Chapter 179 - 520-533

Chapter 521 - Going Outside.

Athan facepalmed when he found out that the Nimpere brothers went to purgatory hill.

"Guess I'll have to delay a bit more. In the note, they said that they would come out sooner as their plan was to come out earlier by breaking through to Zen order. Oh well..." Athan muttered as he shook his head with a wry smile.

...

Days passed as it was finally time for the opening of the void pavilion.

A lot of people flocked to Chaos Monolith Hill, but Dean Lenix knew that and limited the entry to only seven hundred fifty people. Those who arrived after that were not given entry into the Newcomers Abode area at all.

The rule was to buy a set of four voidling-zoids, and only one set would be sold per person. As such, with the entry of seven hundred and fifty people, all three thousand voidling-zoids were sold.

The majority of them were zen order elite, and there were even three people at Evagon-stage among the entrants.

All in all, there were 248 Orderic Catastrophe people, 317 Zen order Elite, 104 Zen order Masters, 78 Zen order Grandmasters, and three people at the Evagon stage.

After everything was sold, Athan earned 496,000 middle-grade chaos stones and...whooping 1,227,000 high-grade chaos stones!

...

After a month and a couple of days, Athan, Tiana, Avelia, and Linci flew towards purgatory hill.

Today was the day Sen, Shiromi, and others would come out after training in purgatory.

Athan and others stood a bit away from where some other people were also waiting.

Naturally, Athan became the center of attention after he arrived here, but his focus was on the Diablo-style door suspended in mid-air.

A few hours passed before finally, the door opened...

The door revealed a portal as people came out from it one by one.

Soon... someone familiar came out, Theo. After that, one by one, others also came out.

"Athan!"

All of them noticed Athan instantly since his group had more space around it as if people gave them more space out of respect or...fear?

Athan, Tiana, Avelia, and Linci smiled as they looked at Sen and others possessing solid and powerful aura despite being obviously exhausted.

"Emperor, I-"

"Stop!" Athan spoke with a stern voice as Sen, Shiromi, Tealery, Arcued, and Theo closed their mouths and looked at each other with confusion.

Seeing that, Athan's expression changed as he smiled and said, "No need to say anything. For now, just come with me."

...

Athan flew forward while others silently followed him. They went deeper into cloudly land.

On the way, Sen and others noticed a strange thing. Why is everyone so familiar with Athan? They are even greeting him with respect.

After flying for a while, they finally arrived at Travelling and Transporting Hill center.

"Are we going outside, Athan? But where?" Sen asked with a curious and nervous expression.

Although they could go outside since five years were up, they still felt something weird since this Midgard continent was not the same as other continent zones in the lower-Chaosverse.

Athan smiled and said, "Just relax. I have arranged everything, and after going to a place and staying there for some time, we will go to the Vaiklaid continent zone and meet your master and others at Youhan Tree.

"What! Really? Hahaha, I was also missing my master," Sen said with an excited smile.

Shiromi and others also smiled hearing that.

...

Everyone entered the Travel & Transport Hill center, and after entering the vast central hall, Athan took out a contact card and said, "Is everything ready, dean?"

Dean Lenix--"Yep, just come to section-3. I am waiting there."

Athan--"Alright."

After that, he put the card away and told others to follow him as they started walking towards section-3 of this hall.

After arriving at section-3 hall, They saw dean Lenix talking with a middle-aged woman.

Noticing Athan and others, dean Lenix turned to them and smiled, "Meet lady Furicent; she will act as your protector in your journey."

Madam Furicent looked like she was in her thirties. She looked elegant with her simple but exquisite dress. She had a furry and thick foxtail and a single horn on her forehead, both of them were dreamy orange with red patterns.

She looked at Athan and smiled, "Nice to meet you, Athan. You can call me Lady Fu."

Athan faintly smiled and nodded, "We will be in your care for some months."

He and others then walked in front of the portal.

Lady Fu nodded with a gentle smile before she turned to dean Lenix, "Then we will be going, dean Lenix. If something arises, then I will contact you as you said."

Dean Lenix nodded with a smile before he looked at Athan and said with a wry smile, "If you are going to make some big trouble, then inform me beforehand."

"Hahaha, I doubt that would happen. We are going to relax and visit the vaiklaid continent before returning after a few months," Athan said as he laughed out loud.

Dean Lenix shook his head while smiling, "Even if you don't invite trouble, it might invite you instead. Midgard continent only has one rule, strength above everything else—your backing's strength, connection, etc. The place you are going is especially filled with powerful people, so just..."

Dean Lenix didn't continue as he just looked at Athan and smiled, "Anyway, you already know what I mean."

Athan nodded with a grin, "Got it. While I am away, you can start registering the people who want to buy voidling-zoids. If someone's voidling-zoids were killed or simply ran out of fuel, you can also register them. After returning, I will fulfill all quota since even while moving, I can still produce them."

"Alright," Dean nodded before he looked at Lady Fu, "You know where to bring them."

Lady Fu nodded as she entered the portal.

Afterward, Athan also told others to enter inside.

...

They arrived inside the big ship after entering through the portal, which was connected to a big ship's portal formation.

Lady Fu led Athan and others towards a hall with all facilities and said, "You all can relax here while we arrive at Tranquility Region. If you want anything like food or such things, then you can infuse your order force in that slate and tell your needs."

"Understood," Athan nodded before he remembered something and said, "You should know about voidling-zoids, right? do you have a set?"

Lady Fu shook her head, but she gently smiled as she exuded a confident aura, "I know about the miraculous voidling-zoids but...chuckles* I wouldn't need them to protect you all."

Athan smiled carefreely and took out four thumb-sized balls as they flew towards Lady fu, "Can you fight against two Evagon-stage people? or someone at Dean Lenix's level?"

Hearing that, Lady Fu was stumped as she smiled wryly and shook her head as she caught the thumb-sized balls, "I am at median echelon in Evagon stage, so there are still more powerful people, but..."

Athan smiled and said, "it seems like you do not fully believe in the capabilities of voidling-zoids. Did the dean not tell about it?"

"Well, you are right. I could ask the dean, but I didn't. Anyway, the three evagon stage people who bought your voidling-zoids will soon give information on how effective they are for people at our level."

"Fine, but you can keep them and test their effectiveness yourself when the opportunity presents itself," Athan spoke lazily before he sat down on the couch.

Lady Fu smiled and nodded, "Alright, then I'll take up on that offer since you are giving them for free."

After saying that, she left the hall after telling them to relax.

On the other hand, Sen, Shiromi, and others were shocked to find that the lady was on Evagon stage, and they were especially speechless at Athan's carefree attitude against someone of her level.

"Humph, that's how our Emperor should act," Arcued muttered as he clenched his fist.

"Athan, we know about voidlings, but what is voidling-zoid?" Shiromi asked with a curious expression. She felt that it should be something important and valuable considering Lady Fu's last words.

"Haha, yeah. It sounds cool and powerful," Arcued said with a laugh.

Avelia and Linci smiled as they started telling them about all the things that happened while they were in purgatory.

Chapter 522 - Heaven's Tranquility.

On the way to the Tranquility region, Sen, Shiromi, Tealery, Arcued, and Theo heard about everything that happened while they were inside purgatory and were shocked beyond belief.

Athan gave each one of them a set of voidling-zoids and told them to get some rest before they arrived at the Tranquility region.

After all, three years inside purgatory without proper rest is bound to be very exhaustive even though they broke through to the soul order phase.

...

After ten days of traveling, they finally arrived at the Tranquility region.

Lady Fu's voice suddenly echoed in the hall where Athan and others were staying, "I am going to make the ship transparent. You can look at the east side to see a magnificent sight as It's the most luxurious area in the entire Midgard continent."

Athan and others saw the ship entirely disappear as it became fully transparent.

They then looked in the east direction and saw three magnificent palaces on top of high ground that was several levels up the rest of the surface as it went up in wavy form.

"You can only see illusion from outside as three palaces are just the outer facade of the real thing. But, it's still magnificent, right?"

Sen and others nodded with their mouths agape as those three's design and the atmosphere around it look absolutely heavenly.

The three palaces were on the high ground with colorful clouds and streams of dreamy blue water circulating around with clouds and beautiful birds. The streaming water also had beautiful fishes swimming inside.

They also saw five-six luxurious ships around them as they all headed in the same direction as them, towards a giant exquisite gate.

Athan could see a large and powerful barrier covering the whole area of three palaces and two miles around it, with only the gate acting as the entrance.

"What is this place called?" Tealery asked with curiosity.

"Heaven's Tranquility. The most expensive area in the whole Midgard continent, and you need a minimum of 25,000 high-grade chaos stones per head to enjoy some benefits here for a month...just for a month." Lady Fu's voice echoed.

Hearing that, Sen and others were shocked, speechless.

25,000 HIGH-GRADE chaos stones. Don't say that it's not much just because Athan earned 1 million of them. One had to remember that Coddys, a Zen order Grandmaster, spent 25,000 high-grade chaos stones to stay one year under Efyeed.

And that was the lowest amount per head to enjoy the benefits in this place.

"T-this...why it's so expensive? What's so special about it?" Sen spoke with a dumbfounded expression.

"It's very special. You will know about it when we enter inside."

...

After a few minutes, the ship was parked outside along with other ships before Athan and others came out with Lady Fu.

Several other people in luxurious clothes also flew towards the giant gates.

As Athan and others flew towards it, Lady Fu reminded Athan, "Athan, The people in this place are the most powerful people and also...most influential in this Midgard continent, but that's not all."

"Oh? Dean didn't tell me much about it since he said that you tell me more about this place," Athan said as he looked in the front where people were entering through special doors after paying the entry fee.

"I will tell you more once you see the real scenery behind this giant gate."

"Athan, I am getting nervous and excited, hehehe," Sen said as she looked in the front.

The guards were giving entry to one group each time, and it didn't take long for Athan's group to turn since there were only two groups in front of them.

Naturally, there were three groups of five-five-six people behind Athan's group as well.

Actually, the other people in those groups were sneering and looked at Athan's group with disdain because their clothes were not fancy and they looked poor, except Athan's, who looked the most mysterious with his void robe.

The five guards, two on left, two on the right, and one in front of them, stopped the group as they exuded their auras at Evagon-stage, causing Athan to raise his eyebrows in surprise, but after thinking for a moment, it made sense.

