the System had changed his Side Mission to an Officer Qualifying Mission.

Kai later found out that the High Priest of the Temple of Hastur was behind this change. Then he had sent Meg to monitor Kai, and if necessary, kill him.

Kai had turned all that into a mummer's show by making Meg betray the Temple instead.

Now that she was his slave, it made little sense to even think what her response would be at the end of this mission. Kai already considered himself a Captain of Guard. Though, in reality, he would only get the rank after leaving this world.

Meg nodded. "A Captain of Guard can form a Party of up to 4 members, master," she reminded him. "You can ask Chaos to add me as a Party member, to which I will assent despite being in the Primordial Tower."

"The next steps are simple," Meg continued, biting her lower lip. "After two weeks, you can create a Side Mission, specifying that you need the help of a team. In these cases, Party members of the Captain of Guard are given priority. Chaos would send me to you with that Side Mission as my floor-ascension mission. The timing should match, though. So you must wait for at least two weeks."

It was a straightforward process, Kai realized. He just wondered why someone like Arlen did not have Party members with him during his Initiation Mission.

Arlen Silvas is a man of a hundred secrets, Kai thought, taking his eyes off her. Whenever I think I have figured him out, there always surfaces something new and baffling about him. He is not an ordinary noble, that I am sure of.