Affinity:Chaos

In the tavern.

Grey could be seen sitting in a crossed leg position, his eyes closed.

If one looks closely, one will notice the faint lines in the ground around him.

He made an array that would protect him in case someone tries to attack him while he was in this state. He also made an array that would notify him if anyone was coming into the room, but he wanted to be extra sure he was safe.

His consciousness was currently inside the Chaos Space, he wanted to see the current grade of the space element. When he tried to use the space element the first time, he knew the grade was too low, hence he was unable to create a space tunnel. But during the fight, he was able to use it after trying as with all his might, so he was a little hopeful, feeling his elemental grade saw an increase.

….

"I hope it increases," Grey muttered while placing his hand in the stone.

After a few seconds of the usual routine, the stone lit up, with seven different colors. Two of them were closely identical, which were the space and darkness elements. The difference was that in the color of the space element, there were little white dots like stars.

Grey looked closely at the color of the space element, and an elated expression appeared on his face. His space element's grade has increased from purple to blue.

Of his seven elements, the fire element was in the cyan grade, the lightning element was in the violet grade, the wind, water, and space elements were in the blue grade, while the earth and darkness elements were in the purple grade.

'Yes!'

Grey exclaimed internally, he didn't think his space element would improve all due to a small insight.

He didn't stay at the temple for long, after checking his elemental grade, he moved towards the side where he comprehended the elements. Initially, he wanted to try to comprehend the space element, but he thought about it and decided it was best to improve the grades of this darkness and earth element.

He went straight to the earth space in the Chaos Space. After getting inside, he felt as if an entire house was placed on top of him. The heavy feeling of the earth element enveloped him completely.

He struggled to walk further into the earth space, after going a little further, he was unable to go any deeper. He sat down crossed leg and started comprehending the earth element.

….

The next day.

"Hey, so where are we going today?" Void asked.

When he came back the previous day, Grey was still in the Chaos Space, he didn't disturb him and went to rest in the bed. It was only till this morning did Grey leave the Chaos Space.

"I don't know, do you have any suggestions?" Grey asked.

"Yeah, I heard an auction will be taking place today, let's go over to see what they have," Void said excitedly.

"Okay, lead the way," Grey replied.

It would be good to see the items that would be up for sale in the auction. Hopefully, he would see things he had never seen before.

After coming to a decision, Grey stepped out of the tavern. Following Void's instructions, he came to the building where the auction would be taking place.

'Void, why didn't you say it would be happening later in the night?' Grey asked when he realized they were early, too early.

'Oh, I forgot about that. It would be happening in the night,' Void replied with an embarrassed look.

'*Sigh* Fine, let's check out the marketplace, they should have some interesting things there,' Grey suggested.

'Sure,' Void nodded.

'Also, if you see any shiny things, please don't try to take it,' Grey warned before they got there.

Since they were going to the marketplace, there's a high chance that they would see shiny things, given Void's nature, he would definitely try to steal it. He couldn't afford to offend people there.

He was lucky the young lady at the arena wasn't really that angry at Void, or else she would've caused a major problem for him at that time. Even though he was stronger than her, he didn't know if she was from a big family here in Eagle's City.

The duo spent most of their time walking through the marketplace, observing the items that were up for sale. Every single stall in the marketplace traded with essence stones, unlike the Azure continent where there are places that use coins.

After spending the entire afternoon in the marketplace, Grey decided to try out the food here. Since coming here, he hasn't eaten anything, which he finds to be terrible.

They quickly found a restaurant, and Grey ordered their best meal. He was served after a few minutes of waiting, and the plate before him was quite alluring, even the aroma of the food was amazing.

'I hope it's good,' He said internally.

Before Grey could even taste his food, Void was already done with his, staring at his plate with greedy eyes.

'Void, don't you dare,' Grey said while staring at Void vigilantly.

The meal was a plate of soup with meat scattered in it.

Void continued staring at the plate of soup, not responding to Grey's words.

'Void, there will be no more shiny things for you if you try it,' Grey threatened.

Void finally turned away from the plate after hearing the word 'shiny'.

Grey nodded before taking a sip of the soup. A sweet sensation assaulted his taste buds, before going down his throat. He couldn't help but savor the taste of the soup, now he knew why Void wanted to drink it after finishing his own.

He finished the soup with a single gulp, before eating all the meat.

"Good, I could get used to eating something like this frequently," He muttered to himself.

Grey ordered another soup for himself, not forgetting Void as well. After finishing the soup, he asked for his bill.

He almost vomited the soup when he saw the bill.

"What the hell?!" He exclaimed unconsciously.