Affinity:Chaos

"What's happening?" Grey muttered in the middle of the night, staring at his hands while seated in a crossed leg position.

Given how much he had been training lately, he was already long due to breakthrough. With Sylvia with him, he asked all the questions he wasn't sure of, yet he was still unable to break through to the Overlord Plane.

"I should try it again, if I still can't, then I'll leave it at that for now," He closed his eyes.

After he closed his eyes, seven beads the size of a fist came out of his body, each having different colors with one of them having two colors. These beads were the elemental beads he created when he was breaking through to the Origin Plane.

In the Overlord Plane, he would need to first shatter the beads, letting the overflow of elemental essence in them wash over his body. It would first cleanse his outer body, before sipping into his body to cleanse his inners.

This would not only make his physical body stronger, but it would give him better control and understanding of his elements.

Once the cleansing process was done, a new type of elemental bead would form inside him, but this time, instead of a bead, it would be an orb.

The seven beads floated above his head, moving in a circle. He concentrated fully, trying to use his spiritual senses to forcefully break the elemental beads, so the cleansing process could begin. But no matter how hard he tried, he was unable to break it.

Thirty minutes soon went by, and Grey was starting to get frustrated from his constant failure.

He had been trying the entire night, and it was already almost sunrise, yet he was still unsuccessful.

'I already have a great understanding of my elements, not even some Sage Plane Elementalists can say they have studied the elements as much as I have done. Why isn't this working?' He thought in annoyance before keeping the beads back inside his body.

"Still unsuccessful?" Void asked when he saw Grey opening his eyes.

"Hmm," Grey nodded, a little tired from the continuous attempts.

"You shouldn't feel down because of it, you will get through it. Let's just ȧssume you're stuck in a bottleneck," Void encouraged.

"Yeah, I'll be able to break through when the time is right. But for now, I'll occasionally try it, while also improving my elemental grades," Grey nodded before standing.

"Alright, that's the spirit!" Void jumped enthusiastically.

"We still haven't checked your elemental grade for your elements. I'll ask Sylvia, since she's this powerful, then she must definitely have one of those stones," Grey said.

"Those stones for checking elemental grades?" Void suddenly paused.

"Yeah," Grey nodded.

"I acquired one when I raided those families in Ernst City. I only took it on a whim, who knew it would come in handy?!" Void laughed before bringing out one of the stones.

Grey looked at the stone on the ground before looking at Void, he almost had a feeling Void didn't bring out all the items he stole from the families.

The stone was around one meter high, it could be easily be mistaken for a pillar.

'Whatever, I have a ton of essence stones, multiple elemental weapons, and even a better defensive elemental armor. There are also a few techniques,' He said to himself.

He had never been stingy, and since he didn't want to depend too much on treasures to improve himself, he wasn't too concerned about them.

"Alright, place your ha… paw on the stone," Grey instructed.

Void did as instructed, and soon started giggling.

"What's funny?" Grey couldn't help but ask.

"Haha, it tickles," Void laughed while replying.

Grey looked at the stone before shaking his head with a smile. Void was laughing because of the energy that came out of the stone.

A few seconds later, Void stopped laughing which indicated that the energy was out of his body.

"You can take off your paw now," Grey said before taking a closer look at the stone.

Void did as instructed, while staring at the stone curiously. He too wanted to know the elemental grades of his elements.

The results were soon out, and Grey could be seen rubbing his eyes furiously after seeing it, trying to affirm if what he was seeing was true.

On the stone were four colors that indicated Void's current four elements, and at the middle of each of them was a bright white light. The light was almost overshadowing the colors of the elements, making it seem like they were all white in color.

"Is this for real?" Grey asked, stunned.

"What's wrong?" Void asked, a little worried by Grey's response.

He didn't take interest in these things, so he didn't know what the white light at the center of the colors meant.

"Did you take only this stone?" Grey asked.

"No, I took one more as well," Void replied before making another stone appear.

This one was a few inches higher than the other one and had a milky color.

Grey told Void to repeat the same process, and after some time, the result was out. The same results.

"Oh shit! Void, what are you?" Grey freaked out.

He couldn't keep calm. When he found out about elemental grades, he was told that the white and black grades are things that rarely occur, and they were regarded as the tenth grade.

Something said to be so rare was currently seen on Void, all four of his elements! If that wasn't shocking, what was?

If news of a cat having white elemental grade in four elements were to go out, then the entire Aurora continent would be turned upside down.

"What's wrong?" Void asked, worried from how Grey was staring at him.

"No matter what, never do this in front of strangers. If people find out about you, they'll hunt you down," Grey said with utmost seriousness.

"I understand, now tell what this means," Void nodded.

Grey rarely spoke in this manner, so Void knew it was something serious. But it didn't mean he didn't want to know what it meant though.

Grey went on to tell him what it meant, and he couldn't stop grinning from ear to ear.

"Haha, I always knew lord cat was awesome! And you dare compare me to those filthy oversized lizards," He laughed hysterically.