Chapter 22: Anarkhos

Chapter 22: Anarkhos

[Varients consumed: None]

[Titles: None]

[Sponsers: None]

[Options:

Greater Mind Slime]

Xen looked at the single option floating in his vision and realized he had messed up.

The system had informed him that he needed to hunt variants to get more evolution options, but this was... disappointing. He had been so caught up with the wolves, undead, and humans that he hadn't had time to return to the first few dungeon tunnels and hunt down his fellow Mind Slimes. What use was a Greater Mind Slime anyway? What made it so great? Would it level up his intelligence?

Xen focused on the menu, and something else appeared.

[Greater Mind Slime]

The standard evolution path of the rare variant of slime, the Mind Slime. With this evolution, the Mind Slime enjoys a boost in its magic-focused stats.

That was it. Xen dismissed the system messages and stared at the fake night sky in defeat. Even after being told and understanding how important it was to hunt and consume variants, he had let himself get distracted, and now everything was ruined. The evolution path for his main body, which transcended his other forms and was always present, would follow a standard evolution path.

"I guess I'm not so special after all," Xen said, reaching up to look at the sea of stars through his skeletal fingers. "How can I conquer the human realm and gain every monster form if I have such a standard evolution?"

Xen lowered his hand and almost froze as he saw an eye of swirling darkness staring back at him. It was as if the sea of stars was nothing but a curtain and had been peeled back so a giant being could gaze down at him.

It blinked, and golden letters overlaid it.

[Anarkhos, the Demon of Chaos, has taken an interest in you]

Xen had never felt so small in all his life. Even when he was a tiny slime barely hours ago, that could fit inside the cracks in a wall. Despite the distance separating them, he could feel the judgment from the eye in the sky. It was overbearing as if he were an interesting insect to it. The sky shifted as enough limbs of shadows to pick up every spec of black sand descended on him.

[Anarkhos offers to sponsor you]

"Demons and Gods can only give out one-sided contracts one at a time. If their herald turns out useless, there is nothing they can do except wait until they die." Anarkhos crawled back on his many limbs and ascended back into the sky. "I have been saving mine for a long time, and finally, I found you. I can tell that you will be chaos incarnate in the future, so I expect great things. Until next time..."

With those parting words, the sky returned to a sea of stars as if nothing had ever happened.

[Regenerating evolution options...]

[Varients consumed: None]

[Titles: Herald of Chaos]

[Sponsers: Anarkhos, the Demon of Chaos]

[Options:

Greater Mind Slime

Chaos Slime]

"I will become chaos incarnate?" Xen shook his head as he stared down at the ground. "I never realized I was so smart that even a Demon would take interest in me. Just how dumb are the other monsters to not free themselves of the dungeon's control?"

The system's golden words now overlaid the black sand he had decided to rest on. It was nothing too fancy, but there was now a second evolution option for his first-ever ascension to D grade.

[Chaos Slime]

A super rare variant of a slime able to wield the powers of chaos that alter the very fabric of reality.

"I select Chaos Slime." It was a no-brainer. Compared to Greater Mind Slime, this sounded far more interesting.

[Evolution confirmed. You will now sleep for an hour to complete the evolution]

Xen felt his consciousness fade, and for the first time ever, he dreamed.