Chapter 162 - 298-310

Chapter 298 - Skyline Blow

Currently, Athan was healing his injuries while Drizzly looked at him with curiosity.

" Hey, Athan. Do you have a family? Like your mom, dad or wife? In the universe? " Drizzly suddenly asked while looking at Athan.

She knew that Athan was an ascendant who came from the universe, and generally, people who ascend to Chaosverse will not bring their family directly to the Chaosverse if they are not strong enough.

Athan glanced at Drizzly, hearing the question, and just shook his head without answering.

" What are you trying to say by shaking your head? You don't want to answer or you don't have family? " Drizzly asked with a pout.

" Don't want to answer. " Saying this, Athan closed his eyes. It would still take thirty minutes before his healing factor fully recovers his injuries.

" Fine. " Saying this, Drizzly simply looked at Athan and took out a silver plate before waiting for Athan to heal his injuries.

After thirty minutes, Athan finally healed all of his injuries, and his body was also thoroughly consolidated after it recovered.

Drizzly put the silver place in front of Athan and said, " Let's check your strength since you are done. "

Athan nodded, and without wasting time, He punched the silver plate.

A dull sound rang out before a cloudy red flower materialized with seven petals.

Seeing this, Drizzly nodded with a smile, " Good. Now all you have to do is to practice a body order technique. "

" Hmm? " Athan frowned hearing that and said, " You mean I still need to practice that Skyline blows body order technique? "

" Yep. " Drizzly nodded with a grin.

Athan thought for a moment and asked, " We are going to another region right? "

" Yeah. Why? " Drizzly nodded before asking with a doubt.

" Since that's the case, then we will obviously be going there by some kind of transportation, correct? "

" Correct. " Drizzly nodded as they will be going to Toragale Region by riding on a flying beast.

Getting the confirmation, Athan nodded with a smile, " Then let's go. I will learn the Skyline Blows while travelling. There's no need to waste time here. "

" But there is still that problem of you not being able to store chaos essence or chaos force inside you..."

Athan interrupted her and said, " Don't worry. I will also fix that problem along the way. "

Drizzly was a bit speechless but nodded her head in the end as both of them left the Youhan Tree organization.

After coming out, Drizzly summoned a lion-like beast with two pairs of wings.

Additionally, This lion didn't have fur but scales like that of a dragon and also had horns. It appeared mix of lion and dragon with its dark brown shining scales, the same colored big horns. The scales on its body also had bright gold patterns.

" Master..! Will we be finally going on a journey again? I can't wait to hunt some new kinds of preys. " The Lion's voice rang out as it revealed puppy eyes filled with excitement towards Drizzly.

Drizzly smiled and nodded, " That's right, Beodrok. But our new friend is also coming with us. "

Beodrok's face fell hearing that as it looked at Athan with dissatisfaction.

Athan was speechless seeing that, but he didn't say anything. Drizzly smiled and jumped on the ten-meter long and fifteen-meter tall Beodrok. She then gestured Athan to come up as well.

Athan nodded plainly, and without hesitation, He jumped up and landed on the back of Beodrok.

" Tsk..." Beodrok displayed dissatisfaction, but its obedience towards Drizzly was absolute, ' I wanted to travel with my master alone, but I guess that's impossible on this journey. '

After Beodrok started flying, Athan didn't daze around, and as he told Drizzly that he would learn the Skyline Blows, He directly took out the scroll and unfurled it after sitting cross-legged.

But before starting, He asked Drizzly, " How many days until we reach our destination. "

Drizzly thought for a moment before answering, " If we don't encounter any trouble on the way, We should reach our destination after ten days. After all, Beodroke is quite fast dispite its appereance. "

Athan nodded, " Ten day are enough to learn the technique and fix my problem. "

" Master!! My appereance is majestic and overbearing! what's wrong with it. "

Athan and Drizzly both were speechless, but Drizzly knew about Beodroke behavior as she just agreed with her cute pet.

" Yes yes. You are absolutely right, Brodroke. Your appereance is majestic and overbearing. "

...

Athan had started leaning the Skyliner Blows, and it was a mid-rage attacking technique.

First, He had to comprehend its set of order forces and then learn how to circulating order force inside his body to execute the technique.

After circulating the order force inside his body according to the pattern described in the scroll, Athan could then release powerful blows through four parts of his body; His two hands and two lags. The blows would resemble the part from which it was released.

If Athan kicked while executing Skyline Blow, Then a kick projectile would shot forward. It was best to use in mid-range as it loses its optimum effects after it travels for more than fifteen meters.

The specialty of Skyline blow was that It was hard to dodge. If the opponent is fifteen meters radius around Athan, Then it was a sure hit attack because one of its effect of order pattern was tracing the opponent.

Once Athan locked onto his opponent, His Skyline blow would definitely hit his opponent...As long as that opponent is within fifteen meters across him.

Another thing that made it hard to dodge was its speed. Once Athan releases the technique from one of his hands or legs, It would shot forward after breaking the sound barrier. But of course, Its speed was also limited to fifteen meters. Once it travels past fifteen meters mark, Its speed will instantly reduce by half. Once past the fifteen-meter mark, It would continue to lose speed and power.

Once a Skyline blow hit someone's physical body, It would blast and send shockwaves towards the opponent's body to damage them.

Chapter 299 - Umbrella Storage

Like any other technique, There were disadvantages and advantages.

Its disadvantages were Short-Range, Low Damage, and loses its optimum power and speed once it travels past fifteen meters.

But its advantages were high speed, tracing, sure hit as long as opponent within fifteen meters, and low cost of order force.

Despite being a 2-star technique, Its cost of using order force was the same as Sumireas Slash.

Of course, These advantages and disadvantages only applied to the first level of Skyline Blow.

The Skyline blow had four levels, and each level up makes it more powerful.

When Athan learned the first level of Sumireas Slash, It took him eight hours.

But he took two whole days before he fully learned the first level of Skyline punch.

It took him almost two days just to comprehend the Skyline blow's first set of order forces and then a bit more time to learn how to circulate the order force inside his body to release the blows from his hands and legs.

He wanted to start comprehending the technique more to reach the second level in it, but he stopped for now and decided to fix his problem first.

' Let's do this. ' Athan thought as he first took out the milky white aura from the white orb and started to control it and gave it a certain image.

' Hmmm...I might as well make a perfect system that can store both chaos essence from the atmosphere and chaos force that produces from the Chaos Grinder. '

Athan felt that the idea was very good and instantly started working on it.

' First, I'll make something akin to storage on top of Chaos Grinder, and that storage will have a function to automatically push the chaos essence towards the Chaos Grinder below with just my thought.

He first gathered a white aura on top of his Chaos Grinder and started to transform it according to his visualization.

' First, this storage or container should be able to keep chaos essence inside and that would be...the material of chaos stone. ' He thought that since the material of the chaos stones were a natural product of the Chaosverse. They can store chaos essence, chaos force, and order force. So, Athan decided to go with it.

Athan took out a chaos stone from his storage pouch and observed it with his soul sense.

Drizzly suddenly saw Athan taking out a low-grade chaos stone before staring at it.

She became curious and asked, " What are you doing? "

Athan answered without looking at her, " Fixing my problem. "

" Fine..." Drizzly then went back to do her own thing, which was to talk with Beodrok as they hunted some beasts along the way.

Athan was undisturbed because he fully focused on doing his own thing.

' Hmmm...This is interesting. The chaos stones sure are mystical. ' Athan was absorbed in studying the chaos stone.

He took eight hours to finally grasp the structure of this low-grade chaos stone in his focused state.

After he understood the material of the chaos stone, He took out a bit of his abyssal darkness and devoured the chaos stone in exchange for some milky white aura that he spent in the experiment while studying the chaos stone.

' Time to make it. ' Athan thought as he controlled the milky white aura and transformed it into the same structure as chaos stone on top of his Chaos Grinder.

He started to give shape to this storage on top of the Chaos Grinder. After a few minutes of changing shape here and there to make it more function, The final product was ready.

The storage looked like an umbrella but without its handle.

It was like an upside-down umbrella, Like that of a pond without water. He didn't add a solid ceiling to this umbrella storage but instead created a thin film made of the same material as chaos stone so that the chaos essence won't dissipate.

The middle of the umbrella storage had a hole that leads directly to Chaos Grinder.

Since he was done creating this first step, He didn't wait and started to absorb the chaos essence from the atmosphere.

This storage was big enough such that Chaos Grinder looked very small below him.

Just the hole in the middle of this umbrella storage was enough to cover the entire Chaos Grinder.

If a comparison was to be made, Then Chaos Grinder's size was similar to the elephant, but the umbrella storge's size was like that of a cricket ground, including its stadium.

Drizzly was surprised as Athan suddenly started to absorb the chaos essence.

But she was even more surprised because even after ten minutes passed, Athan didn't stop absorbing chaos essence.

She felt that Athan would stop soon, but another ten minutes passed, and Athan still didn't stop.

' What is he doing? If he just fixed his problem and is storing the chaos essence, then his storage is bigger then what an average person should have. '

Drizzly was surprised, but when another ten minutes passed, She was speechless.

' He is nearing the level of people who are at Tier-3 order base in the field of chaos essence's storage. '

After five more minutes, Athan finally stopped as his Umbrella storage was full.

Seeing Athan stopping, Drizzly finally spoke with a chuckle, " Hehehe. That's awesome, Athan. Your storage capacity of storing chaos essence is the same as someone who is at the peak of the Tier-3 order base. Instead of just solving the problem, You basically upgraded yourself. But..."

