Chapter 547 - BEND TO MY WILL!
"Hey, fools! Master made a connection again! What do we do?"
"Calm down, dumbass! We can feel it too."
The strange creatures of this world gathered together after sensing their master's connection. One of them was Primo as well. But this Primo looked giant cat with majestic dreamy lapis horns and a crown of dreamy blue gems.
There were approx eighty-nine creatures here. All creatures had their own colorful appearances but there was a symbol of black and white on each of them at a different place on their body. The symbol looked like a drop of water with black and white whirling in them.
"OU OU AA AA...I will go this time since I was the one who solidified my appearance after this cat."
At this time, a monkey with golden hair appeared, he was riding on a white cloud that cracked with golden lightning, and there was staff on his hand with brown and golden patterns.
He wore sparkly dark brown armor with golden patterns, and there was a crown on his hand with brown and golden gems as well.
"Humph, stop showing off your appearance, monkey." A puddle of white water with two purple eyes roaming over it sounded.
"Damn. I told you to call me monkey king, Wukong!"
"Monkey, don't copy the name directly from master's thoughts. Instead, get an original name like me, humph." Primo spoke with a sneer.
"Anyway, you can forget about going there, monkey. Because although master made a connection again, we can't go! He still has only grasped 5% of the AVOF. If we go now, we will only bring trouble upon him."
"Then why did master make a connection?"
Primo said with a wry voice, " When master comprehended 5% of AVOF, master gained a portion of origin branded to his soul, and he is planning to use that."
Hearing that, everyone cheered loudly.
"Hahahaha, finally!
"Hell yeah! This will make master's soul more powerful, and he can progress faster."
"Fools! But he might get overwhelmed by it as well, and if that happened...I don't know what will happen."
"T-this...I also don't know what will happen if the master gets overwhelmed by that portion origin AVOF."
"Hey, Book. Your brain works faster than ours. can you speculate for us on what will happen if that portion of origin overwhelmed master?"
"I am already speculating." A large, three meters tall open book was floating with golden and light violet patterns over it.
"Shsss....everyone, be quiet. Let the book think."
After two minutes, the book finally spoke, "I think that if the origin overwhelmed master, he will become the incarnation of AVOF and lose his personality with his soul merging with this world. Along with that, the place where the master is staying will be devoured by AVOF."
"Wait...if that happened then, we..." Monkey scratched its head and spoke with fear.
"Yes, we will disappear, and this world will return to its previous state since the master will no longer be the owner of this world. In the truest sense, he will die with his soul not possessing his own thoughts or personality. Master will just become a part of this world just like many other things this world devoured while roaming."
Seeing everyone somber, Primo chuckled and said, "Don't worry fools. If our master gets overwhelmed by origin by chance, then I will surely pull that origin away from his soul. It's just a portion of origin which master got because of his 5% of understanding of AVOF, so my incarnation there can still forcefully pull it away."
"Phew...that's good. I actually hope that you pull it away, "Monkey King sneered while looking at Primo, "If that happened, your incarnation would disappear from there, and I can take your place, hehehe. Anyway, our master can just get another portion of AVOF origin again when he gets more understanding of AVOF."
Primo snorted and said, "You can kiss goodbye to that dream, monkey. Because Master's will is tough, and he won't be overwhelmed by it. You don't believe in our master?"
Monkey king scratched its head and said pitifully, "I, of course, believe in our master. But...I want to meet him too. It's unfair that only you are enjoying master's company."
"Just have some patience, monkey. Anyway, let's continue with our fighting and rankings. I also believe in our master, and he will surely pull through this trial."
...
At this time, a crack appeared in the vast expanse of greyness from which a person entered. This person looked like a lady with flowing light golden hair and heavenly clothes made from colorful, mystical materials.
Her face was beautiful, and her body heavenly. There were two one-meter long and three-centimeter wide antennas on top of her head that were straight for a few centimeters before bending behind her back, they get narrower in thickness towards the end.
When this woman entered this expanse of greyness, the grey orb with black and white patterns dashed towards her while oozing out true abyssal darkness.
Seeing that, the woman waved her hand as something invisible appeared in front of her. The orb was still dashing towards her and releasing abyssal darkness, but it couldn't reach the woman.
"As greedy as always. Oh well, but that's your nature," The woman muttered before she observed the grey orb for a moment and muttered, "It looks like your owner is in a lower world with weak strength; no wonder the progress is slow. Though it's certainly interesting that someone that weak managed to walk this path."
Shaking her head, she walked back into the crack and disappeared again, 'It looks like it will take much more time for this new being to rise and reach our level in case this being doesn't die on the way.'
...
After Athan gained a connection with that mystical place while activating the portion of origin power, he felt unbounded but tried his best to control it, 'Control! I have to remain in control. Otherwise, there's no meaning in getting this power!'
Athan's soul was burning brightly with black and white patterns over it; the power was threatening to overwhelm him, but Athan was determined to remain in control.
He was having intense thoughts about opening a mystical gate that this overwhelming power opened in front of him, but he didn't do that. He didn't know what would happen if he opened that, but since this was something that was forced upon him, he would never do that!
'BEND TO MY WILL!'
Chapter 548 - Scenery Of Doom.
"Athan, they've arrived and will be here in ten minutes."
"Got it. Start moving according to the plan." Athan said before he stood up and put the contact card inside his void region as he left this pocket space branch.
...
At this time, A giant flying ship in the shape of a dragon arrived at Youhan Tree.
Lady Fu and all other members of Youhan Tree stood on a green platform filled with flowers as it floated in the sky. The members of the hidden dragon troupe and Ayurin were here as well. She knew that Athan was going to do something but didn't know what.
Dean Lenix and Head Zangrel were floating at another corner, completely hidden from others' eyes as they recorded the giant dragon ship with mirage crystal.
From the ship, the clan patriarch of the Ursh'in clan, Zorgia, and two other elders came out.
One of them looked like a middle-aged lady, and the other looked like a middle-aged man. Both of them had dark brown dragon scales with a slight hint of red and black on them, along with dark brown dragon horns and tails.
Zorgia had a similar appearance, but he had additional red and subtle black patterns on his horns and the scales on his tail.
His eyes instantly caught Drizzly, who was standing beside Lady Fu.
Currently, he was one kilometer away from Lady Fu and others.
But he didn't move from his spot and spoke indifferently, "Lady Fu, you should have gotten a contact from Dean Lenix. Without wasting any time, just pass me that girl, and we will return."
However, right after he finished speaking, his heart skipped a beat.
Not just him but every person, including Dean Lenix and Head Zangrel, who were hidden, had their hearts skip a beat.
They felt some kind of harbinger, and indeed...the always burning skies of Dosflame region turned dark at this moment.
Zorgia blinked his eyes and almost shet his pants, "Who are you?!" He shouted in his heart beating very fast.
When he blinked, in that small gap, a dark entity covered in black and white aura flowing out from its body appeared just five meters away from him.
The black and white flowing aura on this entity's body had bright, mystical grey patterns roaming over it like veins, making this strange entity look very mysterious.
No one could see his face as it was covered in a mask with the same black and white flowing aura with grey patterns.
The skies were turning darker as everyone felt heart palpitating chaotic powers gathering in the sky.
Zorgia and the other two elders with him wanted to run, but they couldn't move their bodies.
Naturally, the mysterious entity was Athan. At this time, he was overflowing with power, and he felt that he could destroy anyone instantly just by waving his hand.
But he knew that he didn't have much time. The portion of AVOF origin was baptizing his soul, and until that process was done, he could do whatever he wanted.
Suddenly, a mighty bolt of black and red lightning shot towards Athan from the sky.
The power it contained was horrifying! It was on par with a full-fledge attack of peak Evagon-realm powerhouse.
Zorgia's body managed to move before the horrifying lightning bolts hit Athan, and he conjured defense around him and the two elders.
But the next moment, his eyes almost popped out of shock because the entity in front of him waved his hand as a tiny wisp of black released from his hand that completely devoured the five meters thick and several tens of meter-long chaotic lightning bolts of black and red.
Those bolts contained power that equaled to the full-powered attack of a peak Evagon-realm powerhouse! Even he would have to exert his strength to defend against them.
Athan frowned because he was receiving strange singles, but they couldn't get into his head.
He decided to let them pass through and instantly understood what was going on.
Basically, the lower-Chaosverse was telling him to leave because he had surpassed the threshold of this place and was breaking the order.
But Athan just snorted as a dark barrier appeared around him. The power he exuded right now could indeed destroy space around him and bring destruction everywhere, but he was in control and created a field around him with voidpulse that didn't affect the space of lower-Chaosverse. If he didn't do that, even he didn't know what would happen.
'Interesting. So this lower-Chaosverse is actually one of many other lower-Chaosverses,' Athan thought because he was starting to get many different singles, and it seems that more than one lower-Chaosverses were joining hands to kill him.
One by one, many other types of attack like bolts, strange flamy vortexes, sparkling penetrative streams, beams, and such attacks started to hurl towards him.
Each of those attacks contained the strength of a full-powered attack of peak Evagon-realm powerhouse. But slowly, their strength surpassed, and the chaotic attacks became even more powerful.
Seeing this horrifying scene, every single person was shocked. Dean Lenix and Head Zangrel looked at each other with shock and slight excitement.
'Is that Athan? Wh-what the hell is going on? is that his true power?'
On the other hand, Zorgia and the two elders wanted to cry, but no tears came out. They felt the invisible bind on them again and couldn't move.
Death was just a few meters away from them, and if that entity in front of them didn't devour all those horrifying attacks, It wouldn't take long for them to die.