"Hahaha, Lady Fu. It's strange to see you bringing a bunch of chaos warriors ants here. As far as I am aware, you are single without any family and stay alone at Chaos Monolith Hills."

Sen and others heard a loud laughing from behind them and saw a middle-aged man coming with a man and woman who looked to be in their twenties according to their appearance.

All three of them had the same body features with two red curving horns and a third vertical, closed eye on their forehead.

Lady Fu looked at the middle-aged man with indifference and said, "It's none of your business who I bring here."

"As cold as always towards me...sigh. But my offer still-"

On the other hand, Athan didn't pay attention to them in the first place and paid 10,000 high-grade chaos stones to the guard as entry fees.

The entry fee was 1000 high-grade chaos stones per head.

After paying the fees, The guards activated the portal door, and Athan spoke without looking back, "Don't waste time on nobodies. Let's go inside."

Hearing this, Arcued snorted without looking back and followed Athan before Sen and others also turned back and walked into the door.

Lady Fu also turned around and left.

"Nobodies?" The young man muttered before he chuckled, "What a funny little guy, calling us nobodies."

"Frog in the well." The girl spoke without any emotion in her voice.

...

On the other hand, after Athan and others went inside, they saw a completely different and more magnificent sight in front of them.

"Waaaaaaaa...Holy shet. What is that?" Arcued spoke as pointed in the sky.

In front of them were literally staircases of stars that led to three palaces. These three palaces looked similar to the three palaces outside, but their size was on a completely different level, and they looked more magnificent.

But the most interesting thing was a very tall and large whirlpool on top of the three palaces. This whirlpool that looked like a tornado but with similar width from top to bottom was cracking with colorful lightning, water, and wind along with golden sparks.

This whirlpool was stretched to who knows how long in the sky since it was very big and they couldn't see its end.

"That whirlpool is one of the permanent channels between midguard continent and upper-Chaosverse. In short, you can go to upper-Chaosverse by traveling through that whirlpool to the top," Lady Fu said with a smile.

Athan nodded before he gazed at the three magnificent palaces, and...that caused his heart to skip a beat.

Primo's ears twitched as it came out and stood on Athan's shoulder before looking at the three otherworldly palaces.

"Hehe, Master. What do you say? Are you going to act on your power's nature?" Primo said with a laugh as he grinned.

Athan faintly smiled and said, "That's given. Hehe, I am not going to hold myself back when the time comes."

"Nyahahaa, Yeah!" Primo laughed out loud.

Athan and others started walking on the stair in front of them that led the palaces.

"By the way, who was that trio, Lady Fu?" Tiana asked.

"The middle-aged man is the head of Borus Family; he is one of the most powerful people in the Midgard continent. The other two with him were his son and daughter."

"What about his wife?" Avelia asked.

Lady Fu shook her head, "Dead."

"Did you notice that this atmosphere is really...useless? I can't sense anything here." Theo said with a frown.

All around them was dark, with only glittering sparks like energy flowing. They were also walking on star-like stairs.

It was like...they were in space but not the space that a universe has. It seemed different and strange.

Hearing Theo, Lady Fu smiled and said, "Once we enter inside the palace, you will see a completely different world. The owner of this place is from upper-Chaosverse, and all things here are from upper-Chaosverse."

Athan nodded as he said with a grin, " After a month, you all will be able to progress rapidly training. Dean told me that this place is very expensive, but if you got wealth, then it's worth it."

"Hahaha, how much wealth a measly chaos warrior can have? An ant at orderic catastrophe, you sure talk big despite spending some else's wealth. Lady Fu, who are these bunch? Did you start doing babysitting or what?"

Athan and others looked at their left side and saw a group of five people, two men, two women, and an old man who looked to be in his sixties, walking on the other starry stairs towards the three palaces. The one who spoke was a woman who looked to be in her thirties with long emerald hair and an elegant dress covering her body except for the crevice of her twin peaks.

One of the men, who looked in the twenties appearance-wise, dropped his head after hearing the woman's remarks. His aura was that of Zen order Elite, and he was not here with his own money since he couldn't afford it.

Before Lady Fu could say anything, Athan looked at her spoke plainly, "Do you know how do I feel after suddenly hearing your voice that disturbed our conversation?"

The woman snorted and said, "How would I know? Idiot!"

Athan grinned and said, "It was like...I was peacefully talking with my friends in this tranquil environment, and suddenly...someone farted loudly, spreading a foul smell as it ruined the mood and everything. That's what I felt after hearing your voice."

Pfff...

"Hahahaha....."

"Bwahahahaah....."

Chapter 523 - Garden Of Peaceful Heaven

Athan and others walked the starry stairs as they reached the giant palace gates.

Upon closer look, one can see that the three palaces were connected, but it looked like three palaces since it had three magnificent constructs from afar.

After Athan and others entered, the heavenly fragrance and the peaceful vibes inside the palace instantly lifted their spirits.

Lady Fu led them towards the exquisite counters, and to their left side, the four people also moved towards there.

The woman still had a bad mood due to Athan's remark.

"Ignore them, Ranisha. We are here to enjoy, so do just that," Another young lady in the group said before she started talking to the staff.

On the other hand, when Athan and others approached the staff, they were asked which package they would like to buy and explained the benefits of each package. There were a total of four packs.

The cheapest package cost 25,000 high-grade chaos stones, and it consisted of one month of enjoyment at the places listed in the package.

While the costliest package cost whooping 100,000 high-grade chaos stones per head.

"Athan, if you want to get the most out of this trip, then choose the 2nd pack. You are all still in Orderic Catastrophe, and the 2nd pack is for zen order elite and masters. But still, it will provide you with the most benefits. The fourth pack is the best one, but only Evagon-stage people can get the most benefit out of it." Lady Fu advised.

Athan nodded as he understood and smiled, "Alright."

After saying that, he turned to the staff and paid 450,000 high-grade chaos stones.

After paying, Athan and others each got a membership card for the 2nd package, which they will be using to enjoy the facilities here.

Lady Fu already told them that she didn't need to pay anything because she was already a member here since she had provided one of the facilities in this place a long time ago and became a permanent member of this place.

A long time ago, She had found a Turban Nectar Pool, and the owner of this place decided to give her permanent members in exchange for putting the Turban Nectar Pool as one of the facilities here.

After they got membership cards, A beautiful lady arrived there as she wore a simple but exquisite loose robe. She had furry ears and a furry tail. Although her robe was loose, it covered everything, even her twin peaks.

Her name is Nacy, and she will be the guide of Athan and the group for this month.

Athan looked at the list in his hand that had the name of all places and facilities of this place and decided to go to Garden of Peaceful Heaven first.

"I wonder if we can even enjoy everything in a month? Are we going to spend a few days at each place?" Sen asked with doubt.

Nacy chuckled and said, "Of course not. Each of these places is in mystical dimensions, and the time there is different from outside. The ratio is adjusted to 10:1 so ten days inside any of those facilities is equal to one day outside."

"In short, you will stay and enjoy here for at least three hundred days," Lady Fu said with a smile.

...

Athan and others followed the Nacy as they walked in this large path corridor with decorative statues on each side.

They also saw quite a few groups on the way.

After walking for five minutes, They entered one of the rooms, which had a portal inside.

After going through the portal and arriving at the other side, Athan and others were completely blown away.

A truly....heavenly place.

Imagine the most beautiful place with fresh, mystical, and peaceful aura exuding greenery, the lawn ground with paths, beautiful open-air pavilion with a pond on each of their side and in the pond were mystical and colorful fishes swimming happily.

The path had many beautiful flowers in exquisite patterns that acted as borders of those paths.

There was one mile of distance between each pavilion and a three-way small hill range that covered the three sides of each pavilion.

All pavilions were covered in hazy bubble barriers that gave off a rainbow sheen.

The pavilion had couches, fluffy beds, chairs, fruits, drinks, foods, everything ready and covered in a transparent bubble that preserved their freshness.

"I...feel like sleeping," Theo muttered as he felt all of his fatigue slowly going away.

Nacy smiled and said, "The unique atmosphere of this place will slowly remove your fatigue and empower your soul until it can't anymore. You are all still in the Orderic Catastrophe stage, so you will get a considerable boost after staying here for a few days."

Afterward, Nacy led Athan and others to an unoccupied pavilion and took out a wand of sort as she pointed at the hazy bubble that covered the pavilion and the pond.

Once she did that, the bubble flickered slightly. Seeing that, Nacy smiled and said, "Let's enter inside."

Once Athan and others entered through the bubble, they got another shock.

It was a damn new world inside the bubble.

The pavilion became bigger along with the pond, and all they saw around them was exquisite forest, another pond in front of them, beautiful birds, and cute, furry beasts.

Garden of Peaceful Heaven! This name was indeed apt for this place.

Nacy pointed at the pavilion and said, "There are two hot springs behind the pavilion in which you can take a bath. Its water also has mystical properties that can relax your body and mind.

"The fishes inside the pond are special as they will spread purifying energy inside your body, repair all hidden injuries, and revitalize your cells. This process will make you extremely comfortable and relaxed."

"You all must be exhausted by staying in purgatory for three years, so let's go there first," Tiana said as she looked at Sen and others with her usual gentle smile.

Lady Fu and Nacy went inside the pavilion and sat down on the comfortable couches while Athan and others moved to the hot springs.

There was a moss wall between the two hot springs, and a hazy bubble covered them, making it impossible for outsiders to see the people inside hot springs.

Athan and the boys entered inside one of the two hot springs, naked.

At the second hot spring, the girls took off their clothes with a wave of their hands and entered inside the spring, fully naked.

"Aaaaaaahh...."

Hearing the moan, Tiana and others looked at Tealery speechlessly.

Tealery smiled as her cheeks turned pink, "Ahem...It just felt so comfortable that I couldn't help it."

Avelia mischievously smiled as she moved behind Linci and grabbed her twin peaks, "Hehe, I didn't know you had such beautiful melons behind your usual black-verdant dress."

"Aaaaa..."Linci's face turned red in embarrassment and trembled as she was not touched like this since her birth. This strange feeling erected her pink cherries as well since Avelia kept fondling her breasts.

"Soft and mellow, they feel good. Hehehe."

The girls chuckled, and Linci made up her mind as she turned around and started doing the same to Avelia, causing her to squeak.

...

Outside this pavilion area...

