Chapter 661: Athan's Plan 2
Chapter 661: Athan's Plan 2
"Since you know what to do, then start working on it! And you four, let's go," Athan loudly said as he waved his hand and untrapped the four Chaos Sovereigns.
After hearing Athan's proposal, the Chaos Sovereigns were happy, and the five of them flew high up in the chaotic sky before entering the 2nd layer of Chaosverse.
On the other hand, the remaining people in the hall looked at each other with wry smiles.
"For such a simple thing, he called everyone here?"
"FOOL! That just shows that he is not kidding about it, and if anything happened to them, we would have fates worse than death."
"Indeed. Let's just help them progress and protect them, as per his instructions."
"He said he would return here in the future, so…"
"Yeah…"
…
After Athan entered the 2nd layer with those four Chaos Sovereigns, he went to Mist Illusion Palace, a 4th-grade organization with its leader.
"Sir, this is the recently Sovereign-grade warren dimension's entrance," said Milap, the leader of Mist Illusion Palace, as he pointed at a large gate with colorful patterns.
Athan nodded as he walked towards it while speaking, "after coming out, lead me to your enemy organizations."
"With pleasure, with pleasure," Milap said while nodding hurridly.
…
After Athan entered the dimension, he was greeted by Dreevindo and other Orchos Celestials.
"Athan…what happened?" Dreevindo asked with a serious expression.
Athan looked at Dreevindo and other Orchos Celestials before saying plainly. Still, his eyes burned fiercely with anger, "they were killed, and their souls are taken away by their killer. If I don't hurry up and reach the top, I won't be able to save them."
"Reach the top? What do you mean?" Yok asked with doubt.
"Since you so-called Orchos Celestial couldn't even see her or sense here coming here, then she is simply too powerful. I don't know where her 'top' is, but I am sure I will get the answer once I completely master my power and continue to get strong. And I need to do this as fast as I can," Athan spoke with a cold voice.
Looking at Dreevindo, he continued, "I will soon reach the top layer, so meet me there next time. I will become your candidate and enter the Orchos Firmament."
After saying that, he dashed forward and directly entered into a pond that contained chaotic, turbulent silver water with red sparks.
Right after Athan entered inside, his body started to break down and destroy.
"W-what the…why is he courting death? Even a Chaos Sovereign won't survive in that pond," Tartagoth spoke with a dumbfounded expression.
"Just watch. He is one hell of a mad existence," Dreevindo spoke with a smirk.
…
Athan resisted the chaotic pond with his abyssal void for a while to prevent his body from being destroyed. After that, he decomposed into a field of voidpulse and started limit-breaking his fundamental body structure and cells so they could absorb this powerful chaotic energy of the pond.
His soul was floating amidst this process, overlooking it and protecting his body.
His soul was completely unique right now and has fully turned into his power source. His soul energy could change into abyssal darkness but a more powerful version of it compared to what he uses from the Black orb, and he can also store voidpulse in his soul that he gains after devouring anything with abyssal darkness.
He had gained access to another portion of AVOF origin, and he was planning to use it after he ascended to Orchos Firmament.
"Dreevindo, this guy…what is that power that's fundamentally evolving his body and his body is also reacting to it? That's definitely something mystical," Kino'Vin asked with curiosity as her eyes glowed mystically, "I can't even see it properly despite using all of my power. I can only observe it slightly when his body limit breaks from its previous capacity."
"All those things aside, is he not feeling any pain?" Aby asked while sitting on Dreevindo's shoulder with an uncomfortable expression on her tiny face.
"I guess, no…," Dreevindo muttered.
He then turned to other Orchos Celestials and spoke, "anyway, since Athan's companions are no more, then you all have to find replacements."
"Let's hurry to the top layer and do that as soon as possible since it's quite important," Roserin said.
…
A year since Athan entered inside the vast Saint-grade Warren Dimension…
At this time, the four Chaos Sovereigns had met up at the Mist Illusion Palace and were discussing.
"When is he coming out? Don't tell me he died inside that dimension?"
"He wanted the strongest Saint-grade Warren-dimension, and we gave him that. I don't think he was not aware of its danger since he asked for it."
"Sigh, I just want him to come out fast and destroy those three organizations."
"He will do that. After all, he said that he will be quite hungry after coming out and would need soul food, hehehe."
"Tsk, we are really playing with fire, huh."
"Well, as long as he can kill them, we are fine."
…
"Master…shouldn't you take a bit of rest? Constantly doing this has put a toll on your soul," Efyeed said.
"It's fine. After coming out, I will eat more refined souls and make my soul stronger," Athan said as he continued with his extreme method of making his body stronger.
Days turned into months as six more months passed before Athan finally decided to come out.
Milap rushed there after Athan came out and bowed, "the preparations of your departure are done. Should we move there right away?"
"Mhmm," Athan nodded plainly.
…
After an hour, Athan arrived at the biggest Trading post on the 2nd layer of the Chaosverse by a flying ship.
After coming out, he started walking towards the most important building in this trading post without a care in the world.
The guards stopped him when he reached the entrance, but Athan just waved his hands and devoured the two Chaos Paragon guards with two abyssal darkness mouths.
…
"Sir, someone….someone just killed the outermost guards."
Chapter 662: Rampage
Chapter 662: Rampage
Athan entered the building and saw a row of powerhouses aiming their weapons at him.
He paused for a moment seeing them but then continued as if he didn't care.
"Stop! Why are you here, and why did you kill those guards?"
Athan didn't answer but continued walking.
"Attack him! Only use single-target attacks and aim his vitals."
*Pew…..Swooooosh…Zoooom….*
However, Athan's body was not hurt in the slightest by any of those attacks.
He was not even using his abyssal darkness because his current body could endure attacks of Chaos Sovereigns, let alone these chaos monarchs and paragons in front of him.
"H-his body strength…"
Athan disappeared as he teleported behind the group of people and opened his mouth, which released a giant wide abyssal darkness mouth that devoured every one.
At that moment, five Chaos Sovereign powerhouses arrived and saw that scene of Athan devouring everyone.
"You…you ate them?" A sexy lady with vampire teeth and draconic wings spoke with a dark face.
"Hmmm," Athan started walking towards them while speaking, "their body turned into voidpulse while their soul refined into pure soul power to enhance my soul. So yeah, I ate them."
"First, throw him out of here," an old man with white hair spoke as he projected his palm towards Athan before an overwhelming force pushed Athan and shot him outside of the build to several kilometers away into the sky.
Athan activated his abyssal field after reaching the chaotic atmosphere to stop himself from further pushing away by the strange pushing force.
"I should have activated the field right from the start. Oh well…," Athan muttered.
The five Chaos Sovereigns appeared before him after a second he was thrown here.
"Why did you attack the headquarters? What the heck is your purpose?"
Athan smiled and flew in front of the old man with white hair, "you want to know my purpose?"
"ISOLE-"
Before the old man could finish shouting angrily, a beastly mouth devoured him whole.
*burp…*
Athan did an intentional burp as he looked at the other four Chaos Sovereigns, "that old man had a powerful soul. Hope you all have the same."
"ATTACK THIS FREAK!"
*BOOOM…BOOOM….*
*Szzzzzzaapp…*
Everyone activated their Sovereign Territory and started attacking Athan with all of their power.
However, the abyssal field around Athan devoured every single of their attack as he zoomed in front of another Chaos Sovereign.
"RUN…"
Before Athan could devour him, that Sovereign used Space Blink as he disappeared and appeared a kilometer away.
Other powerhouses also ran away before continued attacking Athan.
"Inform other Sovereigns that a monster is here, and his target is likely powerhouses since he wants to eat them to gain power!"
"B-but…our attacks are not even going past one meter of him!"
"CONTINUE ATTACKING! Nothing is infinite, and he will likely run out of whatever power source he has that is allowing him to block our attacks."
Athan frowned and clicked his tongue as his current speed was not enough to chase and kill a Chaos Sovereign unless he sneakily attacks as he did previously.
"However…It's time that I use my powered-up body," Athan muttered as he told Limbus and Reigen to return.
"Efyeed, you should train Limbus and Reigen and make them more powerful. I am sending you a thousand drops of Voidpulse; use them as you see fit."
"As you wish, master."
Afterward, Athan looked at the four Chaos Sovereigns attacking him continuously and stretched his body, 'I need to hurry since their attacks already depleted my abyssal darkness reserve by 19%. I also need to devour other powerhouses that come here after them.'
After stretching his body, Athan tightened all of his muscles while the wings he created started to turn blood red as he was exhausting his body power to fuel it.
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM….*
The atmosphere quacked as Athan hit a Chaos Sovereign right in his scaly chest with a punch and…
*BOOOM…*
His body was shredded to pieces.
Athan hurridly conjured his abyssal mouth and devoured his soul after killing him.
"His body strength! FUCK! It's off the charts."
"Don't RUN! Just continue blinking in our Sovereign Territory, and he won't be able to catch up to us! If…If we don't kill him now, we will die!"
Athan paused as his eyeballs moved rapidly, observing their blinking moments constantly.
Suddenly, he turned to his left side and saw four more powerhouses coming and joined in the attack.
One of them spoke with red eyes while fiercely attacking Aren, "WHY DID YOU KILL MY BROTHER?!"
Athan grinned and dashed towards him.
*BOOOOOOOM….*
"DON'T PAUSE AT ONE LOCATION!" A Chaos Sovereign spoke frustratedly.
"Continue space blinking and attack him. WE HAVE TO PUT HIM DOWN RIGHT NOW!"
Athan paused and observed their moment attack before he dashed at super fast speed.
However, he missed his target.
"Why are you attacking us? WHY DO YOU WANT TO KILL US?"
Athan looked at them and spoke with a cold smile, "Why? Don't tell me you've never attacked or killed other people for your own gain? Haha, everyone does that! I am doing the same! I need soul power, so I am attacking you."
Afterward, Athan tried dashing one more time but missed the target again. However, a smile lingered in his eyes and a cold light that of them noticed.
He was giving them hope that they could kill him.
Suddenly, three more powerhouses arrived and joined the fray. Seeing them, Athan internally nodded, 'These much should be enough for me to fight against Chaos Supremes and start eating them.'
'80% soul energy…Hmmm, that should suffice,' Athan thought before his eyes glowed intensely, and a large mystical eye came into a projection on top of Athan.
Suddenly, all powerhouses felt an overwhelming soul pressure on them and saw an illusion of a terrifying beast eating their soul.
"Great," Athan muttered as he dashed forward and started devouring them one by one every second.
However, one of the powerhouses suddenly woke up and ran away in fear before Athan could eat him.
Athan didn't chase but devoured the remaining powerhouse before looking in the runner's direction.
