C100: End to it all Pt7, Chaos Theory
Whoo, we got to 100, let's go baby.
Another short chapter. Just a bit short of 2k but at least double of 98. no faster chapter posts this time around. Also if I hadnt given the last chapter early, it would have been posted on my birthday so thats cool a fact for yall.
9/12/26
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The Hunters dream has rarely been this active. Swarms of Messengers scattered around as they watch over the current actions of their 'father'. They had naturally celebrated with various snacks upon finding out that he woke up. Said man even cooked up a cake after the 'cuties' took him all over the place for various materials to do said cooking.
Many messes were made as multiple cakes had to be baked to serve all the messengers I knew about and even more so about the ones that were too shy to appear. Having me do all this by myself was difficult which was why I recruited a few of the more capable ones to follow my directions and then they would translate to the ones who were more clueless so that multiple batches could be made at the same time.
Naturally, I did this by scavenging oven-like appliances, transporting them to the Dream and then reconfiguring them so that they could run off of my bloodstone shards. Modifying the machines to work like actual ovens took longer than the bloodstone converters did. I give thanks to all the dolts of Central Yharnam who followed me to abandon their dingy homes as they left behind the flour for cooking along with many other tools to create frosting.
It took some time but it was eventually finished and after dramatically unveiling multiple cakes at once and even taking one cake for myself just to cover some of the babies faces in said cakes only added to the joy as a new 'appearance' called Cake Day was unlocked for the messengers which they all changed into before splitting all the pieces into small chunks and having them all line up so that they could eat, piece by piece in their hands due to a lack of small plates in comparison to the numbers here.
The party lasted hours more as soon enough, a gentle calm falls over the entire dream as the sugar high falls off and the messengers retreat to whatever place they rest in. After cleaning up with Doll by my side. I got to work on checking myself out to see what else has changed with my body.
I've already long peeled away the scabs on my neck and forearms to reveal fresh pink skin as if recently healed. On one hand, I'm happy to see that the curse is finally gone, years of suffering has taken its hold on my hunters, those before the whole event as well as those after it that knew nothing about it but were struck by said curse. On the other hand of this whole situation, free healing factor via the weakened OG healing factor from the system store that I got shortly before the boss fight.
"Haa….Haa… Haa" I now find myself doing pushups as a continuation of the previous tests to ensure my body is in good condition. I had a lot of chaos energy flow through me back then. I don't feel any negative effects but the movements I was able to do back in the boss fight were comparable to what I could do in my Eldritch Hunter state.
While I was able to do all this with some pain as an aftereffect. The implication made me believe that I was not properly using my body to its full power, the true power derived from my stats and that was unacceptable.
To better achieve this state. I recreate the puppet rune and cover only half my body in my chaos barrier and after plenty of concentration. I was able to achieve a sort of partial out-of-body experience where the connection is clearer and thus less straining on my focus.
In doing so, I was better able to train in doing the same movement at a higher intensity. This came with the benefit of knowing where exactly I was going wrong.
Soon enough, the effect ended and I was sore all over but to a lesser degree as I was not fighting anyone this time around. Simply replicating the moves put a lot of strain on me. But this time around, I have something absolutely delicious helping me.
That's right, a healing factor.
After just a few minutes of recovery, I was back in action and training again to get a better handle of my physique. It also helped me better understand the effects of chaos on my own body.
With the current puppet effect, there is no negative style energy affecting my body per say, it's more so a spirit based technique. While I'm not too smart about things affecting the spirit, I do have the telepathy magic I got from experimenting on Nico-shit that allows me to analyze my own mind. Which by extension works on my own spirit since that is how it connects to the mind.
Through this analysis, I was able to follow the flow of energy to better understand how I'm pseudo-puppeteering my own body.
The principle follows the trinity of soul, mind and body. By expanding the link on the three, the mind is able to hijack the soul and apparate out of the body whilst maintaining the link and thus leading to the puppetry event.
One positive thing is that the more I get used to this effect on myself, the faster I'm able to start pulling off my crazy moves as my body and soul get used to it.
Totally not a red flag about the link between body and soul weakening or anything.
Regardless, with my mind magic, I was able to detect some traces of chaos magic 'on' me. But it was not to a notable concentration and in fact, interacting with these little piles allows me to 'quick-cast' the puppet spell on myself without releasing the effect on everything else near me.
'Is this what happens with all my chaos skills that I experience? Or is it only limited to the puppetry effect?'
In my pursuit of my studies. I go to the closest corner of the dream and start skipping while activating chaos step, allowing everything that isn't outright negative to my instincts to flow over me.
In doing so, I learn plenty of new runes from the variance of chaos but also learn that it's only the effects that don't trigger either a positive or negative state that remain behind. Which was why some of the previous effects that I underwent in that last battle like Rough to Silk, didn't stick to my spirit while the puppetry does. It can't be exclusively good for me before it sticks to me. It might be possible on higher chaos comprehension, I'll be able to choose which ones I have hotkeyed but until then, I'll have to settle for the ones I got.
In the end, I got up to 4 of these 'neutral' type abilities from my chaos and about 30 more various other types of chaos symbols to use for later. 15 of which were fairly negative with one turning flesh to shit. For some reason that makes me chuckle at the back of my head though I don't know why.
The remaining 11 were pretty good with Flood of Speed being my favorite as I got used to it quickly with all my pre-existing skill for speed. I'm sure that it has a way to bite me in the ass if my enemy also is able to get used to that speed which was why I had the idea of triggering it only when I'm far away from the enemy so that I could be the only possible target for it.
A horrible inclusion to the positives was Touch of song. It's essentially a theme song generating spell. I tried it on myself and got that same bloodborne song I've sung a few times thus far, but the second time around I tried this skill, it repeated back to me my own variation of my little baby, back to me. The third time it went back to that song again and my guilt only came back stronger in that one moment.
In hopes of changing my misery, I had directed this skill to The Doll and collapsed in her lap as "A Horse With No Name by America" began to play from her. She was completely clueless about what was going on or why there was music playing all the sudden after I waved my hand around a bit.
She just did what she did naturally and that was stroke my hair until the song ended and I was finally done with all my testing. I was moderately okay with the results. Figuring out what was going on with my chaos, how well I could control it and upping my arsenal.
"Alright, thats enough of me being dumb. Time to get this all over with. I have a promise to keep" I get up and brush my clothes off of dust and then head to the very beginning of the area.
Central Yharnam.
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