Two young men had mischievous expressions on their faces as they arrived at the Garden of Peaceful Heaven.

"Bro, since we are here, then it's time for our usual raid."

"Alright. Let's hope there are some beautiful girls. Otherwise, it would be boring."

"Yeah, last time we encountered a bunch of men and were still kicked out by brother Lenek."

"Let's go there. It's near and occupied as well."

The two young men started walking and stopped in front of a pavilion. After stopping in front of the bubble, they looked at each other and smiled as they took out an artifact that looked like a feather.

They used this feather-like artifact and became invisible—their aura, appearance, everything disappeared.

"Hehe, let's go."

...

At someplace in one of the facilities of Heaven's Tranquility.

A handsome and slim middle-aged man with dark silver hair was sitting on a round table with three other people.

They were playing some kind of card game as the dealer gave out the glowing cards with different colors of patterns.

Suddenly, a servant arrived and said to the dark silver hair middle-aged man, "Sir Lenek, your two brothers have once again entered Garden of Peaceful Heaven and..."

The dark silver hair man frowned as he spoke casually, "Just keep an eye on them, nothing else. Once they are done playing, I'll kick them out. With that artifact, nobody can discover them anyway."

The servant hesitated before saying, "B-but there are some ladies in that pavilion as well, and...those brothers will not hold back..."

"Hey, Lenek. Although I know that nobody dares to offend you but still, your brothers are courting deaths by doing this."

A middle-aged man on the same table said as he looked at Lenek with a wry smile.

Lenek grinned and said, "It's fine. They have Lord father's protective necklace and it can even block two attacks of the peak-Evagon stage. And...people at the peak-Evagon stage are less than fifteen in the whole Midgard continent."

The servant wiped the sweat as he left while the middle-aged man across the table shook his head as he didn't approve of that hobby of Lenek's two brothers.

"Anyway, let's start the game."

"I am telling you first that If I win, then I'll marry your daughter."

"Fuck off!..."

"Hahaha, I'm just joking.. Anyway, I bet fifty-seven kortas."

Chapter 524 - Clean Up.

The two brothers entered and instantly saw two beauties sitting in the pavilion.

'Hey bro, one of them is Lady Fu, and another one is the staff member here...but Lady Fu wouldn't come here alone...let's see who she brought here.'

'They should be at hot spring since it would be the first choice of everyone who comes here. Anyway, I someday want to taste Lady Fu, but with our current strength, we can't force ourselves on her.'

'Humph, we'll do it once we become powerful. But I heard had brother Lenek already tasted her?'

'Lady Fu denied at that time, but who knows?'

The two brothers started walking towards the right side of the pavilion and arrived at the hot spring covered in a bubble barrier that prevented them from seeing inside.

But it only prevented them from seeing from outside, not from inside.

They passed through the bubble to peek inside and instantly frowned.

'Damn, it's a bunch of men.'

'My mood got ruined. But since there are men here, then the women of the group should be in the other hot spring if there are any. Anyway, let's go check it out, hehe.'

...

Nobody was able to notice these two brothers, not Athan, not even Lady Fu, who was an Evagon-stage powerhouse.

Nobody noticed them except for one...

"Master, it seems that we have some uninvited guests here. They were just looking at you but left and are moving towards the other hot spring."

Primo was also bathing in the hot spring and said to Athan after noticing the two peeping toms.

Athan raised his eyebrows as he stood up and got out from the hot spring, "Lead the way, Primo."

...

"Master, you might not be able to see them, but they are right below me."

At this time, Athan had worn his void robe, and void mask, which also wholly erased his presence, and not a single ounce of aura exuded from his body.

In front of him, a few meters away, Primo was floating towards the hot spring.

Athan was impressed with the means of these peeping toms because he really couldn't sense or see them.

But it didn't matter, "Primo, don't let Netherly frost spread out."

"Got it, Master."

Before those peeping toms could put their heads inside the bubble to look, they felt intense threat, and their protective necklace activated, but...it didn't change or delay the outcome in the slightest.

*shuaaaa...*

Athan released Netherly frost while Primo prevented it from spreading out so Lady Fu or other girls wouldn't notice or feel the atmosphere turning cold.

Athan looked at the two frozen young men who had a zig-zag-shaped pointy tail behind their back and two yellow horns with brown patterns on their...shoulders.

After freezing them to death, Athan released abyssal darkness and removed every single trace of them being here.

"Alright, the clean-up is done," Athan said with a smile as he walked into the pavilion.

"Lady Fu, can you order some spirit enhancing food?"

"I'll order them. No need to trouble Lady Fu over something like that," Nacy said with a smile.

"Alright," Athan nodded before he went back to the hot spring.

"What happened, Emperor?"

Athan entered the hot spring as he soaked himself and said, "Nothing, I just went to tell Lady Fu to order some spirit enhancing food."

...

Athan and others relaxed in the hot spring for five hours before finally coming out.

After five hours of staying in the hot spring and getting mystical treatment from the fishes, everyone felt fully relaxed. Now all they wanted to do was to sleep to get the proper mind rest in this atmosphere, and have some sweet dreams.

So after entering the big pavilion, they ate some food before Sen, Shiromi, Telaery, Arcued, and Theo directly fell asleep on the comfy beds.

On the other hand, Athan, Tiana, Avelia, Linci, Lady Fu, and Nacy sat down on the comfortable couches with relaxed expressions after eating and drinking.

"Primo, I am feeling angry," Athan said with a small smile on his face.

Primo floated in front of Athan and asked with confusion, "Why, master?"

Athan kept the smile on his face as he fell into thought and shook his head, "Nevermind."

He then told the girls to relax while he got up and went to the empty ground a few hundred meters away from the pavilion.

Afterward, He took out Kuriazak fruits and started eating them to continue his progress in the soul catastrophe phase.

He had tons of fruits enough to make him reach the pinnacle of the Orderic Catastrophe. He also easily met the requirement to break through to Zen order since he had already comprehended more than one kind of zen order.

Normally, once people break through to the Soul order phase, they can start grasping and comprehending the Initial-level zen order methods, and it takes them a very long time to understand the initial-level zen order, unlike Athan, who had monstrous comprehension power.

Ordinary people need time to comprehend the first zen order even after they reach the peak of Orderic Catastrophe.

While geniuses can comprehend their first zen order before they reach the peak of the Orderic Catastrophe, which directly triggers their breakthrough to Zen order stage's first level, Zen order Elite.

On the other hand, Athan had already comprehended more than one zen order: First, he comprehended the second level of a cloud of chaos which contains zen order sets. Then he comprehended Miz-Lu Enchanted Kingdom's first level zen order, and then he comprehended Soul Miller Raiser's zen order.

So now, he just needed to reach the peak of the Orderic Catastrophe by surviving the soul order catastrophes, and he will trigger the breakthrough directly.

Soon, Lady Fu and others noticed the dark aurora chaotic cloud above Athan.

"This atmosphere is excellent to comprehend zen order, so you can also do that. People at your level usually do that after enjoying the hot spring." Nacy said with a smile.

Tiana and others nodded as they were actually planning to train since arriving here and noticing this atmosphere.

"It's like we are sitting under Efyeed," Avelia said with a smile.

Hearing that, Nacy said in doubt, "Efyeed?"

"It's a Chaos enlightenment tree...."

...

While Athan, Tiana, and others started training in this relaxing and peaceful atmosphere, Lenek received a call from his Lord Father.

Lenek looked at his other buddied and signaled them to stay silent before he accepted the call from the contact card, "What's the matter, Lord father?"

Lord Father--"Where are Nelker and Zelker?"

Hearing the voice, Lenek cursed, 'A deadtone voice...It looks like Lord father is angry. But why?'

Lenek knew what to say since he knew that his brothers had sneaked out from their home palace and arrived here to enjoy, "Lord father, I don't know where they are. Maybe they are at Ginny's place?"

Internally, he thought, 'Playtime is over, boys. Now, I should send them to Ginny's place as soon as possible.'

He signaled a servant and sent him a telepathic message, "Call my brothers through their contact card and tell them to meet me right this instant."

Lord Father--"I already checked there; they are not at Ginny's place. Where-Are-They?"

Lenek trembled at the exceptional cold voice, 'What the fuck happened? Why is Lord father so angry?'

"T-this...Lord father, they are here."

"HERE, WHERE? WHERE ARE YOU?!"

"I-I am at Heaven's Tranquility."

Lenek then heard a sound of a deep breath before he heard a heavy and cold voice of his Lord father laced with anger, "Nelker and Zelker...are dead. Do you hear me? They-are-DEAD!"

*thump....*

Chapter 525 - Athan's Plan-1

"What happened, Lenek? Why are you sweating so much?"

Lenek stood up as he wiped his sweat before anger started to bubble inside him.

"Nelker and Zelker are dead..." Lenek uttered through his teeth before he hurriedly left.

The other three men on the table looked at each other.

"Hahaha, I knew it. I knew that someday, those two would hit steel plate. But didn't expect that they would die."

"Indeed, even if the customers didn't recognize those two, the staff with them should have recognized them and could have called Lenek and security. But...they died, and the news came from his father instead."

"That is indeed strange."

...

At Garden of Peaceful Heaven...

Athan was eating Kuriazak fruits and passing catastrophes.

Tiana, Avelia, and Linci were training in meditation while Sen, Shiromi, Tealery, Arcued, and Theo were sleeping peacefully.

On the other hand, Lady Fu and Nacy were talking about recent news and some other things related to Heaven's Tranquility.

At this time, Nacy decided to clear her doubt as he pointed at Athan and asked, "Lady Fu, I heard them calling him as Athan...is he the same Athan that was mentioned in Sun-Moon News?"

Lady Fu smiled and nodded, "Yep. He is the same Athan."

Nacy couldn't help but gasp after receiving the confirmation.

But right at this time, two people suddenly entered this bubble as Lady Fu and Nacy instantly looked at them.

"Lenek? What is he doing here?" Lady Fu frowned as she didn't like this man at all, and he had even spread a false rumor about her a long time ago.

The other person with him was a server who was keeping an eye on the two brothers.

Lenek saw Lady Fu and Nacy leaving the pavilion and walking towards him.

Lady Fu looked at him and coldly spoke, "What are you doing here, Lenek? I hope you are not here to cause any trouble otherwise..."