'DEAN LENIX! Th-this...what kind of shit fuckery is this? Who is this nightmare-like being? THIS WAS NOT IN THE DEAL!'
"You..."
Suddenly, Zorgia and others started sweating because they heard the magnetically cracky voice of the being in front of them.
They nervously gulped before they heard that entity's next sentence, which almost caused their heart to stop.
"Let's finish this matter quickly because if I stay here for longer, I might end up destroying this lower-Chaosverse."
This indifferent, cold, and magnetically cracky voice reverberated everywhere that brought an intense chill to their soul as if doom literally arrived in front of them.
Chapter 549 - Baptism Complete.
Dean Lenix and Head Zangrel looked at each other in shock.
"Does he really possess the power to destroy the lower-Chaosverse? I...can't bring myself to believe that."
"Indeed, One has to have the power equivalent to the legendary mighty beings if they want to make an impact on lower-Chaosverse. Such existences...I don't even know if those beings who set orders and created lower-Chaosverse exist in upper-Chaosverse anymore or not."
Dean Lenix looked at those horrifying attacks hurling at Athan and muttered, "With the way how Athan is being attacked...he is really considered a threat. T-this...how come he posses such kind of power?"
Head Zangrel nodded with a hint of fear in his eyes, "The power of those chaotic attacks has long surpassed the threshold of Evagon-realm. But they are not even making him budge. Those attacks hit the mystical dark barrier around Athan before disappearing. Such power..."
Dean Lenix nodded with a solemn expression, "He definitely has some origin with upper-Chaosverse or even...above that if such place exists. I can't since I don't even know the full extent of upper-Chaosverse."
Head Zangrel's hands tremble in excitement, "Hehehe, Lenix! With him, we can really continue our journey and even go far in it! I really want to see the unseen horizons and go to a place that's higher than upper-Chaosverse if it exists."
Lenix agreed with Zangrel as he was also excited at the prospect of their future with Athan.
"You are recording everything properly, right?" Zangrel asked.
"Yep, I am using three mirage stones to capture everything."
...
At this time, Athan started floating towards Zorgia.
"P-please, d-don't come here!" The elders started begging, but they couldn't move.
Zorgia was also scared shitless and asked while sweating bullets, "W-what do this lord want?"
"I will not let you take away that girl because she is a friend of my inheritor."
The same magnetically cracky voice reverberated from the being, scaring Zorgia even more.
After saying that, they saw the mystical being pointing his hand towards the giant dragon ship.
Right after that, a mass of darkness spread from the mystical being's hand and shot towards the giant dragon ship.
The entire ship was devoured by the darkness in just two seconds, with not even a tiny of its scrap remaining.
"Your excellency! We will do anything you tell us to do, so please...please spare us!" Zorgia spoke while trembling.
He then saw the mystical being nodding his head and heard his voice again as it reverberated everywhere, "Do you know that...once I kill you with this darkness, what will happen?"
"N-no...Your excellency. B-but...please spare us. We are willing to do anything for you as long as you spare us." Zorgia begged with desperation.
At this time, they heard the mystical being's voice again as the content of his sentence chilled their soul.
"If I kill you, your existence will be erased, and your soul will turn into nothingness. You will not be reborn by any means, not even by the natural order of this Chaosverse. Nobody will remember you anymore as you will simply fade away as if you didn't exist in the first place."
The cold, indifferent, and monotone voice sent chill down to everyone's spines as they involuntarily trembled, "But the pain you will suffer will not be one that you can imagine. After killing you, I will revive you again because I can and then...kill you once again. This cycle will automatically continue since I will set it in such a way with my powers that are outside of your scope."
Zorgia and others felt suffocative and despair just by hearing those things. Tears left their despairing eyes as they begged even more to spare them.
"However, I can spare you on one condi-," Athan paused as he disappeared from his place and went high in the sky.
*Crackkkk.....Booom..*
The chaotic attacks on Athan increased even more as they literally displayed a scene of doom.
Zorgia and others literally pissed their pants because if Athan still stayed down, they would die by the chaotic shockwaves of those large attacks.
They knelt in the sky and spoke loudly, "W-we are willing to obey whatever condition you have for us! WE WILL OBEY!"
Athan looked down as he waved his hands, and a live image of his own face appeared, "After you return to Midgard continent, find him and become his servants."
Zorgia and others carved that image in their soul as they hurriedly nodded and spoke, "Yes! We will become his servants, his slaves."
Zorgia hurriedly nodded as he looked like a man who found a light in the darkest abyss. He even became excited because he thought of many things as well and asked, " What do we call you, Your excellency? And who is that young man? T-this...I know we are not worthy of asking such questions, but this slave begs your excellency to reveal his great name."
"My title is Void Emperor, and he is my inheritor!!"
At this time, the voice that reverberated from this being sounded different. It sounded majestic and full of dominant intent!
Right after that, a large dome of black and white exploded from the being's body as it devoured all the dark clouds and attacks that spread in the sky as the sky became clear. The mystical entity also disappeared along with that scenery of doom.
What everyone saw just now was so out of scope for them that they were shell-shocked and remained in a daze for a long while.
...
On the other hand, Athan was on the way to the zen-grade chaos phenom dimension and entered inside before sitting down crossed-legged in a random place.
His soul had finished the baptizing process, and he found a superb new ability he gained with this baptism due to the portion of AVOF.
His soul also got stronger as his soul energy, soul sense, consciousness, everything became stronger and increase in capacity.
Without wasting any time, He called Dean Lenix and others and told them to continue the plan while he started training.
Chapter 550 - Excited Zorgia
A month has passed since Athan started training. He was comprehending zen order sets of Miz Lu Enchanted Kingdom, Crimson Inferno, and Hollow Kernel at the same time and was making rapid progress.
However, while he was peacefully and rapidly training, the whole Midgard continent was in a state of uproar.
As per the plan, Dean Lenix and Head Zangrel had made copies of Mirage crystals and distributed them across the upper echelons of the Midgard continent.
Zorgia and others were finding Athan, and after finding out that the person in the image was Athan Void, the recently rose to fame young man. They hurried toward Chaos Monolith Hills to meet Dean Lenix.
"Dean Lenix, where is Young master Athan? You should also know from the distribution of those mirage crystals about what happened to us and about that mighty being, Void Emperor," Zorgia spoke hurriedly.
Dean Lenix looked at Zorgia and spoke with a grin, "Don't you feel humiliated about that incident? You will also have to become servants of someone far weaker than you."
Zorgia smacked his hand on the table loudly before speaking with a sneer, "Only idiots will feel that way. Those who watched mirage crystal can not feel it, but...I HAVE FELT THAT BEING'S PRESENCE UP CLOSE!"
He looked at Dean Lenix and narrowed his eyes, "You should know that we can feel the true strength and the powerful presence of our ancestors through our bloodline. His immense power is branded in our bloodline! But..."
Zorgia stood up as he closed his eyes and spoke excitedly, "But Void Emperor...his presence, his aura, and everything about him far surpassed our ancestor! The Great Eargia Chaos Dragon was suppressed! A saint-realm being looked like an ant in that godly presence of Void Emperor!"
Dean Lenix was also internally shocked hearing that. He had no way to check that because he didn't know how powerful Saint-realm beings were, nor could he scale the power that Athan displayed. But he knew that Athan would reach great heights in the future. However, hearing that even the saint-realm being looked like an in front of that presence, he was shocked.
Zorgia laughed loudly and said, "Those who watched from mirage crystal can't assess the true strength of that being, but we could at least conclude that...following him, and becoming a servant of his inheritor will be more beneficial than even directly receiving bloodline boost from Saint Jura.
"The fools outside may feel that we are shaming ourselves, but...that's far from the truth! Hahaha, instead, we have benefited greatly from this misfortune! Now hurridly tell us where is young master Athan so we can finish the ceremony of us becoming his servants."
Dean Lenix smiled wryly and said, "Alright, alright. I can understand your excitement, but I don't know where Athan is, and I also don't know when he will return here."
Zorgia nodded and said to the two elders, "You two return to the clan and tell them about our decision and news."
"What about you, patriarch?"
"I will wait for young master Athan."
...
In the Zen-grade chaos phenom dimension...
Inside Athan's void region, there was a hazy bubble, and its name was Laimiz chaotic world.
In one month, Athan was concurrently comprehending three chaotic powers, and today, he finally finished comprehending and grasping every bit of their zen order sets.
Crimson Inferno was purely offensive chaotic power, and it had tremendous chaotic burning power. The main thing was that it was a versatile burn and reacted to liquid of any type, even to the blood of any being.
Liquid would fuel its burning power instead of dousing it. Additionally, it would also explode when any kind of liquid touches it, even cold water.
Now the second chaotic power he mastered, Hollow Kernel. It was supportive type all-rounder chaotic power. This chaotic power is unique as it would create hollow chaotic weapons that he can implement on chaos beasts and users.
In Athan's case, he can implement them on voidlings.
So now, he had gathered five chaotic powers in his first mini-chaotic world and had mastered all of them.
The essence zen order sets he mastered right now totaled 348.
His first mini-chaotic world was "almost" complete. The only thing left was to create his own unique chaotic power from those five chaotic powers and complete his mini-chaotic world by giving it a solid core.
He had comprehended order sets of all those powers and even mastered them, so now he will have to combine them to create something unique that belongs to him.
This new chaotic power will not have all properties of the five chaotic powers.
Some would be lost in the process, and he will create new ones as well since Athan will be combining their zen order sets to create something new. Naturally, he will keep the main aspects of those chaotic powers for sure.
