Chapter 369 - Cosmic Core

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A Cosmic Core! This was the gift that Chaos planned to give to all of his subordinates. With it, they would be able to gain new powers they had never been able to touch before, the power of the Cosmic Energy that only beings of incredible high levels are able to refine, but that Chaos was able to acquire in small quantities, but even small quantities of such power were enough for him to do several types of miracles with it, of all sorts!

According to what he learned, Cosmic Energy could only surge naturally from Cosmic Beasts who bathed themselves with the radiation of space, where cosmic energy flowed freely. However, weak beings below the Supreme Deity Rank are incapable of sustaining Cosmic Energy properly for some reason, and it often disperses, or it might even hurt the one trying to harbor it, therefore, producing it is even harder and something seen as impossible unless you increase your Existence Rank to Supreme Deities…

And even Supreme Deities have a hard time harboring it, and must increase their Rank a lot, and find many ways to gather it, even less produce it like Chaos is producing it. Planets, Stars, and Galaxies all have cores when they're old enough and harbor enough life (in the case of stars, enough life in the planets that orbit them, although stars can also harbor life immune to their temperatures), and are able to also produce and control Cosmic Energy of some sort, World Source Energy, Aether/Star Energy, and Galactic Essence are all overall Cosmic Energy but with a different level of refinement.

But then… How was Chaos, a being so weak compared to other entities capable of manipulating this energy, being able to harbor it and produce it? Well, it all comes down to various factors! One of the first ones is the soul. Chaos' soul is incredibly rare and unique by itself, it was primarily composed of pure Primordial Chaos that had fragmented itself from an unknown mass of Primordial Chaos that had originally been stranding across the Universe before reincarnating into a human.

And then, he was given the power of Unique Skills, which further warped his soul into something strange and bizarre that couldn't be easily destroyed by energies that it consumed, and that it was able to assimilate most energies inside, by devouring them viciously.

After that, he continued to develop, devouring souls and new powers, and further making his soul grow stronger and bigger, until the point it was gigantic, way bigger than his own body… It harbored enough Mana that would make even Great Gods feel ridiculed.

And then, thanks to the favor of the Universal Core itself, he was gifted something… something that she did to him because he knew his "mother" or well, the creator of his soul made of Primordial Chaos, the Primordial Deity, Khaos, a mysterious entity that has been trying to help Chaos through this ordeal for some reason, mostly due to "maternity" stuff, which he had not much idea about.

This seed… was the breaking point. He only required enough energy infused into it to "make it sprout" and then, the seed itself would begin to root into his own soul, absorbing his mana and turning it into cosmic energy, completely for free! His soul was powerful even as small as it was, and easily withstood the process of transformation that his soul underwent… now, around 90% of his soul was cosmic energy.

He had become this energy at this point, and was able to wield an incredibly powerful and highly volatile energy that ran the whole universe… a power that only being of very high level could use. However, he was not ready to use it to the level of such beings, and the amount he had was a small fraction of what these beings had…

Nonetheless, for the level he was currently, that was more than enough to help him greatly. He simply had to figure out new ways to use it to strengthen himself and also his allies. The new skills he got were such a way, but there should be more ways, and such a way was to share this cosmic energy with his allies and somehow help them harbor it and nurture themselves using it, something that seemed outright insane for most people, but for him, it looked like it made some sort of sense, in a way…

But would Chaos be able to achieve such a thing? He was thinking, thinking about if he could do it or not… if he could pull it off, the planet's voice then spoke to him, it told him the secret, it told him that he could if he used Cosmic Magic.

The new magic he had acquired which allowed him the ability to conjure magic through the usage of cosmic energy, it had many secrets, and within such secrets, he could harbor the power of the cosmos and unleash it into all sorts of spells he could imagine. although he had made a mere light bulb back then, now he could expand such a power and do something even greater…

He had discovered that much like the other elements of magic, it was completely possible to "materialize" an element into a jewel, a Cosmic Core.

This Cosmic Core, when eaten by him, didn't give him anything as this was just his own cosmic energy merely going back to where it came from. However, if he used it on his allies, if he gave them these mysterious jewels… then… something new and completely in another level could happen, something truly spectacular that he had yet to understand completely that resided within his true capabilities, and this "something" was nothing else but a fantastic power that he could share with his allies…

If he could give them the cores, then they would be able to harbor this power as well, not even in the same level as him, but this might cause a change… perhaps, an evolution on them, just like it did on him.

And it was worth a shot.

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