"Otherwise, what? Huh? What bitch?" Lenek snapped as he let out his powerful aura that was stronger than Lady Fu.

'What happened to him?' Lady Fu frowned and had a bad feeling, 'I-is he going force himself on me? No, I have to contact Dean Lenix right away.'

Lady Fu activated the contact card inside her chaotic world and let its effect pass through her body. ( chaotic world is something that Evagon-stage people possess inside them.)

"Lenek, don't be reckless, or I will have to tell Dean Lenix to visit your house."

Lenek's face turned dark as he spoke, "I am not here to do any scuffle with you. But...Nelker and Zelker are dead, and before dying, they were spotted coming here."

"Oh? That's a piece of very excellent news. But unfortunately, they didn't come here," Lady Fu smiled as she shook her head before she thought of something and sneered, "Also, do you really I can kill them? Even If I caught them peeping here, I wouldn't have killed them right away, and you know that."

Lenek rubbed his temples while speaking, "I know! But what about others with you? Call everyone here," He then looked then Lady Fu with a severe expression, "I am telling you, Lord father is very angry. He wouldn't even care if I died since I am not his real son, but...Nelker and Zelker...he dotes on them too much."

Lady Fu turned expressionless as she plainly said, "Other than me, all the people here are just chaos warriors and I am the strongest here. Look, we never saw your brothers coming here, and we can even swear an oath on that."

On the other hand, Nacy was overjoyed that Nelker and Zelker died, 'Bloody bastards, serves them right. What Lord father dotes on them too much? It's because of that shitty too much doting and covering their asses every time that his sons didn't think about consequences. Heh, but they finally died! Great.'

Naturally, she just looked clueless and confused externally and spoke, "I can swear right now that I didn't see Nelker or Zelker here at all. We saw no one except our original group that entered here."

Lady Fu nodded as she said, "You are mistaken, Lenek. Your brothers really didn't enter here."

Lenek looked at the servant beside him, who trembled and said, "T-this...I am sure that they entered here...if my eyes were not playing tricks at that time."

"What happened?"

Hearing the carefree voice, everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw Athan walking towards them.

Lady Fu looked shook her head as she looked at Athan and said, "Nothing, Athan. We are just being accused of killing two people that we can't even kill in the first place."

"Oh?" Athan nodded as he glanced at Lenek and then at Nacy before he spoke sternly, "Is this how your Heaven's Tranquility operates? I don't see tranquility here but some nobody entering in our personal space and making noise."

Lenek looked at Athan with a grimace, "It's my first time seeing an Ant at Orderic Catastrophe speaking to me like that."

Athan looked at him as if he was looking at an idiot, "Do you have a problem with your eyesight? I am talking Nacy, not you. Anyway, you are wasting our precious time here, so I'll have you leave from here."

Lady Fu and others were shocked at Athan's attitude, but Athan's didn't feel that he acted out of the norm. What he said was a perfectly fine, reasonable, and logical thing to say. The only thing wrong about it was...Athan's strength. If Athan was not at Orderic Catastrophe but at Zen order grandmaster, then they wouldn't feel shocked at Athan's attitude.

"An ant at ord-"

"Shsss...You are annoying," Athan frowned as he poked his finger inside his ear and looked at Nacy, "Kick him out or call the owner of this place. What bad hospitality."

"Athan, Ummm...let's resolve this peacefully. Anyway, we are at no fault here," Lady Fu said with a wry smile.

At this moment, another person entered.

Seeing her, everyone except Athan suddenly turned respectful.

Chapter 526 - Athan's Plan-2

The new person was a lady wearing a hazy blue dress with long sleeves and deep blue hair. She looked gorgeous with slightly peach-colored skin and waterfall hair that reached her bottom.

Nacy and the other servant bowed and said, "Vice head Elkairen."

"Be at ease," Elk said before she looked at Lenek and Lady Fu, "I received Melker's call. So? what's going on here?"

Hearing the name, some sweat appeared on Lenek's face as Melker was his Lord father's name.

On the other hand, Athan looked at Elk and said, his voice filled with disappointment, "Why is this facility so poor? Can anyone enter into other's people's pavilion zone whenever they want? It's just our first day here, and I am already disappointed."

Lady Fu and others looked at Athan and sweated internally.

'What kind of balls does he have?' Lenek thought, speechless.

Elk looked at Athan with raised eyebrows, 'He is giving of orderic catastrophe aura...but I can't see through him. Strange...'

"We will compensate for this trouble and disturbance. Only our staff can enter through the bubble as only they possess the keys and-"

"Enough. Let's just finish whatever matter you and this guy have here so we can continue with our rest," Athan spoke as he crossed his arms with an annoyed expression.

Elk indifferently nodded and was surprised as well, 'Strange young man.'

She then turned to Lenek and then at the servant beside him, "Did you see them entering here?"

The servant trembled as he nodded, "I-i definitely saw them...standing in front of the bubble and disappearing."

Lenek glanced at him but didn't say anything.

"Wait for a second. Can you tell me why you are here in the first place?" Athan questioned with a frown before continuing, "You are saying that...some people,"-Athan glanced at Lenek-," related to him, entered here and died?"

Lenek gritted his teeth as he spoke with a grimace, "That's right."

Hearing that, Athan looked at Elk, "Is he a customer here or a staff?"

"Customer."

Hearing that, Athan sneered at Elk and said, "So you are saying that people other than your staff members entered here,"-Athan pointed at the male staff-," While that person who is a staff member watched them?"

Elk frowned hearing that because Athan caught their tail quite quickly.

"Why did they enter here in the first place? On top of that, you are even saying that they died here? Are you all nuts?" Athan spoke with an exasperated look on his face.

"What happened, Athan? What's the commotion?" Avelia spoke as she and others walked towards them.

Even Sen, Arcued, and others also arrived here.

Seeing them, Athan looked at Elk as his face turned grim, "Great. My friends were exhausted and were resting, but thanks to you all, they are disturbed now."

"We will compensate you for all the trouble after this matter is resolved," Elk spoke indifferently.

Even Leken was not willing to believe that Nelker and Zelker died here. They had his Lord father's protective necklace, and the strongest here was Lady Fu, who can't even scratch the protection, let alone break it and kill his brothers.

'Since they are saying that they didn't see Nelker or Zelker, then the only choice is for them to swear an oath regarding that. But that brat will not let us do that easily, how annoying.'

Lenek was going to bring this matter up, but before he could do that, what Athan said next shocked him.

"I know a quick and easy way to resolve this method, and you will have to compensate for all this trouble after that," Athan then looked at Tiana and others before saying, " You all, did you see anyone other than us entering here?"

Tiana, Sen, and others were confused as they shook their head, "Of course not. Did something happen?"

Athan smiled at them as he shook his head, "Nope. Just a bunch of idiots coming here to accuse us of a stupid thing,"-Athan glanced at Elk-," What most luxurious are in this Midgard continent? The staff here is an absolute joke.

"Anyway,"-Athan looked at Tiana and others-," Just swear a chaos oath that you didn't see or kill any strangers entering here aside from these people in front you."

"Humph, so apparently...Someone trespassed here themselves, dropped dead, and on top of that, we have to swear an oath that we didn't see them or kill them?" Avelia snorted as she spoke with disgust.

Athan wryl smiled, "Yeah, I heard good things about this place, but..." He didn't continue as he just shook his head.

Elk knew that they were at fault, so she sucked it up as that was the absolute rule of this place. Customers can fight or kill, but staff members here must not do anything that ruins the reputation.

'How did those two die? It doesn't look like they are lying. But according to Melker, those two indeed died. Hmmm...All these times, those two bastards got away because of Melker's connections, and he covered their asses by compensating because of his overwhelming wealth and strength, but this time...someone just killed them. Who would do such a thing? To be able to break Melker's protective necklaces...'

At this time, Tiana and others finished taking the oath as the dark chaotic clouds appeared and disappeared.

Lady Fu and Nacy also did the same.

After that, Athan looked at Lenek with an annoyed expression and took an oath as well.

But before taking the oath, he transformed his soul into a white gold soul that general people possess.

And right after taking the oath, he turned his soul back to its normal state of a black body with a white border and exquisite white patterns in the soul body.

This way, he fooled the lower-Chaosverse's oath order system.

"Are you done now? If so, then get out so we can continue with our peaceful rest here," Athan said as he waved his hand as if shooing them away.

Lenek took a deep breath as he nodded and spoke indifferently, "Alright. Thanks for the proof."

After saying that, He turned to the servant said, "Bring me to all the places they've been since arriving here."

Elk nodded and turned to Athan and others before saying, " We will compen-"

"We will talk about it later. For now, get out from here so we can have some rest," Athan uttered before he turned to Sen and others, "Let's go back."

Everyone turned back as they started walking back, but Athan turned to Elk and said with a smile, "Did you think I was acting arrogant despite being a puny chaos warrior?"

Lady Fu and Nacy looked at Athan with speechless expressions before looking at Elk.

Elk shook her head indifferently and said, "Your strength doesn't matter as long as you are a customer. You paid for the service here, and what you said was reasonable and logical."

Pausing there, her expression changed for the first time as a faint smile appeared on her face, "It's just...it's good to be respectful to elders."

"Hahaha....If you want my respect, then you have to earn it," Athan laughed before grinning," And so far, you failed to achieve that with this shitty service. Now it remains to see how broadminded you are with the compensation."

After Athan and others went away, Lady Fu smiled wryly and said to Elk, "I am sorry, Miss Elk. Athan's nature is like that."

"It's fine. After all, He might have sounded arrogant because of his puny strength, but what he said was reasonable and logical as a customer," Elk said as she looked at Athan's back, "If he was at Evagon-stage then would you think that he sounded arrogant?"

Lady Fu and Nacy looked at each other before shaking their heads.

"Well, then there you go. Other people at his level would instinctively not speak that way because they know that they are weak. But it seems that this person has supreme confidence in himself, and he also knows what to say."

Nacy smiled and said, "Elder Elk, That person is none other than Athan, who was in recent Sun-Moon News."

"Oh?" Elk looked at Lady Fu, who nodded, and in response, she chuckled, "So he is the one. Lady Fu, do you that so-called voidling-zoids?"

Lady Fu nodded as she took out four thumb-sized balls.

"Did you check if they can handle and house Evagon-level powers?" Elk asked with curiosity.