'Let's start. My aim is to use this new chaotic power for the support of voidlings, and this power should enhance the combat power of voidlings, especially their attack power since this world mainly contains offense-type chaotic powers. As for defense and recovery, I will focus them in the next mini-chaotic world.'
He first picked up the main aspects of his five chaotic powers and combined their order sets.
He first picked penetrative aspect from Lightning Dust, corrosive aspect from Force of Glittering river.
Inside the Laimiz-world, Athan gathered order force and parted it into two sections before transforming them into lightning dust and Force of Glittering River.
Athan then focused as he brought two parts together, both powers clashed, but Athan was removing some order sets from them to make them compatible and also adding order sets he knew about to make them more powerful.
As the brown-yellow crackling orb and dark blue glittering orb mixed together, a green section produced in the middle with blue sparks in it.
He thoroughly combined both powers as an orb of new chaotic energy produced that was greenish with blue sparks in it.
But this was just the start.. He will add powers from Miz-Lu Enchanted Kingdom, Crimson Inferno, and Hollow Kernel and create his first unique chaotic power.
Chapter 551 - Aarang!
Ten days passed before Athan finally managed to create his unique chaotic power.
Inside the Laimiz chaotic world...
A fist-sized orb was floating.
This orb had white color with greenish-blue patterns on it with purple sparks, and it was burning with crimson red. Additionally, several dark metal chains were revolving around it.
The only thing left was to brand this world with his new chaotic power, which was not that difficult.
Athan waved his hand as his order force consumed rapidly, and eccentric symbols and patterns started to form inside the Laimiz chaotic world.
He was producing the order sets of this new chaotic power that he created, and then he will brand them into this world and transform it.
After half an hour, he finished conjuring all order sets and started the transformation.
The world changed as it started to resemble the orb he created. White clouds with greenish-blue patterns with purple aura started to conjure.
The land looked like dark metal with all kinds of weapons on them. Burning forests and burning crimson rivers appeared with dark blue sparks as they flowed in the sky.
'This new chaotic power shall be called...Aarang chaotic power. And this world shall be called, Aarang chaotic world from now on.'
Athan thought before he produced a voidling-bladeus from Void Grotto and put it inside Aarang chaotic world.
He then waved his hand as he gathered some chaos force and conjured an orb of Aarang chaotic power. This was the shape of his Aarang chaotic power, and it will always appear as such.
[A/N: previously, he was combining order sets of those chaotic powers, and that's why he transformed order force into them, but now that he successfully created his chaotic power, He can now just use chaos force to transform it into Aarang chaotic power just like how he transformed other chaotic powers using chaos force previously.]
Athan infused orb into Bladeus-voidling to give it the nature Aarang chaotic power.
Once that happened, Bladeus slightly transformed as it started burning with red crimson, and additional dark metal blades appeared from his hands. Greenish-blue and purple patterns appeared on his body that created a purple aura around it as well. The same patterns appeared on its blades and wings as well.
Athan gave it the command to attack as Bladues waved its blady hands and released burning dark metal shards. After the shards traveled a bit, they released purple liquid and had a chaotic reaction before exploding in a burning blast with greenish-blue sparks that stuck in the place.
'Good.'
He then commanded it to make various attacks and fly as well to check his Aarang chaotic power's strength.
[Aarang chaotic power]
-Effect 1:- Highly penetrative and corrosive to penetrate and decrease defense of enemies.
-Effect 2: Reactive to all kinds of liquid as all attacks released by beings using Aarang chaotic power will explode and increase in burning power.
-Effect 3: Increase in speed, defense, and attack in all types of attacks released using Aarang chaotic power.
-Effect 4: A new effect where all attacks of Aarang chaotic power will release purple liquid according to the user's thought and will trigger 2nd effect.
-Effect 5: Various weapons manifestations that share all previous effects.
In short, All attacks released using Aarang chaotic power will have those five effects on them.
Naturally, Athan also gained the chaos trait of this Aarang chaotic power, and he added it to his chaos matrix. Now he can transform his body into Aarang chaotic power as well.
After completing his first mini-chaotic world, he also broke through to the 2nd order of Zen order elite.
This breakthrough allowed him to create another Orderic orb which he will use to create the 2nd mini-chaotic world.
He had planned to add Aegis Starwood and two or three other new chaotic powers that are defense and recovery-oriented in his second world before combining them to create a new chaotic power that is defense and recovery-oriented.
But he didn't plan to do that right now since it was time to return to Chaos Monolith Hills and create his faction.
'Those Nimpere brothers should be leaving purgatory any time soon if they didn't die inside. Also, with my new soul ability, I can try to evolve Efyeed, which will directly increase the training speed of everyone.' Athan thought as he stood up and flew towards the place where Tiana and others were training.
With the use of Kuriazak fruit, everyone officially broke through to the zen order realm and entered the 1st order of Zen order elite.
All of them had their elite-level scrolls of essence zen order method, so they also started the process of creating their first mini-chaotic world.
"Athan! It feels like you somehow changed...," Tiana spoke as she looked at Athan curiously.
Others nodded as well because they could also feel that the current Athan somehow changed. The aura he was giving off was different than before, and it felt more mysterious.
Athan smiled as he activated the void robe's power. He was exuding this aura because of his soul that had yet to settle down due to the recently received boost from the portion of AVOF origin.
His understanding of AVOF was still at 5%, that hasn't changed. But for the first time, he was in full control of the 5% of AVOF he understood, and that was because he was baptized by the AVOF origin and didn't succumb to its power.
The most benefit that his soul received was that he felt fully merged with the AVOF power and his recovery speed of abyssal darkness increased even though the capacity remained the same.
His soul became much stronger with his soul energy capacity increasing, his comprehension increasing, his consciousness became more powerful such that he could now split it into three main consciousness to comprehend three things separately while also using his subconsciousness to do simple chores like managing to work of Void Grotto, watching multiple things and gain their information concurrently, etc. All those things he could previously do, like splitting his consciousness into thousands, became more powerful.
However, the most shocking thing he got after that baptism was a new ability of his soul.
He could already see its benefits even though he had yet to use it.
'I also have to name this new ability....Hmm, how about, Touch of Transcendent?'
Chapter 552 - Touch Of Transcendent, Seed Of Transcendency.
Athan and others first returned to Youhan Tree. He also wanted to use his new soul ability on the members of the hidden dragon troupe.
...
Tronel, Joza-Eile, Chunsi, Aakerin, Leib, and Samira were standing in front of Athan as he told them about what he was going to do to them. Drizzly was currently in meditation since she had already received the Touch of Transcendent from Athan.
"Don't resist this effect. My soul energy will envelop your soul, and you will lose consciousness for a minute. But after that, hehe, you will be surprised," Athan said with a beam on his face.
Tronel and others nodded with excited smiles on their face.
"Athan, we trust you and have no problem in opening up ourselves to you. Hahaha, do whatever you want," Tronel laughed and said.
"How I wish boss Yone would be alive to see this. He would be jumping in joy as well seeing Athan becoming this strong," Leib spoke with a sad smile.
A silence descended for a moment before Athan broke it with a faint smile, "Boss Yone's soul was not destroyed, and it was successfully departed into order cycle of Chaosverse. So, there is still a chance that I can find him in the future.
"He must be living his new life somewhere, and when I become strong...," his eyes showed resolve as dominant intent oozed out from him, "strong enough to dominate even the Chaosverse itself, I will find him and return all of Boss Yone's memories to him that I acquired."
Everyone was shocked at this statement of Athan. To dominate Chaosverse itself?
But they couldn't help but feel that...Athan would somehow do that.
"Anyway, let's start and have Athan use his ability on us. I am sure it will be quite useful for us," Aakerin smiled gently and said.
Tronel and others nodded as they completely opened up their defense and let Athan enter his soul energy inside.
Athan created six tiny seeds of his soul energy and brought them near Tronel and others' souls.
His ability, Touch of Transcendent, doesn't require anything special for him to use it. More like, his soul energy gained a mystical property after the baptism, and he named this property as an ability called Touch of Transcendent.
He could activate and deactivate this property at any time, and he would deactivate it when attacking with his soul energy because this property was not offensive but supportive. So, he would only use it on allies and not enemies.
After Athan put the seeds beside their souls, he used more of his soul energy and enveloped their souls.
At this time, Tronel and others started to feel heavy consciousness-wise and fainted, but their soul was going through significant changes.
Their souls were becoming stronger fundamentally.
More importantly, the quality of their souls was rising! This caused their comprehension, senses, and various other soul-related aspects to become significantly stronger. This was not something any external item or such thing can do! This was practically making them fundamentally stronger and more talented overall.
After a minute, Athan felt that their soul had reached the limit and took back the remaining soul energy.
With a sharp light in Athan's eyes, he thought, ' Once their soul transcends completely through the seed containing my soul energy, they will no longer be bound to Chaosverse's order. As a final defense, the seed will activate its last burst when their souls are close to death by any external soul attack of anyone and "kill" their soul.'
Tronel and others regained their consciousness and woke to feel absolutely shocked.
"T-this...Athan, we are not dreaming, right?" Samira asked with excitement and disbelief in her eyes.
*Slap!*
Everyone saw Joza-Eile hitting his own face with his tentacle-like hands. Seeing everyone looking at him, Joza-Eile rubbed his cheeks, "Ahem, so I am not dreaming."
Athan and others laughed while Tronel and others were too excited over the changes.
"You are not dreaming. The only thing blocking you from reaching your previous height of power is the Orderic Catastrophe stage since it's based on timing. However, I don't know if it will take a long time or a short time since you will be passing through those phases for the second time in your life.