However, he couldn't catch up to him since he practically teleported away.
"Oh well, these should be enough.. It's time to go to 1st layer now."
Chapter 663: Skyhigh Menzi Fort
Chapter 663: Skyhigh Menzi Fort
"Prepare a way for me to get to the 1st layer," Athan said as he looked at the four sovereign powerhouses.
"W-we could do that, but you didn't have to come here after killing them," said Milap.
The other three beside him agreed as they were afraid that they would be targetted later on by people in 1st layer who had connections with the people that Athan killed.
Hearing that, Athan's eyes turned cold as his eyes gleamed with black and white, using Gaze of Void on Milap.
"Arghaaaaaaaaa…," Milap was suppressed as he fell to the ground from the chair. He started screaming because Athan also used a bit of abyssal darkness to devour a piece of Milap's soul.
"P-please stop, sir."
"We won't have any complaint about your actions. We will make preparation right away!"
The other Chaos Sovereigns hurridly begged Athan to stop seeing Milap's condition.
Athan stopped suppressing Milap and closed his eyes before saying, "make preparation and call me when it's time to leave,"
Milap had lost consciousness, but Athan waved his hand as a tiny small white orb flew into Milap's body, which recovered his lost soul power and piece, causing him to wake up.
Waking up, Milap looked at Athan with even more fear because he knew how his soul was recovered to perfect condition! It was as if it was not hurt in the first place.
However, he remembered the pain and knew that it would haunt him until the end of his life.
"Do you have anything to say?" Athan spoke as he glanced at Milap coldly.
"N-nothing. We will prepare your identity and let you enter into a 1st-grade organization with our connection. After that…after th-"
"After that, you will not see me again," Athan spoke unhurriedly.
…
Athan had to do this sneakily because it wouldn't be easy to eat the powerful souls of Chaos Supremes.
He had gotten their information from Dreevindo and knew that they were darlings of the Chaosverse.
After fighting to master Chaosverse's power, they now get the support of Chaosverse after reaching Chaos Supreme realm.
There are five tiers in Chaos Supreme Realm, and each tier is presented by a four-pointed star with a circle border passing by their points. This symbol is known as Order Star, and it is manifested automatically as all Chaos Supremes become stronger. These Order Stars are like blessings from the Chaosverse itself.
1 Order Star is tier-one Chaos Supreme, 2 Order stars represent a tier-two Chaos Supreme, and so on…
Athan had the ability to kill them, but only if his abyssal darkness hit them. However, the current him can't catch up to a Chaos Supreme in speed. If they attacked him en-mass, he would also quickly lose his abyssal darkness, and his soul wouldn't be enough to suppress them if they got together.
That's why he had to make some plans after entering the 1st layer.
…
After a day, Athan was sent to the 1st layer with four people at Chaos Paragon realm. All five of them were going to the 1st-grade organization known as Skyhigh Menzi Fort.
Athan arrived at the first layer after passing through the mystical membrane by a flying ship that flew in the sky.
Athan's appearance had a bit changed as he turned his void outfit into more white looking with lapis blue and slight black designs while he wore his mask, which has also transformed into something that suits the new outfit design, with more whiteness and gold, and black patterns.
"Hey, man. How did you get the slot to enter there at the last moment?" A human man with no additional body features asked Athan, who was sitting in a further away sofa inside the ship's main hall.
Athan looked at the man and spoke plainly, "I threatened Milap to do it."
"Hahaha, nice joke. However…you said that at a wrong place," the man laughed before he smiled weakly and looked to his left side where a burly man was sitting with his eyes closed, "this guy's uncle is other than Sovereign Milap."
The burly man opened his eyes and looked at Athan as he remembered his uncle's words filled with fear as he showed Athan's image to him.
"Pirank, never try to provoke this person and stay as far away from him as possible after reaching 1st layer, got it?"
He had never seen that much fear in his uncle's eyes before and knew better not to meddle in this. So, he just nodded at Athan politely and closed his eyes again.
"What the…"
The other three people in the hall were dumbfounded and started talker internally.
'I think that guy must be a very close relative of Sovereign Milap. Maybe his son?'
'It's possible! Who knows how many sons he has, considering his wives.'
'But he got guts to insult Sovereign Milap like that despite that relationship. I wonder what would Sovereign Milap think if he heard him?'
…
After a while, the ship docked itself as everyone left the ship and saw a dockyard with many flying ships like them.
They landed on a large silver continent floating in the chaotic sky filled with various buildings and palaces. However, one could see that deep within this city, tens of kilometers away, a large castle reached the highest in the sky. That castle was other than the main headquarter of the Skyhigh Menzi Fort organization.
Athan started walking towards the large gates; his target was other than the master of that large castle deep within the city.
"Hey! Where are you going? We have to meet with our representative here who will officially admit us into the organization," the boy shouted towards Athan when he saw Athan entering the city directly.
However, Athan didn't pay him any heed and continued. Milap's job was only to bring him inside this territory, and he is here now.
…
After he reached the city gates, he had to pay a paragon-grade treasure to enter, which he did and entered inside.
The city was organized, and he could see that the surveillance was tight as many crystal eyes floated everywhere. Violence was absolutely not tolerated once you entered inside.
However, who will tell them that the symbol of terror had entered the city, about to do something that people haven't seen for ages since the organization was established here.
Chapter 664: How...Easy
Chapter 664: How…Easy
After entering the city, Athan started walking towards the fort. It was tens of kilometers far, but he continued walking at his pace while observing everything.
"Sigh…," Athan sighed as he missed Tiana and others, "I will get you back soon…wait for me."
His expression turned determined as he eyed the fort and muttered, "I have no problem with you, but…you will have to die for me."
…
After walking for a long time, he finally arrived at the fort, which was surrounded by thick walls filled with runic wards and runic formations.
There were powerful Sovereign guards at the gates who sat crossed-legged on mystical platforms near the large gates—seemingly training but guarding at the same time.
"What do you want?"
One of the four guards opened his eyes and questioned Athan seeing Athan walking towards the gate.
Athan paused and spoke plainly, "I want to discuss a deal with Qetalin Supreme."
After saying that, Athan released his powerful body aura.
Sensing the body aura, All guards became dignified.
'What a thick physical body pressure…'
The four guards looked at each other as if they discussed something internally before one of them looked at Athan and spoke, "what sort of deal?"
'Since Chaos Supremes are aware of Orchos Celestials, then I guess I'll try to lure this one using it. Let's hope it works,' Athan thought before he looked at the guards.
"The deal is not something that the likes of you are allowed to know. Just tell Supreme Qetalin that…It's about candidate thing," Athan spoke before he snorted.
After saying that, he turned around and started walking while speaking, "I am staying at Walizru Inn in the city. Come there to call me when Supreme Qetalin is ready to meet me. Oh…and tell him that he will get a chance to meet one directly and receive pointers as well."
Hearing such ridiculous words, the guards were dumbfounded.
"What the heck was blabbering? Supreme Qetalin receiving pointers from someone?"
"I don't know. However, he seemed pretty serious and didn't seem to be trolling, so…I think we should at least pass on this information."
"Alright."
…
Supreme Qetalin was not in the fort but outside meeting with the other two Supremes. They talked about a new Chaos Phenomenon in the top layer and decided to go there for training.
Suddenly, Qetalin got a contact, and after a few moments, he stood up and bowed towards his friends before saying, "I have some urgencies, so I will have to leave. We will fix the date after a day."
After saying that, he directly conjured a portal and left.
Seeing him in such a hurry, the other two were dumbfounded.
"What happened?"
"Who knows…"
…
Athan had just reached the Inn when two guards caught up to him and called him back.
"Please come back with us. Supreme Qetalin wants to meet you."
The other people nearby were surprised to see that the guards of the fort especially came running to invite someone instead of contacting the person through a contact card.
Well…they didn't know that Athan didn't give them his contact card.
On the other hand, Athan was surprised, but he nodded and followed the guards back since things were going his way.
Right when Athan nodded his head, a portal appeared beside the guards.
This portal was a bit unique as Athan could see that a man was wearing a red-gold design robe sitting on a sofa in a hall at the other side of the portal.
Athan walked towards the portal without hesitation and entered inside.
Walking towards the Supreme Qetalin, Athan revealed his body aura deliberately to show his strength. He knew that this Supreme Qetalin had a powerful body than even him, which is why he had to make this mission natural to succeed.
Seeing Athan entering, Qetalin stood up from the sofa and nodded with a smile, "Although I have my suspicions, I'll let you speak your part. I hope you are not joking around because…you won't live alive from here otherwise."
"Also…remove that mask because I don't see faceless people," spoke Qetalin with an overbearing smile.
Athan walked towards Qetalin as he waved his hand in front of his face, removing the mask.
While walking towards Qetalin, Athan smiled and spoke, "my name is Athan…I am already a candidate of an Orchos Celestial, and I was tasked to find another candidate because of the unique powers I have from the Orchos firmament. You have to agree to a test held by Orchos Celestial with other people I have selected."
Hearing this, Qetalin's hopes increased by a few notches, "what kind of test? Also, you said we would receive pointers as well?"
"I will tell you about the details now, so let's hope we can reach an agreement in this deal," Athan spoke with a faint smile as he stretched his hand towards Qetalin for a handshake.
'He probably needs some resources and treasures in exchange for giving me a chance…Hmm, if he is telling the truth, I can give him the resources and treasures he wants, or maybe he wants revenge? since Orchos Celestial can't interfere in our affairs.'
Thinking rapidly, Qetalin nodded, stretched his hand towards Athan, and made a handshake.
However, a second later, Qetalin's smiling expression froze. His eyes slowly changed into ones filled with disbelief and fear.
"How…easy," Athan muttered as he didn't stop the handshake.
He looked at Qetalin and spoke with a wry smile," I guess I was overthinking. You Chaos Supremes are pinnacle beings, and seeing me, whose power clearly exudes lower than you, why would you have your guard up? In your own territory at that, right? heh…"
"W-why?" Qetalin asked while sweating. He was confused and panicked right now while fear of death loomed over him and his…soul.
The moment he shook hands with Athan, a powerful and unique burst of soul power hit him and shook his soul before he realized that the strange beastly mouth floating in front of his soul could kill him in a moment.
A black aura released from Athan as a giant beastly mouth materialized behind Qetalin, ready to eat him whole any second.
Chapter 665: Continuing.
"Do you want to die or live?" Athan asked plainly.
"Of course, I want to live," Qetalin spoke fearfully.
"Yeah, everyone wants to live," Athan said with a nod as he infused more abyssal darkness inside the beasty mouth in front of Qetalin's soul.
Afterward, Athan removed the handshake and sat down on the couch before speaking, "you see that beastly mouth looming over your soul?"