"I haven't checked yet." Lady Fu shook her head as he threw one ball towards Elk, "Take this one and check it. I can't separate from them since Dean Lenix has entrusted their safety to me."

Elk took the ball and nodded, "Alright. It's twenty-thousand-"

"It's fine. You have helped me before and these twenty-thousand chaos stones are nothing compared to that."

Afterward, Elk left while Nacy and Lady Fu returned to the pavilion.

Naturally, Lady Fu got Athan's sound transmission to give Elk one of the voidling-zoids for free and that's why she gave it.. She also hadn't soul bound the voidling-zoids yet so Athan didn't need to pass one to her.

Chapter 527 - Music Valley-1

Athan and others stayed in the Garden of Peaceful Heaven for ten days, which equated to one day outside.

In the ten days, everyone fully relaxed and peacefully trained.

Athan had also reached the peak of Orderic Catastrophe by eating Kuriazak fruits to call catastrophes.

His soul strength became much stronger, and he gained more soul energy due to that. It was like...his soul became bigger.

After reaching the peak of Orderic Catastrophe, He already met the requirement to break through to zen order, but he held back on his breakthrough to stabilize the last powerup.

He had also started training in the Initial-elite zen order body method and comprehended its zen order to begin mastering that chaotic body power.

Inside his void region...

The way to train in zen body chaotic power was different than zen essence chaotic power.

In Zen essence chaotic power, people form a chaotic mini-world and gain connection to the source of that chaotic power. By using that connection, people further grasp the order and understand that chaotic power to master it entirely to acquire its chaos trait.

Different chaotic powers have different levels of mastery, and how one manages to master it entirely depends on the user. The final aim for people in the Zen order realm is to make their own source of essence chaotic powers that are only unique to them, and they do that by combining chaotic powers using Orderic Orbs.

Just like how Athan combined Lightning Dust, Force of Glittering River, and the Miz-Zu Enchanted Kingdom.

But this was just the start.

Naturally, The way of body order is different as well since people whose body broke through to Atmospheric Body Realm can manifest their body strength as a physical body force.

Athan had selected an initial-elite zen body order method of the chaotic body power, Icaros Leanus.

Icaros Leanus body order method has only one benefit: incinerate the body with its mystical white hell flames to strengthen it.

This zen body chaotic power was the most straightforward as it only focuses on making one's body stronger overall and doesn't give any special traits except for the increasing rate at which he can manifest his physical body force and increasing the fatigue recovery factor of his body.

But Athan was fine with it since It was just what he wanted.

The Atmospheric Body Realm has three stages.

-Physical Body Force Manifestation.

-Physical Body Cloak Manifestation.

-Physical Body Armor Manifestation.

Athan was at the start of the first stage, Physical Body Force Manifestation.

Now, He will have to make his body stronger and accumulate zen body order sets to reach the next stage.

When one reaches the peak of Orderic Catastrophe, one can finally make use of their Order Eidos, and one of its use is to check the zen order sets since all order sets that one comprehended are recorded in Order Eidos as well.

So far, Athan has comprehended and grasped a total of 98 Zen order sets.

From those 98 Zen order sets...

He has 11 zen essence order sets due to Miz-Lu Enchanted Kingdom chaotic power.

24 zen soul order sets due to comprehending Soul Miller Raiser zen soul order method.

19 zen body order sets by comprehending Icaros Leanus zen body chaotic power.

30 mystic zen order sets due to comprehending the second level of the cloud of chaos technique.

And another 14 mystic zen order sets due to comprehending and mastering the elite zen order technique, Myriad Crystal Motile cannons.

The requirement to break through to the Zen order realm is to have 10 zen order sets of essence, body, soul, and Athan had already met the requirement but just suppressed his breakthrough for stabilization purposes.

"Athan, where should we go now?" Tiana asked as she looked at the scroll in her hand, "I think this Music Valley place sounds good. The written benefits are that it can increase our comprehension power and help us enter in the optimal state to grasp the order. Naturally, the music should be the best since its name is Music Valley."

"Yeah, Athan. Let's go there." Sen said with a chuckle.

"Alright. We are going to visit all places anyway, so let's go to this Music Valley first," Athan said as he nodded at Nacy.

Nacy smiled as she nodded and led everyone towards Music Valley.

After walking through some corridors, They entered inside a large portal gate and arrived at a beautiful valley with many people sitting at different tables in front of them.

The tables and chairs were made from mystical wood and leaves.

Beside each table were several blooming flowers as they spread unique fragrances that calmed one's mind.

There was a small hill in front of all those tables that were separated by tens of meters from each other.

On top of the hill was a beautiful young lady sitting with a long musical instrument that Athan had never seen before. It was long with silver strings like one that guitar, but there was also a fan of lines at the end of this instrument.

The fan was covered with a unique material that was as thin as cicadas wings, and as the lady played with the strings on the instrument, the vibrations of those strings would travel to the end of the instrument at the top and then echo a unique sound as it collides with the fan.

The lady was controlled with fan by shrinking and expanding its size to produce unique sound while a hazy, emerald, and gold aura lingered around her that amplified the music and brought unique peace to everyone sitting at the table.

At this time, everyone heard Nacy's voice in their ears as she voices transmitted them, "Let's go the other side of the hill if you want to train. The people at the table are here only to listen to music while people want to train with the boost from music are at the other side."

Athan and others nodded as they started walking forward while listening to the heavenly melodies that soothe their soul and bring peace to their mind.

...

At somewhere inside Heaven's Tranquility...

Lenek was standing in front of a bearded middle-aged man with a slim body. The middle-aged man had the same body features as Zelker and Nelker, who Athan killed.

"L-lord Father...We tried but couldn't find the culprit yet." Lenek spoke with his head down.

On the other hand, Melker was just standing there with his eyes closed and his hands behind his back.

Suddenly, Melker spoke, "The customers here each have a staff member accompanying them, and all staffs members known Nelker and Zelker, so...by chance a conflict occurred, the staff member would contact you first since you are here."

Lenek hurriedly nodded in agreement.

Melker continued, "But...you are saying you didn't get any news about my sons' death before I informed you, correct?"

"Y-yes, Lord father. I can even swear a chaos oath on that, and there are also those people who were with me the entire time."

Melker turned his gaze to Elk and frowned, "Then could it be that one of y-"

"Stop right there, Melker. If you accused the staff members here then...you can forget about asking our aid in search of your sons' deaths." Elk's expression turned cold as she interrupted Melker.

Melker nodded indifferently, "Fine. But then...how and who killed my sons?"

The hands behind Melker's back were tightly clenched such that blood was coming out. The anger was bubbling inside him, but he had nowhere to vent it! He didn't even know the culprit behind his sons' death!

Chapter 528 - Pitiful Melker.

"It looks like there is only one way left...," Melker muttered before he looked at Elk and cupped his bloody fist, "Lady Elk, is Mr. Horeinsen here or in upper-Chaosverse? If he is here, then can you please call him?"

"He is here," Elk nodded indifferently as she took out a contact card and started speaking with someone.

After a minute, she looked at Melker and said, "His price is fourteen...Gincan roots."

Melker didn't even bat his eyes and nodded, "No problem."

1 Gincar root cost five hundred thousand high-grade chaos stones, but the thing is...they are very scarce as there's no market of them. Naturally, Melker has some in his possession, and that's why Mr. Horeinsen asked for that price.

After an hour...A man with a strange appearance arrived in the hall.

Strange appearance because this man wore fist-sized white beads with brown patterns around his neck while he wore an oversized brown robe.

His hands and legs were not even visible due to his clothes, hidden inside the oversized sleeves.

After arriving in the hall, he sat down on the couch and took out a giant glowing white orb with blue sparks as it hovered in front of him.

After doing that, he looked at Melker and grinned, "You know how I operate. Half price first and another half after I complete the task."

Melker nodded as he waved his hands and took out a jade box that gave off hot energy from it.

"This box has fourteen Gincan roots," Melker spoke indifferently as he waved his hand as the box flew towards Mr. Horeinsen.

Mr. Horeinsen opened the box and saw dark blue, glowing roots with emerald spots on them and nodded as he put the box to the side and looked at Melker, "Give me your son's soul slips or anything that has your sons' aura in it."

Melker nodded as he took out his son's broken soul slips and gave them to Mr. Horeinsen.

Mr. Horeinsen took the slip without touching them as he just covered them with his order force and brought them towards the glowing orb on the table.

After that, he did something, and the soul slips disappeared into the glowing orb.

He then put his hand over the glowing orb and closed his eyes as his body started releasing glowing dark blue sparks that started revolving around him.

...

At the Music Valley, Athan and others were sitting on a mystical wood mattress with blooming flowers around them.

Their eyes were closed with a peaceful expression on their faces as they trained.

Athan was inside Miz-Lu Enchanted Kingdon's source chaotic world as he comprehended its zen order sets.

Tiana, Avelia, Sen, Linci, and others were also comprehending order methods and order techniques.

While listening to the music, their training speed had increased by a lot, and they were making rapid progress.

At this time, Primo was also flying around Athan and others with his eyes closed while enjoying the music, 'Nyaaa, this is good and comfortable. I should tell Master to have some music influence so a musical voidling can be born in that realm.'

Primo was flying with the rhythm of the music, so he was actually dancing while flying.

But suddenly, Primo stopped as its ear perked up and dashed to Athan's side in an instant.

"Shaaaaaa...," Primo hissed as he felt someone trying to make a connection with Athan but failed in that.

Primo closed its eyes to sense before its eyes revealed a grin, "Nyaaa! Trying to peek into my Master? Humph, I'll let you peek at something else."

Primo then forcefully connected that strange thing and let it peek into his power.

...

Elk, Lenek, and Melker watched Mr. Horeinsen as he was using power to search for a person who might have any recent connection with Nelker and Zelker using their soul aura.

But he couldn't pinpoint it at all, 'Strange...Unless this person is not in lower-Chaosverse anymore, I should be able to find him.'

Suddenly, he sensed something and became happy as a smile started to form on his face.

Alas, before that smile could fully form, it froze.

Elk, Lenek, and Melker saw Mr. Horeinsen suddenly trembling. The trembling increased with every mini-second, and after a few seconds...

*Kacha...*

*Puchi....*

The glowing orb cracked while Mr. Horeinsen spurted a mouthful of blood.

He opened his eyes that revealed primal fear as he started taking deep breaths to calm himself.

