Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest Chapter 2057: A Sorceress Of Chaos

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Elayne gasped as the world continued to warp around her. Magic itself slowly revealed its deeper and more dangerous truth. What the System regulated as simple "MP" and "Magic" stats were nothing more than a surface-level protection against something far more uncontrollable, far wilder, and far less predictable.

The Weave opened fully before her eyes. It was a vast latticework of loose, shifting shape that expanded toward every corner of the observable reality. Even within the deepest layers of the Netherworld it remained present, though in a much wilder and more savage form. Still, it was not beyond her reach.

Then she began remembering what the druids had told her before about Primal Magic and the first true Druids. Was this revelation somehow related to that ancient knowledge? Or was it something entirely different?

The way magicians conjured magic and the way druids performed it had always varied wildly. Druids relied on the natural laws of the world and the spirits born from it. Magicians used magic circles and... what else, exactly?

Now she finally understood. This was a sea of pure magic — the Weave... or perhaps it held other names in different cultures. Some simply knew it as Mana Mist, an endless fog of energy that spread into every corner of existence.

Who had made it? Who had designed such a system? It was clearly not natural. It was an artificial patch placed upon the world, because raw magic itself was too unpredictable and uncontrollable without some form of regulation!

Only the strongest entities, those capable of controlling the elements on a completely different level, could ever touch upon such power... or someone like her.

Elayne was perhaps among the very few who had now gained access to both specialized Magia Arcana and the Wild Magic controlled through the Pulses of the World itself — true Druidic Magic.

"Incredible," she whispered as she conjured a small spell on her open hand. Magia Arcana gathered around her fingers like living light.

It was both Mana and the pure Magic Power contained within it. Magia Arcana was not something that predated either of those forces. Instead, it was born from their perfect and complete fusion.

Jester had possessed such a power as a magician player who had been heavily imbued with that strength by the System, combined with his own knowledge carried over from Earth.

Now Elayne had stolen that same power for herself, becoming a true Sorceress.

A Sorceress of Chaos.

A small black dot appeared in the center of her palm, floating silently. The air around it created strange, bizarre ripples that warped the empty space itself.

"Wow, this is insane..."

Everyone nearby watched in pure awe at what she was doing. After a moment Elayne stopped moving her hand and looked back at her companions.

"This is... This is the power of Magia Arcana. Does any of you have a similar stat?"

No one did.

Not even Blank.

"I have heard that sorcerers, wizards, and other specialized magicians who delve deepest into pure magic do possess it," Blank explained. "Yaga, that old goblin witch, is an advanced sorceress. She must have the Magia Arcana stat."

"I see..." Elayne nodded thoughtfully. "Alright, for now... Ah!"

Just as they were talking, heavy tremors began echoing from the nearby mountains. Countless dark silhouettes emerged from the rocky slopes, led by massive creatures made of bone and rotten flesh, accompanied by swirling ghosts and other undead horrors.

It was a full Undead Monster Wave!

Bone Beasts, Phantom Beasts, and Zombie Beasts charged forward with furious hunger. They sensed the rich lifeforce they could drain and the delicious souls they could devour.

There were a massive number of them. They had probably been living in those mountains the entire time, hunting one another or anything else that wandered too close.

"Shit! And I thought we were going to have a nice, peaceful trip to the dungeon!" Sailor clicked his tongue in irritation.

"There are so many of them...!" Norman gasped. "D-Dorothy, stay behind me! No — go inside me. I’ll protect you inside my ribcage."

"E-Eh? Norman, that’s a little lewd!" Dorothy panicked, her face turning bright red.

"..." Shade looked toward Elayne with calm readiness. "Master... shall we fight?"

"Leave these to me," Elayne said firmly. She pointed the tiny black dot of pure Chaos toward the charging monsters. "Go."

She flicked it lightly with her finger and sent it flying forward at lightning speed.

In a single moment the very elements that composed the world fractured. An endless sea of darkness consumed everything in its path.

Then countless other colors erupted one after another, spinning together into an endless storm of pure chaos!

BOOOMMM!!!

Almost all of the monsters were completely consumed by the explosion. Only a few torn shreds of the strongest ones remained. Black fire covered the ground for a brief moment before disappearing entirely.

A massive crater was left behind, still leaking large quantities of smoke. Deep cracks spread across the surface of everything nearby. It was a truly terrifying display of power.

A power that no one should ever have been allowed to control!

And yet Elayne now possessed it.

"Jester used this exact power...!" Blank said in shock. "Elayne, you’ve obtained his magic?"

"I can inherit a skill from my Sporeborn," Elayne explained calmly. "So yes, I obtained it — Chaos Magic, a Tier 5 Skill."

"Tier 5?!" Everyone present was stunned by the sheer scale of such power.

"With strength like that, perhaps even harming that bastard might be possible?" Mark muttered, clearly referring to the Demon King of Death.

"I don’t know," Elayne shook her head. "That bastard is a true monster. Can we really harm him? Even with this Chaos Magic... Jester served him directly. I am fairly sure he already possessed ways to counter such magics..."

"Huh..." Mark nodded slowly. "Still, if the skill can level up, it can grow even stronger. I wonder though... is there a Druidic Circle of Chaos itself?"

"I don’t know," Elayne admitted. "But maybe... if I managed to discover the Circles of Constellations and Hell, perhaps there is one for anything that is truly ’natural’ as well."

"Come to think of it, why did that monstrous bastard even follow the giant skeleton in the first place?" Sailor wondered aloud.

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