Pausing here, Drizzly asked with shining eyes, " How did you do that? Unlike those with a special physique who have higher chaos essence and chaos force storing capacity, You couldn't store any of those in the first place. But, you just solved that problem like it was nothing and you basically upgraded yourself in the process. That's really unheard of. "

Athan faintly smiled before he shook his head, " You can say that both are related to my unique physique. it prevented me from storing chaos essence and chaos force first. But, Now it also helped me store them. "

" Anyway, I still have to solve the chaos force storing problem which is also easy now since I already succeeded in storing the chaos essence. "

After saying this, He closed his eyes and started working on creating the storage for chaos force.

He planned to create this right below the Chaos Grinder.

Chapter 300 - Toragale Region, Gelamix Town.

Inside Athan's void region...

In the area where his chaos grinder was situated, There were two additional things.

There were two umbrella storages—one for chaos force and another for chaos essence. The chaos grinder was situated in the middle of these two umbrella storages.

The chaos grinder would get chaos essence from top umbrella storage, and then it would turn it into chaos force and send it to down umbrella storage.

After Athan finished fixing his long-lasting problem, he opened his eyes and asked Drizzly, " How long until we get there? "

" If we don't encounter any trouble, Then only two more days. "

Athan nodded and once again closed his eyes, for he was going to check one more thing.

Four Stances of Destruction.

He didn't take out the scroll but unfurled it inside his void region.

People here can't store things inside their inner space, which is known as the chaos region, but Athan's void region was different.

Of course, They can store normal things like rocks, water, etc., but valuable materials, mystical treasures, things that contain order force, etc., were not possible to be stored inside them unless they have some special physique of space attribute or comprehended space storage-related power.

But it was tough to comprehend and grasp the order of space and time related chaotic powers in the Chaosverse.

The scrolls were one such thing that was not possible to be stored inside people's inner space because they contained inscribed order force.

But Athan's void region could store them, and he guessed that he could keep materials inside his void region too. Though, He hasn't tried it yet.

Anyway, He directly unfurled the scroll of Four stances of destruction inside his void region and started to study and comprehend it.

But when just glimpsed at its set of order force, he was stunned.

' Too much content and too complicated...'

This was the most complicated thing he encountered if he didn't include his unique power, The abyssal void of fabrication. He also knew that the abyssal void of fabrication was not at its absolute power. Well, Far from it, actually. He had just comprehended 3% of its power after he went through so much.

Without those circumstances and the situation on which he landed himself after being left to die by Elvidelen, He wouldn't have grasped this void power.

Compared to the abyssal void of fabrication, This body order technique, Four stances of destruction, was really nothing.

But to the current him, It was complicated.

' This might take months or even a year just to comprehend its first set of order force. Hmmm...Since I still have two days, then I might as well take a superficial look at it to get its general understanding. '

After thinking about it, Athan focused on the scroll. He was absorbed in the study because this technique was really powerful and could utilize the body's full power in the form of powerful stances.

He didn't pay attention to the passage of time because he suddenly heard Drizzly voice telling him that they have finally arrived at the Toragale region.

Athan opened his eyes and sensed that the wind pressure here was higher, and as they continued to travel forward, it kept getting stronger.

Drizzly grinned at Athan and said, " We have just arrived at the periphery of the Toragale region. If we go by overall strength, then the Toragale region is much stronger than the Dosflame Region. One main faction of this region can take on two or three of our main organizations of same rank as Youhan Tree. "

" Oh...That's rather large gap. "

Athan found it surprising that neighboring regions had such a significant gap in their overall strength.

" Yep. Our mission here is not that complicated. To be honest, It can't be considered a mission at all but Boss just named this activity as mission. "

Drizzly spoke while wryly shaking her head.

" Ehh...Then what are we here to do exactly? "

Athan asked with some confusion as he still didn't know why they were going to the Toragale region.

" Hehe. We are here to do two things. The first thing is related to me. I have a friend here and she needs my help in exchange for an item that's valuable for me to increase my strength. As for second thing..."

Drizzly paused before chuckling as she said, " This thing is secret. But you will know once we arrive at Gelamix Town. It's the second largest town of this region. "

Athan just nodded at her plainly and didn't ask for the second thing, which disappointed Drizzly. She wanted to see Athan's showing curiosity.

But Athan knew that he would know about it sooner, so he didn't insist on it, ' Since she said that the first thing is related to her, then second thing should be related to me. '

Drizzly then told a few more things about the Toragale region to Athan, and after traveling for four hours, Athan finally saw the town.

Seeing it, Athan knew that this town was definitely bigger than the central town of the Dosflame region.

They flew there and descended in front of an entrance. There were many entrances of this town, just like the Central town of the Dosflame region.

The guards in front of this entrance also seemed like puppets.

" Master..." Beodrok revealed a pitiful face after they descended because it knew that It won't be able to enter the town and will have to stay inside chaos beast space.

Drizzly patted its head and said to it in a consoling tone, " Be obedient okay? You also know that you can't enter inside. But don't worry, We'll go for a round of hunting later. "

" Okay..."

Drizzly smiled, " Good boy. Now go inside. "

Beodrok started to glow a bit before it turned into light before shooting towards Drizzly.

Athan didn't see it previously, but this time, He saw that the light entered inside the wrist bangle.

Afterward, Both of them entered the town after paying the entrance fee, which was double that of the central town of Dosflame region, Twenty low-grade chaos stones per head.

After entering, Drizzly looked at Athan with a mysterious smile before saying, " First, Let's go and register you. "

" Register me? " Athan asked with doubt, " For what? "

" Hehehe. Of course, for the competition that's going to start in six months. It's divide into three parts for three Tiers of people. You will be participating in Tier-1 competition for Tier-1 order base people. "

Athan was startled, but...he didn't mind it and actually felt happy because he has been itching to fight a lot.

Without fighting battles, one can't progress forward at a steady pace.

" Let's go then. " Athan spoke as a smile crept upon his face.

Drizzly looked at Athan couldn't help but think that he was very good-looking, ' If he can smile in a gentle way, then he could capture many flowers here. '

Athan didn't know, but he can become a lady killer, according to Drizzly. His looks were flawless, and his unusual light grey hair perfectly matched his skin complexion.

His body was also perfectly shaped with not too buffy muscles, but nonetheless, it appeared fit and imposing.

The best things were his eyes. They had a dreamy luster with black and white mixed iris, and Drizzly noticed that they would sometimes give one a strange feeling if they looked at it. It was...as if they were looking at a deep and eternal chasm.

Chapter 301 - Boundless Pavilion

Athan and Drizzly arrived in front of a medium-sized booth, and there was a queue of ten people.

" Go line in that queue. There are many such booths placed in the town for the upcoming competition so that people can register themselves. "

Athan nodded and lined up in the queue.

It didn't take long for his turn to come.

The woman behind the booth wore a tight outfit and had long pink hair and a single dark pink horn on her forehead.

" Name? "

" Athan Void. "

After writing down Athan's name, She took out a token and hovered her hand on the token, which shined for a bit. After that, She gave the token to Athan.

" When the competetion starts. You will have to bring this token or you won't be able to participate. got it? "

Athan nodded as he put away the token after taking a quick look at it. It had his name carved on it and nothing else.

" Next. "

Athan left and arrived beside Drizzly, who seemed to be talking to someone through a contact card.

Seeing this, Athan remembered something, and when Drizzly finished speaking and put away the card, He asked, " These contact cards...How to make one with my contact in it? "

Drizzly shook her head and said, " It's impossible for us to make one. You will have to buy your Runic Contact from one of the branches of Boundless Pavilion. Let's go there right now as it was also in my plan to get you your Runic Contact and contact cards. "

Athan became a bit curious about this. ' From the name, This Boundless Pavilion sounds like one of the ancient organizations like The Great Bridgade Palace. '

They both walked for a while before they arrived in front of a small building.

It wasn't as Majestic as Athan imagined, but he noticed that Drizzly started to restraint what little bit of aura she was letting out. Her expression turned slightly serious as she spoke, " Remember one thing. Never make trouble when you go to any of the branches of Boundless Pavilion in any region. They have access to rune techniques and tools, and they are eccentric. Of course, each branch also has a powerhouse that's on par with the strongest person in the said region. "

Athan nodded with surprise flickering across his eyes, ' This Chaosverse is simply...I find about new things every other day. Well, I guess that's why Yone told me that this journey will broden my horizons. '

He then asked Drizzly if this organization was on par with the Great Bridge Palace, and she nodded in answer before saying, " Yep. Boundless Pavilion is also one of the Ancient organizations. Unlike the Great Bridgade Palace which is completetly hidden and only appear once in a while, The Boundless Pavilion is a bit more active as it is the sole creator and possesor of this Runic Contact. "

Both of them arrived in front of the door and knocked on it.

Shortly, The door opened, which revealed a ten or so years old boy. The boy was completely human.

Behind the boy, Further inside the small hall, An old man was sitting on a chair and seemed to be sleeping. The old man looked human in every way with not a single beastly or unique feature on his body.

But while his eyes were still closed, He spoke, " Welcome to the Boundless Pavilion. What are you here for? If you want to learn Runic Arts, then get lost. "

Athan was speechless, but Drizzly answered respectfully, " No senior. We are not here to learn Runic Arts. We are here because we need a Runic Contact. "

The old man finally opened his eyes and beckoned them to go over there.

Athan and Drizzly started walking and arrived in front of the table.