Qetalin hurridly nodded while sweating.
"I'm sure you already know, but your life is in my hands now," Athan spoke without any emotion in his voice, "do what I say next, and I will not kill you."
Qetalin turned stiff hearing that and didn't know what kind of things Athan would force him to do. However, he had no choice but to agree.
"W-what will I need to do?"
"You must know some Chaos Supremes, right?" Athan asked.
"Yes," Qetalin nodded, unable to figure out Athan's demands, 'does he want to trap more Chaos Supremes like me and then do some kind of big work for him?'
"Call a single Chaos Supreme powerhouse here using any method. That powerhouse shouldn't know about your current plight, or I will kill you instantly. Temptation, discussion, or anything, just call one powerhouse here today," said Athan before he closed his eyes, "I am waiting."
…
"Damn…why do I have to suffer like this? FUCK!" Qetalin cursed with anger and helplessness in another room.
He looked at the beastly mouth in front of his soul inside him and trembled before he sighed.
He took some deep breaths and calmed down before taking out a contact card.
"Irenka, do you know why I left the meeting in a hurry?"
"Why?"
"Because I received an opportunity to be tested in a trial held by an Orchos Celestial. I can invite two more people, and I am thinking about inviting you and Gorlon."
"What! You are not kidding, right?"
"Nope. I contacted you first so we can discuss more. Afterward, we will invite either Gorlon or someone else."
"Hmmm…Gorlon is weaker than both of us but trustworthy. Anyway, I'm coming there first."
"Yeah, let's discuss first. I also need to tell you more about this," said Qetalin before he held up the contact card.
"Haaah…" Qetalin sighed before freshening up his expression and adjusting his mood to match this situation before standing up.
…
Athan opened his eyes and saw the door of the hall opening before two people came out. A man and a woman.
Qetalin and Irenka.
Irenka was a human lady but had sparkling blue and red feathered wings and a crown on her head.
Seeing Athan, Irenka was surprised and turned to Qetalin, "who is he?"
Qetalin grinned and said, "he is the one who brought this opportunity to us. Come let me introduce you to each other."
Athan stood up and walked towards them as they also walked towards him.
Stretching his hand out, Athan spoke with a nod, "my name is Athan,"
"Hello," Irenka smiled and stretched her hand as she shook hands with Athan, "I am Irenka."
Athan smiled and nodded before he attacked her with his burst of soul power and conjured a beastly mouth made of abyssal darkness in front of her soul, just like he did with Qetalin.
"Y-you…," Irenka was shocked as fear of death welled up in her. She turned to the side only to look at Qetalin slumping on the couch with a sigh.
"Don't blame me, Irenka; I had no other choice. You would do the same if you were in my position," Qetalin spoke while shaking his head.
"P-please…please don't kill me," Irenka begged with fear while Athan took back his hand from the handshake. She knew that the person in front of her could kill her any second and was still in disbelief at how was this possible.
Abyssal darkness released from Athan's body as it took the shape of a large beastly mouth behind Irenka.
However, instead of eating Irenka, the beastly mouth devoured Qetalin to its left side, who was sitting on a sofa.
Qetalin wanted to run as he noticed the killing intent, but Athan attacked with his soul power and suppressed him as Qetalin felt dizzy before getting devoured.
Irenka trembled and didn't dare to move in front of death.
On the other hand, Athan took back the beastly mouth of abyssal darkness inside him and closed his eyes.
"Mhmmm…Very powerful origin soul power," muttering this, Athan opened his eyes and looked at Irenka, "open a portal, we are leaving."
"W-where?" Irenka asked with some hesitation.
"To your territory," Athan said.
…
In the private residence hall of the Leaf Carnage Court's leader, Irenka…
Athan sat on the couch while Irenka poured him a cup of tea filled with a deadly poison.
'Will it work? Even if it doesn't work, my life is in his hands right now. I have to take this risk,' Irenka thought as she poured in the tea.
"What will happen after the news of Qetalin's death spreads?" Athan asked Irenka as he picked up the teacup and took a sip.
Right after he took a sip, a malevolent and deadly toxic force assaulted his body and soul.
Irenka watched as sweat fell like a waterfall from her body.
However, Athan didn't even budge as the abyssal darkness entirely erased the poison that assaulted his body and soul.
Looking at Irenka, he continued drinking tea and spoke plainly, "answer me."
Irenka trembled a bit as she knelt down and hurriedly spoke, "please forgi-"
"stop wasting time and answer my question," Athan interrupted her as he didn't want to hear her begging or any other bull shit.
'Is he not mad at me? Why is he so indifferent to this?' Irenka thought.
She stood up and answered Athan's question hurridly, "Qetalin's death…it will bring shock to many people because the death of a Chaos Supreme is a very rare thing. However, he didn't have any relative Chaos Supremes, so I doubt anything major will happen except for the internal strife of the Skyhigh Menzi Fort."
"Mhmm," Athan nodded before putting the finished teacup down, "There should be powerful dimensions filled with potent chaotic powers in this layer as well, right? Bring me to one."
"Bring me to the most powerful supreme-grade dimension," Athan continued as he stood up, "Don't try to do anything funny while I am inside the dimension because your life is in my hands from now on."
Chapter 666: Years & Lily
Athan continued training with his usual method to strengthen his physical body in the powerful supreme-grade warren dimension.
Time passed as days turned months and months into years…
Five years passed…
While Athan was training, a new Chaos Supreme powerhouse was rapidly making a name for herself.
This powerhouse was practically unstoppable after her initial rise four years ago and rapidly rose to become the most powerful Chaos Supreme in three years.
Among Orchos Celestial, she was even more famous because she managed to establish a Mythical-grade Cynrailic Orchos Genome.
Once a Chaos supreme establishes Cynrailic Orchos Genome in their soul through a method taught by an Orchos Celestial, they can receive a random relic blessing after entering the Orchos Firmament, and this relic blessing can really help them in the true world, which is the Orchos Firmament. Naturally, the grade of their Cynrailic Orchos Genome decides what kind of Relic blessing they could get. The lowest being common-grade and the highest being Mythical-grade.
…
"Lucky, we are really famous now, and my name is also spreading far and wide. Considering that, Athan should soon find about us, right?"
"Meow~! Indeed. I also can't wait to see master again," said Lucky, the cute white cat as it sat on Lily's shoulder.
Huarin looked at Lily and shook her head wryly, "you really worked hard, Lily. Now I just hope that your wishes get fulfilled."
Lily and Huarin were sitting at a table inside the Ark space. Hearing, Huarin, Lily smiled as she thought about Athan with a nostalgic expression and spoke, "I just want to say sorry to him. I still love him, but I don't know how he feels about me."
"Anyway, sister Huarin, how is your progress now? Think you can breakthrough to Chaos Supreme realm after a month?" Lily asked Huarin.
"Yeah," Huarin nodded with a smile, "All we needed was just resources to make ourselves stronger since we already have a powerful soul and comprehension ability."
"I want you to establish Mythical-grade Cynrailic Orchos Genome as well, okay?" Lily said with a pout before she lightly laughed, "Hehe, I will enhance your soul during the process so you can do it."
"By the way, Lucky. Where are those four right now? I haven't seen them for a year now," Lily asked Lucky about DeathKnight, Lucent, Skylord, and Silvestra.
"They are enjoying in a supreme-grade Warren dimension they found a year ago," said Lucky, "Meow! I told them to bring some good meat here so we can eat, but they are taking too long now. Wait, I'll go and bring them back."
"Ohh…Now I also feel like eating some high-quality food," Lily said before she chuckled and looked at Huarin, "sister Huarin, let's go and meet Issandra Supreme. Lucky, you go and tell those four to bring the ingredients at Issandra's palace."
"Mhmm. We haven't eaten food for a year now," Huarin nodded with a smile.
…
Two more years passed before Athan finally came out of the supreme-grade dimension.
After constantly training for seven years and refining his body to make it such solid that no Chaotic power in this dimension could affect it, Athan came out.
His physical appearance slightly changed as he looked in his mid-twenties.
"Now I need to devour some powerful souls and reach the limit in that as well," Athan muttered as he took out a contact of Irenka that asked for before entering the dimension seven years ago.
Using voidpulse to create some chaos energy, he infused it into the card and contacted Irenka.
Athan,–"Open the portal here."
Irenka,–"Right away!"
Shortly aftward, A portal appeared in front of Athan, and he could see Irenka standing respectfully at the other side of the portal.
…
"I have roped in five Chaos Supreme powerhouses in the past seven years and told them that I will contact them when the Orchos Celestial's agent returns," Irenka spoke respectfully.
"Good," Athan nodded while sitting on the couch, "bring them here one by one."
After Irenka left the hall, Athan spoke, "Dreevindo."
"You are really getting more scary, Athan. Why must you train so brutally in that dimension?" Dreevindo appeared in the hall and said while shaking his head.
"How much time until your so-called competition starts and I get to ascend to Orchos Firmament?" Athan asked plainly, "If it takes too long, then I will leave through the second method."
"Second method?" Dreevindo wryly smiled and said, "I guess you found out that there is a large realm teleportation formation in the top layer. Well, I knew you would find about it sooner or later."
Athan nodded. He was not really upset that Dreevindo didn't tell him about it because it seemed like he would know about this sooner or later when he went to the top layer.
"Athan, I suggest you come with us instead of going by yourself. We will leave after ten years," Dreevindo said with a serious expression.
Hearing that, Athan raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Ten years? You expected Tiana and others to become Chaos Supremes at that time while having this close deadline?"
"Eh…didn't you fully read the scroll I gave you?" Dreevindo said before he laughed, "for talented people, It's really not a matter of time to become Chaos Supreme but a matter of how fast they can acquire the required resources and get strong."
"You all have powerful souls and high comprehension, which would grow more and more as you reach the next realms. Sigh, the higher your realm, the faster you would progress because of that," Dreevindo said with a sigh, "After Chaos Paragone realm, you literally become the darlings of this Chaosverse. The Chaosverse itself supports you."
"Why?" Athan asked with curiosity.
"That…erm, It's related to the [Self] portion in the scroll," Dreevindo said with a wry smile, 'Should I tell him the real purpose of our recruitment? Hmmm, but this guy is crazy, and I don't know how he would respond to that.'
"That aside, Athan. How about you try forming Cynrailic Orchos Genome after you finish eating some Chaos Supremes? The more powerful your soul, the higher grade your Cynrailic Orchos Genome will be. This will help you once you enter the Orchos Firmament."
"Cynrailic Orchos Genome? What's that?"
Chapter 667: Athan's Offer
"I see…Well, I will do it later. For now, I want to eat," Athan nodded to Drivindo after hearing about Cynrailic Orchos Genome.
