Ascension of Chaos

Ashley Once I reach my Spire again, I find the new guests already settling into the eleventh and twelfth floors respectively. With each of them using those floors as their bases of operations. And from what they tell me, they'll be using the thirteenth and fourteenth floors respectively for their public areas where they'll do business with others from our world. After checking up on them, I go ahead and march on up to my room before collapsing onto my bed and going into the System to check on the next Official System Events. Just to figure out which one to join. "Just a little warning, Official System Events are different with each Class," Chaos suddenly says, surprising me into sitting up on my bed with a frown. How so? "They're turned more and more into spectacles for people to watch and for the hunters to earn credits," Chaos answers, making my frown grow even deeper. "Starting at Class D, there is always a minimum of three hours between the act of signing up for an event and actually joining it so that the System can give out notices to all of your followers and give them time to join the spectators. Furthermore, the price begins to rise to join the spectators directly instead of simply watching it livestreamed. And the winning player will receive a tiny fraction of the overall price, along with an additional fraction based on how many of the viewers in the bleachers are there to watch them." Ugh. So a bunch of annoying and pointless stuff? "For you, yeah," Chaos says, honestly sounding like he's shrugging as he does so. "Class C and Class B Official System Events on the other hand begin to have more additional features to the events. Such as Unique Titles given out to a hunter who manages to achieve the earning requirements for it within the event. Albeit Unique Titles that don't actually give any combat benefits." And it just gets worse… "Class A Official System Events and above allow the MC of the events to have a single recommendation to the System Hall of Fame in their entire careers, and being inducted into the System Hall of Fame will automatically grant the user access to the System Menu known as the Hall of Fame Store," Chaos continues, piquing my interest a little bit this time. "In this store you can pretty much buy anything when it comes to rare items. So long as a high Class hunter is selling, you can buy. And there is far less competition in this store compared to the regular stores. But the most important part is that you get the items you purchase right away no matter where you are through the System." Okay, that one's not so bad. I actually want it. "And Class S Official System Events are turned into grand spectacles for the entire universe," Chaos says with a rather excited tone of voice. "There are only two Class S Official System Events every two weeks, and Class S hunters generally tend to sign up for their events for the month at the start of the month. Choosing one out of the four Official System Events to participate in." Wait, what about the 'one Official System Event per week' rule? How does that work with there only being events every two weeks? "That's one of the privileges of reaching Class S," Chaos answers before suddenly appearing in front of me and my bed with a grin on his face. "Once a hunter reaches Class S, their once a week requirement changes to only being required to participate in an Official System Event once a month instead." Oh. Yeah, I want that requirement. Mostly. Honestly, I'll probably still be participating in more events than I need to just for the skills that I'll be getting from them. But I also don't like the idea of being required to participate, so that benefit is really nice. This content has been misappropriated from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. "I'll leave the other benefits as a surprise," Chaos says with a wink that takes me by surprise. "But very few people participating in Class S Official System Events permanently die. There are often revival rules allowed, and even when there aren't, the hunters generally have surrender tickets. Which can be bought when you reach Class A." It sounds like the Official System Events get harder and yet less permanently lethal the higher you go. Probably because it's harder and harder to reach and stay in the top Classes the higher you go? "Correct!" Chaos exclaims, his grin still ever present on his face. Alright, putting everything else aside for now, I still have my event to go complete. So with that in mind, I quickly begin browsing the current Official System Events to see what's there. Considering the reason I'm wanting to compete – other than the minimum required participations I need to meet – I need to find something that's combat focused. Something I can get a lot of new Skill Trees from. Also, something I can level up from. Because there aren't very many Class D Gates on Val yet. And none in my territory. Meaning the only real way I can level up right now is through Official System Events. So I search through page after page of Official System Events going on today. All the way until I finally settle on one event in particular. Hunt of the Festival's Eve Description: A festival is going on, and all of the hunters are invited. But this isn't an ordinary festival. Within the Hunt of the Festival's Eve Official System Event, all hunters will be placed scattered throughout a large floating island, with numerous other floating islands all around them, and an endless void beneath them that will kill any who fall into it. Meanwhile Class D monsters of all sorts are released across the connecting islands surrounding the first one, marking the beginning of the hunt. The hunt will end when the first hunter reaches ten thousand points collected total. Participant Count: 31/100 Rules: Killing one monster between levels 150-160 grants the hunter 1 point. Killing one monster between levels 161-175 grands the hunter three points. Killing one monster between levels 176-200 grands the hunter five points. Killing one mini boss monster between levels 201-225 grants the hunter twenty-five points. Killing the boss monster of an island grants the hunter 1000 points. And killing other hunters grants the hunter 25% of their total collected points. Victory Condition: The first hunter who collects ten thousand total points will reign victorious. Rewards: Every user slain in a challenge grants the winner 10 Skill Points. First place receives an additional 250 Skill Points. Second Place receives an additional 150 Skill Points. Third Place receives an additional 100 Skill Points. Every monster slain grants the hunter 1 Skill Point for regular monsters, 5 Skill Points for mini bosses, and 25 Skill Points for bosses. Participants List It's definitely different from Class E. What with there being a clear list of participants currently entered, along with much higher rewards. Far higher rewards in fact. Over twice as many Skill Points for winning this than the Class E events would give. "Well, the higher the risk, the higher the reward," Chaos says with a shrug before a chair made out of Chaos energy appears right as he sits down on it, making me stare rather blankly at the man. "And the higher your level goes and the further in your Skill Trees you get, the more expensive the new skills are to unlock. You've seen that just from your Queen of Destruction Skill Tree." Right. And I can only wonder just how expensive the last skills in each branch will be if the first ones are already this expensive. Guess the higher reward is necessary. Anyways, I go ahead and join the event, following which I get a message from the System telling me to wait an hour before the lobby opens for the event. After which I glance at the System Forums to find word quickly getting out about my participation. Which makes sense considering that I have billions of followers at this point. No matter how much I wish I didn't. "Consider it this way," Chaos suddenly says, bringing my gaze to his face without a care about Gaze of Destruction. Seeing as he seems pretty immune to it anyways. "The more followers you have, the higher the percentage of the viewers watching the event live will be there for you, and the more credits you'll get per event you participate in." That has me staring for a second before the corners of my lips quirk upwards ever so slightly. Okay, maybe it's not so bad after all.