The old man looked at Athan and Drizzly before locking his sight on Athan.

" What's your name? "

Although Athan was confused about how the old man knew that he was the one who needed the Runic Contact, He still answered without wasting time, " Athan Void. "

The old man took out a small dark square box from somewhere and presented it in front of Athan before saying, " Take out a few drops of your blood and drop them on this stone. "

Athan nodded as he cut his finger as the blood oozed out before getting absorbed by the small square box.

After that, The old man's eyes started to shine a bit as he moved his finger over the small square box and started to do something at a very fast speed that Athan couldn't even see what happened.

After two seconds, The old man stretched his hand towards the hand that had this small box and said, " Done. The price is two thousand low-grade chaos stones. "

Hearing this, Athan directly took out two thousand low-grade chaos stones and handed them over to the old man.

After taking them, the old man asked with his plain face, " Two Thousand low-grade stones for the Runic contact. How many blank contact cards you want? "

Athan looked at Grizzly, who answered on behalf of Athan, " Ten blank contact cards please. "

The old man nodded and took out ten blank cards before saying, " Forty thousand Low-grade chaos stones. "

Athan was slightly stunned at the price of these blank cards.

But Drizzly felt that it was normal and took out a pouch before giving it to the old man, " Here, Exact forty thousand. "

The old man waved his hands as he took the pouch before returning her another pouch, " Thanks for the business. "

Saying this, The old man went back to his previous position on the chair and closed his eyes.

" Let's go. "

Drizzly said as both of them came out from the small branch of Boundless Pavilion.

Athan was confused about the cards as they were blank. They didn't have any pattern or design.

But Drizzly soon cleared that up.

" Take small cube is our Runic Contact. Now what you have to do is, inject chaos essence on the cube and then put it on a blank card. "

Athan nodded and put the cube on top of a blank card before injecting chaos essence into the cube.

Right as he did that, The cube shined along with the card as some wried symbols, unrecognizable texts, and patterns appeared on the card that looked similar to the cards that other members of Hidden Dragon Troupe gave him.

This continued for three seconds before the glow subsided.

Seeing this, Drizzly nodded with a smile, " Good. That's your first contact card. When they contact you, You can listen their voice and speak to them through that cube. Alright. Now give me your first contact card. "

Athan gave it to her before he continued and created another nine of his contact card.

" These are normal cards. They can only cover the distance of five thousand miles. If you are five thousand miles far from me or are in a chaos phenom dimension, then this cards won't work. "

Drizzly then chuckled and said, " Hehehe. When you get a good amount of middle-grade chaos stones, then you can buy higher grade blank cards. "

Athan wryly smiled as he knew that those higher grade cards' price would be sky-high.

In turn, He asked with a bit of curiosity, " Do you have any higher grade contact cards of yourself? "

" Hehehe. Nope. Even I can't afford them. Anyawy, Let's go and finish my task first. Once we reach at my friend's place, You can stay there and train while i finish my business. "

" Fine. " Athan nodded as he was fine with these arrangements.

Chapter 302 - Training Spot

Athan and Drizzly arrived in front of a medium-sized, two-story shop building.

" This is my friend's shop. Let's go inside. "

Drizzly pointed at the shop and said before they entered inside.

Athan saw that the shop sold all kinds of items and not just one type.

" This shop sells a variety of things like materials, types of equipment, scrolls, etc. Though, You can't afford anything here for now. "

Drizzly said while walking forward. The female manager of the shop, who had dark bunny ears with white border fur seems to know Drizzly as she politely greeted her.

Both of them went through a corridor that had four rooms connecting to it before arriving in front of a door.

After entering through that door, Athan found out that they were going underground.

The stairs to the underground weren't so long, and after ten steps, they arrived in a small underground hall.

This underground hall had simple furniture such as two cupboards, one small dining table, and another table which had various items on it.

There was a girl in front of the table, and she was tinkering something with the things on the table.

When Drizzly and Athan arrived there, she instantly noticed and spoke without looking back, " Wait a minute, Drizzly. I will be finished a minute. "

" Alright. Anyway, open the portal to your training spot after you are done so that Athan can train there. "

" Mhmmm..."

Hearing the response from her friend, Drizzly nodded and turned to Athan before saying with a smile, " She is my best friend, Roselin. The training spot where she usually trains is very good, and your progress speed will increase there. As for how much it will increase? That depends on your ability."

Athan nodded as he looked at Roselin. She looked pure human to him without any additional features.

" You have to prepare as much as you can before the competetion. If you can win the competetion, then you will get plenty of resources as reward and won't have to worry about doing hard labour. hahaha. "

" Got it. I'll try my best. "

After a minute, Roselin finished with whatever she was doing and stretched her hands before looking directly back at Athan.

" So this is the new member of your group? " Roselin sized up Athan before letting out a giggle, " Hehehe, you guys found a pretty boy ehh. "

Drizzly chuckled at the comment, but then she shook her head with a wry smile, " He is pretty boy indeed, but he is also a mad pretty boy. "

" Ohh. Why is that? " Roselin got curious about Athan as she continued to look at him and smiled at him.

Athan just nodded at her with his usual plain expression.

Drizzly didn't answer Roselin's question but said, " I'll tell you about him later. First, open the portal to your training spot so that I can send him there. "

" No problem. My little sister and brother are also training there. They will also get a company of someone new. "

After saying this, Roselin took out a cube and activated it, which conjured a white blue portal.

Athan and Drizzly walked through the portal and appeared on the other side.

The place was all rocky and barren land.

But Athan almost kneeled after arriving here because the gravity and pressure here were too great.

*Urgh...*

A muffled groan left his mouth as he tried to stand up. The sound cracking bones indicated that his bones were shattering due to him putting too much resistance against this gravity and pressure to stand up.

Drizzly ruffled Athan's hair and spoke after a chuckle, " This place is good for training in body order method. Just by staying here and resisting the force in this atmosphere speed up your body order training and you also won't need to consolidate your body in the end because it will get throughly and stably strong here. "

After that, She pointed her finger in the front direction and said, " This pressure will increase as you go deeper in this direction. At the very center is a giant pitch-black rock, which is the source of this force. Try to go near there as much as you can in these six months. "

" Alright. "

Athan nodded and started walking forward at a turtle's pace. But after taking four steps, He had to stop as the pressure increased.

" Start training in your body order method while moving forward. Also, Don't overdo it and injure yourself. You have to stay fit when the competetion starts. "

After saying this, Drizzly walked back into the portal and disappeared.

Shortly after, The portal also disappeared.

Athan felt that this place was really good. As mentioned by Drizzly, When he started training in the Jadeite Skelendrome body order method, The speed at which the force of this jadeite Skelendrome refined his body increased.

He checked for a while and felt that the refining speed increased by 20%, and due to the force present in this environment, his body was also getting consolidated right after getting refined.

' This is a good chance. ' Athan thought as he started to train and move forward slowly.

In the first place, His speed was faster because he could produce chaos force instantly and thus, provide it to his body core of jadeite skelendrome constantly. Due to that, His body is also constantly refined without any break, unlike other people of his level.

He planned to make full use of this training spot by not taking any break for these six months.

...

While Athan was training, Tiana and Avelia were also doing the same.

They were also preparing for their upcoming competition that will be held after seven months.

This competition was among all of the batches of people, so it was going to be a very big one.

The first round of this competition was a test of will. This was the elimination round. Those who couldn't pass the round will have to leave this training program of the Great Bridgade Palace.

The second round was purely about training. The top 1, top 3, top 10, and top 30 would get luxurious rewards, and all those who participate would also get some kind of rewards. But...there was a twist.

These luxurious rewards would even make someone like Reikent drool, but...Those winners won't get the rewards directly after winning.

They will only get the reward if they survive in this 20-year training program and become eligible to enter the Great Bridgade Palace.

Only when they finally enter the Great Bridgade Palace will they receive the reward.

This was a good method put on by the Great Bridgade Palace. The rewards were in their name, but they couldn't enjoy it. It was like you were sitting on a mountain of gold but can't use that gold for any purpose.

But this would make them focus and train harder to join the Great Bridgade Palace.

People have only heard about Great Bridgade Palace and knew that it was an ancient organization. They didn't know what they were capable of and actually how big and resourceful this ancient power is.

But taking a glimpse at these rewards definitely ignited the spark in them into a blazing fire.

...

At the Training spot...

Athan's clothes were tattered, but he was standing tall like a majestic mountain.

He didn't know how strong his body became after four months of training here because as he moved forward, The gravity and pressure also constantly increased.

But according to the level of Jadeite Skelendrom. He was close to reaching its second level.

He had completed the first level, Jade Bones, and he was close to finishing the second level, Jade Skeleton. But after he completed the first level and moved to the second, His body core shrank a bit, and he also consumed more chaos force to produce the next level of jadeite skelendrome force.

He completed the first level in just the first two days but only after training in this boosted environment for four months did he came close to the second level, Jade bones.

Inside his body, Every single of his bones had a faint layer of green membrane coating it.

This member slowly appeared over his bones while he was training.

Seeing this, He knew that he was close to finishing the second stage as well and continued training.

After two hours, He felt strength surging and started moving forward slowly.

He took five steps before he stopped.

He waited for three whole hours because he felt that he would finally complete the second level in this round of refinement.

*Shuaaaa..*

Suddenly, His body gave off a powerful aura and shined in green for a moment as the membrane over his bones became greener with white shade than the previous light green. The body core of jadeite skelendrome order ken became even smaller.

