Chaos Secret Cult¶
A cult of combat wizards and a co-founder of the Junction alongside the Noren Workshop and the Tower of Annihilation.35 Its wizards fight with curses, illusions, soul shrieks and pollution rather than direct attacks.1112 Allied with the Tower, it wages war on the Noren Workshop from the First Plane and loses its observation range after defeat.132831
Overview¶
Apart from its founding high-ups and their successors, every member is a combat wizard.3 It regards only wizards as intelligent beings of its civilization; together with the Tower it holds only fifty percent more wizards of third level and above than the Workshop.30 It strips non-core planes by destructive mining, shatters small planes for their origins, and rules the Els plane for three hundred years as a feudal theocracy whose arousal, birth-assistance and cognition-modification arrays form a population production line.2829 Viola warns to keep well away from it.2
Structure¶
- Leadership: The Cult Leader; the Grand Elder, who bestows techniques; a Holy Son served by witches with fanatical deference.272423
- Dress and mutation: Robes trimmed in deep crimson; rotting flesh, tumors, suture-lined faces and half-rotted beauty.2314
- Disciplines: Curse, illusion, soul and pollution wizardry; a crystal modification discipline of wizards altered between biology and mineral.111220
- Law: Disordered Hyperplasia.17
- Trump card: The collected death wails of more than a dozen planes, hidden in phase space under three seventh-level soul wizards.26
Notable members¶
| Member | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Mordekian | Seventh-level commander | Killed in the first battle.15 |
| Karon | Sixth-level curse wizard | 21 |
| Holy Son | Revered figure | Served by Lina and three other witches.23 |
| Lina | Witch | 22 |
| Flesh Painter, Pain Flagellant | Members | 22 |
| Alice | Member (uncertain) | 22 |
| An eighth-level wizard | War leader | 8 |
Relations¶
- Noren Workshop: Co-owner of the Junction turned war enemy; the Workshop confiscates its observation range after a defeat.731
- Tower of Annihilation: Co-owner of the Junction and ally against the Workshop.71325
- The Junction: Co-founder; one of three resident factions that each send an overseer per expedition.45
History¶
- Ch164-170: Viola's warning; an all-combat-wizard membership.23
- Ch246-383: Junction co-ownership; the balance of powers shifts with Anton's advancement.456
- Ch450-476: War preparations with the Tower against the Workshop.713
- Ch469-471: A Causal Confusion spell misdirects nearly half of Noren's curses; a fate pollution ritual fueled by the souls of at least three seventh-level wizards tangles every fate line.91011
- Ch480-485: Mordekian killed; Clark learns Disordered Hyperplasia; a Metal Forest of Pain and a Prison of Pain ritual bait Noren wizards; newcomer survival near one in ten.15171819
- Ch532: The death torrent fired at the eighth-level battle freezes.26
- Ch538-540: First Plane base, destructive mining and the Els plane theocracy revealed.2829
- Ch769: Observation range confiscated by the Workshop.31
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Chapter 163: The Junction ↩
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Chapter 383: Research, Advancement and the New Prowler ↩
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Chapter 465: Teleportation ↩
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Chapter 469: A Curse and the First Round of the Showdown ↩
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Chapter 470: Information Warfare and Fortress Construction ↩
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Chapters 479-484 ↩
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Chapters 480-482 ↩
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Chapter 483: The Cruel Battlefield ↩
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Chapters 484-485 ↩
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Chapter 490: Palpitations ↩
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Chapter 495: Light-Form Escape and Preparations ↩
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Chapter 505: Crisis and the Arrival of Reinforcements ↩
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Chapter 540: News of the Fallen and a Plan ↩