"If it will help me achieve my aim, I don't mind it."
The changes to his body and his sin are the positive side of things. These positive aspects of his existence are due to the influence of chaos. The negative sides are also due to chaos. For starters, his soul almost crumbled. The current power of his soul is almost nonexistent. It goes to prove how close to death he was. Thankfully he has begun to heal and his soul is growing stronger.
His sin of chaos might be great but he has also lost access to mana and magic. Demons may not be able to access laws, but they have a way to enhance mana into some sort of transcendent energy that can match Origin energy in power. But now, he doesn't even have access to it because of his chaotic energy. His chaotic energy is all he has and what he has to rely on if he intends to achieve his aim.
"Let's see what this Chaos vessel is all about."
Now that he has escaped the threat of death, he has the leisure to try out the realm lord's gift. He reached into his inventory and brought out the two-handed sword. It is a heavy claymore that fell from his hands and sank with half its length deep into the ground.
"Wow." He was honestly stunned.
He didn't think the so-called thing that was supposed to help him would be this heavy. His pleasant feeling of surprise quickly morphed into anger. Either the realm lord had been unknowingly negligent or had been intentionally malicious, he had failed to account for the weight of the chaos vessel. How could he use this when he couldn't even move his body?
He scowled and muttered. "This better work."
He touched the weapon and channeled his Chaos energy into it. The weapon thrummed and absorbed it greedily. It even extended its hunger into Aeternus' soul. Some of his soul force went into it and bound the weapon to him.
He felt the effect of the bond on his soul and he commented dismissively. "It will certainly alleviate my problem but it wouldn't solve it."
The chaos vessel was like a bottomless abyss that could absorb chaos. It would have siphoned part of the pressure from his soul when he was helpless but only that. It wasn't worth it back then when he needed the assistance because he will have to lose focus on defending against chaos which would have led to his death. The siphoning isn't worth it now that he has already resolved the chaos problem. In a way, he got what he asked for from the realm lord, something to help with his problem, but only that. The chaos vessel would not have fixed his problem.
Still, it can be useful as a weapon. He tried moving it now but it didn't budge one bit. So he tried compelling the weapon to move with his soul force. It still didn't move. Instead, the weapon thrummed and sank deeper into the ground.
He was getting angry more and more. He knew it is the effect of his sin of chaos but who wouldn't get frustrated by such an unresponsive and useless gift? He tried recalling it and it disappeared into his inventory.
Aeternus sighed when that worked. If he can't move the chaos vessel, he will have to leave it behind. That would mean a waste of something he got for invasive scanning. Now that he was assured about it, he had more options for what to do. He considered it as one would an Origin weapon and asked it to lengthen.
The claymore began to elongate. It rose from the ground until he told it to stop. Then he told it to shorten and lighten. It reduced in size and became light enough for him to pull out from the ground.
"Not bad at all. It must be a top-grade Origin weapon. To think I would be the first of Legion to own one. That's an achievement." He commented as he swung it around.
Top-grade Origin weapons are almost perfect weapons. They are an Origin god's dream. World gods look down on a lot of things but not on a Top-grade Origin weapon. He knows it has something to do with their ability to maintain fidelity across various spatial and temporal constants. He doesn't know what it means but Hadrick has said so before.
The weapon was still gorging on his chaos energy but it was easy to wield. He could change its size, length, and weight just like any other Origin weapon. It didn't look or behave like any Origin weapon he had wielded, so it must be a top-grade weapon or a different type of weapon entirely.
He continued to test it and pushed its full capabilities before he returned it to his inventory.
"Now let's see what I'm working with."
He pulled up his stat screen.
Stat Sheet.
NAME: AETERNUS (Legion-3)
TITLE: Child Of The Virut Plane. Eternal Chaotic Envy Demon.
RACE: Demon Of Envy.
BLOODLINE/SIN: Chaotic Envy.
DEMON RANK: Low-Rank Demon.
HEALTH: 100%
STAMINA: INFINITE.
CHAOS ENERGY: INFINITE.
ATTACK RATING: Physique:24. Spirit:198. MAGIC:108.
DEFENSE RATING: Physique:108. Spirit:3640. MAGIC:108.
SOUL ESSENCE: 0
BIOMASS: 0
DIVINITY: 0
SIN RANK: Low-1%
STRENGTH: Low-12
CONSTITUTION: Low-54
ACTIVITY: Low-54
AGILITY: Low-11
CHAOTIC POWER: Low-54
PHYSICAL RESISTANCE: Low-54
MAGICAL RESISTANCE: Low-54
SPIRITUAL RESISTANCE: Eternal-91
SPIRIT: Eternal-18
PERCEPTION: Eternal-18
OTHERS
MANA AFFINITY: 0%
LAW AFFINITY: 0%
CHAOS AFFINITY: 100%
STATUS: Chaotic.
As he skimmed through his stats he realized that a lot had changed between him and other demons apart from his sin. The properties of demons have always been chaotic. They don't follow the same system of power as the path of perfection. They have a unique system of power that is based on mana, sin energy, and evolution.
Their strength and power are based on their level of evolution. That's why they are demarcated into ranks. Even their stats are demarcated into ranks too.