"Alright. See you at the top layer," Dreevindo said with a smile.
After a few hours, the first sheep arrived in the hall with Irenka.
At that moment, Athan was ready with his black-lapis blue wings that Reigen and Limbus superimposed.
Reigen and Limbus had become a lot stronger due to constantly training in the past seven years.
Since both of them were mutated by Primo and enhanced by Athan's soul, they were far from ordinary chaos beasts and chaotic spirits. With Efyeed's help, who had also progressed tremendously and became Sovereign-grade Trestent, Limbus and Reigen also reached the Sovereign level of power.
To become as useful as possible to Athan, Limbus and Reigen focused on increasing their speed power and grasped powers that can incorporate and ignore the chaotic space to help Athan teleport fast distances quickly.
Since Primo's power was related to the Space matrix, both Reigen and Limbus created two powerful moves related to space and speed. They can use it in tandem with Athan's wings to help him catch his opponents.
…
After an hour, a piece of soul-shaking news spread to the entire 1st layer.
Five Chaos Supremes died.
At this moment, fifteen Chaos Supremes were having a meeting at the most powerful organization of the 1st layer, Dark Dock.
"What the fuck is going on!! How can so many Chaos Supremes die one by one?"
"All of them were related to Irenka Supreme. Also, according to the reports from those Chaos Supreme's respective organizations, the timing between their deaths is just 3 to 4 minutes."
"According to what I found, Irenka Supreme brought all of them to her organization for a meeting, and afterward, those five died one by one by."
"Did any of you find her?"
"Nope. Our people are at her organization right now, and her soul slip is still intact."
"Damn! Just who could be so powerful enough to kill Chaos Supremes this fast?"
"It's definitely not Irenka."
"Could it be that new Chaos Supreme that rose to fame a few years ago? I heard she also killed a Chaos Supreme without much trouble."
"No. She is not capable of killing Chaos Supremes this fast. Her fight with Jomeur Drake Supreme went on for half an hour."
"Sigh…I am a bit scared. I think we should stay together for a while."
"I second that."
…
On the other hand, Athan and Irenka had arrived at the top layer because Athan told her to open the portal there right after feeding his soul.
After they arrived at the top layer, Irenka looked fearfully at Athan and said, "p-please…spare me."
She had seen the power of Athan and couldn't get it out of her mind.
However, Athan didn't look at her but behind her as he saw powerful presences heading their way.
Four people with powerful aura arrived and floated a few kilometers away from Athan and Irenka.
Two men and two women. Four of them were luxurious attire and had pure human appearance except for tiny additions like wings and horns.
"That woman is the Irenka Supreme. I had met her once before, and I can't be wrong by using my Unbound Trail order ability. Her aura presence matches with my memories," said a human man with kingly clothes and a cane in his hand. He looked in his mid-thirties appearance-wise.
Hearing that, the three people nodded before all of them looked at Athan with a solemn expression.
Athan looked at them and found that these four people were significantly stronger than the other Chaos Supremes he met, 'they must be at the peak of Chaos Supreme realm. Well, not that they can do anything to me.'
"What is your motive for killing those Chaos Supremes?" said a lady with a pair of angelic white and devilish black wings behind her back.
"I needed their soul power, so I killed them," Athan spoke plainly before he smiled, "do you have any enemies that you want to kill? I am sure the competition to gain a candidate position from an Orchos Celestial is tough.
Athan started flying towards them after speaking but seeing him moving; those four powerhouses rapidly retreated back.
"Don't come closer! We can discuss from afar."
"Alright," Athan nodded with a wry smile as he stopped, "so what I am saying is…if you have some obstacles to remove for your success, then I can help you with that."
'This would really save my time of making my soul as strong as possible,' Aren thought as he looked at the four powerhouses.
"And you, you are free to go," Athan said as he turned back to Irenka and waved his hand to take back the beastly mouth of abyssal darkness in front of her soul.
Irenka felt the threat leaving her body and sighed a huge relief as she hurridly bowed to Athan before leaving.
Afterward, Athan looked at the four powerhouses and spoke, "you all have five minutes to make a decision. After that, I will kill two of you."
Saying that, Athan unfurled his large dashing wings and activated the void cloak that created a mystical field around him.
Seeing Athan like that, the four powerhouses looked at each other with cautious expressions.
'I…I can't see through him even with my Astral Chaotic Vision Order ability.'
'Sigh…we thought we had a chance to run since he only killed 3rd tier Chaos Supremes but now that we see him closely, he…he is something entirely different.'
'Fuck, we shouldn't have come here.'
'If we run now, will he be able to catch us?'
'We…we shouldn't take a risk now that we know how freaky this being is. I suggest we benefit ourselves with him.'
'Seriously? But even though those Orchos Celestials have never interfered before, there also wasn't an incident when another Chaos Supreme killed a candidate. What if they interfered after this guy kills them?'
'There wasn't any incident previous because those candidate Chaos Supremes are one of the most powerful and have managed to grasp powerful order abilities. Anyway, I don't want to risk it, so I will take up his offer.'
The second man in the group, who used Astral Chaotic Vision on Athan, turned to Athan and spoke loudly, "I will take up your offer."
Chapter 668: Head on
In the end, the other three Chaos Supremes also decided to shake hands instead of trying to risk their life.
…
"Let's go to the Mountain of Red Dust Cliff. We will discuss our next course of action there," said Kingvi. The person who had Astral Chaotic Vision order ability. After speaking, he conjured a portal.
Athan and the other four entered inside a portal and arrived at the peak of a cliff with a mystical ground filled with red dusk.
There was already a table with four chairs around it on the cliff, but Kingvi conjured another chair and respectfully told Athan to sit there.
…
"Either you can bring your targets to a location where I will be waiting, or you just need to take me to their location," Athan said as he took a sip from the teacup, "I am fine with both ways, but I want this to be done quickly."
Looking at four of them, Athan put the teacup down and said with narrowed eyes, "quickly means right now."
"Right now…," Myrani muttered as she nodded and pointed her hand to the side in empty space as a portal conjured.
"After going through this portal and constantly moving in the front, you will encounter a large floating land with a giant crystalized palace on it. The master of that palace is called Beining Flake and is at the peak of Chaos Supreme realm and also a candidate."
"Good," Athan nodded as he stood up and walked towards the portal.
However, before he entered, he turned back and asked for their contact card, "once I am done there, I will contact you to pick me up."
…
After Athan left, the four powerhouses turned silent for a moment before one of them spoke, "should we follow him and observe?"
"My order ability wouldn't work on him. Otherwise, we could observe whatever he is observing," Poneshi, the second woman in the group, spoke.
"Let's just go to the Grand Chaos City instead of staying here. We will know about the news with other beings there."
…
On the other hand, Athan started cutting the distances to the straight after coming out o the portal and soon saw a grand land floating in the chaotic space with a giant crystalized mountain on it.
A barrier covered the entire land, and there was a large entrance gate in the front guarded by guards.
Many ships were docked on a piece of island that was separated from the large land. All people who wanted to enter the mainland had to be inspected at the entrance gate.
Athan went straight towards the mainland's giant entrance.
"Stop!"
Two guards riding griffin-like beasts but with three heads flew towards Athan and shouted.
The beast exuded Chaos Supreme aura, and the guard was the same. However, Athan was a bit surprised because he noticed that these guards were not really living people but…puppets.
However, these puppets had their unique soul and identity. Just…their source of power was a bit different. In addition to the soul, they had a powerful core as well. Their strength seemed to be fixed at Chaos Supreme-1st tier.
Two guards arrived at Athan while there were still fifteen guards at the gate.
"Well, even though their soul power is not as pure, it should still help me," Athan muttered as his wings pulsed a bit, and he disappeared before appearing behind the guards.
A beastly mouth materialized instantly and devoured the guards.
Athan refined their soul and absorbed their soul power.
Closing his eyes, he nodded, "not bad…but not enough."
"ATTACK!"
All other guards suddenly surrounded Athan, and the main palace was also informed about the trouble at the entrance.
A group at the gate was shocked at the audacity of Athan. They were just entering the mainland for some business and were actually people of another peak Chaos Supreme powerhouse.
"Someone is causing trouble at the Puppet Lord's place…interesting."
"He is powerful. I can't see through him."
"What was that beastly black mouth with creepy white teeth? It didn't seem like chaotic power to me. Didn't sense any order marks in it."
"I don't know. But since he dared to cause trouble here, he must be at least tier-5 Chaos Supreme."
…
Athan looked at guards around him and suddenly raised his hands before speaking, "I surrender."
The guards and other people were stunned.
"What? I just wanted to meet the owner of this place quickly, and that's why I caused trouble like this," Athan said with a wry smile.
Suddenly, one of the guards was surrounded by a black-purple flame before it transformed into a different man.
He arrived in front of Athan and spoke with an interesting expression on his face, "What do you want?"
"Hmmm?" Athan was surprised as he felt the entire puppet changing into something else. However, he didn't pay much attention to it. In front of absolute strength, no tricks can work.
"Why do you think I want something from you?" Athan asked as he raised his eyebrows.
"Hahaha. People only come to Puppet Lord if they want something," the man spoke while laughing. His eyes were hollow and burning with black-purple flame.
"Athan!"
At this moment, Dreevindo appeared beside Athan while sweating and asked, "You…are you here to…?"
Dreevindo knew that Athan was devouring powerhouses to make himself stronger but didn't expect he would target a candidate of another Orchos Celestial.
Seeing Dreevindo, the Puppet Lord bowed and asked, "Esteemed Orchos Celestial, is he your candidate?"
Athan frowned and then turned indifferent as he decided to make things quick.
Disappearing from his position, he appeared right in front of the Puppet Lord's avatar and devoured him.
However, another guard transformed into the same man as before and snorted, "attack him!"
…
Inside the crystalized palace's main hall. A man wearing a black-purple robe with two dark-purple burning horns on his head sat on a throne as he watched everything happening at the entrance.
After a moment, a man with a wolf-head appeared in the hall.
Seeing this man, the Puppet Lord became respectful and spoke, "Celestial Sirius, what is going on? Isn't it futile for two candidates to fight against each other here?"
"I'll go and talk to Dreevindo," Celestial Sirius spoke before he disappeared.
Chapter 669: Conflict
When Sirius disappeared from the hall, Athan also disappeared from outside.
He used his soul sense to find the Puppet Lord's trail from the puppet he devoured outside and broke the barrier before entering the mainland.
Seeing that, the Puppet Lord became angry as well and left the palace to meet Athan head-on, "you will regret messing with me!"
…
When Sirius arrived beside Dreevindo, he saw Athan disappearing and frowned.
Looking at Dreevindo, he asked, "what's going on? Is he your candidate?"