Seeing such state of Mr. Horeinsen, Leken, Melker, and Elk were clearly shocked.

Mr. Horeinsen was a peak Evagon-realm powerhouse! But why did he spurt blood when using his own power?

They could clearly capture the fear in his eyes as well.

Elk felt that this matter of Melker had just gone up several levels. She had never seen Mr. Horeinsen injured and seen such fear in his eyes before.

He shouldn't feel those things in this lower-Chaosverse.

Melker's indifferent face finally changed as he showed a grim expression for the first time. His body had shown his anger, but his face had remained indifferent, but that changed because he also knew what that blood spurt from Mr. Horeinsen entrailed.

Nobody spoke as they waited for Mr. Horeinsen to regain his bearing, which he did after five minutes.

But...fear was still visible in his eyes.

Looking at Melker, he sighed and said, "Forget this matter."

"What happened, Mr. Horeinsen? As far as I am aware, I've never seen you in such a state before when performing your art." Elk asked with a voice that contained curiosity.

"Mr. Horeinsen. Did you find the culprit or not? Even if he is too powerful for the current me, I still want to know!" Melker said with a deep voice while his expression turned dark.

"Melker...," Mr. Horeinsen shook his head as a wry smile formed on his face, "I don't know what I encountered. I don't even know how to describe it...sigh," He then gave back the box of Gincan roots to Melker.

A pitiful look surfaced on his face as he looked at Melker and said, "You should know that I have gone to upper-Chaosverse many times and met existences at Chaos King-realm."

Melker had a bad feeling welling up inside, but he still nodded as Mr. Horeinsen continued with a deep voice, "Although I don't know the full extent of the power of Chaos King-realm powerhouses but...what I felt just now was...even more, terrifying than that.

"Those pair of beastly blue eyes..."-Horeinsen once again showed that deep fear in his eyes-,"Those overbearing eyes didn't even look at me like how we would look at ants! I felt unsurmountable power from those eyes! Melker...I pity you, for you will not be able to have your revenge, and as such, I don't want any of these Gincan roots."

After saying that, Mr. Horeinsen stood up and left while Melker stood there with a stunned expression on his face.

Elk sighed as she looked at Melker with pity and left with worry lingering in her heart. She thought that why such a fearsome existence arrived in lower-Chaosverse? With how Mr. Horeinsen described it, such a horrifying entity might also be able to destroy this whole place if it wills it.

The first thing her instinct pointed was the strange young man that even she failed to see through, 'Fu said that he was at Orderic Catastrophe and the aura he gave off also indicated similar thing...but something is strange about him.'

Shaking her head, she decided, 'It's better to not mess with unknown things.. That's the first rule to remain safe.'

Chapter 529 - Bay Of Heavenly Dance, Linci Making A Move.

At the Music Valley, Athan and others spent ten days as well, and everyone made rapid progress in their training.

Tiana, Avelia, Shiromi, and Linci comprehended ten zen order sets of essence chaotic power and a few other zen order sets of soul chaotic power.

Sen and others also made progress as they comprehended some zen order sets of essence chaotic power.

After leaving the Music Valley, Athan decided to spend one day ( ten days ) in each facility and then choose where to spend the rest of the days.

"The next spot...Let's go to Bay of Heavenly Dance," Athan said as he looked at the list.

Nacy nodded with a smile as she led them to the Bay of Heavenly Dance.

After going through another giant portal gate, they arrived at what looked like a bay with a beautiful oceanic view in front of them.

There was a mystical waterly stage where beautiful girls were dancing exquisitely. Each of their moment exuded mysterious energy and spread calming aura in the surrounding.

The musicians here were also mystical as their music had a special effect on one's soul, but it was different from the one seen in Music Valley.

This didn't benefit their soul but just brought lightness and peace to their mind.

People were sitting at various places on the beach as they watched the heavenly dance while eating and talking.

An excellent form of entertainment to relax and enjoy with friends and family.

Athan and others found an empty spoke as Nacy took out necessary things from her storage ring.

After a minute, a campfire of sort was ready, with Athan and others sitting and watching the dance.

"If you want to order some food, then you can tell me, and I can transport it here," Nacy spoke as she also sat down in the end.

...

Two hours passed as Athan and others ate and drank some food while watching the dance and listening to the music.

"YOU BLOODY BASTARD! I will kill you!"

"Stop!"

"Take a chill pill, hahaha. I just commented on your sister's beauty and said that she would look even better while dancing. Hehe, those twirling hips would make for a good sho-"

Athan and others saw a commotion rising several meters away from them and saw two handsome facing each other.

One of them was had long elf-like pointy ears and silver-green hair. This man was with three other people, one of them was a beautiful girl with the same hair and ears, and she was the one whose looks and body were heaven toppling.

The man who commented on that girl had brown dragon scales on his body with dragon horns and tail. The other two persons, a woman, and another man, had the same body features as they seemed to have some sort of dragon bloodline.

"Mr. Brangen. Please stop provoking them further, or we will have to kick both of you out."

A tall and muscular middle-aged man with long pony-tail hair spoke in a monotone voice. He was the staff member of Heaven's Tranquility, called Tee-Nek.

'Sigh...This Brangen and others from his clan. Always causing trouble like this...It looks like I'll have to visit the Urhsin clan and teach their younglings some manners off-duty. Anyway, It's still good that the main trouble from the Urhs'in clan is not here with Brangen. Otherwise, that bastard would've surely escalated this.'

Brangen was the man with dragon scale, and hearing the words of staff, He just snorted with a mocking smile, "Fine, fine. I'll stay silent, but he doesn't seem to agree on that."

Helven gritted his teeth and spoke, "Come out and fight me if you dare!"

Brangen revealed a wide grin, "Hehe, do you think I am afraid of you? But I just don't want to bully you by fighting. Otherwise, you would call your mom later, hahaha."

Both Brangen and Helven at the Zen order grandmaster realm.

Tee-Nek looked at Helven and Brangen as he frowned, "Fighting is not allowed here as per rules. If you want to fight, then go outside."

At this time, other people here were annoyed by the commotion. Athan and others were the same.

"Get out or shut your mouth, do one thing."

"Sir Tee-Nek, throw them out if they speak one more word loudly."

Tee-Nek frowned as he waved his hand to create a barrier around them that prevented noise from going out.

He then said something to both of them as Brangen and the other two with him walked away from there.

Tee-Nek then turned to Helven and the people with him, "You may fight or kill him once outside, but not here. Now please, calm down and continue enjoying here."

...

On the other hand, Brangen and others walked towards Athan and the group's direction since the spot on their right side, some ten meters away, was empty.

Athan and others watched them while Lady Fu frowned, 'Let's hope that bastard doesn't say anything while passing by here.'

Athan was looking at him with a corner of his eyes with a deadpan expression.

Just as Brangen opened his mouth to say something, he heard Athan's words, "Speak one word, and you're dead."

Brangen was stunned hearing that, but before he could say something, he saw a cold beauty with raven hair standing up from their group.

Seeing Linci, Brangen licked his lips. However, he was surprised as to why she was coming towards him.

Athan and others were also surprised to see Linci walking towards Brangen.

Linci stood at arm's length from Brangen and said with a smile, "Speak one word, and you're dead. Sounds too much, right? To be granted death just for speaking some words. But...it will really happen if you speak."

Brangen started laughing loudly, which attracted irk of other people again, and Tee-Nek also facepalmed as he rushed towards Brangen.

After a short, loud laughing, Brangen looked at Linci with lustful eyes and opened his mouth, "A Bit-"

*shuaaaaaaaaa...*

The entire atmosphere turned cold as everyone shivered.

'Primo, contain the Netherly frost released by Linci.'

'Sure thing, Master.'

In the next second, everyone felt cold disappearing and saw Brangen in a different state.

He had his mouth opened and had a smile on his face.

The interesting thing about this face is that his open mouth and smile will remain that way eternally in a dark blue Netherly frost.

On the other hand, Tee-Nek was stunned seeing Linci, 'Young miss Linci? Why is she here?'

Chapter 530 - Gambling Den

Linci looked at Tee-Nek and spoke with a smile, "Uncle Tee-Nek, can you please clean up here? You know how to do it, right?"

After saying that, Linci turned around to walk back.

Athan looked at her and grinned as he showed her thumb up, "That was a job well done."

Tiana and others chuckled and laughed as they agreed with Athan.

On the other hand, Tee-Nek was dumbfounded again, 'T-this...It's my first time seeing her smile. Heck, nobody saw her smile when I was working in the Crow clan. What happened to her? How is she able to sit with them up close within two meters without exuding her cold power?'

Snapping out his thoughts, Lee-Nek first decided to finish the work here as he dug a bit of ground below Brangen to move him since touching that Netherly frost would injure him.

The other two companions of Brengen were scared shitless by feeling that deadly power up close and seeing them, Lee-Nek snorted, "Wake up and take Brangen back to your clan. Tell your clan leader and Brangen's father to remove thoughts about revenge if they want to survive."

Naturally, he told them this through sound transmission and not loudly.

The other two companions of Brangen trembled as they took Brangen away by following the method told to them by Tee-Nek.

Tee-Nek then walked towards Athan and the group.

"Miss Linci...your powers, can you control them now?"

Linci shook her head, "I can't but...,"-She looked at Athan with a heartfelt smile-,"But I can contain my power to myself because of Athan."

Lee-Nek looked at Athan with a curious and surprised gaze, 'Who is this man? Very strange...'

He then turned his gaze back to Linci and said with a thoughtful expression, "Then Mrs.Lorain's cure...-"

Linci nodded with a smile, "I can't control my powers, but Athan has a way to do that and cure my mother. But since he is not born in the upper-Chaosverse, He can't travel there without breaking through to Evagon-realm."

Athan faintly smiled and said, "I have given my words that I will cure Linci's mother, and it is the first thing I will do once reaching upper-Chaosverse."

At this time, Athan was not purposefully giving out his aura, so Tee-Nek didn't know that Athan was just a person at the peak of Orderic Catastrophe.

'Not born in upper-Chaosverse but still can contain that berserk power of young miss Linci...how the hell is that possible?' Tee-Nek felt disbelief, but he didn't reveal and just nodded with a smile.

"Alright, then I shall not disturb you any further," Lee-Nek said with a polite smile and left.

Naturally, other people here were long dumbfounded because someone was just killed, and here, Mr. Lee-Nek didn't even do anything to them.

