Chaos and Order - A Multiverse Fanfic

The 7th Circle had the gravestone of Sir Bedivere, and the ingredient Kai got from it was —

— 5000-years-old Mummy!

What part exactly, this remained to be seen, though.

The 8th Circle was the Circle of Chivalry, where Moraine again took center stage.

The knight in this Circle carried a spear and had the strength equivalent to a Mid-level 8th floor Contestant.

Using the full powers of her Mark XLIX armor, Elegance Sword Style, and Wings of the Grim Butterfly Blessing, Stark Blue somehow finished the job, her life barely hanging by a thin thread.

The Tomb of the Thirteen was as much a necessity for Kai as it was a testing ground for the members of the White Serpent Pirates.

Kai wanted to know the limits of everyone to plan accordingly.

And he also wanted to know his own limits as well.

These thirteen Circles were in a separate reality from the rest of the world anyway.

Here, they could go all out without causing any damage to the real world outside, as the Bounded Field that prevented wizards and witches from using Magic also prevented any interaction between the two places.

Not to mention, every next circle was getting bigger and bigger, now expanding to becoming massive city-sized spaces.

The 8th Circle's Knight turned out to be Sir Tristan when Kai read the glyphs over the gravestone, collecting the black marble.

And the ingredient he got from this place was — Ashes of Thestral!

The 9th Circle was the Circle of Splendor, where two knights in pristine black armor possessed the strength of Top-level 8th-floor Contestant.

This time, Kai sent all of his cards, save Red Sun.

Moraine, Meg, Spawn, Cersei, and Petyr all going out a step beyond their limit to take the monsters down…

Now that was a sight that amused Kai the most.

The only thing that's in their favor is that these Knights are Undead and not true Contestants, Kai analyzed. A true Mid-level 8th-floor Contestant would be enough to resist all of them, otherwise. Still, not bad, I guess…

This knight was Sir Percival, as it turned out.

The ingredient they got from it was their first purely herb-based ingredient, but equally rare, to say the least.

A rare magical plant believed to be a myth by even the Potioneer Zygmunt Budge; a magically powerful potion ingredient, most notably as one of the constituents of the Potion of All Potential —

— Thaumatagoria!

The 10th Circle was the Circle of Loyalty and it was in this Circle that everyone threw their hands.

Three 10-ft tall Knights stood in the desert, guarding an enormous, floating gravestone.

Air was rippling in their surroundings, burning and screaming.

They weren't even wielding the same weapons. One was carrying a sword, the second a shield, and the last a bow and a quiver of arrows.

All with an equivalent strength of Low-level 9th floor.

A breath of dry air slapped against their faces and all waited for Red Sun to step up.

The knights had already begun dashing toward them with an unparalleled speed, the last knight knocking arrows half as long as him.

But Red Sun didn't even budge.

The ladies exchanged puzzled glances.

Suddenly, the knights arrived over their heads. And paused.

It was as if the world had given up at that moment. The knights had literally been statued over their heads, without the tiniest hint of movement.

The only way to tell them if they were still functioning or not was through the beastly growls coming out of the Inferi.

In the distance, the archer Inferi let go of the arrow.

With a boom, it arrived, rocking the sand in its wake.

And then it paused too… just near the two knights.

"I will do it," Kai said, walking toward the gravestone. "It will barely count as a warm-up."

Creak!!!

As they followed Kai, the two knights suddenly trembled.

A stupendously powerful force fell upon them from all sides and crushed them into balls in mere seconds.

The archer Inferi fired another arrow, but it couldn't come nearer than 10 ft with Kai walking in the lead.

Behind him, Cersei looked at his tall back and his imperial presence and blushed profusely. Meg's cheeks were already red, her mind a mess.

Moraine had already decided to look in all directions but ahead.

Among the ladies, only Spawn seemed to be not affected by Kai's growth, both physically and mentally.

Red Sun quietly followed Kai, sweating in heat and terror.

Arrows after arrows kept coming, pausing, and falling around Kai.

Nothing could touch him; not even wind, if the Emperor didn't want it to.

Suddenly, the archer inferi stood up.

He took out another arrow, silver of color, and knocked it.

As he drew the bowstring, a dust storm rose in his surroundings, full of magic and destruction.

The knight's armor melted then under the heat of its own power and a shockwave of unknown origin rippled out.

The Inferi let go of the arrow.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Even the beam fired by Moraine, using Energy Displacers, wasn't as destructive and as fast as the thing that came for them.

Kai's step didn't halt, though.

And the rest followed in his tall shadow, unworried.

The moment this arrow arrived 100 metres from Kai, his eyes narrowed into vertical slits and both life and death paused in that area.

The arrow began slowing down as if one was looking at a fast bullet through the screen of a camera, its frame rate hundreds of thousands slower than the original.

Just as the arrow arrived inches away from Kai, it stopped.

And he passed by it, not losing a bit of his momentum.

The Inferi mechanically took out another arrow magically but then it got lifted in the air.

Kai looked at the gravestone and then looked up.

"I respect you, Sir Gawain," he said. "May your soul rest in peace."

With a sickening crunch, he crushed the Inferi into a ball.

Kai pulled out the black marble and waited for the ingredient to appear — Basilisk's Fang!

Behind him, the White Serpent Pirates gawked, noticing that His Majesty hadn't even moved his hands…

…

Kai shook his head and took the others toward the 11th Circle, the Circle of Madness.

Few personalities from the Round Table remained. So it took Kai only a breath to know which knight he would meet next.

Sir Lancelot!

They arrived near a lake once entered, where three Mid-level 9th floor Inferi Knights, wielding nothing, stood, puffing out red, putrid breath.

The waters of the lake behind them were bubbling, the ground was shaking, and even space itself was fluttering like a veil.

In the middle of the lake, there hovered the gravestone.

Then the knights charged.

Red Sun threw out the beast ball.

"RizeGreymon…" he said, the Digimon taking shape, "… Trident Revolver…"

"RizeGreymon!" the Digimon roared, levitating tall midair like a tower.

It thumped its revolver in hand and aimed at the three knights, who immediately took evasive actions.

Futile actions.

Three balls of dense, fiery Mana shot out of RizeGreymon, spinning around each other, and landed somewhere between the three knights.

And a red sun rose in this world for the first time in hundreds of years.

All things got reduced to dust and ashes as a massive mushroom cloud of hotness engulfed everything.

If it wasn't for Kai's Telekinesis keeping the scalding hot winds away, the sheer shockwaves alone could have sent the ladies flying in all directions.

This was the might of a Mid-level 10th-floor Contestant.

And Red Sun was no ordinary Contestant, to begin with. It took raw absurdness to counter Red Sun's might.

Like Moraine, Red Sun possessed the Inheritance of Vash the Stampede from Trigun Random World, his Standalone Title being The Humanoid Typhoon.

Then there were the Digimon as if he alone wasn't enough to cause mass destruction.

So, when it ended, Kai wasn't surprised to find no lake there anymore.

Even the gravestone itself had cracked, though the cracks were healing gradually.

Kai looked at Red Sun and nodded.

"Next time, just do this when asked," he said.

"Next time?" Red Sun asked, confused.

Kai walked toward the ditch, where the look once stood, and pulled out the black marble from the gravestone.

"Yes, next time," he told Red Sun. "In the next Circle, use the Digimon we obtained in the Digimon Random World."

"Him?!" Red Sun blurted, shocked. "He… He might not act against these knights, master. The enemy is too weak in his eyes, I think."

Kai looked at the ingredient—Sphinx's eyes—and smiled. "We will see."

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