Chapter 396: Chaos Gate

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Chaos Gate, an organization that was catalogued as the "world's biggest eyesore", by many, but perhaps now that they had reached such lengths, they could really be treated as something more.

It has been just revealed to Frank that such organization was expanding through the entire world in only 40 years since it emerged, and it had already seeped its venom in Japan, as it began to take over many smaller organizations, but not only that, they had even dared to attack the great Clans of Monks that were created by the ancient Gods of Japan, and had managed to completely assimilate two, while many of the others they attacked had been weakened a lot, with many of their valuable treasures stolen and many members abducted and slaughtered…

"The two organizations… led by the descendants of the Kami were the ones from Ōkuninushi, the god of nation-building, farming, business, and medicine and Omoikane, the deity of wisdom and intelligence… The Kami that led these groups was also said to have been somehow suppressed by some strange Divine Tool… Now that our Gods are weakened after the Great War against the Three Demon Kings of the past, this organization is trying to suppress our legacy…" sighed Kaguya.

"And what happened with the leaders? The Demigods?" asked Frank.

"They were most likely killed…" said Kaguya.

"So they can even kill Demigods, these bastards… Just how strong are they to dare do such a thing? I am… Filled with frustration," sighed Frank. If this was true, then these bastards could actually come here at any moment and try to ravage the Monk Clan, and quite possibly kill Kaguya!

He wasn't going to let that happen, of course, and he had already begun to spread Soul Clones everywhere to monitor the area. If any invasion were to come here, he would instantly teleport to this place and deal with it alongside the aid of his allies.

"It is unknown why they wanted the Source, but the news about them paying Wasp is well known, even more about your tragedy. In fact, for most of the Underworld, your figure is most likely considered dead at this point. I guess that could be said to be a good thing, so they will take some time to realize you're actually alive," said Kaguya.

"Indeed. I suppose that is a good thing for now… Anything else? Any recent moves?" asked Frank.

"Their most recent move was 3 months ago, when they appeared in the nearby coast of Tokyo, they were going to hunt a Millenary Sea Dragon, a son of Ryūjin, the Dragon God of the Sea…" sighed Kaguya.

"And no one stopped them?" asked Frank.

"No, there were people. One of the Shoguns of Japan aided the little dragon and managed to fend off the Chaos Gate members that went to take him away…" said Kaguya.

"One of the Shoguns…"

Frank had heard about them before, they were a small group of people, but they were considered the strongest of all Japan, and even their representatives.

They didn't worked together, but they were catalogued in the same group. They were not compared to Gods because Gods were not considered humans, nor mortals, while these Shoguns were as strong as Gods if not more, but were humans, or mortals of some sort.

If they were strong enough to fend off an organization capable of defeating and killing a Demigod… then they were truly strong.

"I see…" sighed Frank in relief.

"The Shoguns had bee more active lately due to the Chaos Gate. Japan is their territory after all, and seeing these foreigners doing and plundering whatever they want from our millenary clans had made them furious, so they might be potential allies against the Chaos Gate. They protect our patrimony and our people… Although in a large, national scale. In smaller scales, it is our job to protect the civilians," said Kaguya.

This meant that although the Shoguns desired to protect Japan, it meant as a whole, they were not heroes that went to the rescue of every single person that was having some sort of accident in the streets, nor they would stop a car from crashing over someone…

They didn't took care of smaller organizations either, but they did took care of big ones that threatened all of Japan, one of the most dangerous ones was Chaos Gate, of course.

"Aside from this, we don't know who are in charge of them, nor we know what the purpose behind this frenetic desire of gathering as much power… I suppose that surviving is a good reason, but that's not enough to risk their lives by constantly trying to gain more power, usually, whenever their raids fail, hundreds of their members perish, yet… they always have more and more members. Killing you and stealing the Source from you must be one of their goals as the Source is one of the greatest sources of power in this world, it is the very essence of the planet's core… they perhaps want it, or desire it for something. Something that might shake the entire world and change it as we know it…" said Kaguya.

Frank began to consider that the Chaos Gate was his true enemy, the ones behind everything, and perhaps the masterminds… He knew that the Source wasn't actually meant for him, but that it ended being attracted by his Infinite Core when it was let loose.

The Source was lost in a battle, Gaia herself had the Source stolen from her, but from the battle where someone confronted the one that stole it, the Source fell from their hands and went somewhere else… landing right over Frank's face as a lightning strike.

It could be said that the Source was the template of Frank's System, which modified and forged his Trait to become the World Traveling System. The Source was the power created by Gaia to help the "chosen one" travel through worlds and bring energy from them to nourish the dying planet's core back to life…

And now, the organization behind the death of his parents were lurking within Japan.

What will Frank do now?

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