"Anyway, once you are done crossing through that phase, Chaos Monolith Hills will send you a ship and pick you all up," Athan said with a faint smile.
"Athan, what is that seed near our soul?" Aakerin asked with curiosity.
Athan smiled and said, "That's the seed of transcendency. As your soul settles with this rapid growth and you make progress, the seed will release my soul energy and gradually transcendence your soul. I will keep its benefit secret for your own sake. But you will eventually find them in the future, and once that happens, you will be in for a big surprise."
Tronel and others looked at each other before laughing, "Alright. The benefit we have received is already such mystical, so If you tell us about that seed of transcendency, It will be too much for us to handle, Hahaha."
Athan nodded with a smile while thinking dominantly, 'Chaosverse or any verse, I will not let you take away my people anymore.'
"Damn, I am already imagining us becoming very powerful with this much increase in our comprehension and soul strength," Leib spoke excitedly.
"No need to hold back anymore, hahaha. Go and start training. We are returning to Chaos Monolith Hills and will be waiting for you," Athan said with a laugh.
...
After a day, Athan and others departed with an additional member, Drizzly.
"Hey, Athan. When will you use that ability on us as well?" Sen asked with a pout.
Others also looked at him with curiosity as they wanted to experience his ability as well.
Athan smiled and said, "Right now."
He also helped them as their soul's quality became high and their transcendence process started. Their soul strength and comprehension will significantly increase continuously as the seed empowers and transcendence their souls gradually.
Athan guessed that transcend process would probably take eight to ten years.
At last, he went to Lady Fu and asked, "What about you, Lady Fu?"
Lady Fu faintly smiled and chuckled, "I would be a fool if I rejected the grace of Void Emperor."
Athan rubbed his nose with a smile before he said, "Alright, open up your soul and don't resist."
Lady Fu nodded and thought, 'I hope that helps me get closer to the breakthrough...'
At this time Lady Fu didn't know that she was severely underestimating the benefit that Athan was about to bestow on her.
While using Touch of Transcendent and putting The Seed of Transcendency, Athan thought about Efyeed, 'As for Efyeed, I think this will work even more drastically. Hmmm, maybe I should try to connect Efyeed to the origin of AVOF by invoking the connection? However...there's a chance of something going wrong due to that. Guess I'll have to consult with Primo before trying that out.'
After a short while, Athan was finished and Lady Fu also regained her consciousness.
She was actually not expecting to lose her consciousness since she was Evagon-realm and her soul was very powerful. However, although she lost her consciousness, she was aware of her soul going through tremendous changes and was in a state of shock.
'T-this....NO WAY!'
Chapter 553 - Athan's Words. Returning.
Lady Fu had closed her eyes and entered deep meditation as she sensed an epiphany coming in full swing.
Athan saw dreamy blue and black sparks appearing around Lady Fu and saw that she started meditating.
"Will she breakthrough? Well, let's hope she does," Athan muttered before he stood up and left.
...
A month and ten days passed before they finally neared Chaos Monolith hills.
Today, Lady Fu also opened her eyes filled with excitement and joy. She could finally breakthrough! Although she had suppressed her breakthrough right now since this was not the right place for it. She planned to break through after returning to Chaos Monolith Hills.
'What exactly did Athan do?' Lady Fu fell into thought.
She knew that things didn't look as normal as they seemed on the surface. She could feel her soul strengthening and her comprehension increasing. However, she felt that there was more to it but couldn't capture it.
Anyway, all those questions didn't matter as the only thing she should feel right now was...joy.
She went to the hall where besides Athan, all others were meditating.
"Thank you, Athan. I've been having trouble breaking through in the last four hundred years and felt that I would need a catalyst like Neo Vortex flower and such thing to breakthrough but," Lady Fu had a wide smile while shaking her head slowly in amazement, "but I didn't know that one touch of yours will bring epiphany to me. I can feel like my soul is gradually strengthening as well due to that seed."
Athan carefreely smiled as he waved his hand, "You will receive more benefits as long as you help me. As for that seed, you will realize its true value at the most important moment of your life. Anyway, how long until we arrive at Chaos Monolith Hills?"
Lady Fu closed her eyes to check before opening them again in three seconds, "Three days until we reach Chaos Monolith Hills."
Athan nodded with a faint smile, "I haven't sent any voidling-zoids to Dean Lenix in the last three months, but I got a big stock ready, and I am making more myself as well, which will give me another round of big wealth."
Lady Fu felt that how could Athan create voidling-zoids without doing anything? She never saw him creating them even in Heaven's Tranquility, and hearing the words "making more myself as well," she felt there was some mystery regarding the production of voidling-zoids. But she didn't bother asking about it as it was not her place to ask such questions.
Though thinking about the wealth Athan would be amassing, she wryly smiled and said with a chuckle, " Haha, You won't have to worry about money from now on," changing the topic, she asked, "Anyway, what are you going to do after returning?"
"First, I establish my faction and then go into a special-grade CPD to start training with the members of my faction," Athan said with a grin.
"Special-grade?" Lady Fu raised her eyebrows, "Although you might be able to handle training there, others will have difficulty even staying there, let alone training there."
"They will have to adapt, suffering in the path to get strong is necessary. The pain will be immense, but," Athan spoke plainly, "As long as they don't die, it's fine. I will give increase their potential, But they will have to make proper that potential and unleash it by breaking their limits," Standing up, Athan conjured an eccentric symbol on his hand before speaking, "To become powerful, to fight alongside me, they can't be mediocre."
Lady Fu was surprised as she could feel dominating intent from Athan and a spark of ambition from him. Her gaze then went to the symbol as she asked curiously, "What's that symbol?"
"This will be the symbol of my faction."
The symbol looked like an ethereal grey drop, and one could see mystical black and white streams chasing each other in the grey drop.
One could feel its mysteriousness when looking at it.
Lady Fu nodded before she thought of something and asked, "What about the name of the faction? Have you thought about it?"
Athan wryly smiled as he shook his head, "Not yet. About the name, I will have to discuss with others and pick a good name."
Lady Fu nodded, "Yep, the name is indeed important."
After talking for a bit, Lady Fu left, and Athan continued creating voidling-zoids alongside the void grotto. Since his recovery of abyssal darkness increased, he could make more voidling-zoids alongside Void-Grotto.
...
On the other hand, Dean Lenix was eagerly waiting for Athan's return because a lot of people were waiting for a large batch of voidling-zoids.
Athan was supposed to send him a batch of two thousand voidlings every month through the Silver Wing Delivery, but no voidling-zoids were delivered here in the last three months due to unforeseen circumstances.
However, he just got a contact from Athan today that he would be returning in three days, and Athan also mentioned a pleasant surprise that he would be giving him.
'What kind of surprise is he talking about?' Dean Lenix wondered for a moment before he looked at Zorgia, who was sitting on the couch in his palace.
"Hey, Zorgia. Your young master will be returning in three days."
Zorgia's eyes shot open, and one could see the excitement in them, "Finally..."
Looking at his state, Dean Lenix smiled wryly and thought, 'I wonder what his behavior will be when he finds out that the Void Emperor that appeared that day was Athan himself.'
The true identity of the Void Emperor was known to only a few. All people of Youhan Tree were informed and also believed that Athan was Void Emperor's inheritor. In the first place, they knew that although Athan was mysterious, he just broke through to the Zen order realm, so they wouldn't believe that he was Athan.
The only ones who knew about the true identity of Void Emperor were him, Zangrel, Lady Fu, and the members of the Hidden Dragon troupe.
Tiana and others also found out what Athan did when they saw the content mirage stone from Lady Fu, so they also knew the factual matter.
But besides them, no one else knew that the mysterious entity Void Emperor was Athan himself.
Chapter 554 - Excited Dean
Three days quickly passed as everyone returned to Chaos Monolith Hills.
Athan first gave the voidling-zoids in Void Pavilion before Dean allowed all people to enter there as they started buying voidling-zoids.
Tiana and others helped sell the voidling-zoids with the Nimpere brothers, who have returned from purgatory much stronger as they had broken through to the Zen order realm. Well, that was their aim in the first place.
On the other hand, Athan went to Dean Lenix's Palace.
Zorgia and Dean Lenix were waiting for Athan, with Zorgia walking to and fro.
After a few moments, they heard the footsteps and saw Athan coming into the hall.
"Young master Athan!"
Athan was surprised to see Zorgia directly kneeling with one leg in front of him with his head down.
"Young master! I hereby swear a chaos oath that if I ever betray you or even possess any thoughts of harming you, my soul will be utterly destroyed!"
*Rumbl!!*
Athan was startled, 'No resistance? He even seems to be excited about it...what the hell?'
He looked at Dean Lenix, who instantly told him about thoughts of Zorgia through sound transmissions.
Hearing about that, Athan laughed out loud and said, "Hahaha, how very clever, Zorgia. Stand up."
Zorgia stood up with a respectful expression and looked at Athan with a serious face, "Your words are my absolute command, young master Athan. If you want me to do anything, I will do it with all my efforts."
Athan looked at him as his gaze turned cold and said, "If boss Yone really died true death there, I wouldn't have spared you. But you can be considered fortunate that his soul was not destroyed."
Zorgia trembled as he kneeled once again and said, "This fool kno-"
"Shut up!"
Zorgia shut his mouth and remained silent while Athan walked towards Dean Lenix, who wryly looked at everything happening, 'That's an Evagon-realm powerhouse at the same level as me...'