His body strength increased by a considerable amount after completing the second stage.

He then started walking forward and managed to walk twenty steps before he finally stopped.

But instead of continuing to train, He narrowed his eyes as he finally saw the silhouettes of two people who were likely the siblings of Roselin.

Chapter 303 - Shish & Celesti

Athan felt that those two siblings of Roselin weren't making such significant progress because, after another month of training, He was only twenty meters apart from them.

Those two had also noticed Athan and were surprised at first before they introduced each other.

It turns out that they are also participating in the competition.

The boy's name was Shish, and he looked sixteen to eighteen. He had short light brown hair, brown skin, and a slim body.

The girl was called Celesti and also looked like she was sixteen to eighteen. She had long black hair and had a slim figure with c size bust.

" You really caught up with us in these five months huh? What was your body strength before you started training in this place? "

Celesti asked while raising her eyebrows. Her voice contained a bit of doubt and curiosity.

" Red Realm 7th-step. "

Hearing Athan's answer, Shish and Celesti were shocked.

" No way! We've been here for eight months and started training with our body strength at Red realm 6th step, but you already caught up with us! "

Shish had wide eyes as he spoke this.

At first, They thought that Athan already had higher body strength than them, and that's why he caught up to them, but it turns out that it's the opposite; he had lower body strength than them.

Celesti repeatedly nodded with an impressed expression before asking with shining eyes, " Do you have any way to speed up our training just like you? Because of our current strength, we definitely won't win the competition. But that's not our aim, We at least want to perform better and win more to get a chance to enter primarily round for the Penta region tournament. "

Athan was slightly speechless hearing her and shook his head, " My speed is fast because I have a unique body physique. "

" Ohh...That's awesome. I hope I also get a chance encounter which would grant me a unique physique hahaha. "

Shish laughed with a silly expression as he just imagined him getting a unique physique.

They talked for a bit and were shocked when they heard that Athan was training in Jadeite Skelendrom body order method.

And when they paired this with Athan's speed, they were looking at Athan as if they saw a demon.

" How old are you, Athan? " Celesti asked with a curious expression, but a second later, she stretched her hand slowly amidst the gravity and said with a smile which showed two dimples on each of her cheeks, " By the way, I am seven years old and at peak of Tier-1 order base. We focused on essence order ken first and now we've been progressing in body order ken for the last one and a year. "

Shish grinned and said, " I am the same as her. The seven-year-old, peak of Tier-1 order base. Anyway, this sounds so silly. Our age starts from one after we fully become chaotic beings. hahaha. "

Athan smiled faintly and nodded, " I am at the third stage of Tier-1 order base. As for the age, I guess I am almost two years old. "

Celesti nodded with a smile, " People who have unique physique indeed have faster speed in early stages. But don't be in a hurry. Build a stable foundation because Orderic Catastrophe is like the more talented you are and more powerful you are, the harder it becomes to pass. "

" Oh..."

Athan was surprised. Yone didn't tell him in detail about Orderic Catastrophe in detail, so he didn't know.

Seeing Athan's expression, Celesti hurridly spoke, " Of course, We don't have to worry about it as Novice Order Apprentices, but we have to progress stably after we become adept order experts and master order elites. "

Athan nodded and started moving because he didn't stop training while talking with them.

Seeing this, Shish appeared a bit embarrassed and looked at the front before he also tried to move but barely moved a single step.

Celesti giggled and moved three steps forward. Unlike Shish, She had infused her recently produced chaos force into her body core and refined her body, so she managed to move three steps.

But Athan moved seven steps and was now very close to Shish and Celesti.

After two days, Athan surpassed Shish and Celesti as they showed wry smiles at Athan.

...

Now only fifteen days were left until the competition, and today, Drizzly and Roselin returned after finishing their business.

" Only fifteen days are left until the competition starts. Should we bring them now so they can make additional preparations? "

Roselin asked as she looked at Drizzly. Her expression was a bit unnatural as there was slight guilt on her face.

" And...are you sure you don't want to heal your injury? Even though it will be expensive, I'll pay for it so let's go to the Herbian Valley. "

The beautiful Drizzly looked slightly worn out. Instead of her usual two ponytails, Her long light blue hair flowed freely. Her leather armor also didn't have any scratch, but it looked new, which means that the previous one was worn out, so she had to wear a new one.

Her height of 5.5 feet with those long blue hair and big eyes with vertical pupils and light blue iris made her look beautiful, but one thing was missing.

Her right hand from her shoulder was missing.

Hearing Roselin, Drizzly shook her head while smiling, " Silly. It's okay. The item you gave me in exchange for protecting you at that place was worth it. After I absorb it, My bloodline will become purer and I will get stronger. At that time, my hand will also regenerate and the hidden injuries inside my body will be cured too so don't worry. "

Roselin sighed and said with a guilty face, " I didn't know that those bastards from Ghoselia region would be there too. I messed up. I'm so sorry, Drizzly. Those injuries must be hurting you a lot. "

Drizzly smiled wryly and looked at her should that was missing the hand and suddenly remembered how Athan practically went through must worse situation which he created himself but there wasn't even a slight expression of pain on his face at that time.

" This is nothing compared to what that mad pretty boy is capable of, Hahaha. "

Roselin was speechless but nodded. Drizzly had told her what Athan did when she used her Dragon Might on him and was shocked at his actions.

Drizzly then said, " Let them train for ten more days. We will get them out when only five days are left since five days are enough to make whatever preparation they need to make. Anyway, How far do you think they can go in this competition? "

Roseli adopted a thoughtful expression before saying, " I don't know about Athan because I have no information of him but Shish and Celesti might be able to enter the top thirty if they worked hard. At least, I hope they can enter the top 30 so they can participate in primarily of Penta region tournament. What about Athan? Oh yeah, you didn't tell me how strong he is exactly. "

Drizzly thought for a moment and said, " I also don't know the full capabilities of Athan but the boss was praising him so even though he is at just the third stage of Tier-1 order base, He might perform better than average. "

" What! just third stage of Tier-1 order base and you expect him to perform better than average? you can't be serious. Even if he has a unique physique, it won't be much of help at his current strength. "

Drizzly just shrugged at that, " Dear bestie, I also don't know. But since the boss was praising him then he must be good. "

Roselin rolled her eyes and said, " Huh...We'll see that. "

Chapter 304 - Preparation

After ten days, Both Roselin and Drizzly went to the training spot where Athan, Shish, and Celesti were training.

They were not surprised to see that Athan had gone fifty meters past Shish and Celesti.

Since Athan had a unique physique, it was expected that his speed of training was fast. Drizzly had seen it firsthand six months ago.

Both of them then flew towards Athan and others.

They directly flew past them and stood before Athan.

" Sister Rose..."

" Is it time, Sister Rose? "

Shish and Celesti asked when they saw Roselin.

On the other hand, Athan frowned and was startled seeing Drizzly.

" Your hand..."

" It's nothing, Just met a little accident while working. " Drizzly interrupted Athan before she grinned, " You don't have to worry about it. "

Athan nodded plainly and didn't say anything else.

They all left this space through a portal and arrived back into the underground hall of the shop.

" Let's check your body strength. Having a powerful body will increase your chance of survival, which is why I had you train in your body order method first. "

Roselin nodded in agreement while looking at her siblings, " These two are at the ninth stage of Tier-1 order base, but they didn't make much progress in body training. That's why I had them do it before the competition. "

" Come on. Let's see how strong you all became. " Saying this, Roselin took out a silver plate.

Shish and Celesti nodded as they checked their strength first.

*Thud...*

*Thud...*

Both had the same level of strength, Red realm 3rd-step.

After that, Athan checked his body strength, and he was one step ahead of Shish and Celesti.

Red Realm 2nd step.

" Good. " Drizzly smiled, seeing that, and said, " Now let's go and buy some crucial pills for you. If you win after suffering some injuring then you have to use pills to recover fast before you have to fight your next battle. "

And so, All five of them left the shop at the same time.

While walking, Celesti said with a doubt, " Athan's body strength is good but his order base is low, will he be okay in the competition? "

Order base was substantial, and they defined your core strength, like how powerful you are. Athan's defense was good, but she felt that with Athan's order base at the third stage of Tier-1, He wouldn't be able to defeat opponents.

Roselin shook her head, " I also don't know how he will do, But Drizzly showed quite a confidence in him, so...Anyway, We'll know after five days. "

Shish had slight admiration for Athan as he spoke, " Brother Athan is really a monster. He trains in Jadeite Skelendrome and fast speed at that without a drop of sweat and not a single painful expression on his face. " He then wryly shook his head, " I would never be able to do that. "

Drizzly and Roselin smiled hearing that because Shish and Celesti didn't know about other Athan's actions six months ago.

Soon, They arrived in front of a shop and entered inside.

Frejorn Apothecary.

Roselin bought twenty pills for her siblings, Ten of them were Blood recovery pills, and the other ten were Alignment cure pills.

Blood recovery pills would heal their internal and external injuries to a certain extent, and Alignment cure pills could remove harmful energies and power of opponent in their body.

If one first takes the Alignment cure pill, Then the Blood recovery pill's effectiveness would increase, and they can completely heal. Of course, These pills were only workable to those whose order base was Tier-3 and below and body strength Yellow realm and below.

If they were injured by the powerhouse higher than Tier-3 order, these pills wouldn't work on those injuries.