Dreevindo wryly smiled and nodded, "yeah. But he is…an enigma."
Sirius frowned as he looked in the direction of the mainland, "I can't see through him, which is strange. What kind of being is he? How did he appear here?"
"I don't know, but the power he wields is quite mysterious," Dreevindo spoke with a wry smile.
"Even more powerful than genome power? Flake has his genome tree filled to the limit of his existence. So, he should be able to put up some fight, I think," Sirius spoke with a pondering expression.
"He filled his Genome Tree's branch to 7th?" Dreevindo was surprised, but then he shook his head, "anyway, it's useless. He may be able to resist for a while, but…he can't escape death if Athan decided to kill him."
Hearing that, Sirius's expression turned dark as he looked at Dreevindo, "then stop him!"
"He won't listen to me, and we can't use our full powers here. Without using our full power, we can't do anything to Athan," Dreevindo spoke while shaking his head wryly.
"If Flake dies, then I will kill your candidate," Sirius spoke with a grim expression, "since he is your candidate, he will surely arrive at Orchos Firmament, right? I will kill him at that time."
After saying that, Sirius snorted and looked back at Athan and Puppet Lord Flake's battle.
…
"Your audacity ends here," Puppet Lord Flake snorted as he waved his hand as ten puppets covered in dark-purple flame appeared in front of him.
Athan paused and narrowed his eyes before speaking, "I've had a familiar vibe with this power. Hmmm, so it's indeed genome power."
"Hahaha, I have created grand order ability that can be enhanced with my genome power, Hell Blaze of Astaroth. Let's see how long you last," Puppet Lord Flake laughed and spoke as the puppets he summoned attacked Athan.
Five puppets conjured burning claws as they dashed towards Athan while the other five puppets opened their mouths and released a chaotic dark-purple flame breath.
Right after that, Puppet Lord Flake snapped his finger and muttered, "Spark of Veracity,"
A burning dark-purple star appeared on top of Athan.
Athan suddenly felt a powerful soul attack from the star on top of him, attempting to confuse his mind and soul.
However, Athan's expression didn't change as he used his abyssal darkness to devour everything.
"Genome power…It's as powerful as always," Athan muttered before he looked at the incoming attacks from the puppets and waved his hand.
A whirlpool of abyssal darkness appeared in front of him that sparked with lapis blue glows. It forcefully pulled the incoming attacks and the puppets dashing towards it and devoured them.
"This is just a start!" Puppet Lord Flake grunted before he waved his hands again and conjured five more puppets that were three meters tall and had a meter long dark-purple burning nails. They dashed towards Athan while screaming.
After that, Puppet Lord flake pointed both of his palms at Athan as his eyes glowed brightly with a dark purple flame, 'Eternus Blaze Cannon.'
*BOOOOOOOM….*
A destructive dark purple beam shot towards Athan, intending to obliterate him.
"It's the end," Athan spoke while shaking his head as his wings pulsed with power. The space around Athan flickered as he disappeared and appeared right behind Puppet Lord Flake, his hand already grabbing Flake's neck.
"Ho-"
Flake was shocked, and before he could speak more, a giant beastly mouth with white teeth materialized and devoured him.
Athan closed his eyes as a satisfied expression appeared on his face, "How powerful. It's more so since he practiced a genome power as well,"
After a minute, Athan opened his eyes as they gleamed with black and white. He felt that he should enter in meditating to purely understand the Abyssal Void of Fabrication after devouring one or two more Chaos Supreme like Puppet Lord Flake.
Suddenly, he saw a man with a black wolf-head appearing in front of several meters away.
"What?" Athan asked with a plain expression.
Sirius continued looking at Athan with a dark expression for five seconds before disappearing without saying anything.
"Weird fellow," Athan muttered before he took out a contact card.
"Weird fellow, my ass!" Dreevindo appeared beside Athan and said before sighing.
"Why did you have to kill a candidate?" Dreevindo asked, "Couldn't you just kill normal Chaos Supremes and have your fill with them?"
"I think I will devour two more of them before their soul power stops affecting my soul's growth," said Athan with a smile, "It's about quality, Dreevindo. I need high-quality souls to make my soul stronger. Otherwise, my soul power wouldn't have any origin growth to it."
"Just like my current physical body, which won't get strong anymore here since no chaotic power affects its growth anymore," Athan said, "To upgrade the origin of my soul, I need need to devour higher quality soul power."
"But you are sighing your death warrant! That Sirius will kill you once you go to the Orchos Firmament! Naturally, it will be after the competition, but still…sigh," Dreevindo said with a sigh.
"Hahaha, Dreevindo. You haven't tasted my abyssal darkness for a long time. After all, I used it on you when I only had 5% of its understanding," said Athan with a laugh before he narrowed his eyes, "do you want to see how powerful it is now?"
"Hmmm? Has it gotten stronger? I can't really make heads or tails about your power since even though I can see it, I can't sense it. It's like it doesn't exist, but that scary shit is there for sure," Dreevindo said with a wry smile.
"Here, taste it," Athan said as he waved his hand and released a fist-sized orb condensed with abyssal darkness towards Dreevindo.
Chapter 670: Must Be Self Reliant!!
The first-sized orb condensed with abyssal darkness flew towards Dreevindo, and seeing it, Dreevindo stretched his hand forward to touch it.
Before his hand touched the orb, Dreevindo thought, 'when this hit me the first time, I was blocking it with my genome power and orchos energy. However, this power rapidly consumed them, indicating that it's a higher power than my genome power and orchos energy. Now since Athan is saying it's more powerfu-'
"FUCK!"
Just as Dreevindo's hand touched the abyssal darkness orb, he cursed and disappeared.
Athan smiled as he saw Dreevindo disappearing and contacted Kingvi to pick him up.
After two and a half seconds, a portal opened in front of Athan.
…
"Next target," said Athan as he sat on the chair leisurely, "make arrangement. I will move out after an hour."
After saying he closed his eyes and focused on his soul.
Inside void region…
Athan's soul was in the same appearance him, with the difference being that the soul had a black and white body.
Externally, the soul's body was black, but one could see strange white patterns inside the soul.
"Efyeed, Limbus, and Reigen. Are you ready for another boost? Make use of this soul power and voidpulse to enhance yourselves," said Athan before he provided his soul power and voidpulse to three of them.
"Yes, master."
After providing them the boost, Athan took ten minutes to stabilize his soul for the massive power-up he received by devouring the pure refined soul power of Puppet Lord Flake.
'My current soul power's magnitude is already the same as the one I just devoured. However, my soul quality is much higher. Hmmm…I guess I can try to devour two or three more souls at the same power as Puppet Lord Flake before they stopped affecting my soul's normal growth,' Athan thought after inspecting his status deeply.
"Hey, Athan!! What the heck was that?"
Hearing the voice, Athan opened his eyes and saw Dreevindo with a sweaty expression.
"Your hand is fine," said Athan with a faint smile, "that's good."
"Good, my ass," Dreevindo said as he waved his hand with a weak expression, "That orb broke through my defensive curtain shield made of genome power and orchos energy. It simply overrode the limit they could take at once, so I couldn't consume that orb's power continuously by providing my energy to my shield like before. Sigh…I had to cut my hand in the end."
After saying that, Dreevindo sat on the chair across Athan on the red cliff.
Those four Chaos Supremes were not here right now as they went to select the next target for Athan and make arrangements for him to reach them.
"Why did your power become so much stronger in such a short time?" Dreevindo said with a sigh as he picked up the teacup and took a sip.
"The previous time I attacked you was with five percent of my power. However, this time, it was twenty percent," said Athan with a faint smile.
"What the fuck?" Dreevindo was stunned, "you are joking, right? five percent to twenty percent had such big jump in potency of power then…how powerful will it be at hundred percent?"
Dreevindo's mind was going into hyperdrive mode as he simply couldn't imagine Athan's power scaling once it reached a hundred percent.
'Even though this was just my avatar, my real body in Orchos Firmament felt pain passing through when my hand was devoured by that orb. This power…it's unblockable. If Athan's soul becomes more powerful and he uses his full power, he…won't he possess the power to kill my real body through my Avtar?'
'Athan…either I become his trustworthy friend, or I have to erase him completely once he reaches Orchos Firmament. However, if I tried to kill him and failed…,' Dreevindo thought and felt the second option was risky, 'I have no reason to antagonize him. Instead, by supporting him, I might be able to rise.'
"At hundred percent? I'll show you later," Athan said with an indifferent smile.
"Ahem, no need. Anyway, You won't stop, right? Do you really have to kill two more candidates?" Dreevindo asked with a solemn expression.
"Nope, I won't stop," Athan shook his head as he plainly refused, "also, I might kill three instead of two. In short, I will stop devouring them once their refined soul power stops affecting the growth of my soul."
Hearing that, Dreevindo turned silent for a moment before nodding his head, "fine. Those orchos celestials won't interfere here if you kill their candidates. However, they will print you in their mind, and once you arrive at Orchos Firmament, you will be targeted."
"No problem. I will have a surprise for them in-store once that happens," Athan said with a plain grin, "they will become my food as well."
Dreevindo internally shivered a bit before he stood up and spoke with a sigh, "Fine, fine. Do as you wish. I will meet you later, possibly after you are done with your hunt."
Afterward, Dreevindo disappeared.
On the other hand, Athan fell into thought as he thought about his situation.
'I need to make full use of my power. My current method is too crude. I need to create spells based on my power and my power only,' Aren thought with a frown as he observed the voidpulse.
Voidpulse was something that could be turned into anything as long as he wished. However, he must have a full understanding of it.
But after reaching 20% in his comprehension of AVOF, he felt that he could do much more with his voidpulse.
'Voidpulse…I need to create something with it…something that can bring out the full potential of my abyssal darkness. It looks like It's time to make use of that idea I got when I reached a ten percent understanding of AVOF,' Athan thought.
'Those bull shit chaos energy, order energy, and those things which are not mine to begin with, are of no use.'
'I must create a power structure that is reliant on me and me only,' Athan thought with determination and cold eyes, 'It should be based on my soul power, my physical body, my voidpulse, and my abyssal darkness only.'
Chapter 671: Another Prey
After half an hour, the four Chaos Supreme powerhouses arrived at the red cliff and saw Athan resting with his eyes closed.
"Umm…Lord Athan, we have gathered intel and a straight path towards the next target," said Kingvi as he waved his hand and opened a portal beside Athan.
Athan stopped brainstorming about his new idea and opened his eyes, 'I'll have my fill first and then enter into deep meditation since there's still ten years left before I can arrive at the Orchos Firmament. In ten years, I will have to develop my path.'
