Chapter 372 - Ancient Summoning Magic!

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Chaos looked into the new Ability he had acquired, as he checked its details while sitting over his throne with Abyss at his side as always. He often asked her if she wanted a second throne to sit on, but he always said: "You're the only King here, taking the position of a ruler is not really my thing either… I prefer to stand at your side and serve you like that… Also I don't have bones or muscles, so I don't really get tired by standing."

Knowing this, Chaos didn't had much of a choice, Abyss just liked to stand at his side while he sat down, as if she were his guardian and servant, ready to comply with any of his desires…

However, Chaos had only one desire now, and that one was finding out what could this new Skill do that could help him- No, this Ability.

The difference between Abilities and Skills was rather easy to tell, Abilities were an innate power of a person, and because of that, they could develop and level up to grow stronger and become even greater, meanwhile, Skills were an addition of the System, although sometimes they were also kind of part of the user's innate powers, they strived from being as basic and essential to the point of being able to grow stronger over time, and became Skills that remained at a set amount of fixated power.

Of course, Chaos was able to tweak these rules by fusing Skills, something he planned to do in the upcoming days to strengthen his total power even more, the ability to fuse Skills allowed him the power to gain new Skills born from many Skills combined together, these Skills were sometimes incredibly strong, and brought with themselves a wide array of special capabilities never seen before, which augmented Chaos total capabilities and ability to adapt in battle greatly…

And now, Chaos had acquired a new Ability, not a Skill, however. This one Ability was Ancient Summoning Magic! The name alone made it seem very important, and it truly was for Chaos, someone that has been wishing about being able to summon an army of powerful monsters with a mere thought to assist him. Since his battle against Valen that he has been thinking about that.

Even though he had allies at his side, there might be no chance to win against a being of such overwhelming power, and he didn't wanted to sacrifice his allies to win… But what if he could just summon beings that could be easily sacrificed anyways, without much remorse over it? He always considered such a possibility… Well, for now, it was pointless to overthink things too much, he simply needed to see what this Ability had for him.

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[Ancient Summoning Magic: Level 1]

An ancient Ability, a special type of Magic that grants their users the ability to call upon other beings from different places randomly. A special contract is automatically made with anything summoned, which will give its royalty to the summoner no matter what.

For stronger beings, materials and greater amounts of Mana will be needed to summon them. As the Level of the Skill increases, the total minimum power of the Summons also increases.

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It had a simple description and it seemed to be the same function as the summoning artifact, but Chaos knew that it had more to it than what it looked like, he quickly decided to conjure some magic and see if he could summon anything at all without any materials.

He tried to picture a summon this time, he tried to summon a rat over his hand.

POOF!

Suddenly, some Mana was spent, and a black rat with red eyes was summoned…

It was an ordinary animal, not even a monster, but he had technically summoned a living being without any problem.

"Chuu, chuu…"

"Oh, that's a rat…?" asked Abyss, as she looked at the rat make little sounds.

"I guess it works with smaller beings…" said Chaos. He let the rat go, as the rat quickly began running away from him and walking elsewhere.

Chaos then began to practice summoning, trying to summon small things that slowly escalated into bigger and bigger. He was able to summon giant animals such as Elephants and even Whales, although they began to use a lot of Mana.

But even if he threw a million whales at somebody, near his level, they would be able to easily either evade them or crush them all into a pulp with a swing of their hands…

And it wasn't as if he could summon many beings at the same time, it only worked once at a time… He didn't had the other choices he had before that looked like they were a gacha game.

He could summon sometimes what he visualized and had seen before, but their abilities seemed randomized. And the more complex, the more mana they cost. The began summoning all sorts of terrifying monsters he had eaten before, because he wanted to taste them again, however, they were all weak mortal creatures below Living Deity-Realm, so they didn't amount to any force and it would be too much of a pain to train them as well.

He couldn't summon infinitely either, summoning just that already exhausted most of his Mana, and he felt tired, his soul had slowly grown smaller as he spent more Mana, so he had a bit more of Mana before he had to take a rest and see if he could do something else in another occasion.

"T-There's a lot of meat, that's for sure!" said Abyss. "Should I cook this for you, Chaos?"

"Sure, go ahead." Said Chaos, as he began to think what he should summon.

Abyss jumped into the hall as she took out a large kitchen knife and began chopping all the monsters and animals Chaos summoned alive, a gory scene was occurring, while she even snacked on some, but Chaos didn't seem to mind it, and the screams of agony from the monsters were like just some background noise to him.

"Hmm… What should I try to summon now?"

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