Chaos Heir

Chapter 1320: True Chaos

It sounded impossible, but that was the conclusion Khan had reached during the exchanges. The glowing dark smoke was strange and unique, but shared too many similarities not to be mana.

Of course, that wasn’t necessarily the whole truth. It couldn’t be since the black aliens’ energy had shocking effects Khan had never seen in the mana or specific elements. However, he knew his hunches weren’t lying to him.

Energy couldn’t just disappear. That wasn’t how the universe worked. The mana allowed people to accomplish miracles, but some truths remained fixed.

If the black aliens had simply destroyed Khan and Liiza’s energy, the matter would be easy to explain. However, their presence and black gas had gone beyond that.

The scientific fields had always been Khan’s weakness, but he had performed some specific studies due to his element’s nature. He had stumbled upon the concept of annihilation while researching entropy, which seemed to fit the situation perfectly.

Khan and Liiza’s mana wasn’t destroyed. Something had obliterated it, and physics said that only an opposite energy could achieve those results.

The Guko on Ecoruta had tried to create something similar, but the black aliens seemed to wield a far superior version of that incomplete experiment. Khan couldn’t even dismiss it as simple anti-mana since reviewing the previous exchanges uncovered more details.

The black smoke didn’t simply annihilate the mana. The process would bring mutual destruction and depletion, which didn’t happen. The latter only unfolded when the aliens had to heal injuries or something affected their very energy, hinting at another feature.

The science said that annihilation released energy, but Khan had witnessed no such thing during the battle. Still, he didn’t believe the laws of the universe to be at stake there. Rather, Khan felt to know where that power had gone.

The world didn’t have it, and the same went for the mana, only leaving one possible option. The black gas had to have absorbed the energy released during the annihilation, preserving its reserves.

That ability probably stretched to the world’s fabric, too. After all, Khan could do something similar with his element. His training sessions shattered ground, water, and air to bring more energy to his body, so it was fair to assume the aliens could do the same.

Truth be told, that topic raised another issue, a more specific and seemingly correct conclusion. Even the definition of complete anti-mana sounded imperfect, but that new idea didn’t.

The mana existed in different forms, so it was safe to assume that such a similar but opposite energy could share those features. The two aliens even showcased spells unique to their fighting style, corroborating the hypothesis that their species had different elements.

Except Khan’s reasoning instinctively stopped one step before that.

Despite the unique spells, the two aliens’ energy shared too many similarities to belong to different elements. That only made the hypothesis unlikely and not impossible, but Khan had his reasons to dismiss it.

The mana had one element that could theoretically take countless forms. According to Liiza, chaos was the freest type of mana, and Khan had even confirmed that point. His unique situation had pushed him toward specific features, but that didn’t deprive his energy of that quality.

Moreover, there was another species that could draw a perfect parallel with the black aliens. The Nak were mostly limited to the chaos element, but that didn’t hinder their genocidal attacks on that side of the universe or their overall capabilities.

Also, the Nak’s corpse had stressed that element’s value in the whole mission. Khan had to evolve past the mana but had to use his chaos to do that, because his chaos had no rules or enemies.

’How did the Nak know that successful hosts can evolve past the mana?’ Khan wondered, an eerie, partially unfounded hypothesis taking root in his mind.

The aliens at the bottom of the crater obviously didn’t answer, and Khan didn’t voice his new realizations, either. He waited a few seconds, hovering above the burned, cracked figures, hoping to capture more details.

Nevertheless, a purple-red light filled the world as soon as the taller alien attempted to move his broken body, blinding both evolved warriors. A deafening, thunderous noise also filled the area, and a different scene unfolded in the shorter enemy’s vision once he became able to see again.

The taller alien had been lying at the shorter one’s left side, but a fuming crater in the already charred ground had replaced him. The latter couldn’t sense any trace of his companion anymore, but more pressing matters claimed his attention.

A piercing pain joined the general suffering the shorter alien was experiencing. He lifted his gaze, only to see that Khan had landed upon him, stabbing his right foot into his torso.

The previous lightning bolt had disappeared. Khan had unleashed it to smite the taller alien out of existence, but reserved the shorter warrior a preferential treatment, if he could call it that.

"You wield chaos, don’t you?" Khan asked, his bright gaze illuminating the shorter alien’s cracked figure. "It’s different from mine, but it’s chaos nonetheless."

The shorter alien didn’t reply. His scarlet eyes were wide on Khan as he felt his glowing, dark energy vanishing at high speed. The mere attempt to survive in that condition was depleting his reserves rapidly.

"Come on, man," Khan spoke casually, but his face remained deadly cold. "I might literally become a father right now. Can’t you do your brother a favor? Does your species even know what the bro-code is?"

Khan obviously wasn’t relying only on the human language. His words carried mana that echoed his emotions and intentions, using the theory behind the Nak’s language in the hope of establishing some means of communication.

The shorter alien didn’t look like the sharpest tool in the shed, but he finally reacted. His stupor vanished, making room for his previous grin. Shards of his skin fell off his face while mustering that expression, but he also exhaled slowly, releasing a sound Khan’s brain could translate.

"[Ours is True Chaos]," The short alien said.

Khan’s expression didn’t change, but his mind grew more serious. The sole fact that the short alien could use the Nak’s language added value to his unfounded hypothesis, but he kept it to himself since the cracks in his vision widened.

"[You fight well, son of the mana]," The shorter alien continued, ignoring the damage that speaking was causing to his body. "[But we are but scouts. The warriors will follow, and our Kings will lead them. Once they are done, our God will swallow your Chaos whole]."

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