Since Athan knew that he would be facing troubles from Orchos Celestials after going to Orchos Firmament, he decided to take this ten years of time to make him more powerful. He didn't have any knowledge about the Orchos Firmament, so it's better to be prepared as much as possible instead of blinding moving forward.
That way, he can move faster there and continue to become as strong at fast speed even after going to Orchos Firmament.
'Tiana, Avelia, and everyone, I will get all of you back soon,' Aren thought with determination as he stood up and walked towards the portal.
Seeing Athan standing up, Kingvi hurridly spoke, "please take this card with you. After arriving at the other side of the portal and flying straight for some time, a city will come into view. That city is the exclusive territory of Gemini Tundra Supreme."
Athan grabbed the card that Kingvi passed to him and looked at it.
"This card is the entry ticket into the city, and you can even meet Gemini Tundra Supreme directly after showing it to the guard," said Kingvi before he explained, "Gemini Tundra Supreme is known for his unique Gems inventions that can enhance any items. However, only those who possess this card can custom order those Gems from him with various effects."
"So I use this card to easily get close to Gemini Tundra Supreme and finish him off?" Athan asked before he nodded with a faint smile, "good job. This will save the trouble of catching him."
After saying that, Athan entered inside the portal.
Athan didn't know if other candidates knew that Puppet Lord Flake died, but they definitely wouldn't want to face Athan head-on if they were aware.
After all, a candidate's death was unheard of until Athan killed one.
So if other candidates knew that there was a chance that they would die if they had a conflict with a random person, they definitely wouldn't face Athan if he went head-on like before.
…
After moving for a while, Athan indeed saw a city coming into his view.
As Athan arrived at the city's entrance gates, two guards stopped him and demanded an entry token.
"I have an important meeting with Gemini Tundra Supreme," Athan plainly spoke as he took out the card and showed it to the guards.
Seeing the card, the guards became respectful, removed the gate's barrier veil, and gestured Athan respectfully to enter inside.
"The Supreme Master has been notified of your arrival. A person will soon come and lead to the Supreme Master's palace," said the guard to Athan.
Athan nodded and entered the city.
…
"Dreevindo, where is your candidate right now?" A human old man with white hair and a long white beard holding a cane spoke to Dreevindo in a small floating palace somewhere in the Chaosverse.
"Why don't you try to find him yourself?" Dreevindo said to the old man with a grin.
Hearing that, Higgs's face sank, "I am keeping an eye on my candidate, so I will know if that Athan targetted my candidate or not. However…"
"However, you won't be able to do anything to prevent your candidate's death," Dreevindo finished the sentence with a smile, "so? you want to meet Athan to redirect him to another candidate in case he targets your candidate?"
"Yes," Higgs nodded with a straight face.
"Look, unlike all your candidates who are expecting your help and good things once they arrive at Orchos Firmament, my candidate is not like that," Dreevindo said with a sad sigh, "he will only do the things he wants to do. Your candidates respect you, but Athan doesn't give a shit about me."
"Seriously?" Higgs was dumbfounded.
"Yeah," Dreevindo nodded with a weak smile, "anyway, I won't tell you his location, but in case he targets your candidate, then you should talk to him peacefully instead of threatening him. Otherwise, you will have to start searching for a new candidate like Sirius."
"Sigh…," Higgs sighed before he disappeared.
…
On the other hand, Athan was currently facing Gemini Tundra Supreme as they both sat across a table.
Gemini Tundra Supreme had a humanoid-dragon appearance, but instead of draconic wings, he had feathered icy blue wings.
"What's your name?" Gemini Tundra Supreme asked in a slightly condensing tone, "anyway, since you were lucky enough to receive my exclusive card, then you can demand what kind of gem you want. Here is the list of gems with their respective effects."
"Is this gem creation of yours related to your Genome power?" Athan asked.
Gemini Tundra Supreme narrowed his eyes as he felt the disregard of himself in Athan's voice.
"Indeed, it's related to my genome power," Gemini Tundra Supreme spoke in a more indifferent tone this time.
Athan nodded and asked leisurely, "do you have some samples right now? I want to see."
"Bastard! The one in front of you is Gemini Tundra Supreme, one of the most powerful existence in Chaosverse!" A woman appeared from the darkness at the corner of the hall and spoke angrily towards Athan, "speak respectfully to the Supreme Master!"
Athan looked at the woman and directly attacked her with his overwhelming soul power, suppressing her instantly as she lost her consciousness.
Sensing the overwhelming soul power of Athan, Gemini Tundra panicked, "y-you…you are that person who killed Flake…"
He stood up, intending to run. However, The soul presence of Athan loomed over him and Athan's cold words stopped him.
"Do you think you can escape now that you are in front of me?"
"Arghhhhhh.....!"
Chapter 672: Efyeed's Link. Dreevindo's Plan 1
"Hmm…I guess I can devour two more beings who have trained their genome powers to the 7th branch, thus making their soul more powerful than average peak Chaos Supremes," Athan muttered as he successfully refined and absorbed Gemini Tundra Supreme's soul.
"Athan! YOU BASTARD!"
Suddenly, a busty furry woman arrived with large pink bunny ears and a light pink dress.
"I will not let you live! Once you arrive at Orchos Firmament, I will torture you and give you the most painful death!" the ferocious bunny Orchos Celestial spoke while showing her sharp white fangs.
"Torture me? Hahaha," Athan loudly laughed before he waved his hand and threw a condensed orb of abyssal darkness the size of watermelon towards the busty furry bunny woman.
In anger, the furry bunny Orchos Celestial woman swiped her claws towards the black orb, "you can't do anything to me! But once you arr-"
*Shriek!!*
A sharp shriek released from the woman for a brief moment before she disappeared.
"Tsk…" Athan clicked his tongue as he still couldn't block these so-called Orchos Celestials with his soul power. He was sure that they would be injured if his crude soul attack hit their soul. However, he just couldn't hit them. His soul power was of higher quality than them as well, but his soul's magnitude was still lower. He was slower than them as well.
Athan then called Kingvi using the contact card and told him to open a portal near him.
Kingvi–, "Umm..lord Athan, I can't open the portal inside that city. Please leave the city first so I can open the portal near you using my contact card's coordination."
Athan–, "Alright."
…
The city was full of panic because their city lord had just died. However, of that bothered Athan as he simply left.
After blasting a hole in the city's barrier instead of going through the front gate, Athan called Kingvi again and told him to open the portal.
After a few seconds, a portal opened in front of Athan, and he entered inside.
However, Athan was surprised to see Dreevindo sitting there at the table while the other four peak Chaos Supreme powerhouse stood there respectfully.
"What now?" Athan asked with a dull expression as he sat down at the table in front of Dreevindo.
The four peak Supreme Chaos powerhouses were shocked at how Athan acquitted in front of an Orchos Celestial.
"Although I really don't want to do this, I have to do it," Dreevindo said with a sigh.
"Don't go in circles and make it quick," Athan said with a snort.
"Ahem, basically, I have chosen your next target," Dreevindo said with a wry smile, "That Orchos Celestial is my enemy in a way, so…"
"I want to devour two more," said Athan as he leaned back on the chair, "how about making it such that two candidates are together? I want to saturate my soul's growth and then enter meditation as soon as possible."
"Wait…I got an idea," said Dreevindo as he suddenly sprang on his tiny feet.
An evil glint passed in his eyes before he looked at Athan with a grin, "wait for a few hours."
After saying that, he disappeared.
"Umm, what do we do now, lord Athan?" Kingvi asked with slight hesitation.
Since Dreevindo said he was going to arrange now, their job was practically done.
"Please don't kill us, we…we did all things you told us to do."
Four of them looked at Athan fearfully.
The man in front of them could easily kill powerful candidates, so they were definitely not a match for him.
However, Athan was not interested in their souls because even if he refined and devoured their pure soul power, his soul wouldn't have any growth.
"You four can leave now. You are free," said Athan before he closed his eyes.
Hearing that, the four powerhouses looked at each other joy. They wasted no time opening portals and left.
…
Inside the void region…
"How is your progress," Athan said to Limbus, Reigen, and Efyeed.
"Master, I…something is happening with my soul orb," Efyeed with a bit of hesitation.
"What?" Athan asked as he checked Efyeed's soul orb.
"As you know, I am naturally born in Chaosverse, and I have a slight link to the core of this entire Chaosverse. However, that link…is now completely erased. This happened when my soul orb was fully transformed by Master's soul abilities."
Athan nodded as he was observing Efyeed's soul orb, and gradually, a surprised expression appeared on his face, "This…is familiar. Your soul…you are getting linked by AVOF realm!"
'Could it be because Efyeed is not a complete void being? But Efyeed is a unique lifeform, and its powers were supported by Chaosverse. However, now that it's not supported by Chaosverse anymore…Wait,' Athan thought of something and was shocked.
"Efyeed, you are on the verge of connecting with the true AVOF realm through me. From what I sensed, the only thing you are lacking is my permission," Athan said as a smile surfaced on his face.
"True AVOF realm? what's that?" Efyeed asked.
"That is…the source of my power. The birthplace of Primo and Taezin," Athan said.
"What will happen once you give me the permission, master?" Efyeed asked as its tree branches waved.
"I don't know. This AVOF realm has its own will as well, but its actions are influenced by my thoughts at the surface and subconscious level since I am its owner," Athan said as he shook his head, "even though I am the owner, I don't know what will happen once I give the permission. After all, I still have yet to master this power completely."
"Oh…then what should we do now?" Efyeed asked.
"We do what must be done," Athan said with a grin, "I am giving you the permission."
After saying that, Athan poured his soul power into the Efyeed as the mark on his soul's forehead and symbol in his eyes shined.
"I…Master!" Efyeed shouted before the colorful tree entirely disappeared from the void region, making Athan dumbfounded.
…
On the other, Dreevindo cooked up one hell of a plan at the grandest place of Chaosverse.
"I just hope I am not killed due to this later on," Dreevido muttered, "Damn Athan, be sure to save me if the shit hit the fan for me later on."
Chapter 673: Dreevindo's Plan 2, Lily.
Athan didn't know what happened, but he could feel that Efyeed was alive and was probably at the AVOF realm.
'Nevermind. Efyeed can't help me much right now, so it's better that something good happens to it after going there,' Athan thought before he looked at Reigen and Limbus, who were in slumber.
They were still digesting, absorbing, and adapting to Athan's soul power and voidpulse boost that he gave them.
…
After four hours of waiting, Athan finally saw Dreevindo arriving in front of him.
Athan could feel power fluctuations around Dreevindo that he had never felt before and was curious.
"Ahem, the party is ready," Dreevindo said with a cough as he sat down at the table across Athan.
"Party?"