'It looks like some very big shot is among them. Probably with the connection to upper-Chaosverse.'

That is what all present people thought before they turned their gaze away from Athan's group and focused on the dancing and music.

...

After staying at Bay of Heavenly Dance for ten days, Athan and others went to Gambling Den.

The Gambling Den had another form of entertainment in this place, and that was...well, it was as the name of the place suggests.

Gambling!

This place had many forms of gambling games like a casino, but Athan and others went to the most famous game.

Stone Treasure Gambling.

There were three types of stone, Bronze, Silver, and Gold.

Bronze stones cost one hundred high-grade chaos stones, Silver stones cost five hundred high-grade chaos stones, and Gold stones cost one thousand high-grade chaos stones.

Athan gave everyone ten thousand high-grade chaos stones and told them to use them however they wanted.

"T-this....Athan, this is too much. We might not even win," Shiromi said with hesitation.

Others also agreed with her as they nodded.

"Hahaha, It's fine! It doesn't matter if you win or lose," Athan said with a laugh and told them not to worry about it.

"Anyway, I can win back more wealth by spending here, so no need to worry, hehe," Athan grinned.

"Hahaha, Lady fu. Are you sure about those remarks of that young man? Wealth doesn't grow on trees."

A middle-aged man spoke as he glanced at Athan before saying to Lady Fu.

This middle-aged man was the head of the Borus Family that Athan and others met at the gate of Heaven's Tranquility.

"Mr. Ingeal Borus, it doesn't matter what Athan does because...that's the wealth he earned himself." Lady Fu indifferently spoke.

Ingeal was stunned before he revealed a disdainful expression, "You are saying an ant at Orderic Catastrophe earned hundreds of thousands of high-grade chaos stones? What a joke!"

At this time, the young man, Hings Borus, said with a mocking smile as he looked at Athan, "It doesn't matter how he earned this wealth. But you said something about winning back more wealth, right?"-Hings took out a storage pouch and put it on the near table-, "How about we bet a little? After all, you sounded like you possess a high amount of luck to be able to boast that you will win more wealth in this gambling den."

'Luck?...,' Athan internally shook his head, 'I don't need luck.'

He then grinned at Hings and said, "Sure, we can bet. I don't know how and what betting game this will be, but I'll put my stacks in advance. If I lose, I'll give hundred thousand high-grade chaos stones."

Hearing that, Ingeal, Hings, and, Feina (Ingeal's daughter) were stunned.

"Young man, are you planning to go back bare naked from here?" Ingeal spoke with a dumbfounded expression.

Lady Fu and Nacy were also shocked.

But Tiana, Avelia, Sen, Shiromi, and others didn't say anything despite being surprised by Athan's high stacks.

Athan faintly smiled and said, "Let's cut the bull and start the game. How are we going to play this?"

Hings laughed and said, "Since you are that eager to lose your money, then let's start. The game is simple: Each of us will pick three stones, and the one whose stones contain more valuable treasure wins. How about it, are you fine with it?"

Athan cracked his finger and grinned, "Bring it on."

Chapter 531 - Pfff....

At this time, Athan and Hings looked at the three small piles of bronze, silver, and gold stones.

"Good luck, both of you. Now start picking up the stones. One stone of each type," A beautiful lady who was in charge of this stone gamble spoke.

Hings nodded as he started looking carefully, with his eye gleaming a bit.

On the other hand, Athan internally scoffed, 'Luck? Screw it. Hey Primo, check the stones and tell me which one contains things of high-quality power. You can at least judge which thing is more valuable based on its energy level, right?'

'Nyaa! Leave it to me, Master.' Primo spoke as he first flew towards the pile of bronze stone.

Primo checked all stones hurriedly and told Athan which stone to pick.

Seeing Athan picking up his three stones so fast, others were dumbfounded.

"Young man. It looks like you are really relying on pure luck. I have to commend you on that, Hahaha," Ingeal said before laughing with gusto.

Hings was dumbfounded as he said, "Are you sure?"

Athan waved his hand as he put his three stones on the table and said with a carefree smile, "It's fine. You can take your time to pick."

After saying that, He turned to Tiana and others, "You all, just play and spend those high-grade chaos stones however you want and enjoy."

Shiromi and others wryly smiled, but with Athan's insistence, they nodded.

"Let's go, then," Athan said as he started walking towards other games, but before that, he turned around and said with a grin, "Tell me when you are done picking your stones."

...

Athan and others went to another game that was known as Dishes of Food Fishes.

In front of them was a giant pond, and colorful fishes were swimming inside the pond within glowing bubbles. Some fish were small, and some big, and the biggest fish were half a meter long.

There were many people around the pond as they used fishing rods to catch the fish.

The fishing rods were special since only with them they can catch those mysterious, colorful fishes glowing in bubbles.

Athan bought everyone a fishing rod which cost one hundred high-grade chaos stones each, and started fishing.

Nacy smiled and said, "After you catch a fish, you will have to pay for it by measuring it in that glass box since fishes here have different values. The measuring box is also a type of gamble.

Licking her lips, Nacy continued with a smile, "These fishes are living food cooked by Master Mystic Chefs. Each fish tastes differently but are very delicious, and they have beneficial effects on you along with...some side effects as well."

"Side effects?" Sen asked while others were also confused.

Lady Fu wryly smiled as she shook her head and said with a sigh, "Yeah, I remember one of the side effects that troubled me, and that bastard Lenek took advantage of that situation."

Nacy smiled awkwardly as she knew about that incident and said, "Ahem...All fishes have certain beneficial effects with different potency values, and along with those benefits, some fishes have side effects as well. It depends on your luck on which kind of fish you catch."

Nacy then coughed as she continued with a wry smile, "The side effects could be a headache, stomach growling the loudly without your control, bad smell oozing out from the body, uncontrollable urges for certain...something, and etcetera.

"But don't worry! Those side effects wouldn't stay for much long. The highest potency level of side effects is five days, and you can also buy its cure from here to remove the side effects immediately."

"Interesting, hahaha. Everyone, let's start catching the fishes and see who is the most unfortunate among us," Athan spoke with a laugh. But internally, he thought, 'Though I am pretty sure I am the most unfortunate here since this damn Chaosverse has something against me.'

"Hehe, it sounds fun. I just hope that I don't have that bad side-effect of smelling bad." Avelia said as she used the fishing rod and put the string in the pond.

Others also followed as everyone started fishing.

The fishing here was simple; people could observe and clearly see the fishes as they were swimming, and they just had to bring their fishing hook towards a fish they wanted and touch its bubble.

Once the bubble is touched, It will break, and the fish will take the hook which broke its bubble.

The speed of fishes constantly changed as sometimes, they would swim very fast, and sometimes, they would slow down.

Athan caught the first fish randomly and pulled the fishing rod, and took out the fish.

"Here, measure its value," Athan said as he passed the fish to a staff member who was a young man with dark green and yellow hair with long horns.

The man smiled as he took the fish and put it inside the glass box that they got when they bought the fishing rods.

The glass box had some water, and once he put the fish inside, some blue cloud materialized from the box and showed numbers.

500-1000.

Seeing that, the man conjured a dice and gave it to Athan, "Please throw it on the table."

The dice were bigger than average dice and had six numbers printed on them.

500-600-700-800-900-1000.

Athan threw the dice, and 1000 came up.

The staff member smiled and said, "Please pay 1000 high-grade chaos stones if you want the fish."

Theo was fishing nearby and curiously watched Athan when he rolled 1000, "Whew, that's tough luck, Athan."

Athan wryly smiled and paid one thousand high-grade chaos stones before taking the fish.

At this time, Tiana and others paused since they wanted to see the effect of fish on Athan.

"Hehe, come on, Athan. Let's see if you get any side-effect of not," Avelia said with a chuckle.

Athan grinned as he put the mystical glowing fish in his mouth, and once it touched his mouth, it melted magically as Athan involuntarily exclaimed, "Delicious..."

He then also felt strange force coursing through his body as it turned into a glowing gold orb and stayed near his Order Eidos.

'That should be the so-called benefit. I should check it later, but what is this energy that's going to my face?' Athan wondered as he felt some kind of mystical energy going to his face from inside rapidly before he felt his facial muscles moving and twitching.

He couldn't stop that mystical energy with his order force and chaos force at all. Although he felt that he could erase it with his abyssal darkness, he didn't do it since that mystical energy was not any threat to him, and he wanted to see what it would do.

"Pfff, hahaha..."

Athan heard a loud laugh of Avelia while others also couldn't help but laugh.

'Is that my nose?' Athan thought as he could see something poking out from the position of his nose.

The staff member wiped the sweat on his face as he showed a mirror to Athan.

Athan looked at the mirror and was speechless before he also couldn't help but stretch a wry smile.

At this time, Athan's face looked very funny. His nose turned into a long and thick red stick like that of tomato but the shape of a straight banana.

Additionally, His ears had also changed as two yellow and black ugly-looking flowers grew from them.

His eyebrows had also changed as they became long, straight, and sharp with green colored, and at the end of those point eyebrows, there were tiny green bells.

Speechless, Athan looked at the staff as his eyes twitched, ringing the tiny bells on his eyebrows. That action caused another fit of a laugh from the group.

"Hahahahah...That's too funny, Athan."

Arcued held himself back greatly as his facial muscles twitched furiously, "I-I sh-shall not laugh...Em-emperor."

"What are you waiting for? Give me the antidote," Athan said with a speechless expression as he looked at the staff, who also greatly held himself back from laughing. Well, he had received training not to laugh since such occurrences were common here.

"Right away, sir!" The staff took out an antidote and gave it to Athan with a polite smile, "Three hundred high-grade chaos stones for the antidote, sir."

*tink tink tink....*

"Pfff...."

"Fine, fine...," Athan took out chaos stones before taking the antidote that looked like a pill and ate it.

Athan looked at others after his face returned to normal and grinned, "Hehehe, you all had some good laugh but your turn will also come.. Come on, start fishing."

Chapter 532 - Shock!

While others were fishing, Athan took a look at the golden orb near his order eidos.

Once he poked it with his soul sense, Athan felt some profound zen order sets and saw some imagines.

'This...Hmm, mystic zen order sets?'

He closed his eyes and looked through those mystic zen order sets.

'I see...so these zen order sets might help me if I want to combine or create an order technique myself.'