"Athan, even if the soul was hurt or destroyed, its soul force would still return to the order cycle of Chaosverse unless someone purposefully contained the force of that destroyed soul and used it for something," Dean Lenix said with a smile as he decided to share some things he knew about lower-Chaosverse to Athan.
"Oh?...," Athan was slightly surprised hearing that.
Dean Lenix nodded before he continued, "Naturally, a destroyed soul will have lower talent, weak comprehension when it's reborn compared to a successfully departed soul. However, if someone purposefully contained the departing force of that destroyed or intact soul and used or consumed it for some purpose, then that would be true death."
Sitting on the couch, Dean Lenix took a sip from the teacup as he continued, "Anyway, all deaths are considered deaths because you can't find the dead person who has reborn through the cycle order since that soul would have been washed completely new with no previous life memories, "Dean Lenix smiled as he looked at Athan-,"Unless one used some mystical soul order techniques to keep previous life memories."
"I see...," Athan nodded as he sat down on the couch in front of Dean Lenix before saying with a smile, "Dean Lenix, how much do you trust me? Do you trust me enough to open up your soul to me without any resistance to whatever I do?"
Dean Lenix put the teacup down before he laughed loudly, "Void Emperor himself told me such thing, how can I refuse? Athan, I trust you because I know that the horizons you see are far vaster than ours, and we are just ants in them. That's the feeling I got when I saw Void Emperor."
He then completely opened his defense and said with a grin, "I suspect that what you are going to do is related to the surprise gift you mentioned, hahaha. Go ahead and do your thing."
Athan smiled as he nodded and started the process while telling him about the Touch of Transcendent and Seed of Transcendence.
After two minutes, Dean Lenix had shock written over all of his faces, "T-this...My soul is rising. How?..."
He could feel that various things related to his soul were strengthening as the seed released Athan's soul energy. His soul was going through fundamental changes slowly, 'T-this...It feels like I am becoming a higher existence...but I didn't break through to CHaos King-realm yet. Wait... these fundamental changes are different...I am actually fading as a chaotic being. Is this what Athan meant by transcendency? W-what is going on?'
Seeing Dean Lenix's expression, Athan smiled and said, "I haven't told others about what will happen once your soul is fully transcendent with my soul energy, but I'll tell you since you can make use of that knowledge to create a clever situation in the future when I reveal my grand plan to you after going to upper-Chaosverse."
"Prey tell what is that because...I am dying to know that!" Dean Lenix spoke with slight excitement.
Athan nodded before he said with a faint smile, "Once the transcendent process is completed, you will detach from Chaosverse. It means that if you die, you won't be going through the order cycle of Chaosverse. However..."
"However, what?!" Dean Lenix's heart was beating fast as he hurridly asked.
Athan grinned and continued, "However, you will become a being related to my power, Abyssal Void of Fabrication. That means that...if you die, your soul will animate to my void region and...I can resurrect you.'
Internally, Athan thought, 'At least, that will be the case as long as we are in Chaosverse. After all, I don't know if there are powers in higher worlds that can stop your soul from animating in my void region or even completely destroy your soul.'
On the other hand, Dean Lenix's eyes were wide, and his jaw had dropped to the ground.
He was already dumbfounded because of how his soul was becoming powerful, which would also help him breakthrough. But hearing about this absurd effect of transcending his soul, he was shocked beyond belief.
Snapping out of his Athan, he looked at Athan solemnly and thanked him before saying, "Athan, I don't know how to repay this gratitude, but for now, I will go in meditation since whatever you did is helping me breakthrough and I will have to put some effort to hold back this breakthrough because if I enter Chaos King-realm right now, I will have to return to upper-Choasverse immediately."
Right after saying that, he disappeared with little space fluctuations. He had stayed in the peak of Evagon-realm for far too long and what Athan did directly helped him breakthrough.
Zorgia was hearing everything, and he was crying tears of joy because he managed to become a servant of such a mysterious person.
'He will use transcendent thing on me too, right? Or maybe I will have to show my usefulness first? Right, I have already sworn oath, so he should reward me with that sooner or later as long as I work hard.'
Athan walked towards Zorgia and told him to stand up before saying, "Follow me."
"As you wish, master Athan,"
...
Athan then return to Void Pavilion and arrived in front of Efyeed.. Others were still managing the sale of Voidling-zoids and before they finished that work, He decided to upgrade Efyeed as well by consulting with Primo to see if the idea he thought of will work or not.
Chapter 555 - Unforeseen Disappearance. Meeting!
"Master, I think it's too soon to do that. I also don't know what will happen if we do your idea," Primo said after thinking for a moment.
"Alright, then forget it. Since you also don't have any idea about it, then I'll just go with the normal evolution of Efyeed," Athan said before he told Efyeed to open its soul orb to him.
"Yes, master! I also need voidpulse since I already consumed the previous amount you gave me." Efyeed said as the giant three shook before a colorful soul orb appeared.
"Alright. After this soul upgrade, you will be able to use the voidpulse to your evolution quickly as well."
Without wasting time, Athan used his soul energy and enveloped the orb before feeding it his soul energy and improving Efyeed's existence.
"I'll make the seed later since I am out of soul energy for now, and it will take a few hours to recover. But meanwhile, you might be able to upgrade your abilities by absorbing voidpulse," Athan said as he finally finished the process.
The chaos enlightenment shook intensely for a moment as its soul orb shined brightly and disappeared into the tree.
Right after that, Athan and Primo heard Efyeed's shaky voice, "T-this...Master, what did you do? I-"
*Durrrr...*
Suddenly, the chaos enlightenment tree glowed and...disappeared.
Athan was dumbfounded while Primo flew around where the Efyeed was before and asked in confusion, "Nyaaa! Where did Efyeed go? He also took Limbus with him."
Athan closed his eyes for a moment before saying, "I can still feel that Efyeed alive and feel the connection with it as well but...,"-frowning, he shook his head-, "but Efyeed doesn't seem to be here, as in, not in lower-Chaosverse."
Suddenly, Athan received a faint signal through the connection he had with Efyeed.
After a moment, he smiled and said, "It looks like Efyeed is safe and in the middle of some kind of evolution."
"Nyaa! Will Efyeed come back here after becoming more powerful?" Primo asked while flying around before speaking in a sad tone, "I won't be able to play with Limbo and Efyeed until they are back now."
Primo hurridly got under Athan's hand to be patted.
Athan chuckled as he patted Primo and said, "They will return sooner or later. But for now, we are going to do some exciting things, hehehe."
"What exciting things, master?"
Athan smiled and said, "Establishing our faction. Oh yeah, do you have any suggestion for our faction name?"
"Suggestion? Hmm...," Primo flew in a circular motion with a thoughtful expression before its cat eyes shined, "Hahaha, I thought of a good name. How about...The Invisible Great Omnipotent Master of Void faction?"
"Uhh...," Athan almost fell to the ground hearing that as he put on a weak smile, "Nevermind. It was my fault for asking you."
"Nyaaa! Why? It's a powerful name!" Primo excitedly flew around before speaking.
Athan shook his head with a wry smile as he walked into the void pavilion to see how the sales of voidling- zoids were going.
...
After several hours, they finished the selling of voidlings with a whopping 4.14 million high-grade chaos-stones. As for mid-grade chaos stones, he didn't count them, but they were lower than high-grade chaos stones since most buyers were of Zen order realm.
Afterward, everyone gathered and made a circle since Athan said they would be commencing an important meeting.
The current members of this group and those who will join the faction are Athan, Tiana, Avelia, Sen, Shiromi, Linci, Tealery, Arcued, Theo, and four Nimpere brothers.
A total of thirteen members.
"First. After creating this faction, I am not going to recruit more people," Athan said as he put his hands on his chin.
"But won't more people be useful for our faction? We can now take up tasks and go in missions that require faction movement to get resources and make our progress faster." Theo asked with confusion.
Athan smiled and shook his head, "I have already made plans regarding our training path. Theo, the path I have chosen will be rough, painful, and...very dangerous. Will walk on it or..."
"Say no more," Theo grinned before saying, "I have already shown you my determination. Whatever path you have chosen for us, bring it on! Hahaha, We will walk on it head-on."
"Yeah, big brother! After seeing that display of power from Mirage crystals, we can't wait to reach new heights and see new horizons with you!" The eldest of the Nimpere brothers spoke as he pumped his fist in excitement.
Tiana, Avelia, and others nodded with determination and resolved in their eyes.
Athan grinned as a gleam of black and white passed through his eyes, "Hehehe, that's good. I won't allow you to leave halfway, so keep that in mind."
Hearing that, everyone felt a chill as he looked at each other, 'Wait...why does it feel like we just signed our death sentence? It won't be that bad, right?'
"Alright, all other things aside...," Athan said as his face turned serious but also one filled with slight frustration, "Before we go and register our faction, pass the trial, and do all other things, we...have to decide on our faction name first."
"Faction name...," Arcued muttered while others also became thoughtful.
"Also,"-Athan waved his hand as he formed the faction symbol and made it big before letting it float in the middle of the group-," This is our faction symbol."
"Wow..."
Everyone wowed as they looked at the symbol that Athan created with his abyssal darkness, voidpulse, and soul energy, which made it look mysterious due to his powers.
Athan smiled sharply before saying, "This faction will turn into organization once we go to upper-Chaosverse. I am already laying the groundwork for it, so the name should be good enough for that."
"Ehh? we are not going to stay in the main headquarter of Chaos Monolith Hills?" Sen asked in surprise.