"Athan, do you have the confidence to survive amidst fifty-plus candidate-level powerhouses?" Dreevindo asked with a serious expression.
Athan turned silent before he grinned, "in my experience until now, the one thing I am certain of is that…fear rules powerful people. Especially…powerful people who are ambitious."
Athan leaned back on the chair as he continued, "since they have ambitions and dreams they want to complete, they fear death. When they have you all as guaranteed and guider of their dreams, they especially fear death even more."
"Hahaha," Athan laughed as he looked at Dreevindo and spoke, "you Orchos Celestials must have shown quite a lot of sweet dreams to those candidates, right?"
Dreevindo showed a speechless expression before he smiled wryly and nodded.
"Then it's simple, let's go to the party," Athan said as he stood up.
"Don't kill too many. Just kill enough to have your fill. After all, if this blows up more than expected, then my life at Orchos Firmament will become miserable," Dreevindo said as he stood up and opened a portal for Athan.
"Don't enter right now," Dreevindo stopped Athan from entering before he spoke with a serious expression, "For all other Orchos Celestials and candidates, I have removed you from my candidate position. You practically enemy of everyone right now."
Athan raised his eyebrow as he faintly understood the Dreevindo's plan, "so you created a butcher party to butcher me? But in fact, it's a party for me to slaughter them?"
"Hehe, yep," Dreevindo grinned as he showed his white teeth. However, he became severe the next second and spoke, "however, you have to be careful of a candidate. She goes by the name of Lily, and her title is Divine Aurora Lady."
"Oh?" Athan was surprised to see Dreevindo taking a candidate highly, "what's her deal?"
Dreevindo narrowed his eyes as he showed a far-looking expression as if recalling some things and spoke, "she is very mysterious, and just like you, her existence also supersedes normal beings here. However, although I can't feel your source of existence or power, the Divine Aurora Lady is definitely from Orchos Firmament and…from a rather powerful origin at that."
"She can disappear and appear at will, and we can't even sense her. As for her strength…," Dreevindo sighed as he continued, "you can negate all powers here while she can adapt to everything thrown at her. Just from pure physical body power, she is more powerful than you. As for her essence power and genome power, they are way more powerful than any candidates here! However, your black power is rather mysterious, so I don't know what will happen if you both clash."
"Interesting…," Athan muttered and nodded before saying, "tell me when do I need to enter the portal? After how much time will you finish your flowery speech at the party?"
Dreevindo smiled wryly before saying, "ten minutes."
"Fine," Athan nodded.
…
At the Grand Chaos City, the biggest city in the top layer of Chaosverse…
This city didn't have an owner as all shared it. If one has name owners, then they were all Orchos Celestials because they created this city.
In the largest hall of this city, many candidates were present with their Orchos Celestials.
They were sitting in their own type of chairs in this empty but heavenly-looking hall filled with only decorations and exquisite designs.
All candidates were in either group of 2 or more except.
However, one person was sitting alone in the corner with an excited but nervous expression on her face. There was a barrier around her as well, such that could see her clearly, but everyone knew that she was the scary Divine Aurora Lady.
A slim man was standing behind her, outside of the barrier.
'Athan…That Orchos celestial candidate was Athan,' Lily thought with an eager expression.
Lucky came out from the Ark space and sat on Lily's shoulder before saying, "Meow~They are definitely talking about master. I believe it."
Lily nodded before her expression turned cold, "all these people want to kill him, heh? I will never let that happen."
"If only we could find him right now, we can directly go there. However, since that Orchos Celestial has already planned to trap him by calling him here, we will wait here and save him," Lily said with determination.
"Meow~~We shouldn't underestimate master! With the faint link we all have with master, we can feel that he is very powerful."
Lily nodded before she worriedly spoke, "he is indeed very powerful since he can kill these candidates easily. However…with so many of them here, won't it be rather difficult?"
At this moment, Dreevindo appeared in the all and attracted everyone's attention.
"Everyone! The tiger will be coming here soon," Dreevindo shouted.
"What tiger?" Celestial Sirius spoke with a snort, "with so many of us here; I want to see how he can escape from here alive."
"Is the barrier and all those formations ready?" Dreevindo asked.
Hearing him, many candidates and Orchos Celestial nodded.
"The moment he enters this hall, ten sealing formations will activate, and ten supreme-grade barriers will surround the formation zone. All those formations and barriers are also included with the amount of energy we are allowed to use here," Celestial Sirius spoke with a ruthless expression, "I want to see how he can escape this predicament."
Hearing that, Lily's palm sweated, but she was also ready, 'Athan….'
Chapter 674: Reunion 1
Athan closed his eyes for a few moments as he tried to sense his bond with Lucky and was startled, 'this…how come I feel that Lucky is very close? What about Lucent and others? hmmm…'
Athan tried to sense others and faintly felt that they were near but not as near as Lucky, 'what's going on?'
Athan looked at the portal and muttered, "the answers seem to be at the other side of the portal. Let's see…"
…
Athan saw a large door one hundred meters in front of him after he came out of the portal.
The door was of a large dome-like hall.
"So that's the party hall?" Athan muttered before he started walking towards it.
He activated his void cloak as a void field appeared around him that put him into his own unique space dimension. The void field had properties of abyssal darkness and Primo's lapis lagoon joint by mysterious creation properties of voidpulse, which made it a powerful defense field capable of defending against all kinds of attack, whether physical or energy or soul.
The only downside of it was that if he wanted to attack physically, he had to deactivate the void field. However, he can still release abyssal darkness through it.
Athan walked in front of the door but didn't open it right away to enter inside.
The people inside the hall knew that Athan had arrived because the portal outside was conjured by Dreevindo.
"Hey, Dreevindo. Why did he stop?"
Dreevindo smiled wryly and spoke, "don't worry, he will enter inside. I told him that I had trapped two candidates here for him to kill, and he needs their souls badly as well, so he will definitely enter inside. However…"
Pausing there, Dreevindo showed a tired expression before saying, "you all know as well that my candidate is wild and doesn't listen to me at all. So…I don't know what he is thinking."
"LOOK! He pointed his palm towards the door and conjured a pitch-black orb."
Everyone looked at the cloudly screen that showed outside scenery. Seeing Athan conjuring a black orb towards the door, everyone became worried.
"Humph, don't worry. We have expected this, and the moment he attacks the door, the ten formations and barriers will activate. Although this hall would be destroyed, it doesn't matter," Celestial Sirius spoke with a cold snort.
Internally, Dreevindo thought, 'It remains to see whether those formations can really affect Athan or not.'
*BOOOOOOOOOM….*
The gate was devoured by the incoming large black orb, and right at that moment, the entire hall was destroyed as blinding colorful lights spread high into the sky.
*Swoooooosh…*
Everyone saw a shadow pass by them, entering the barrier right before it was completely formed.
"T-that…that was Divine Aurora Lady! Why did she enter inside?"
…
On the other hand, Athan found himself in another landscape wreathed by chaotic powers in various forms.
All of them were attacking him. After two seconds, his void field was broken, and all attacks hit him.
His body was attacked by various chaotic powers and soul chaotic powers.
However, Athan created an abyssal darkness barrier around him.
"Hmm…It looks like I have to break out of this with a big move before all of my abyssal darkness and soul energy is consumed," Athan muttered with a frown as he saw his abyssal darkness depleting fast by devouring the incoming attacks.
Naturally, he started creating solid walls with the toughest material he could make with voidpulse in front of him since abyssal darkness consuming everything was producing voidpulse as well.
While doing that, Athan also started condensing abyssal darkness so he could release it and destroy everything around him.
"Athan! Don't resist!"
Suddenly, Athan felt familiar energy coming towards him.
"Meow~~Don't resist master! It's me, Lucky!"
Athan was startled and didn't resist the incoming power as he disappeared from his place and arrived in a very familiar place.
In front of him was a familiar face but with some maturity.
"Brother Athan!" Mimi shouted with excitement as she dashed forward and hugged Athan, " *sniff*-I missed you so much, brother Athan."
"Master!"
*Roarrrr!!*
"Master!"
…
"Sirius, activate the vision screen ward so we can see what is happening inside the formation."
A square vision screen appeared that showed the hellish ground filled with deadly chaotic powers of offensive runic formations.
However, they didn't find Athan there.
"What's going on?"
"Where is he?"
Everyone was confused before the Lingardim Celestial, the stick-slim human who had made Lily her candidate, spoke, "They are gone."
Seeing everyone looking at him, Lingardim coughed and spoke with a wry smile, "Divine Aurora Lady took him with her."
"What bull shit?" Sirius shouted with an angry expression.
"Eh…I am not bull shitting," Lingardim spoke with a weak smile, "Divine Aurora Lady also doesn't listen to me like how that Athan is to Dreevindo. However, as you all know, she is very powerful."
"But so what? How can she take him away after entering that trap?" the bunny-woman Celestial spoke with an irritated expression.
"Well, you also know that Divine Aurora Lady is capable of appearing out of nowhere and can disappear at will. She can also do that with others, as I have seen her. So…cough, well, she went inside and took Athan with her, I think."
"Why did she save him?!!" Sirius grunted coldly before looking at Dreevindo, "Dreevindo….you, did you know about their relationship?"
Dreevindo was also currently stunned and in disbelief. He looked at Sirius and spoke while shaking his head, "I didn't know."
"Lingardim, do you know their location? Can you trace her?"
"Yeah, you should know about it, right?"
While the Orchos Celestial spoke, the other candidates started to worry.
"I don't know where she will appear," Lingardim shook his head before he narrowed his eyes, "however, are you sure you want to meet them? Our grand trap is useless right now, and…unless you all stay together before encountering them, you all will likely die."
Other Orchos Celestials hurridly nodded their heads with nervous expressions.
"If Divine Aurora Lady and that Void Bringer get together…we, we only have nightmare ahead of us."
"Calm down, everyone! Athan actually doesn't want to kill all candidates," Dreevindo shouted as his words attracted everyone's attention.
Chapter 675: Reunion 2
"What do you mean Athan doesn't want to kill all candidates?" Sirius asked as he narrowed his eyes, "Humph, it doesn't matter whether he continues killing or not! WE have to put an end to him. If not now, then I will do that personally when he arrives at the Orchos Firmament."
"Calm your tits, puppy!!" Dreevindo shouted at Sirius as a vein popped off on his head, "now listen to idiots if you don't want to die."
Everyone became silent and frowned at the outburst of Dreevindo.
"Eh, now it's good," Dreevindo nodded as he suddenly smiled and started speaking, "so the thing is…Athan wanted to devour candidates because they have more power soul origin. From what I know, he only wants to devour two more candidates.