Drizzly also bought the same set, and before she paid, Athan asked, " How much it is? "

Drizzly chuckled and stopped Athan, " Forget it. You won't be able to afford it right now. You have just arrived and didn't even have a chance to earn chaos stones right? "

" Just tell me how much they cost. "

Drizzly shrugged, " Alright. Blood recovery pills cost five hundred chaos stones each, and Alignment cure pills cost seven hundred chaos stones each. "

Athan nodded and took out a storage pouch before giving it to Drizzly, " This contained all that I have right now. A total of six thousand three hundred low-grade chaos stones. "

Drizzly was surprised that Athan had this many chaos-stones on him despite being...one and a half years old.

" I earned them in betting and a challenge when I went out with Reikent and also other fifteen hundred chaos stones from my status as one-star special guest. "

Drizzly smiled and nodded, " Nice. This much is good at your current level. But remember. You don't have to worry about earning them until you reach Tier-3 order base because as a new member of our little family, everyone will help you with things to buy like weapons, armors, pills, etc until you reach Tier-3 order base. "

Seeing Athan frowning, Drizzly put up a stern expression before saying, " Athan, You don't have to reject this. You are a part of the family, and they all also want to help you. If you just tell them no to this, just like you did it with me, then you make us sound like we are strangers. So take these chaos stones back. You don't have to worry about paying anything. "

Athan was speechless and nodded, " Alright. "

After they were done buying the pills, they went to buy armor and a weapon for Shish and Celesti because they didn't have one yet.

Celesti looked at Athan and said, " You have that armor but what about the weapon? "

Athan had worn the blue armor that he bought with Reikent at the central town.

Hearing the question of Celesti, He took out a spear he got from the base of Hidden Dragon Toupe.

" Ehh...You are not allowed to use 2-star weapons or armors in the competition. In our competition among the Tier-1 order base participants, Everyone can only use 1-star armors and weapons. "

Chapter 305 - Smitend Ragoir, Competition Starts

" I didn't know you had a 2-star weapon, I thought boss gave you a 1-star weapons since Tier-1 order base people can't actually use the true capabilities of 2-star weapons. "

Drizzly said after seeing that Athan didn't have a 1-star weapon.

Athan shrugged as he put the spear away, " Well, There weren't any 1-star weapons so he gave me a 2-star weapon. "

" Then let's go and buy a 1-star weapon for Athan. " Shish spoke with a grin and pointed at the shop behind them before continuing, " It's good that you asked early Celesti. Otherwise, Athan would have been kind of handicapped against other competitors. "

They had just left the shop after buying their armor and weapon, and after coming out, Celesti asked Athan if he had one.

Athan shook his head, " I think I will be fine without a weapon. My strongest forte currently is body, which is at Red realm 2nd-step and I can't release the Skyline blows through a weapon. "

Drizzly raised her eyebrows, hearing that, " Who said you couldn't use Skyline Blows through a weapon? We can buy you gloves or gauntlet, which will increase the power of your Skyline Blows if you release them through your hands. "

Athan was taken aback but nodded, " That make sense. "

" Well, Then let's go and buy a pair. The boxing gloves weapons would be the best choice since body strength is your highest forte currently. "

...

They then went inside the shop again and bought a pair of gloves for Athan.

At first, Drizzly really picked weapons that looked like boxing gloves for Athan as a joke, but in the end, They found good weapon gloves that could boost Athan's Skyline blows technique.

The gloves they bought for Athan were made from a smooth semi-liquid-like material that was brown in color. The gloves also had white patterns on them. There was also a small circle on each glove in the center filled with a white pattern. The name of the gloves was Smitend Ragoir.

The order effect of these gloves is that they can strengthen the power of technique released from it by fifty percent.

But...There were several conditions. The first and foremost condition was a common one that applied to all types of equipment: Only Tier-1 order base people can use 1-star weapon's ability. Tier-2 order base people can't use the ability of 1-star weapon just like how Tier-1 order base can't use the ability of 2-star weapon.

Everything should be done according to its set of order power, and only then could they grant the additional effects to these types of equipment and many other things like food, pills, etc.

The other condition of applying the order effect of these gloves were listed below:

The order effect will only apply to body order techniques.

The order effect will only activate if the target hit by the body order technique is ten meters away from the user.

The second condition was a crucial one as body order techniques were short-ranged primarily, but it was because of this condition that its order effect was a powerful one, like increasing the body order technique's power by fifty percent.

After buying it, Drizzly asked Athan, " You know how to use weapons and armor, right? each one is enchanted with the order effect/power of the crafters who made them and have special abilities. "

Athan nodded and said, " I know. Reikent told me before. I just need to infuse a bit of order force to activate the effect of weapon and armors. "

He only needed to infuse a bit of order force depending on the effects of weapons and armors.

For example, If he infused 1.4% of his current order force into the gloves, The next Skyline blow released from his gloves would be empowered as long as it hit the target that was ten meters away.

So 1.4% of his order force can empower two Skyline blows, one from each of his gloves, and will show its effects given that his Skyline blows hit the target ten meters away from him.

As for his armor, Aquafest, He needed to infuse ten percent of his current reserve order force to activate its ability called Aquira guard.

This ability, Aquira guard, will conjure a shield in front of him and will also boost his natural body defense for a short period of two minutes.

After they were done, Drizzly concluded their outing for preparation, " Alright. Since we are done here, then let's return. I'll also teach you how to release the techniques through the weapons. It's actually not that hard once you get the basic hang of it. "

...

Four days have passed and today was the last day of Athan's training to release the Skyline blows through his gloves weapon, Smitend Ragoir.

They were in the open ground that was behind the shop. Celesti and Shish were also there.

" Good. Try again. All types of equipment are very compatible with order force. Focus and harness the moment you release your technique with them. "

Hearing Drizzly, Athan nodded as he swung his right fist and executed Skyline Blow.

*Shuaaaa...Boom.*

From his right fist, A punch projectile with a green hue in it released towards Drizzly, who was standing ten meters away from him.

The punch projectile hit Drizzly on her abdomen and was diffused without even a scratch on her.

The green aura on the punch projectile was due to the power of Jadeite Skelendrom. Since he had to course the order force in his body before releasing the Skyline Blow, It gains the power of Jadeite Skelendrome in the process, which could make it more powerful.

All people who train in body order methods will have their body order technique empowered by their respective body order method's power.

It is just like how Athan can give his Sumireas Slash the attributes of Lightning Dust.

Suddenly, Athan felt something in the right pocket of the pants.

' The token. ' He had put the token of participation in that pocket.

After taking out the Token, He saw that it was faintly shining before a voice rang out from it.

" All participants. Gather at the Hemindal Field. The competetion will start in an hour. "

Drizzly smiled and nodded towards Athan, " Let's go. "

" Hahaha, Athan. Let's at least get into the top 30. "

Said Shish as he touched his nose in a not fully confident attitude.

" Yep. It's fight on from now on.! And Shish, stop showing that pessimetic attitude and show some more confidence in our training. We have practiced hard to master our essence order techniques. "

Celesti also nodded towards Athan with a smile before showing a stern look at Shish.

Roselin also arrived in the backyard and said with a chuckle, " Let's go. Our ride is ready. The Hemidal Field is several miles away from the city and although we won't be late since it takes just five minutes to go there, It's better to go there early so that Drizzly and I get can get an audience seat there. "

Everyone left the shop before they arrived outside of the city.

Roselin took out a fancy-looking pouch which shined a bit before a giant creature was summoned in the sky.

The creature had a pair of very wide wings, just like a manta ray, and its body looked similar to an elephant with a broad back. Instead of one, it had three pure white trunks with hard body flesh, and its body skin was white and brown mixed with wide patterns.

There was a big block of a wooden building on its broad back.

" Let's go. This chaos beast is specifically for traveling because its natural chaotic power can negate any general harsh environment of the Chaosverse so we can have a stable ride. "

Chapter 306 - The Competition-1

After flying for a while in the direction of Hemidal Field, They saw a giant stadium in the land filled with yellow and cyan-colored grass and small plants. There weren't many trees but had small hills and mountains in other directions.

The stadium was thirty meters tall and fifty meters radius of size. There were many floors of the stadium for the spectators.

When Athan and others arrived at the stadium, There were already many people gathered.

The participants had a different place to move into while the spectators climbed the stadium to the watch competition.

" Good Luck, You three. Do your best and go as far as you can. Don't give up just because of a slight difficult and always push yourself to go higher. "

Drizzly and Roseli wished Athan, Celesti, and Shish good luck and encouraged them before climbing the stadium's upper floors.

Athan and others walked towards another path that was specifically for the participants.

There was a big sign to that path, and a loud voice also constantly reverberated.

" All Participants! Move this way. "

After walking shortly, Athan, Celesti, and Shish realized that they were going underground.

In the end, They arrived at a vast underground hall that was filled with participants, and more participants were also coming each second. This underground hall was even bigger than the stadium and was filled with magic properties as if it was controlled by someone or a group of people.

It didn't take long for an hour to pass as the loud voice finally reverberated and commenced the start of the tournament.

" The total number of participants reached one hundred and thirty-four thousand. All participants are divided into five batches, from First batch to Fifth batch. "

All participants were divided into five groups, and Athan, Celesti, and Shish were in the second batch.

" The first round is Demon Wind. Each batch will go up and try to hold out for ten minutes admist the terrifying Demon wind. Those who fail will have to say good bye to the further competetion. "

After a minute, The whole stadium trembled, and the first batch of the participant surfaced on the ground from underground magically. It was like the soil beneath their feet moved and appeared in the competition ground as the spectators cheered because the tournament commenced.

