Affinity: Chaos



"Phew…" Grey breathed a sigh of relief, he took a glance at Void who was standing on his shoulder and said, "See, done."

Void didn't say anything as he looked at the building. It took a little longer than he thought, but he couldn't complain since without Grey there was no way he would've been able to enter this place. 

The bunny leader was amazed at Grey's unique abilities. The fact that Grey could break through this array showed how proficient he was with arrays. This wasn't an easy array to break, but Grey managed to do it which came as a shock to it. 

It had been traveling with Grey for a while now, but it still isn't aware of Grey's depth. It's like whenever he thinks he knows Grey, Grey would do something that goes above its expectations. 

"Come on, someone is taking something of yours." Void said. 

"Something of mine?" Grey looked at him, a bit confused. 

"Yes, something of yours." 

Grey didn't dally any longer and walked past the hall, entering a passageway. He looked at it for some time before sensing where what Void was talking about was located. Well, it wasn't really hard to find given the fact that there was a room exuding brilliant light. 

If there was any treasure in this place, it was definitely in there. 

Grey carefully walked over and when he got to the door, he slowly opened it halfway and took a peek inside. 

Inside the room, a young lady could be seen sitting down on a futon, absorbing a glowing orb that was floating in front of her. 

'That's definitely something nice. It looks like an inheritance.' He thought to himself. 

He felt his shoulder become lighter, both Void and the bunny leader were nowhere to be seen. He looked inside the room and didn't catch a glimpse of either of them. This meant they had most likely gone to another room. 

'This place is more important to me. I'll take this and leave.' He thought to himself. 

Whatever Void and the bunny leader were doing was none of his concern for now. Maybe when he was done with taking this he would meet up with them. 

While looking at the young lady, he couldn't help but recall the last time he saw a scene like this. 

'I wonder if he's living peacefully in the Azure Continent?' 

The person he recalled was the first genius he encountered during his cultivation journey, when he went for his first test and didn't have any affinity with any element, he wasn't the star at that day, there was a young man who took the spotlight. Jonas Giles, the Fire Elementalist with purple grade. 

At first, it looked like they were going to be rivals since they both joined rival Academies and everything, but by the time they encountered each other, he was already leagues above Jonas. 

While in the trial land, he encountered Jonas obtaining an inheritance, just like this young lady, but he didn't try to snatch the opportunity due to the fact that they were acquainted and he was the only one he knew from Red City who was actually strong, other than his parents. 

This case, however, is completely different from that one. First off, he didn't know who this young lady was, and he needed to grow as fast as he could. The more things he could get from places like this the better it was for him. An entire race, which was stronger than the human race wanted him dead, he was enemies with over three top Factions and Families, if he were to add the enemies of his father to it, then the list just grows longer. 

For now his father and a few people could still hold up the sky for him, but it wouldn't be enough in a few years time. So he wanted to make sure he depended on himself. He had been like this since the Azure Continent, and he would like to continue in that manner. 

He threw the thought of Jonas to the back of his mind and started to plot how he would be able to take this opportunity without the young lady finding out anything. 

At first, he was worried if he tried to absorb it in a hurry he would explode from the excess energy, but then again, he recalled the orb he had inside him. It had been magical all this while, there's no saying what it would do in this case, but it shouldn't be defeated. 

He placed all his hopes on the orb inside him and vanished from his spot. When he appeared again, he was standing a few inches away from the orb, he grabbed it, tossed it inside his mouth and tried to leave. 

The young lady seemed to sense it the moment he grabbed it, she opened her eyes and was left stunned when Grey swallowed it, but she still didn't let it affect her. 

Grey stretched out her hand and grabbed Grey's hand, "That's mine, drop it before you kill yourself from greed." 

Grey covered his mouth which was still shining with a brilliant light, pushing the young lady's hand away, he tried to teleport. 

His expression changed slightly when he noticed it was slower than usual. The reason for that was because his essence was churning due to his body trying to rapidly absorb the orb. 

His head was also being flooded by techniques that he found it hard to think properly. 

'Fu*k! Will my greed really get the better of me?' 

Grey didn't panic, he knew at times like this he must be calm. The young lady had grabbed him once again, staring at him as if she was staring at a fool. 

Grey was trying to absorb something she had been trying for days now. Even with the time she had, she hadn't even absorbed up to half of it, yet Grey wanted to absorb what was left in one go. 

"You'll die, spit it out." She said calmly. 

She wasn't afraid she would lose it. From what she could sense, she already knew Grey's essense was a mess and if this continued, he would most likely die. Even if he refuses to listen to her, it doesn't matter, she would still reclaim what is hers. 

Grey, on the other hand took a glance at the young lady, shook his head, the essence in his body started to show increasing signs of going out of control. 

"Dmant it." He blurted out unconsciously. 

He never expected the orb in his body not to be able to help him out with this. 

"Let it go, you'll not survive if you take it." The young lady advised once again.

She wasn't being aggressive in any way, to her, there was no need to do anything like that. 

Grey shut his mouth as he tried to sort out the issue he was currently facing. Internally, he was panicking, trying to get the orb to work and stop the excess essence. If he doesn't sort it out, he might really have to give up the orb. 

He was still trying to see if he could sort it out, if not, he'll just give up on the inheritance. Although he wanted to grow strong as soon as he could, he didn't want to die doing that. 

….

While Grey was somewhat fighting for his life, the projection of the old man had his mouth wide open. 

"What the hell is wrong with that kid?" He couldn't help but ask after some time. 

He had been watching every step Grey had taken since he entered that area. Of course, he didn't try to stop him any more since his previous attempts had failed. But never would he have thought that Grey would actually swallow the orb the moment he saw it. 

He didn't know if Grey was being overwhelmed by greed or if he was genuinely stupid. 

From a distance anyone could sense just how high the essence in that orb was. Yet Grey, someone the old man rated frighteningly high didn't seem to sense it. It was absurd just thinking about it. 

A few seconds later the old man's expression changed slightly, "Huh? How come he's still alive?" 

Although he could see that Grey was not doing fine, but given how things were, he was supposed to be dead, not feeling some sort of discomfort. 

One has to know that the young lady had been inside trying to absorb this thing since they located the building. The reason they couldn't enter the last time was because the old man could not completely break the rules so some people had to at least get through some stages first. So the young lady had spent at least over a week or so inside, yet she had only absorbed one quarter of it, yet Grey swallowed everything. 

The young lady even had a higher cultivation base than Grey. 

"What's really happening with that kid?"