"However, despite knowing this, I still took your sides and helped you prepare this trap," Dreevindo continued with a somber expression, "but we failed! And what's more… the Divine Aurora Lady turned out to be his ally. So…there is no way in Choasverse that we can do anything to Athan now."
Lingardium nodded, "Divine Aurora Lady is invisible…simply because you can't catch her. Even we Orchos Celestials can't sense her once she disappears."
"So…," Dreevindo picked after Lingardium and spoke, "so you all should find a way to satisfy Athan. Otherwise, if he snapped due to this trap, then he might kill more than his initial target."
Dreevindo swept his glance at everyone and continued putting more pressure, "think about it. This was our last chance. Now that Athan is with Divine Aurora Lady, he is practically invisible. We can't trap him again."
All candidates looked at each other as they sweated while the Orchos Celestials were speechless in this situation.
Never have they encountered such a situation during the past cycles.
"I…I have an idea," said the Pixie fairy-looking Orchos Celestial, "I have a way to satisfy that Athan's hunger."
…
On the other hand, Athan had a complicated expression as he looked at Mimi, who was sobbing, and his pets, who were also crying.
"Master, we finally remember your face and some of our memories with you," Lucky spoke as the cute white cat rubbed its head against Athan while sitting on his shoulder.
"Until now, we could only feel your existence, the existence that was our master, and his faint image with foggy memories. But now, those foggy memories are cleared, awuuuu," Lucent spoke as the white tiger rubbed its head at Athan's leg.
Athan looked at the tiny dragon and the silver-white ape floating around him with tears and excitement in their eyes.
"Skylord, Silvestra," Athan muttered before he looked at the centaur-like creature wearing deathly black armor as the black and purple flame burned in the creature's eye sockets, "DeathKnight."
"Master," DeathKnight spoke softly as his flamy eyes burned even brightly.
Lily and Huarin stood a bit far as they looked at their reunion.
Huarin looked at Lily, who had a mix of eager, excited, and nervous expressions on her face. She knew that Lily also wanted to meet Athan and…apologize to him and talk about a lot of things with him if…Athan forgave her on his own accord.
"Sniff…brother Athan," Mimi unburied her head from Athan's chest and looked at him with a sad smile, "brother Athan, you won't leave me again, right? Also, where is sister Tiana and sister Avelia? What about brother Mike and sister Qerin?"
Mimi revealed a sad smile as she spoke, "after father and mother died, only you all, Lucky and others, sister Lily, and sister huarin are my families."
Mimi never knew about the revenge of her parents and kept her in the dark about it till the end because they didn't want their daughter to walk the same path as them.
Athan had mixed feelings as he looked at Mini and sighed.
He had long put together the pieces about Mimi's parent's plans when he heard their voice last time as he drifted into the Genome Realm for the trial.
However, fortune didn't favor him, and he met the only anomaly in the entire genome realm and met his second end there.
"Wait…Lily?" Athan muttered as he looked at two people some distance away from him.
Lily's face turned red as she hurriedly walked towards Athan.
Fiddling with her fingers with a red face filled with nervousness and excitement, she spoke, "A-athan…it's me, Lily. My appearance hasn't changed much…you…you remember me, right?"
On the other hand, Huarin's eyes were gleaming with a white glow as she was ready to make a move in case of the worst-case scenario.
Huarin knew about Lily's past and everything about her first life. She had practically seen Lily's memories as Mimi had shown them to her.
That's why she feared that Athan might have held resentment against Lily. After all, he was tortured and killed because of her.
'However, he must also know that Lily was far more tortured mentally and for many years after that. He should know how Lily spent her life in despair, feeling depressed and guilty about him every day after that. Otherwise, it's not fair,' Huarin thought as she observed Athan's reaction.
"Lily…," Athan muttered as his expression slowly turned to that of a shock, "you…how come you are here?"
"Athan…I, I am sorry," Lily uttered with a lump in her throat as she sat on her knees and started sobbing, "I'm very sorry, Athan. You had to suffer so much because of me and died. I am really sorry, Athan."
Lily cried as she continuously apologized, not even asking for forgiveness as she just kept saying sorry.
She expressed all those years of feeling guilty about his death in this form as she continued to sob and say sorry.
Huarin and Mini turned moist as they both knew about Lily and Athan's first life. Lucky and others also knew, but they hadn't heard about it everything since Lily only told them her good times with Athan and that she was the cause of Athan's death. They didn't know Lily also suffered so much after that.
"Brother Athan, watch this," Mimi said as she stretched her finger and touched Athan's forehead.
Athan watched the life of Lily after his death from the memories that Mimi sent him and looked at Lily with mixed feelings. He didn't know he had taken up the entirety of Lily's life after his death.
As for that torture? Athan felt that it was a child's play compared to what he had gone through after that.
Chapter 676: Better Solution.
At this moment, Athan, Lily, Mini, and Huarin were sitting at the table as Athan told them about Avelia, Tiana, and others.
"Waaw, brother Athan has many sisters now, hehe," Mini giggled before she patted Athan's shoulder and said, "I believe that brother Athan can definitely get them back."
"I will help you as much as I can, Athan," Lily said with determined eyes before she faintly smiled, "the only purpose I had was to meet you, and it's completed. Now I don't know what to do, so…can I accompany you on your journey?"
"Brother Athan, let's stay together from now on like before," Mimi spoke with puppy eyes, "pretty please?"
Lucky, Skylord, Lucent, DeathKnight, and Silvestra also looked at Athan. They had stayed with Mimi and Lily for many years and also wanted their Master to stay with them like before.
Seeing them, Athan smiled and patted Mimi's head, "alright. Let's see your sisters and others together."
"Yey!!"
"Athan, I have added you in the control holder of this Ark space as well. Now you can enter here and leave at will as long as I am a hundred meters near you," Lily said with a smile before she sighed, "If I could give you the entire control of this Ark of Exordium and make you its Master, I would have done it since you were its previous Master but…I am not strong enough to remove its ownership yet."
"No need. I don't need any external factors to rely on," Athan shook his head before speaking with sharp eyes, "from now on, I will only use powers that belong only to me and only use things that I create."
He then stood up and said, "now I'll go outside and finish my unfinished business."
Athan had felt the familiar connection with the ark space since he was once its owner. So, he left the ark space with a thought as he appeared inside the ruined palace.
"Yo, what are you all discussing?"
Everyone had formed a circle and were talking, so suddenly hearing the devil's voice scared the shit out of them.
They all looked at Athan warily before Dreevindo stepped up towards Athan.
"Ahem, Athan. We have found a solution, and with it, you will get more than you want," Dreevindo openly said before he sounded transmitted to Athan, "ATHAN! This solution is actually feasible, and you will like it more!"
Suddenly, Lily also appeared, causing everyone to get startled and wary again.
However, she didn't say anything and just stood beside Athan, making her stance clear.
"Interesting," said Athan with a faint smile before he asked, "so? What is the solution? You do know that I need to devour two souls at the candidate level."
"cough…the solution is very good," Lingardim spoke with a cough before looking at the pixie-fairy Orchos Celestial, Aby.
Aby flew in front of Athan and stopped five meters away from him before she took out a mystical glowing orb.
"This glowing orb is created with my genome power. It's a pure soul manifestation origin orb," Aby said before she smiled, "the plan is that every single candidate powerhouse here will give 5% of their pure origin soul power and infuse it into this orb."
"This orb will perfectly mold those pure origin soul power, and the benefit you will from it will surely outweigh two entire souls of two people here."
"How is it? Pretty good, right?" Dreevindo said with a smile.
"Humph, you can be as content as you want while you are here," Celestial Sirius spoke with a cold snort, "once you come to Orchos Firmament, I will not let you live."
"Start counting your days and enjoy while you are here," said the Bunny Celestial woman as well before she and Celestial Sirius disappeared.
"Forget about them. Since we found a solution for you, then I hope you can stop with your carnage," Lingardim said with a wry smile.
"Sure," Athan nodded with a grin, "I want to see every single of them here take out 5% of their pure origin soul power and infuse it into the orb."
"No problem, no problem, hahaha," Dreevindo said as he laughed loudly, "although it will damage their soul a bit, they can recover it in five years easily and can speed up the process with peak-grade resources since it's just 5% for them. But for you, it's a lot."
The other candidate-level powerhouses hurridly nodded with some sweat on their faces because they were more than willing to lose 5% of their origin soul rather than their life.
Athan internally nodded as he actually felt that this solution they found was great. He would definitely benefit more from this.
Afterward, all powerhouses came one by one and poured 5% of their origin soul power.
One by one, they came and left with a painful expression as losing their origin soul power is literally like cutting a tiny piece of their soul.
After ten minutes, all fifty-one powerhouses finished participating in this.
Aby then floated towards Athan with the orb that had now turned colorful from initial white.
"Athan, it will take some time before this orb can perfectly mold these soul origin power into one-"
"No need," Athan interrupted Aby as he took the orb and directly devoured it before saying, "I can refine them."
After saying that, he disappeared and entered inside the ark space.
Lily also disappeared and entered inside as she saw Athan sitting crossed-legged on the ground.
"Meow~I can feel Master's soul getting stronger again. This time, it's way more than before," Lucky spoke as the cute white cat floated in front of Athan.
"Well yeah," Lily nodded with a wry smile, "he is absorbing soul origin power of fifty-one candidate level powerhouses. Although it's 5% from each one, the total is 255%."
After ten minutes, Athan opened his eyes as a satisfied smile appeared on his face, 'although I need to stabilize a bit, my soul has successfully reached its limit for now. Hmmm, now I need to stabilize first and come up with my own path.'
"Lily…" Athan spoke before he suddenly remembered something and looked at Mimi and Huarin sitting together at the table not too far away.
"What happened, brother Athan," Mini asked with a happy grin. She was really happy that her brother Athan was together with her again and got her memories of him that she was lacking.
"Nothing," Athan shook his head with a smile. However, he sent an important sound transmission to Lily.
'Lily, you said that Mimi's parents didn't tell her about their revenge plan and removed some of her memories, right?'
'Yes,' Lily nodded before she asked, 'what happened? did you want to know something? If so, you can ask me because Mimi's parents told me everything. Before dying, they left messages, telling me their entire situation. However, their only wish was to let Mimi live a happy life.'
'I want to know about Mimi's enemies. They live in Orchos Firmament, and they might find us as well. However, I want to know about them because…they are also my enemies,' Athan replied as a cold gleam passed through his eyes.
'Your enemies?' Lily asked with doubt.
'You were not alive at that time, but when I returned to Earth after ascending to Chaosverse, the Earth's situation had drastically changed.. Billions of people died, and among them were my uncle and aunt,' said Athan before he gritted his teeth slightly, 'the culprits behind that situation were Mimi's enemies because they found Mimi's parents' trail and arrived at there.'