The competition ground was separated by a barrier so that the spectators won't be affected by the Demon Wind that started to seep into the competition ground once the competition commenced.

The first batch surfaced on the ground, and without even preparation time for them, The demon wind intensified as the participants protected themselves by using either raw energy or order techniques.

After five minutes, A loud voice reverberated, " All order techniques will be nullified along with any type of essence energy. Endure the demon with your body and survive for the next five minutes. "

Until now, most people survived, except some really new Tier-1 order base people in the first and second stages with their body strength also being in the Dark realm.

But now, People couldn't protect them with their techniques or essence energy anymore and had to face the Demon wind that was sharp and whirling speedily while injuring them with their bodies.

People started to fall and give up. Those who gave up got absorbed in the ground magically and appeared underground. They were disqualified.

After five minutes, more than ninety percent of people were disqualified in the first batch after ten minutes.

The remaining people were moved to another side in the underground and started to heal themselves.

One after one another, the batches started to surface and faced the terrifying demon wind.

After forty minutes, all batches were done with this round, and surprisingly, Only three thousand two hundred and forty-six participants remained.

This was their way of shaving off really weak people.

The later five minutes were especially important as they were forced to endure with their body.

The demon wind naturally had the effects of rapidly wearing down the defenses, and those who were in the early stage of Tier-1 order base were already eliminated in the first five minutes.

And those who had low body strength were eliminated in the last five minutes.

Athan had a low Tier-1 base as he was only in the third stage, but he could easily endure this Demon wind for hours even if he just used his body.

Everyone got an hour's break before the second round started.

All participants were gathered in the middle of the stadium.

" The second round is free for all battle. The stadium will slowly shrink after five minutes passed in the free for all battle, and the last five hundred standing participants will move to the following 1 Vs. 1 round. The round will start in a minute."

Athan, Celesti, and Shish were still together, so Shish said, " Brother Athan, Let's work together and survive this round. Even though we can win this individually, Let's not waste more energy. Many people who are in group of two or three like us will also do that. "

Athan raised his eyes and asked, " So something like that is really allowed? "

Celesti nodded, but her expression turned grave, " But some people might form a temporary large group seeing us aiding each other and try to take us out so..."

Athan nodded and said after thinking for a bit, " Just move carefully and focus on defense instead of attacking others. As long as You don't provoke a large group, You should fine. "

" Us? What about you, Athan? " Celesti caught the word and asked with doubt.

Athan nodded with a faint smile and with a hidden sheen glimmering in his eyes, " Yep. I will move independently. You two are already strong enough to survive in this free for all with your strength at the ninth stage of Tier-1 order base and Red realm 3rd-step body strength. "

Shish nodded slowly as if he was thinking something. He opened his mouth but hesitated to speak.

He admired Athan for his conduct and his fearless and indifferent demeanor in the face of pain. But he felt that with Athan's strength at the third stage of Tier-1 order base, he might not survive in this round.

Just when he resolved to say something to Athan so that he would move together with them, Celesti elbowed him before she smiled at Athan and nodded, " Alright, Athan. Good luck and I hope you survive in this round. "

Athan smiled faintly and nodded before he distanced himself from them.

The loud voice reverberated once again, which finally commenced the start of the second round.

" FIGHT...ON!!! "

Chapter 307 - Competetion-2, A Devious Strategy.

Since there were only three thousand two hundred and forty-six participants in the competition ground, Every one of them was considerable distance apart from each other except for the people who stayed in groups of two and three.

Athan created a distance from Shish and Celesti before he stood in the middle east side of the stadium. He was not in the center but also not in the far peripheral part of the ground. He just stood between these two parts.

Roselin and Drizzly could observe them, and seeing this, Roselin frowned, " What is Athan planning? He should have moved together with Shish and Celesti, No? "

Drizzly also smiled wryly and shook her head, " Well...I also don't know what he is planning. We can only watch right now and see how he is going to survive. After all, I also haven't seen what he is truly capable of. "

" FIGHT...ON!! "

Athan glanced around him to see if anyone was gunning for his head, and indeed, Not one, two, but four people actually targetted him.

Even he was surprised by this and wondered why they targeted him.

The four people were all men, and one thing was common in them. They were all ugly-looking.

None of them was purely human as each one had additional features like weird horns, tails, spikes protruding out from their elbow, etc.

Drizzly and Roselin, who were paying attention to Athan, were also surprised that four people targeted Athan at once, but they soon understood the reason.

" Hahaha. That's rather normal, I guess. " Drizzly laughed and wanted to see how Athan will handle himself.

Roselin was speechless at Drizzly. Those four have a higher order base than Athan, and he was also outnumbered by one to four, so this situation was really dire for Athan from her perceptive.

But after a minute, Roselin and Drizzly expressions had changed into a shocked and impressed one.

" That's...a big brain move. But how is he doing it? If he continues this way, then he can easily pass this round unless he runs out of energy to continue using his means. "

Drizzly nodded after hearing the mutterings of Roselin.

On the competition ground, Athan was not attacking the four people and just continued to dodge and block their techniques and attacks.

He made it look like he was barely dodging and blocking their attacks.

*Shuaaaa...Booom*

A sharp spinning fan that was dark green in color with a red hue in it materialized and shot towards Athan at a speed that was not possible for him to dodge.

The one who released this technique sneered, " Let's see how you get away from this. "

He had two sharp and long fangs coming out from his mouth and bone spikes protruding from his elbows.

Athan's indifferent face broke into a faint grin right at the moment when the attack hit him. He was sent flying with blood bursting out.

The other three felt that this time, Athan was done for and won't be able to get up. They started to speak about how if Athan can only give up if he doesn't want to die if he survived that technique.

" He should be half dead because I used more of my order force in that technique. "

But Athan stood up because he wasn't as injured as they expected. It was not because his body was tough or anything.

The reason for it was that when the attack hit him, He had created a thin film of abyssal darkness at the point of impact inside his body and only allowed the minor damage to him while spilling the outer blood from his chest.

The attack hit him in his abdomen, so the blood also spilled out more, but it was just for show. If he really let the technique hit him without defense, then he would really get serious injuries. But that could only happen once he runs out of abyssal darkness and the milky white aura. Though he had used abyssal darkness in the last two minutes, It was a minuscule amount as he also focused on dodging their attacks.

Just like that, He once again stood up with his bloodied body.

Seeing him standing up even after eating this powerful technique, The four people's faces changed as they were truly annoyed by this pretty boy's tough attitude.

The four of them attacked Athan simultaneously, but Athan was prepared, and for the first time, he used his technique.

He released skyline blows from his two hands towards the two attacks to negate them.

Since he was sent flying and had a distance of more than ten meters between him and the four people, He perfectly released his Skyline blows in a timely manner such that they would hit the two attacks at a ten-meter distance.

The fifty percent increase in power triggered and his skyline blows negated the two powerful essence order techniques of his opponents.

Those four people did not carelessly make the four attacks as they planned to seal his routes of dodging, but since Athan already negated the two attacks, He instantly released two more skyline blows.

But this time, he didn't consume order force to activate gloves and instead released the skyline blows from the soles of his feet.

Since he was still on the ground, The Skyline blows hit the ground and created the impact. This impact caused him to fly up, and he successfully dodged the remaining attacks.

" El Bonzel, There is something wrong with that human. Surely he is capable of attacking. But...Why isn't he attacking us? Also, He should be gravely injured after eating our few attacks that hit him, but I think that he is not gravely injured despite his bloodied appearance. This is just my instinct, but he is not as wounded as what his current appearance is showing. "

El Bonzel was the one who releases the spinning fan technique. Hearing what his friend said, He frowned, and after thinking for a few seconds, He realized the reason and looked around them. Instantly, his face turned ugly.

" Fuck! That bastard is using us. "

The other three also realized this after seeing El Bonzel as their face also turned ugly and looked menacingly at Athan.

Athan grinned at them as they seem to have realized it and said, " Well...So what now? Are you going to stop attacking me and run? Also, when you run, please tuck your tails firmly between your legs. "

Each one had some kind of tail behind them, and hearing this only made them more humiliated. And hearing Athan's voice, They also knew that he was not as injured as they believed him to be.

The four of them had targetted Athan, a single human. Seeing this, other people were not fighting here and interfered because they felt that it would be over soon.

Athan took this to his advantage and prolonged the fight while showing superficial wounds and dodging attacks.

The four of them also felt that they could eliminate Athan easily and quickly, but four minutes already passed, and soon, the ground would start the shrink.

El Bonzel spoke in a low voice with his face still ugly, " Don't hold back and kill this human. No matter what, He is still one person and at a Tier-1 order base. KILL HIM! "

Chapter 308 - The Competition-3.

Athan had tried to use his Elemental Matrix as he had the connection with the source dimension. Still, the primal essence was simply not worth mentioning here. It was too weak to be used.

The thing was, His typical elements can only be activated through primal essence and not chaos essence as he had already tried to do that.

But, He had also made some plans to make use of his Elemental Matrix. For that, He first needed to finish training in the Lightning Dust of Yellow Hell essence order method.

He could use wind law energy and create a pair of wings, but they were suppressed here, and he could barely fly with it. It was simply not possible to use them in combat against these people. Using primal essence to fight against people who used chaos essence and controlled the order force was a fool's wish to die.

" Attack him while he is still in the air. "

Athan saw the four of them hurling attacks once again while he was in the air.

He could not fly freely here as he either needed a technique for it or reach the Tier-3 order base.