Athan grinned and shook his head, "Nope. I will make my own rules in the upper-Chaosverse, which is the real Chaosverse filled with the ruthless and chaotic environment! The start will be rough, but that's where the excitement lies."
The symbol shined with a mysterious glow as Athan's ambitious words echoed in the hall of the pavilion," We will grow and become the main players there before...swallowing everything under us."
[A/N: Alright, dear readers! Now, this is one of those challenging moments where we have to decide...A NAME! The second chapter will be late as before that; I will post a link to the poll in the comment section, VOTE for the name you think is good for the current faction and future organization. And you can also put your idea of the name in the comment section as well. :)]
Chapter 556 - Athan Nodded In Satisfaction.
After Athan and the group decided on the name, they went to register their faction.
Registration of a new faction was pretty big news. After all, it's tough for a new faction to come into the picture due to rigorous trials, especially the last trial where they have to defeat one of the existing factions.
Athan's current superficial battle power was 200,340. This battle power was the average SBP of those who had just entered the Zen order master realm. He could increase it more, but he didn't bother after using a normal soul energy attack which brought his battle power from 112,304 to directly 200,340.
Yep, that's how powerful his current soul strength is, and this was the result of his 2nd mode of soul's soul energy which is weaker. Well, he has no choice but to transform his soul to a typical soul because he can't measure his usual mutated soul's soul energy since it possesses abyssal darkness and would end up destroying the measurement device.
Tiana and others also easily reached 100,000 superficial battle power milestones since they already broke through to the Zen order elite.
...
To hold the initial trials of the faction, there was a special hill area for it, and currently, Athan and others were standing on that hill while looking at a middle-aged man and a giant gothic-demonic-type door behind him.
The hill master in charge of factions looked at Athan and others before saying, "Dean Lenix had told me that you would come to establish your faction sooner or later, and we have decided to forgo some trials. Now you all only need to take on two trials.
"First, The trial of chaotic bond and the last trial where you will war against one of the existing faction with their rules."
The Hill master, who looked slim and bald head pointed at the door behind him and said, "Once you enter through this door, all of you will be linked with each other," Pausing here, he pointed at Athan and Linci, "You two might be able to break the link but don't do that because breaking the link means losing this trial."
Athan and Linci nodded.
Afterward, the Hill master continued, "So you all will be mystically linked together and...will fight against a horde of chaos beasts ranging from 7-star to 9-star grade. During this time, the pain and injuries suffered by any one of you will also be suffered by other members and...,"-
Narrowing his eyes, the hill master smiled-, "If any one of you thought about leaving behind your teammate, not willing suffer pain due to them, thoughts about betrayal, and such thoughts appeared in your head, then the link will break from that person, and the trial will end."
Athan and others nodded with a confident smile on their faces. None of them would think of such a thing! Anyway, they had already sworn a chaos oath regarding such a thing a long time ago.
"Hahaha, bring it on!" Arcued loudly spoke as he pumped his fist, "Let's go, Emperor. I can't wait anymore."
The Hill master stepped aside with a smile before gesturing them towards the giant door, "Survive for one day without anyone breaking the link, and you will pass the trial."
Athan nodded with a faint smile before he and others started walking towards the giant door and entered inside.
After entering, they appeared a place that can be called a hellscape.
Terrible environment, heavy air, fiery winds blowing chaotically everywhere, dangerous-looking chaos beasts of all types like ground giants, flying, plant, etc. Their total number reached fifty, but more would come after this wave since they would have to survive for a day here.
*Roar....*
*Screeeeeeeeee...*
*Growl...*
...
The chaos beasts were ten kilometers away from them, but after Athan and others appeared, they all let out their unique shouts and started moving towards them with bloodthirst in their eyes.
"Athan...we have decided that you will not do anything in this trial," Tiana turned to Athan as she said with a smile.
"Hmm?" Athan raised his eyebrows in question.
Avelia grinned and said, "It would be too easy if you entered the fray, so we have decided that you will not do anything in this trial. Anyway, we have voidling-zoids as well, but we will just command them to protect us when we are in fetal danger."
"Yes, Emperor! Please do not make any move in this trial," Arcued spoke loudly with a serious face.
Others also looked at Athan with resolve and, seeing that Athan grinned, "Alright, I will not make any move. Go and do your best."
Sen rode on her cloud of chaos as she took out her zither before intense burning wisps that looked beautiful and dangerous appeared around her.
The wisps enveloped Sen and her Zither as she closed her eyes and started moving her hands through the zither, unleashing devastating attacks towards the beast.
She released order techniques through her zither as her unique essence physique, Enmato Crusade of Burning Wisps, increased all of her attacks to new heights. Her physique granted her pure, destructive offensive power. For now, she has mastered only three types of wisps due to her limit to the zen order realm but these three types of destructive wisps were still forces to be reckoned with.
While attacking, Sen thought, 'Hmm, since my soul upgraded because of Athan's ability, I should be able to master the next wisp, Houti Deep Red soon which will increase my attack power even more. Or maybe...I can also master the wisp after that one? From the information in the physique's structure, that wisp is unstoppable due to its defense-breaking power and burn fueling property."
Sen was getting excited while thinking about how powerful she had become due to Athan's Touch of Transcendent and how she would be able to make rapid progress due to that.
On the other hand, Arcued also started.
"Hahaha, Emperor. I had also become very powerful thanks to you, and I have long discarded the shell of my previous self." Arcued said before he laughed out loud as his body started to burn in black and white flame.
Intense soul ripple released from him like a scythe purely made from soul energy appeared in his hands.
Arcued turned to Athan with a solemn and serious expression before saying, "There have been some changes to me, and the soul physique I acquired upgraded." Taking a deep breath, Arcued shouted, "Emperor! I will become your blade of soul and will harvest the souls of your enemies! Haaaaaaaaa."
Right saying that, He turned around and rode on his cloud of chaos with the black and white scythe in his hand that was twice as size as his body.
Shortly afterward, He gathered order force and chaos force in his scythe as it shined with dark green and dark red hue before releasing criss-cross slashes towards the incoming beasts.
Athan was surprised a smile appeared on his face, 'Efyeed did say that Arcued acquired the most powerful soul physique that Efyeed had access to, Ravant Blight Soul. However, the soul upgrade I did on him and what I did to his soul previous to recovery seemed to have mutated his physique. Let's see what his soul harvest is about...'
"Hahaha, you two are really eager, eh?" Theo laughed as giant electric blue lighting sparks exploded from his body with silver currents.
The blue lightning sparks and silver currents took the shape of a deadly beast that coated him, making him look intimidating as he...disappeared.
*Zaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap.....*
Athan raised his eyebrows, 'Those space fluctuations...It looks like, among all present here, he should be fastest.'
Theo didn't teleport, but he was tuned with space which increased his speed by a lot. It was how the cloud of chaos that Athan used was tuned with space which increased the cloud's speed by a lot due to ignoring all types of atmospheric resistance. In short, it feels like the space is helping one move faster.
Theo could do that because of the essence physique he acquired from Efyeed, Raiden Beastality Veborance. This physique didn't grant him any defense, but it did give him extreme speed and offense.
Tiana, Shiromi, Avelia, and Linci also smiled in excitement and started attacking. The Nimpere brothers also shouted loudly before joining the fray.
Linci had sealed her power with the orb floating beside her, and Athan also told Primo to keep an eye on her and absorb her power if they came out unexpectedly. So she was also fighting normally like others.
Seeing all of them getting this strong, Athan nodded in satisfaction.
Chapter 557 - Last Trial-1
[A/N: If you have yet to vote, then vote for the name of Athan and the group's Faction in the poll. The link is posted in chapter 555's comment section.]
After Tiana, Shiromi, and others were fighting while Athan was watching them with interest.
After the first wave of chaos beasts was killed, the atmosphere suddenly changed.
They appeared in a no gravity zone with stars shooting everywhere.
Chaotic attacks appeared out of nowhere, and everyone was focused on each other's back while also fighting occasional strange chaos beasts that appeared.
This required teamwork and care for everyone as basically, they had to save each other's asses. They hit a few times, which sent a wave of pain to everyone.
Their nerves were stretched to the extreme as they stayed in full focus for eight hours before the atmosphere changed, and they arrived in a hailstorm that was both cold and zippy.
The cold lightning bolts covered with frost sparks were troublesome because although they didn't injure them much, they did freeze them for a moment or two while shocking them with electricity and numbing them.
The effect didn't spread to others if one was hit by it, but they did feel current and cold in their body.
This atmosphere stayed for eight hours as well before it changed.
...
Twenty-four hours passed by in a blink of an eye as nobody broke the link, and they successfully survived for twenty-four hours in the trial.
They were surprised to see many public gatherings on this hill when they came out from a portal that appeared after they survived for twenty-four hours inside.
The Hill Master smiled and said, "Now it's time for the last trial, but it will start after two days. However, you will have to tell us your target so we can inform them. So? What's your target?"
Athan grinned and said, "We will take down the Star-Breaker Hill faction."
Hearing that, people started excitedly talking about it.
The Hill master nodded and said with a smile, "Alright. As you know, it is up to them how they want to fight it out. They might go for full-on war or 1v1 battle, or team battle with fixed members. Whatever their decision is, you have to accept since you are the challenger."
"Got it." Athan noded with a faint smile and said, "Whatever their decision is, it will be the last one since they will be disbanded tomorrow."
After saying that, Athan and others left to take some rest and prepare.
...
The Star-Breaker Hill faction area.
This faction was situated on a mystical hill that is always covered by starry dust.
Although it is called a hill, it is bigger than even some mountains. The ground of his hill changes every eight hours from hot to cold and cold to hot.