There were a total of twelve mystic zen order sets, but he didn't intend to comprehend them right now since Tiana and others were catching a fish one by one.

...

An hour passed as everyone enjoyed and ate food fishes.

Each of them ate two three fishes, and along with benefits, everyone received at least one side-effect as well.

The benefits were varying as some had their body strengthened, while some benefits stayed in their body since they couldn't be used in their current level of strength.

Whether coincidence or not but one benefit that everyone received was the same, this benefit strengthened their soul like how it would strengthen after passing a soul order catastrophe. This entailed that they would have to survive one less soul order catastrophe.

Tiana at the last fish as everyone watched but shortly afterward, her breathing turned heavy and her face red.

Seeing that, Lady Fu frowned as she understood what this side-effect was. After all, she also got this same side-effect a very long time ago here.

"Give me the antidote," Lady Fu said as she turned to the staff.

The staff hurriedly nodded as he took out a pill and gave it to Lady Fu.

"What's that side-effect?" Linci asked curiously, and others were also confused.

Athan didn't understand at first, but it didn't take him long to guess the side-effect, and he smiled wryly.

Avelia blushed because she also guessed the side-effect.

On the other hand, Tiana was feeling very hot, and her bottom had also gotten uncontrollably wet.

Lady Fu hurriedly went to Tiana and fed her the pill since she knew that this aphrodite side-effect in the fish was very strong.

She was at Zen order grandmaster realm when she ate the fish and got the same side-effect, and she also couldn't resist that in the slightest.

After eating the pill, Tiana felt better as the antidote removed the effects.

At this time, Hings's sister, Feina, arrived and told them that Hings had finished picking up the stones.

"Finally? Although I said he could take his time, he really took more than an hour, hahaha." Athan laughed out loud as he grinned, "I think it will be really embarrassing if he were to lose after taking his time to pick the stones."

"We'll see about that," Feina said indifferently before turning around.

Athan and others also went back to the stone-cutting treasure gambling place.

While walking, Tiana pinched Athan's hand and whispered, "Athan, you better take responsibility for that incident after this."

Athan looked at her and grinned, "Alright."

...

"You go first," Athan said as he looked at Hings with a smile.

Hings smirked as he pointed at the bronze stone and said to the staff, "Break it."

The lady staff member nodded as she took out a small hammer and lightly tapped on the bronze stone.

With that light tap, the bronze stone shined before cracks appeared on it before it broke and revealed a ring.

The staff picked up the ring and evaluated it.

" This...it's a high-grade elite-tier accessory with the effect to boost physical strength. Its additional ability can be activated if you infuse an order to force in it, which will increase the penetrative aspect of your offensive order technique. Value-wise...

"It should cost five thousand high-grade chaos stones," The staff member concluded.

"Hahaha, great," Ingeal laughed and said to his son, "You are good at this as always, Hings."

Hings nodded with a smile and looked at Athan, "Your turn."

"Alright, open it," Athan carefreely said to the staff.

The staff lady's lips twitched slightly and thought, 'Damn...is he some uber-rich young master or what? Does he not care about one hundred thousand high-grade chaos stones?'

While thinking that, the lady lightly tapped her mystical hammer on the bronze stone selected by Athan.

The stone glowed and shattered before half a meter tall pair of flowers came out. The pair of flowers were bigger than stones, but the stones had similar properties as storage rings.

But seeing the pair of flowers, everyone was shocked except Athan and the group since they didn't know about the flowers.

Even though they didn't know, the expression on the staff lady's face confirmed that these flowers, which were like a silent night filled with stars, were anything but simple. The strange thing was that these flowers didn't radiate any energy at all.

'T-they are Neon-vortex flowers! What the...And two flowers at that! how?' The staff lady thought in shock.

These stones were collected from special-grade chaos phenom dimensions and then processed into three types based on their outer energy radiation detected by the management here using a particular method.

But the Neon-vortex flowers were strange since they didn't exude energy or force in the first place due to their mystical properties.

"Ahem, can you all stop gawking and tell us about those flowers?" Sen spoke with a speechless expression.

Tiana and others also wryly smiled.

Ingeal was the first to snap out his thoughts as he waved his hand hurriedly and created a barrier around them, preventing other people from seeing in their area.

Athan raised his eyebrows at that, 'It looks like these flowers are a pretty big deal. Interesting...'

Lady Fu's hand trembled as well because these flowers...are just too valuable. Especially for those at Evagon realm.

"Young man...," Ingeal looked at Athan with a serious face and said, "Forget this bet since there's no point anymore. Now the real matter is...how about you sell those two flowers to me? Two hundred thousand high-grade chaos stones for each one."

A string of shocking sentences came out from Ingeal's mouth, which dumbfounded Tiana, Avelia, Sen, and all others.

Lady Fu snorted and said, "Mr. Ingeal. Don't forget that I am here as well, and I know the true value of those flowers."

Ingeal smiled but didn't say anything and just looked at Athan.

Athan cracked his finger and said with a faint smile, "First, I want to know about the flowers. What are they used for? what's their effect?"

Chapter 533 - Neo-Vortex Flower.

"Cough...I'll tell you about them in a way that you can understand easily," Ingeal spoke after a fake cough and smiled, "The first benefit is to help someone breakthrough to the last stage of the Evagon-realm. I won't go into detail about this one benefit since it's too far for the current you."

Ingeal then showed two fingers with a grin, "The second benefit is that this flower will upgrade your inner space like chaos region and give you chaotic space physique. This will make it easier for you to comprehend space order sets of Chaosverse. Once you absorb the benefits of this flower, it will upgrade your inner space such that you will be able to store things like storage rings and other high levels of things inside."

"Chaotic space physique?!" Theo exclaimed since this sounded powerful.

"Don't be mistaken. Although it's an innate physique, it doesn't do anything other than increase your affinity with chaotic space to make it easier for you to comprehend those order sets. Also, only people at Evagon-realm can absorb the power of Neo-vortex flower." Ingeal said.

"Anyway," Ingeal showed three fingers as he continued, "The third and last benefit is that eating this flower will...increase your chances a bit to break through from Evagon-realm and enter the next realm, Chaos Lord-realm."

Lady Fu looked at Athan as she picked up where Ingeal stopped, "And the third benefit is actually the most important one. If Dean Lenix were here, he would also buy the flower from you at any price."

Athan raised his eyebrows at that before he looked at Ingeal and chuckled, "Hahaha, these three benefits don't match the price you stated."

Ingeal laughed like a fox before he said, "If you accepted the deal in the heat of the moment, then I had a way to let you act upon your words forcefully even if you find the true value of the flowers later, but alas,"- Inheal shook his head with regret-, "You didn't take the bait."

"How is that possible?!" Sen was surprised.

Feina snorted and said, "Of course, it's possible. Father can do that with one of his Evagon order spells."

Lady Fu smiled wryly and nodded, "It's possible, so It's a good thing that Athan didn't take the bait."

"Oh? That's interesting. How about you use that so-called spell on me?" Athan said with a grin on his face while curiosity in his eyes.

Lady Fu's expression changed, "Athan, no! These flowers are too important. Don't take such risks."

"Humph, it's fine. Such mind spells won't work on Emperor," Arcued spoke with a snort.

"Emperor?" Lady Fu and others were dumbfounded.

"It's okay, just use it. I want to experience such a high level of power since it's not offensive-type, hehehe," Athan said with a grin.

'Frog in the well,' The staff lady, Hings, and Feina thought as they looked at Athan.

"No, Athan. Please, don't risk these flowers," Lady Fu almost spoke in a nearly pleading way since she also wanted to buy one flower from Athan, and she was willing to lose all of her wealth for that.

"Hahaha, alright. Here I go," Ingeal said as he grinned, "Young man, are you willing to sell those two flowers to me for four hundred thousand chaos-stones?"

Athan faintly smiled and said, "If your spell doesn't work on me, then you will have to give me those four-hundred thousand high-grade chaos stones for free. If you accept this condition, then I will give you my answer to your deal."

Hearing that, Ingeal was slightly stunned before he deeply looked at Athan, 'The aura he is exuding indicates that he is at the peak of orderic catastrophe but...I can't see through him like other ants here. Does he have some artifact on him for that? Never mind, even people at early-stage Evagon-realm can't resist my soul hex spell, so this young man definitely can't as well.'

"Hahaha, Alright. I accept these conditions," Ingeal spoke with a laugh while thinking, 'If he can resist my spell then, hehe, it means that I found one more interesting person that I can work with in the future. Four-hundred high-grade chaos stones is not a huge loss anyway compared to seeing something interesting like that.'

Athan smiled and nodded, "I am willing to sell these flowers to you for four hundred thousand high-grade chaos stones."

Lady Fu sighed and shook her head with disappointment, "The true value of these flowers is far, far higher than measly four hundred thousand high-grade chaos stones."

At this time, Athan felt an invisible force rushing to his mind and soul that overwhelmed him.

When he thought of rejecting the deal, he couldn't do that as he had an intense urge to give the flowers to Ingeal for the price he quoted.

'Master!...'

'it's fine. This spell, it's interesting. It manipulates my thinking and is forcefully making me complete the deal if I think about reneging it. Hehehe, well, but its mystical energy that is interfering with my soul and brain can not resist abyssal darkness.'

At this time, Ingeal started laughing as he took out a storage pouch and gave it to Athan, "Here, take this four-hundred thousand high-grade chaos stones and give me the flowers."

Athan faintly smiled as he took the storage pouch and put it inside his void region.

He then grabbed the two Neo-vortex flowers and stretched his hand towards Ingeal.

Ingeal wore a big smile while Hings and Feina looked at each other with excitement since they got such a legendary thing at a low price.

Lady Fu saw Ingeal stretching his hand to take the flower as they disappeared from Athan's hand.

Seeing that, she sighed and felt a heavy loss in her heart along with slight anger, 'How can he be so stupid? Sigh...what a big loss.'

But she soon noticed that the big smile on Ingeal's face was turning stiff before it became ugly.

Ingeal corrected his expression as he spoke with a grimace, "Young man, what do you mean by that?"

Athan faintly smiled and said, "Thanks for the free four hundred high-grade chaos stones.. I will make sure that we splurge it for utmost enjoyment,"-Snapping his finger, Athan grinned-, "Now let's talk about the real deal for Neo-vortex flowers."