The wings made from wind law energy were weaker, and they can't help him dodge the attacks, so he had only one choice left.

Since he was still far from them, He timely released the skyline blows from his gloves to negate the two attacks and let the other two attacks hit him.

Of course, He defended himself with the abyssal darkness inside his body while still keeping up with the act of getting severely injured by their attacks.

One attack hit his abdomen and another on his right shoulder.

*Blerrgh....*

He puked out a mouthful of blood for the first time with a gleam in his eyes. He also let his shoulder break on purpose, as now it looked like he could not use his entire right arm anymore. He kept up the act to make them believe that he was really injured this time.

He had seen the power of celesti and Shish, so he knew that these four idiots were not as strong as them, but from his guess, they should be between the sixth stage to the eighth stage in the Tier-1 order base.

Drizzly had taught him how to gauge that. These chaotic powers also have a type of pressure that they release. The pressure of chaotic powers used by Celesti and Shish was stronger than these four people and sensing this pressure allowed him to tell how strong they were, not precisely but just roughly.

The five minutes passed, and the competition ground started to shrink. The ground began to fall from its borders as if a deep gorge formed, and each second, the gorge increased.

People started to fight desperately because the speed of ground shrinking was not slow.

Athan estimated that it would take roughly one and a half minutes before the ground shrinking reached his location.

The other four also knew that as they looked at Athan while gritting their teeth.

" We can do it! He is really injured this time. Attack and don't hold back. "

They started hurling attacks again but with less frequency. It was because if they continued to attack frequently, they would run out of order force.

Even without order force, they could use their chaotic essence power by consuming chaos essence. Still, it was not as powerful as the techniques.

They started to release their chaotic essence power more and order techniques less.

Since they were in a higher Tier-1 order base, Their chaotic essence power was also powerful.

Athan's lightning dust was at level 3. If he used it against their chaotic essence power, His lightning dust would lose against their level 6 to level 8 chaotic essence power.

So all he did was to take on their attack and dodge.

He only used a very small amount of abyssal darkness every time he was going to take on their attacks, just so that he would not be seriously injured, as he was fine with superficial and moderate injuries.

' Thiry second...I should start counterattacking. ' Thinking of this, Athan finally started his barrage of attacks.

He saved his order force until now just so that he could constantly attack them at the end.

Now, they need to sparingly use their energy while Athan could freely attack them in the last thirty seconds.

He started releasing Skyline blows from his gloves, both to negate the incoming techniques and attack them.

He kept ten meters distance from them to trigger the power of his gloves, Smitend Ragoir.

The four of them started to feel pressure despite being stronger than Athan because they had to use their powers to defend these homing skyline blows as dodging didn't work against it.

Because of that, they became worried and started to feel anxious. They also began to lose focus as they also knew that ground shrinking was arriving here soon.

Thirty seconds was how much? Well, Not much at all in the heat of battle.

Athan didn't hold back, and in these thirty seconds, he continuously attacked and consumed ninety percent of his order force reserve.

' Damn DAMN DAMNN IT! ' El Bonzel cursed inside his head and looked at Athan. Seeing the faint grin on Athan with his bloodied appearance made him tremble involuntarily.

' He endured that much of our attacks just for this ending? Fuck! He definitely has some means of defending. Otherwise, he can't endure that many attacks. Damn bastard played us till the end. '

He was regretting not holding back. Seeing that Athan was previously on the verge of losing, He didn't hold back and this resulted in his current situation.

Athan's right shoulder was back to normal and he couldn't wrap his head around as to why his shoulder was quickly healed.

" Aaaaaaa...."

The ground shrinking neared, and Athan's one Skyline blow hit the legs of one of the four people who attacked him, and he directly fell down while screaming.

The other three hurridly started to run forward, and one of them was hit by Athan's Skyline blow while nearing. But he realized that the attack of this skyline blow was not as strong as before.

This one person was the same one who first pointed out that something was wrong with Athan.

" EVERYONE! Stay close to him. His attacks might injure us, but they are not as strong if we stay near him. "

Hearing this, El Bonzel and the other guy desperately ran towards Athan.

They sparingly used their energy, so their defense was not strong, but with it, they could easily block Athan's Skyline blows that were not empowered by the gloves. Seeing that their friend, Uorik was right. They felt grateful.

Athan laughed and paused his attacks before clapping, " Good job realizing it. But...It's too late. "

This was also one of his reason. If he purposefully distanced themselves early and then used his Skyline blow, There was a chance that they would realize his glove's effect.

That's why he had them sent him flying, and then, he each time used skyline blows precisely such that they would only hit at the ten-meter distance.

This ten-meter distance's range of his gloves was one meter. It means that the effect would trigger as long as he hit them between the tenth meter and eleven meters.

For the final attacks, He turned some milky white aura into order force before releasing two large skyline blows.

*Shuaa....Shuaaa...*

*BOOM...*

Two more hit by the big skyline blows and fell into the deep gorge, eliminated.

But just as Athan was going to attack the last one, who was none other than Uorik, The ground stopped shrinking.

" Congratulations to the five hundred survivors! The second round is over. "

Uorik slumped to the ground and looked at Athan with fear in his eyes, ' He is weaker than us strength-wise....but..'

Chapter 309 - The Competition-4

After the second round was over, The remaining five hundred competitors got a break. Every one of them was absorbed into the earth and appeared underground.

" Brother Athan! Hahaha, congratulations. "

Athan heard the voice of Shish and turned around.

Shish was walking towards him, but his clothes were a bit tattered. On the other hand, Celesti was fine as she smiled at Athan and nodded.

Athan also nodded back and then faintly smiled at Shish, who seems to be excited on his behalf for passing the round.

Shish laughed before saying with a grin, " I knew that brother Athan could pass the round. "

Athan smiled at him and asked, " Really? "

" Ehh...he..he...well, of course. Hahaha. " Shish turned awkward for a moment as he was unable to hide his false claim before he swept it up with a laugher.

Celesti smiled wryly and said, " Don't mind him, Athan. He was just...you know, a bit worried about you. "

Athan nodded as he was teasing Shish.

" Anyway, Brother Athan. Let's recover to the fullest before the third round starts. "

...

Outside, The spectators were waiting as one hour break was almost up.

After a minute, A middle-aged man appeared in the middle of the competition ground. His skin was blood red. He had two dark red horns on his forehead and wore a suit with boots.

He waved his right hand towards the competition ground as it started to tremble before three rings appeared that were of the same size.

They were positioned in a triangle shape inside the competition ground.

After doing this, The man's loud voice reverberated everywhere, " The third round starts! "

The spectators cheered loudly at this as a total of six people appeared on the competition ground—two people on each ring.

There were barriers around each ring, and the fight started when the middle-aged man said, " FIGHT....ON! "

...

Athan, Celesti, and Shish were still underground, and they noticed that a person near them was suddenly sucked into the soil and disappeared.

Shortly after that, A voice echoed in the underground, " Six competitors will be randomly picked after the current fight is over. You will not be informed of when the fights are finished. So, always be ready. Good luck. "

A small commotion occurred over this as this type of selection was slightly anxiety-inducing. They would suddenly be sucked into the ground and wouldn't even know who they were going to fight until the last moment.

Shish appeared a bit worried as usual, while Celesti seemed to be stable and confident than Shish. She looked at Athan, who still had his eyes closed even after this voice echoed, and thought curiously, ' Hmmm...not worth his attention, maybe? But...If he encountered someone above average, he might not pass this round. '

She was not confident about Athan and felt that this round might become his last one, depending on his luck.

If she had seen Athan's performance in the second round, Her opinions certainly would be different. But well, it doesn't matter anymore as the future will tell everything.

...

Two fights outside were finished, and the last battle was on the verge of ending.

After thirty seconds, The human race girl barely won the fight after fighting a neck-to-neck battle as she was also severely injured with her right hand cut off from the elbow and other internal serious injuries.

Her opponent didn't give up until the end and met his maker. But Her journey may also stop here depending on her state in the next round as her injuries were really serious.

The losers were disqualified and were sent to the resting area on the first floor of the stadium.

On the other hand, The winners appeared underground, but at a different place than those who had yet to fight, so no one noticed them.

After the fights were finished, Six competitors were sucked into the soil, and one of them was Shish.

Athan, who had closed his eyes this whole moment, opened them as he felt a slight movement near him and saw that Shish disappeared.

Celesti and Athan looked at each other before they smiled wryly.

Celesti shook her head with a sigh, " He is just as strong as me, but he needs to correct his attitude. He is more on a pessimistic side than optimistic, and that's his disadvantage. "

Athan nodded as he had already known about this after spending some days training together with the siblings.

Celesti was rational and would display a certain level of confidence in the things she does.

Outside, Shish looked at his opponent and started thinking rapidly, ' What should I do? Create defense first and counter-attack? or attack first? But if I can't successfully attack him, then I will be at a disadvantage. '

" FIGHT...ON! "

The fight started amidst Shish thinking about how to make his move while his opponent seemed to have taken the initiative and attacked Shish by releasing his technique before dashing towards Shish.

' Coming at me head-on? Damn...Anyway, I should focus on defense since he attacked me. '

...

After five minutes, The three fights were finished.

Six more people were absorbed into the soil from the underground before appearing on the rings of the competition stadium.

Drizzly and Roselin's eyes turned slightly active from lazy as they noticed Athan in one of the rings.

Even though they knew that Athan could pass this round after seeing his performance in the second round, They still paid attention as they wanted to know more about Athan's capabilities.