There are four palaces and some buildings on this hill with teleportation functions to get fast access to all important locations in the Chaos Monolith Hills.
The atmosphere of this hill has a calming effect on one's mind, and the speed of training in body order will increase as long as they trained while on this hill. This effect only applies until one breakthrough from Atmospheric Body Realm and enters Chaos Body Realm.
At this time, an important meeting was being held in the main palace of this hill's faction, the Star-Breaker hill faction.
The leader, Illias, along with other core members of the Star-Breaker Hill factions, sat at a round table.
There were a total of fifteen core members, including the current leader, Illias.
Illias swept his glance across the hall before saying in a deep voice with his hands joint together while covering his mouth, a pose of seriousness.
"As you know, we are being challenged by Athan and his group. We have one day to decide what type of challenge we will present to them and one day to prepare for it."
"Illias. That brat...I mean, Athan has grown quite a fame, and he could easily gather hundreds of people, but he didn't. Although the limit of full-on war is 500 people on each side, he could easily gather them,
"But...he didn't. So the best way to beat them easily is to choose a full-on war. We will have a numerical advantage and can finish the trial easily."
Illias shook his head and said, "In 500 vs 500, he will have more advantage than us."
Hearing that, everyone was dumbfounded.
"T-this...how is that possible, leader?"
"Yeah, how can he have a higher advantage?"
Illias grimaced as he waved his hand to indicate silence and then spoke, "Did you forget about his voidling-zoids? I have tested them, and they are tough bastards to deal with. If you infuse them with matching chaotic powers on each voidling and use them properly, they can be a pain in the ass."
"Also..., "Illias narrowed his eyes before continuing, "You all didn't forget how he killed Venzar when he was just in orderic catastrophe phase, right? He has some kind of unique power, and if five hundreds of his voidlings get his power, then...we will be wiped out."
"Yes, leader. And to be able to register a faction, He has definitely reached zen order master...huuu, I can't imagine how powerful he has become at this stage."
"On top of that, He is a Runic Artist, and he will surely use Runic Wards that give many benefits in team-type battles and war since they are allowed in them. Now that we think about it, we really don't have any advantage against him in a full-on war challenge."
Illias nodded before saying deeply, "There's something mysterious about him, but...he is only one. I am thinking of doing a 1v1 battle with fixed members. If we choose a 1v1 battle challenge, then according to Chaos Monolith Hill's rules, they need to win more than half of the matches to pass the trial."
Others nodded as they realized that this was the best choice.
"It's fine if one of us lost against him, but all of his other team members have just broken through to Zen order elite. Among fifteen of us, eleven are Zen order masters, while the rest are Zen order grandmasters. They have no chance to win."
Illias nodded, "Also, the voidling-zoids will be allowed to use, but we can put a rule that only two voidling-zoids are used. We all have one set of voidling-zoids as well, so we can also use them. We can use bladeus-voidlings and Blitzzer-voidlings since we don't have to worry about defense."
After saying that, Illias swept his glance across the hall and asked, "Any objection?"
"No!"
"Then it's decided!"
Chapter 558 - Last Trial-2
[A/N: If you have yet to vote, then vote for the name of Athan and the group's Faction in the poll. The link is posted in chapter 555's comment section.]
Two days passed by, and it was time for the trial.
After Illias and others decided their challenge, they informed the authority and authority informed Athan and others about the challenge.
A temporary giant stadium was built there by authorities for 1v1 battles.
At this time, a lot of the public was gathered to watch this challenge. Everyone had their own thoughts, but the majority felt that Athan and others wouldn't win.
However, some clung to the fact that Athan would show another miraculous spectacle and win this trial.
Nobody knew what name Athan and others decided for their faction since it can only be announced after they win the trial and successfully kick out the Star-breaker hill faction from this place and establish themselves there.
Illias and others had decided to hold thirteen 1v1 battles, taking full advantage by letting all people of Athan's group fight one battle.
To win, Athan and others must win seven battles.
Illias and others had already entered the stadium and were waiting for Athan and his group to arrive.
The public was eagerly waiting for this event to start as well.
...
After five minutes, Athan and others arrived and entered the stadium as the public turned wild.
The stadium's battleground was a five hundred meters radius big, and that's considered very big.
Authorities positioned cloudly screens in the sky in various places so that others could see the 1v1 battles.
After Athan and others entered, the thirteen members of both sides stood in front of each other with a middle-aged man in the middle.
"Ahem, both sides know the rules, but I'll repeat them for our audience. The first rule, the 1v1 battles will be decided by a randomized device that will display a number from one to thirteen on two screens there," The middle-aged man pointed at two screens in the sky.
"The black screen represents Star-Breaker hill faction while the white screen represents the challengers. We have already decided your number, and here are those number tokens," The middle-aged man waved his hand as twenty-six tokens appeared from his storage before flying towards a person each.
Sen-1
Tealery-2
Tiana-3
Theo-4
Eldest-5
Second brother-6
Avelia-7
Linci-8
Athan-9
Third brother-10
Arcued-11
Fourth brother-12
Shiromi-13
After distributing the tokens, the middle-aged man continued, " Each person can only fight one battle. Now the second rule, Both sides can only use two voidling-zoids, one chaotic spirit, and one armor, and one weapon. No more than that."
"Third rule, This is not a deathmatch, so no killing intent allowed. If you display it, it will be sensed immediately. However, you can fight with your full strength with the spirit of winning. If something goes wrong, we have Evagon-realm powerhouses in a watch, and they will stop the battle before any fatality occurs."
"Last rule, if you think you can't win and don't want to continue fighting, you can give up. Upon giving up, you will immediately get protection from an Evagon-realm powerhouse."
After stating the rule, The middle-aged man told both sides to leave the battleground and go into their respective areas in the stadium.
The first battle will start in five minutes as a giant screen with a countdown appears in the sky.
Athan and others were sitting on couches at the white area outside of the five hundred meters battleground zone.
"Athan, you told us that we will win as long as we did our best, but...they have five zen order grandmaster in their group, so we will most likely lose those five battles," Tealery spoke with worry.
Athan nodded his head with a faint smile, "Beside me, Tiana, Avelia, and Linci, others would definitely lose against those Zen order grandmasters."
Theo, Sen, Shiromi, and others smiled weakly.
Athan looked at them and grinned, "But you should not underestimate yourselves. The current you are definitely more powerful than any other zen order elite here. Moreover, you possess the power to beat Zen order masters despite being one stage lower than them."
"You told us that, big brother but...are we really that strong?" The third brother of Nimperes asked with doubt.
"You are." Athan nodded with a grin, "You all haven't had time to test your soul power, but you should know that it became way more powerful than before, right?"
"That's right. Things that took me days to comprehend can be done in hours now. But we haven't tested the power of our soul energies," Theo spoke while nodding.
Sen nodded, "We have also made much progress in just a day in developing our innate physique's powers."
"Yep. Don't forget that the physiques you acquired are the best of the best that one can get. All those physiques are from upper-Chaosverse's chaotic powers because Efyeed is from upper-Chaosverse, and Efyeed guided you to acquire the best ones within its access."
Athan stood up and looked at everyone before saying with a confident smile, "You all haven't had a battle against people of Zen order elites or Zen order masters; that's why you don't know your true strength. Anyway, the key to winning your battles is your soul, and your soul order techniques must have become more powerful due to your upgraded soul."
"I wonder how strong our soul power has become? We should have tested them," Sen spoke with a daze.
Athan grinned and said, "According to me, the soul strength you are currently exuding is of the same level as those zen order grandmasters. So fight with confidence but also with absolute focus. Don't wait for the opponent's attack, and think about how to suppress them with your attacks and other abilities."
After saying that, Athan turned around and looked at the countdown screen that was reaching 0 in ten seconds.
Sen, Shiromi, and others had become serious but also excited for the upcoming battles.
"As a final say, don't think about winning or losing. Just do your best," Athan spoke without turning back, "We can always try a second time if we lose."
But hearing the last part of the sentence spoken by Athan, Sen and others felt something stinging their heart. They had a strange feeling inside them that they couldn't describe. However, their thirst to win suddenly increased because of that sentence. They didn't want to lose!
The countdown reached 0 before a loud horn sound reverberated everywhere.
"The first battle is between...." A loud voice sounded as the black and white screen rapidly displayed random numbers before finally showing a number on each screen.
The black screen displayed [ 4 ] while the white screen displayed [ 12 ].
Chapter 559 - Last Trial-3
[A/N: Chaos beasts are also not allowed. I have changed that in rule 2 in the previous chapter.]
.....
"Youngest! Go and show them what you got!"
The three Nimpere brothers cheered for their youngest brother, who formed a fist as he started walking towards the battleground.
Athan looked at him and said with a faint smile, "Go and do your best."
"Yes, big brother!" Youngest shouted with resolve.
"If your opponent is at zen order grandmaster stage then fight with your full strength to gauge your own capabilities before deciding to give up," Athan said.
"Roger, big brother!"
...
After entering the battlefield, the person of the Star-Breaker hill faction laughed loudly seeing her opponent, "Little boy, you better give up if you don't want to feel any pain."
The aura she released clearly displayed that she was at Zen order grandmaster.
On the other hand, the fourth brother was stunned seeing the beauty but hearing her words, he resisted his urge to ask her for her hand in marriage and snorted, "No matter how beautiful you are, you are currently my enemy! And I will not give up!"
"YOUNGEST!" The Nimpere brothers had tears in their eyes seeing the resolve of their fourth brother.
