Chaos and Order - A Multiverse Fanfic

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Chapter Begins:

"I am alright," Kai remarked offhandedly. "What happened? I can't recall anything."

Nexus eyed Red oddly, recalling the things he had theorized about him.

For a moment, he said nothing, and then he sighed.

"Sigh! I've become truly old," the old man lamented, smacking his lips. "We underestimated him. We both did."

"I don't understand…" Kai's eyes narrowed.

As Kai looked at the injured 9th-floor Contestant, for just the tiniest moment, the thought of killing him rose in his heart.

He stomped over that feeling in the very next breath, however.

Kai had already found out through Chaos that he would need to kill 40 5th-floor Contestants or 5 6th-floor Contestants from Order to fulfill his Kill Count Quota of the 2nd Set.

If he were to ignore the two 4th-floor Contestants he had killed before his reincarnation, then he had only killed two 5th-floor Contestants of Order.

And that too recently, during the deep sea showdown.

Killing even a 7th-floor Contestant would instantly let him do away with Kill Count. Much less needed about a 9th-floor one.

But… this was the 9th floor!

So what if the Supreme Protector was injured, looking like a dying old man?

Kai could tell that the 9th-floor Contestant had weakened significantly, his strength falling to the level of a 7th-floor Contestant. But this strength wouldn't take much time to rise, either.

Kai didn't even know why he was still alive.

If he was in Nexus' place, he would have killed everyone by now to prevent others from having second thoughts about attempting something foolish.

"Who's we?" Kai added, his thoughts all over the place. "Who did you underestimate?"

Even Moraine and Blade Singer had crawled toward them by now, putting their ears against the Supreme's words.

From time to time, they kept glancing at Kai in disgust and loss, but in loss more often than not.

Contestant Nexus caressed the Helmet of Fate and turned his head to his right.

Kai, Moraine, and Blade Singer lifted their heads to look in the same direction as well.

Beyond the bobbing stern, Kai saw a faint screen of darkness, so vast that it seemed to have no end.

It had a dome shape, and it was covering the entire Inheritance Land within it.

Kai and others could even see flashes of light through the dark layer as if there was an intense battle going on within the dome.

It was also then Kai's eyes landed on the sky, the faint indigo and blue mixed with a touch of red and orange.

The dawn was near!

Kai's heart suddenly pounded.

It was about time he returned, he realized.

It's good that I… Kai was just thinking when his pounding heart stopped.

His face became white, his lips dried up, and his entire body faintly trembled in anxiety and confusion.

Kai couldn't sense her.

Kai couldn't sense his Items.

Cersei and the earring on her ear, the Book, both were lost to him, gone somewhere incredibly far, it felt.

And then Kai found another one of his servants missing.

Selene!

…

With so much going on after waking up, and the subsequent matter of lost Comprehension, Kai only now felt such vast changes, his memory triggered by the changing hues of the sky.

None noticed Kai's odd state, though.

Contestant Nexus flicked his hand, creating a screen in front of him.

Kai mechanically turned his head to look at it; dazed about what to do and where to look for his irreplaceable Items.

"We underestimated Shadow Lord," Contestant Nexus began, the scene after the explosion appearing on the screen. "Pirate Lord Henry Morgan somehow used the energy from the blast to speed up his maturation.

"At first, we thought he wouldn't be able to copy us and our Items (-us here obviously means Nexus and Red Sun-). At least not my Helmet of Fate and his… Digimon. Haaa! We were both right and wrong…"

As the Supreme Protector let out an exasperated breath, the screen showed them a towering being, wearing a vast, rippling cloak that seemed to have been sewn using shadows.

His eyes were deep black and his long white beard swayed left and right as if it was alive.

The Shadow Lord!

They saw him raising his hands as if he was holding the entire sky, and then three cyborg-dinosaurs-like beasts sprouted out of the ground covered in shadows, each having a revolver for their left arm.

Another convoluted shadow, wearing a shadowy helmet, levitated out of the ground, the very space fluctuating around him.

In his hands were a shadow spear and a shield that felt made of earth, but wasn't.

From another side, a colossal Shadow Creature emerged, over 100 ft tall, and the three shadow Digimon came to hover around him like planets around the sun.

This was Anomaly; the true Nightmare!

"Shadow Lord couldn't copy the Items exactly, true enough," Nexus continued, eying the Shadow Creature wearing the dark helmet. "But he just created many of us with the strength of 8th-floor Contestants.

"The blast had already forced the other kid's galley (-the unknown 7th-floor Marine-) and Black Pearl out of the Inheritance Land. He not only got the 10% Inheritance but also captured Barbossa and his crew.

"Interceptor, however, was on the verge of capsizing. Shadow Lord must have sensed Jack Sparrow, for he rushed toward the ship."

The screen shook, and another scene appeared.

Kai and others saw the towering Shadow Lord emerging out of the shadows on the ship and eying everyone with indifference.

His gaze landed on Jack Sparrow, but Black Wasp was nearest to the Character.

An incredible and heart-palpating scene presented itself, then.

Shadow Lord pointed his finger at the 7th-floor Contestant, and shadows rushed at him from all sides, dark veils coming to life.

In no time, the shadows covered Black Wasp from head to toe, and then his figure distorted, becoming an ugly Shadow Creature.

It was also then that the Supreme Protector appeared near the Interceptor.

"Shadow Lord could only create Shadow Creatures out of non-living things before," Nexus commented. "He must have gained some further understanding in the Alchemy in this world for him to turn a person into one of his Shadow Creatures. I tried my best to save the Contestants, but…"

This also meant Pirate Lord Henry Morgan's Inheritance in this Random World would be better than the others with C+ Grades.

Nexus left this unsaid, though.

"What about the other 9th-floor Contestant, senior?" Blade Singer asked as she was from Order as well. "He… he didn't help."

"He…" Nexus frowned, clenching his teeth. "… He is Red Sun."

"What?!" Moraine blurted in sheer shock. "Red Sun, the leader of the Sun and Moon Organization? Red Sun… the 2nd Ranked Contestant during his Tournament of Worth with the theme — Relentless?! He is…"

"… a lunatic!" Blade Singer completed the words, her voice shaking.

Robin…? Even Kai, his thoughts tumultuous, couldn't help but recall the 9th-floor Contestant he had fooled during his past mission. Why… Why was he acting as a mere Protector, then?

"Red Sun saved Governor Swann and Commodore Norrington somehow," the old man told them. "But 20% of Inheritance wasn't enough for him.

"I don't know why, but he couldn't find Elizabeth Swann. Not when getting attacked by my two copies, and three shadow Digimon blasting him from all sides. There are still a few hours to the Inheritance Land's end. And Red Sun is… indeed relentless."

Kai couldn't savor the flavor of Red Sun's illogical strength for long.

The screen trembled again, showing the scene of a beaten and bleeding Supreme Protector running away, bringing the Interceptor with him.

And just behind him was the Shadow Lord, surrounded by countless Shadow Creatures.

Suddenly, Kai saw something that made him tremble, his blood boiling in his veins.

Shadow Lord reached out with a vast shadowy claw and snatched a person off the ship.

She was a young lady, with wet golden hair and an earring in her left ear.

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