Chapter 180: Assimilation

Chapter 180: Assimilation

The moment she had learned that the boisterous man who came to threaten the academy was a throne, Evelyn couldn't help but have some doubts.

How could that man have left so simply after knowing that his attack had been, for the most part, ineffective?

Aurora's explanations made some sense, and Evelyn agreed that using the Chaos Bone Spear might have been quite taxing, even for the Lord of Bones, since it could so easily pass through their main defensive formation, despite it being powered by four pillars.

However, no matter how taxing it was, seeing his attack fail to do what he wanted, there should have been some dissatisfaction or anger.

After all, from what Evelyn knew, the two thrones of this world had been at the top of the food chain for a very long time already. And the Lord of Bones was definitely the more domineering of the two.

For such a person, there was no way they could so easily swallow the breath of being countered by a weaker party.

The only reason he could leave so easily after throwing the Chaos Bone Spear down was if it had already achieved its purpose.

Her conjectures proved to be correct as she was able to observe the flow of energy from up close, but it didn't bring Evelyn much joy at all.

Had the main defensive array not diverted it from its original path, it was expected that the 'Tower of Solitude', along with the multitude of precious cultivation technique discs, would all have been destroyed, and the spear would have still plunged deep into the ground.

That is to say the 'Tower of Solitude' was just an optional side objective, and the main target of the 'Chaos Bone Spear' had always been the academy's soil.

Evelyn would never have thought of such a thing, or known of its effects, had Aurora not already told her about the main defensive array's engravings being deep underground.

And looking at the chaotic flow of energy that kept plunging into the depths of the earth from the spear tip she knew exactly what was happening.

The pink haired girl chuckled. "Heh instead of bashing his head against the main defensive barrier for months, he would just leave this poisonous needle in the academy's belly, and wait for it to corrode from within, huh? Maybe by the time Aurora realized it no, even if she realized it, she probably wouldn't have been able to do anything!"

Thinking of the consequences had the barrier been allowed to collapse, Evelyn couldn't help but feel a chill run up her spine. In a frontal confrontation, it was highly likely that the Lord of Bones would be able to easily slaughter the pillars one by one.

Not to mention her own safety, just the fact that she would have been losing Aurora had that happened was already enough to both terrify her and fill her with rage.

Thankfully, now that the spear was in Bree's grasp, the chaos energy had already stopped flowing downwards, and started being channeled through her body instead.

Evelyn ran her hand through Bree's golden hair before turning her gloomy gaze at the dense, corrosive miasma that was now flooding her soul space. "Do what you always do, okay? I'll handle everything else."

Bree had full confidence and faith in her 'mother', and obediently did as she was told, closing her eyes as she started plucking out small bits of the dense chaos essence around her, complete ignoring the vast flood that followed as soon as she did so.

The expected result would have been a searing pain as her soul was blasted with far more energy than she was prepared to handle, damaging it over and over again till she gave up, however, that didn't happen.

Bree kept her eyes closed as she concentrated on her task, not doubting the abilities of her 'mother' at all. After all, her mother knew everything, and could do anything.

Evelyn obviously didn't have it so easy, as she was nowhere close to omnipotent. She could only shield Bree's soul with her own in the most direct way possible - placing herself between the corrosive energy that Bree had rejected, and the girl's soul.

Although this meant that Bree would only need to handle the amount that she plucked out each time, it left the pink haired girl to bear the brunt of everything that was left. If she couldn't bear it her soul would soon be torn to shreds.

Thankfully, there was one saving grace and that was her understanding of the chaos energy itself.

Although she only had a little over 12% progress in the preliminary understanding of chaos that was still exponentially more than what Bree had. Compared to her bearing it all with just her soul and bloodline, Evelyn could actually resist and handle it to some extent.

Up until now, her contact with 'Chaos' was limited to the filtered product that Bree had handed to her before, as well as the faint understanding from the rotation of 'Chaos Incarnate'.

But this time, Evelyn was able to feel the chaos energy directly with her soul.

Evelyn's expression immediately distorted in pain and agony as her soul suffered from the erosion of the chaos energy, but she wouldn't just let it burn her like that, and did her best to both repel and assimilate what she could.

Along with the pain, her soul power was also consumed, but it wasn't all a loss.

Consumed 10 points of Soul Value.

Preliminary understanding of chaos +0.1%

Consumed 10 points of Soul Value.

Preliminary understanding of chaos +0.1%

Although her expression remained distorted in pain, deep within her heart Evelyn smiled.