Chapter 1142: The First The greenish and childish face of Labaletai stuck on the door went pale as he thought he recognized the serpents emerging through the tear in space, but their numbers were wrong, if he was correct Rowan should not have more than six of these serpents, but in a matter of moments the serpents that emerged from the crack had reached millions, and more were gushing forth, all of them Ouroboros Serpents. This was not Rowan, the Chaos Door swore to himself, there was no way he could become this powerful in such a short time. If he was then reality itself had gone mad, and everything he had thought about that enigmatic character was far off. The breath of power that arose from all these serpents was so devastating, that nearly ninety percent of the entire Chaos Blood collapsed to the ground and they could only remain conscious because they had bound themselves to this place, of course, these were all Chaos Blood under the level of Will. Those who were on a higher dimensional level only raised their guard and looked grim because the sheer power that was emerging from the space crack was alarming. None of the Ouroboros Serpents here had reached the level of Will, but they all had special abilities that extremely few members of the Chaos Blood shared, and that was the power of the physical bodies could be taken to ridiculous heights over a long period of time. Labaletai knew that there was a limit to these growths, but that limit was so distant it would make every Ouroboros Serpent a force to deal with in their own right, even those of them below the level of Will, and to make matters worse, clustered among them were Ouroboros Serpents that were in a higher dimensional level. He nearly swore aloud when he saw a fifth dimensional level Ouroboros Serpent King, and Labaletai knew that if he was to fight with this creature he would lose, and unless the Serpent King got bored with hunting his avatar over eternity, the Chaos Door would have to find ways to appease this creature. Cultivation could be roughly divided into two large steps. The Supreme circles as the first step, and will power, i.e. Higher dimensions as the other. Completing the Supreme Circle would make one immortal in the sense that one could not die of natural causes like sickness or starvation and they would never age, but at the end of a Minor Era, which was usually a billion trillion years, all immortals in the Supreme Circle would perish with it. The only way to gain true immortality where your end would only come about if you were killed by a higher power was to gain the power of Will and have control over the domain of Time, and if you could not gain the power of Will, you had to merge your soul with a higher dimension. To gain admittance into the Inheritance Ground, one of the criteria was to have completed the Supreme Circle, and for every Chaos Blood, reaching this level of power was very easy, although to gain the power of Will became difficult especially for those who gained power with the aid of their bloodline, and if one was unlucky to not gain any special talent during their bloodline advancement, they would be stuck as a Minor Immortal until the end of a Minor Era where they would perish, except they agreed to bond their souls to the dimension of a higher level Chaos Blood who was a World Bearer. It was not expressly stated but no Chaos Blood was expected to merge their souls to a strange dimension except those that were related to Chaos. Every Will Holder that controls a higher dimension had the ability to manifest that dimension in reality, but the cost of doing such a thing was ridiculously expensive in Aetherium and Essence, the only higher dimensional Will Holders who could manifest their dimension into reality without suffering the consequences were World Bearer, and this was a Title that could only be given by the World Stele, a Singularity. This Title made it possible for a willholder to root their dimension inside the Nothingness that comprised everything outside known reality. Known Reality was a strange concept and its full scope was not fully understood except by Primordials and certain great powers, although it was generally accepted that at the center of Known Reality was the Great Darkness. The Great Darkness was the fourth-dimensional domain of the Primordial Chaos, and it contained all the Third-dimensional universes in reality, making it the most valuable fourth- dimensional domain in all of known reality, and the Great Darkness was rooted in the Nothingness. Outside of the Great Darkness were many other dimensions or realms, all created by powerful forces like the Primordials or other World Bearers, and they all linked their dimension to the Great Darkness, making it a sort of central hub to the entirety of reality. For the Chaos Blood who could not achieve the level of Will, instead of becoming slaves to more powerful Chaos Bloods, there was arguably another, better alternative, that would be binding their souls to the Inheritance Ground. As one of the last vestiges of Chaos left in reality, the Inheritance Ground was the only portion of Chaos 9th level Dimension that was left in reality, and it was the backbone of the entire Children of Chaos, who saw it as their sanctuary and biggest bragging rights against all other non-primordial forces. Merging with the Inheritance Ground guaranteed them true immortality, because Reality was not safe, and every now and then, realms and dimensions were conquered or destroyed, but a Primordial domain was eternal. R The presence of these serpents emerging beneath the throne of Chaos was alarming, and the only reason the entire Inheritance Ground had not descended into a state of mayhem was their un-staunching belief in the power of the Inheritance Ground and they recognized the power of Chaos inside the bodies of all these Ouroboros Serpents. With a loud shrieking sound that made everyone flinch, the tear in space widened, and another variety of mythical serpents emerged, this trend continued until the spatial tear had grown to a gigantic level, and the various types of serpents that had emerged numbered in the thousands, the number of serpents now hovering inside the inheritance ground could no longer be counted. The sight was both bizarre and sickening, for they curled among themselves in a massive ever expanding ball of flesh. This was a higher dimensional world and therefore space was malleable, and so despite the fact that the throne of Chaos was not very massive, it was still bigger than the ridiculous nest of serpents beneath. As suddenly as it began, it ended. The space tear sealed itself and if not for the massive ball of serpents that were bigger than a galaxy silently floating below the throne of Chaos, everything would seem to be a dream. Labaletai swallowed, this scene bringing back old and dusty memories about the history of their bloodline and those who walked beside Chaos. He looked around at his fellow Higher-dimensional Chaos Bloods and he could see the same assumption in their demeanor, they knew they were among one of the Firsts. If one of the Firsts were here, then that meant...