They saluted him and swore that they wouldn't give in to their urges even if they encountered beauty in their battle.
Athan, Tiana, and others couldn't help but shake their heads with a wry smile.
Arcued and Theo joined as they also saluted along with Nimpere brothers, "Good job, Youngest."
On the other hand. The fourth brother's body released red and blue sparks before he pointed his palms towards the beauty, "Coreviun Blast!"
The red and blue sparks gathered in his palm before he used them in his essence order technique, Coreviun Blast.
The beauty in front of him snorted as she waved her hand, "It looks like you got a good essence innate physique, but...it can't help you cross the large difference between us."
A burning red river appeared in front of her that clashed with the red and blue sparking beam releasing from the palms of the fourth brother.
The clash occurred a giant blast before the fourth brother took out the voidlings, Titan and Bladeus.
The beauty also released the voidlings, Blitzzer and Bladues.
The fourth brother commanded Bladeus to attack the lady while controlling Titan to protect himself.
'Soul order technique...big brother said that soul order technique will give us the edge we need in battle,' Thought the fourth brother.
In terms of training, the four Nimpere brothers had the highest stage among the Athan and others when they joined in. Moreover, everyone would start training in one soul order technique after they reached soul order catastrophe phase-out of eagerness.
All in all, aside from Athan himself, everyone had already mastered an elite-grade soul order technique even though they didn't start training in any elite-grade soul order method like Athan.
Without further ado, the fourth brother released a soul order technique that he had mastered, 'Rage Blind Wave.'
'Humph, she didn't even use her chaotic spirit's 2nd transformation to increase her soul defense due to looking down on me. Now take this soul attack,' The fourth brother thought.
The beauty suddenly felt danger as her soul was hit hard, and she felt rage bubbling inside her while losing her reasoning.
'T-this...how come that bastard's soul is so powerful?...Fenirul!! '
Suddenly, her body shined as her chaotic spirit that was resting inside her chaos region used its ability and transformed before turning into armament form and covering its master.
She was losing her reasoning and control with unknown rage producing inside her that made it difficult for her to take action.
The fourth brother took this chance and used his most powerful offensive technique.
He first used his essence innate physique's power that was geared towards pure offense as he released red and blue sparks before executing the essence order technique, Hyperzolean Star Shaver.
*Buzzzzzzzzz.....*
A cluttering mass of intense shining stars formed before the red and blue sparks covered that star as it shot towards the beauty at fast speed before spinning rapidly.
The beauty was still struggling to take action as she barely used a defense essence order technique that didn't require much control and also activated her armor's ability.
*Crrrrrrrrrrrrr...BOOOM..*
The spinning star clashed with her defense dome technique and projection shield of her armor's ability before a loud blast occurred.
However, her defense managed to stand against the spinning star.
The fourth brother didn't give up as he continued attacking, but the lady always barely defended herself.
However...reality can't be changed that easily.
The difference in their strength was a bit too big. The beauty gradually recovered from the effect of Rage Blind Wave and even put her soul defense so that she could nullify her opponent's soul technique.
The chaotic spirit's armament transformation provides a good soul boost, and since her chaotic spirit was two stages above the fourth brother's chaotic spirit, she gained an advantage in soul as well.
After all, although everyone in Athan's group had their soul upgraded, their chaotic spirit's power level was still at 7-star grade.
The fourth brother tried his best, but he started to accumulate more injuries as his voidlings were destroyed by the opponent's Blizzter and Bladeus.
In the end...he lost.
However, there was not much joy on the beauty's face. All other audiences were also shocked by the battle.
The battle was supposed to last only for a few minutes! Because it was between a person who just entered Zen order Elite vs. someone at first order Zen order Grandmaster! However, the battle lasted for twenty-five minutes!
"First point goes to Star-Breaker hill faction!"
However, only a few supporters of the Star-breaker hill faction cheered while the rest remained dumbfounded.
The beauty and fourth brother returned to their areas.
"Mubomgin, what the hell was that battle?" Another zen order grandmaster in the Star-Breaker hill faction asked in a dire tone.
Mubomgin had an ugly face as she uttered, "That bastard's soul is unexpectedly powerful despite being at Zen order elite. Also, those red and blue sparks were due to his innate physique, and they were also powerful. They had the properties of replenishing and prolonging with increased potency of attacks. That's why his attacks could last longer in all ways. The main problem was his soul as it obstructed me quite a lot."
Illias frowned and nodded, "Well, they have chaos enlightenment tree for themselves, so Effyed must have guided them to acquire best of the best innate physiques. However, why are their souls so powerful?"
Chapter 560 - Last Trial-4, Trick
Five minutes passed as the next fight's matching started.
Black screen-[ 3 ]
White screen- [13]
Shiromi stood up and started walking into the battleground while Tiana and others cheered for her.
Athan smiled and said, "Shiromi, you can win."
Hearing those words, Shiromi gained a surge of confidence, and her resolve to win reached its peak.
On the other hand, although the fourth brother lost, he and others were not disappointed seeing how he gave tough time to a Zen order grandmaster.
That battle indeed put pressure on the Star-Breaker hill faction, and the opinion of the public shifted.
The opponent of Shiromi was a two-meter tall guy with four hands and long white wild hair.
He was at the peak of Zen order master but facing an entry-level Zen order elite like Shiromi; he maintained serious expression.
Illias strictly told them not to hold back and use everything at the start after watching the previous battle.
Shiromi knew that they would become cautious, so she also didn't hold back and summoned both voidlings. She told her chaotic spirit to be on armament mode as her appearance became like a divine goddess with white feathers, white coat, white robe with beautiful robe golden patterns on them.
Her opponent did the same, and...both used their first attack at the same time.
A soul order technique!
Shiromi already had a soul order physique known as Zoresl Great White Soul; she was born with it. This soul physique had various benefits, but the most important was that her soul energy's potency was extremely higher than normal people's. With Athan's Touch of Transcendent, her soul became even more powerful with slight mutation.
In the battle of soul, both sides would directly aim for each other's soul while defending against each other's other.
Shiromi and Ulbarka defended against each other's soul attack while conjuring their next attack.
Shiromi also activated her innate body physique, Hernocious Harbinger of Deep Blue.
She dashed towards Ulbarak with her body oozing out dreamy blue drops of liquid that surrounded her body parts in a whirling motion.
She stretched her hand forward with dreamy blue drops of liquid rotating with her hand as center shot forward.
Ulbarka also released his attack as sparkling white mist in the form of a ferocious beast 2 meters big shot towards Shiromi.
Shiromi's eyes were focused as she moved her hand that released those chain of dreamy blue liquid and let it dodge the incoming attack of Ulbarka.
Seeing that, Ulbarka was startled as he didn't expect that she wouldn't clash but would take his attack head-on.
Both Shiromi and Ulbarka prepared for defense very fast to defend against each other's attack.
The dreamy blue drops of liquid changed form as they shot out needles against each other to create a net before they intensely vibrated and hit the Ulbarka's defense that looked like a demonic brown dog with opened mouth, ready to devour her attack.
On the other hand, Shiromi conjured her defense faster for obvious reasons as she planned to take his attack head-on from the start.
The dreamy blue liquids surrounding her body parts came in front before forming a whirlpool that started vibrating intensely. But the whirlpool also started burning as Shiromi added another chaotic power into it.
She combined an order technique with her innate physique's power to form this defense as the whirlpool consumed the white must beasts.
Shiromi's Hernocious Harbinger of Deep Blue body physique granted her all-rounded benefits of offense, defense, control, speed, and versatility of imbuing all her powers into her physique's power as long as those powers were of lower potency than her physique's power and allowed her to manipulation the imbued powers at micro-level.
'His defense...hehe, got you,' Shiromi thought as she suddenly smiled.
After a second, she managed to destroy the white mist beast attack with her defense.
Before her voidlings were defeated, she wanted to defeat this guy, and...she realized that her opponent's soul defense of weakening against her soul attack.
Ulbarka had an ugly face as he also realized that his soul was less powerful than her, and he had a hard time defending against her.
Shiromi dashed forward as she released another soul attack by consuming her remaining soul energy.
Ulbarka knew that he was in a bad position, so he hurridly used all of his soul energy and even diffused his soul attack to focus on defending against Shiromi's soul attack fully.
'Damn!...I have to defeat her before her soul attack completely breaks my soul defense.' Ulbarka thought as right after setting up his defense; his body released intense white mist as they formed three large beasts that sparked with red and yellow lightning.
Shiromi's face turned grave seeing those three large misty beasts as they were clearly the result of Ulbarka going all out.
However, a smirk formed on the corner of her mouth.
Suddenly, Ulbarka's face changed as he felt piercing pain in his soul before everything turned blank for him.
'T-this...why her soul power spiked up suddenly?' These were Ulbarka's last thoughts before he fainted.
Actually, Shiromi was giving him a false impression of her soul power from the start since this was her soul's special trait. She could mask her real soul power and also camouflage other powers with her soul energy.
Ulbarka thought that he could just let his soul defense stall against Shiromi's soul attack for a little time while he finished her off with his most powerful attack. After making this plan, he removed his focus from the soul battle.
But Shiromi took advantage of that and showed her true power before defeating him.
"BATTLE OVER! One point goes to the challengers."
Ulbarka was taken to the resting area of the Star-break Hill faction by others since he lost his consciousness, and when they saw his soul state, they were startled.
Illias grimly spoke, "It will take three to four years for him to recover from this soul damage with regular soul recovery medicines."
"Damn! Her soul power is clearly at Zen order grandmaster. Don't tell me all of their soul power is at those levels?"