Athan's opponent was oozing out confidence and even smiled at Athan before saying, " My name is Kauburn. Good luck, human. "

He was not a pure human but had a head of ox with white skin and fur and two grey metal horns on his forehead. His body was buffy with explosive muscles that had little white hairs everywhere.

" FIGHT...ON! "

Kauburn took the initiative to attack Athan by releasing an essence order technique, and right after he did that, He also dashed forward towards Athan.

Athan sensed the pressure of this chaotic essence power and slightly frowned because this was on par with pressure released by Shish and Celesti's chaotic essence power.

But after a second, Athan revealed a grin at Kaurbun, who felt confused seeing the grin.

Athan released Skyline blows from his gloves, but they failed to completely diffuse the circling wave attack of Kauburn that was burning in orange flame.

But he had weakened and consumed the potency of the attack, so he took the attack head-on, which burned his skin, and the damage also tried to seep inside him in the form of shockwaves.

Unfortunately, Athan's armor was bombarded in the previous round; otherwise, with its property of high defense against shockwaves, It could completely block these shockwaves type attacks from seeping inside his body.

Though, he didn't care because this weakened attack was of no threat to him.

He was pushed back two meters, and Kauburn also arrived after his technique hit Athan.

But Athan was waiting for this moment as he released Sumireas Slash by making a horizontal chopping motion with his right hand.

Kauburn laughed out loud because he found out that Athan's order base was way weaker than him after seeing the pressure from this Sumireas Slash that had the nature of his chaotic essence power, Lightning Dust.

But nobody noticed a small part of the Sumireas Slash that had a black color.

Athan had added a small amount of his Abyssal Darkness in the Sumireas Slash.

Kauburn, who totally underestimated Athan's Sumireas Slash, let it hit his chest as he didn't even put up a defense.

He felt that it wouldn't scratch his Red realm 2nd-step body strength after discovering that Athan was likely in the third stage or fourth stage in the Tier-1 order base.

But when the Sumireas Slash hit him, He realized that something was wrong as he felt intense pain over his chest and started screaming as his flesh began to disappear.

Athan didn't let this chance go as he created some distance before releasing two empowered Skyline Blows from his hands.

*Shuaa...BOOOM*

He targetted the chest of Kauburn, and he had also added a very small amount of Abyssal darkness inside one of his Skyline Blows.

The abyssal darkness inside the Sumireas Slash was consumed after it devoured some of the flesh of Kauburn before it was consumed.

Athan didn't plan to add more amount of abyssal darkness because it would cause a needless commotion if this tall ox man suddenly disappeared after getting devoured by a black aura. So, He kept it small and only released a very small amount of it, enough to devour a bit of his flesh and to touch his bones and give it a taste of his abyssal darkness.

Before Athan's Skyline Blows were going to hit Kauburn, He barely put up a simple barrier around him with his chaotic essence power by consuming chaos essence.

But since Athan has added a small amount of abyssal darkness in one Skyline Blow, It created a hole in the barrier that was spreading more.

Athan once again released skyline blows as they went through the holes and hit the chest of Kauburn, who screamed loudly once again.

It was because these two Skyline blows hit the exact spot where the abyssal darkness devour his flesh and a bit of his bone in that place.

The spectators were shocked because Kauburn was a somewhat well-known contender for the top thirty in the competition, and he was beaten up an unknown...pretty boy human. It was unthinkable.

The middle-aged man floating in the sky was also surprised at seeing this as he didn't expect that Athan could win. According to him, Athan should have lost easily and quickly but he was seeing a different story in front of him.

' That black aura...Strange. ' The middle-aged man noticed the black aura and was confused about it, ' Maybe, he is one of those who has a special physique? From the looks of it, This whatever physique has given him quite an offensive ability. '

Kauburn had slight fear in his eyes as he asked Athan, " " HUMAN! Wh-what is this power? "

Athan didn't answer and released two more Skyline blows from his hands at a perfect distance of ten meters.

Kauburn clearly saw the black aura in front of the punch projectiles, and hurridly shouted, " I GIVE UP. I GIVE UP. "

Athan grinned as he hurridly diffused the Skyline Blows along with the abyssal darkness.

" WOAAAAAAAAAA..."

" Who is that human? Can anyone sense past that barrier and check his strength? "

" His order base...seems to be the third stage of Tier-1 order base. What the hell? "

" What!! "

" Looks like he is one of those who has a unique physique of some type. "

The middle-aged man with blood-red skin and dark red horns floating in the sky looked deeply at Athan as he waved his hands and sent both him and Kauburn to their respective place.

Athan was transported to the place where previous winners appeared.

Though, right after appearing there, He heard a familiar voice calling out to him.

Chapter 310 - Shish & Erina

" Brother Athan! It looks like you also won the fight....uh rather easily that it seems. "

Shish saw Athan appearing near him and called out. He also saw that Athan wasn't injured much except for the superficial chest injury.

Athan saw that Shish wasn't injured, and his armor was mostly intact with only some minor damage.

Shish scratched the back of his head while laughing, " It turned out that my opponent was actually way weaker than me. Both in body strength and order base. Phew, I was worried for nothing when the fight started and took a few blows from my opponent before defeating him. Hehe. "

But then, Shish's expression changed. He had hesitation written over his face, and finally, after two seconds, He pointed at the human girl who was severely injured with her hand cut off from her elbow. That girl had her eyes closed, and there was some blood energy swirling at her cut-off part as she seems to be recovering.

" Brother Athan, You see that girl over there? "

Athan looked at her and nodded, " Mhmm. It seems that she is very badly injured. Both externally and internally. If she failed to recover completely then her journey ends here. "

Shish nodded with a sad face as his lips curved downwards and eyebrows creasing together, " Actually....I already know her. She works at an inn in the town under a lady boss. When I arrived here, She was so badly injured and was in so much pain. "

Athan glanced at Shish and raised his eyebrows before asking, " You want to help her? "

" Umm...Actually, I already helped her. When I arrived here and saw her in her severely injured state, I couldn't stop myself from helping her. She didn't have enough pills to recover completely, so I gave some of my pills to her...I..." Shish blushed a bit before finally saying after hesitating, " I secretly liked her for quite a while now and even went to meet her a few times but didn't tell my sisters about her yet. Of course, I also didn't say that I love her yet but...Anyway, Say brother Athan, I didn't do anything wrong, right? "

Athan was slightly speechless, but he nonetheless nodded with a smile, " You didn't do anything wrong. Though, how many pills you have left now? "

Shish smiled, hearing from Athan that he did the right thing, " About the pill, I still have half of my total pills left. "

Athan then looked at the girl for a moment before he asked Shish, " Do you think she can completely recover with the pills you gave her? "

Shish nodded, but then he shook his head, " I don't know. I panicked after seeing her in that injured state and just gave all of my pills to her at first. But, Erina only took half of them and said that they are enough. "

Shish looked at Erina worriedly before asking Athan, " Will they not be enough? It would be really unfair if she stops at this stage. She is also ninth-stage in Tier-1 order base and her body strength is red realm 4th-step. Me and My sister were weaker than her six months ago and even now, she could beat us one vs one because she had practiced her technique perfectly and is better at combat than us. Sigh...Her opponent must be really a tough one to injure her to such an extent. I wanted to ask about her opponent but decided to ask later as I wanted her to recover from injuries first. "

Athan looked at Shish's face and thought, ' Looks like this guy is really in love. Guess I'll help out a bit. '

He took out a blood recovery pill and an alignment cure pill before directly transporting them inside his void region using his soul sense. Adding things inside his void region requires a slight contact of his soul sense to the things he wants to send inside.

He then started to study the pill's structure which wasn't that complicated. It took him a few minutes to understand its structure before turning some of the milky white aurae into pills.

He consumed ten percent of his milky white aura to create a total of twenty pills: Ten blood recovery pills and ten alignment cure pills.

He then stored them inside an empty storage pouch inside his void region that was given to him by Reikent long ago.

" Shish. Take this. "

Shish looked at Athan, who gave him a storage pouch, and asked with confusion, " What's this? "

" Check yourself. "

Shish peeked inside the storage pouch with his soul sense and was surprised before hurriedly giving back the pouch to Athan, " Brother Athan, No. I can't take your pills. If Erina requires more pills than I will give her mine. "

Athan smiled and took out additional pills from another storage pouch from the gap behind his armor, " As you can see, I still have my share of pills and haven't used any. So, You can take those pills to her. "

" What! h-how is that possible? " Shish was shocked because he clearly remembers that each one of them got a set consisting of ten pills of each type and no more.

He looked at the pills in Athan's hands and then inside the pouch that he was holding to confirm.

Seeing that he was not hallucinating, He looked at Athan with a shocked expression, " How? "

Athan faintly smiled at his reaction before saying, " It's magic. Now go and give her the pills because she definitely needs more of them to completely recover. "

Shish was moved to tears and thanked Athan multiple times before he rushed towards Erina.

Athan saw Erina opening her eyes which still had the pain in them. But she still smiled at Shish.

Erina had light peach skin and was beautiful looking with short red hair. She had slender eyebrows and had a slim body. But she looked worn out and exhausted due to her injuries.

She was first startled seeing Shish giving her the pouch and seeing the content inside before rejected it. But Shish insisted and showed her that he still had pills for him before Erina finally accepted the pouch.

Athan was seeing this and couldn't help but miss Tiana and Avelia, ' Tiana, Avelia...I hope you two okay. I'll definitely make you remember me. '