Chapter 691: Battle Game Of The Candidates 2
Aby, the pixy fairy, looked at other orchos celestials and talked to them telepathically, 'They are all going to lose their money.'
'Yeah, but what can we do?'
'Hehe, I know some people who are here and told them to bet on them winning instead of betting against them.'
'Holy…their winning odds are surely going to be very high because they are late. Hey, this is a chance to earn money. But only tell this to people that you know very closely. We have to limit this to a small number of people.'
'Yeah. Let's do it, hehehe.'
As such, some people in the audience received messages from orchos celestials and were startled after hearing them.
'Are you serious?'
'Definitely! Bet on them winning in the first round to earn more because after 1st round, everyone will know their real capabilities, and their winning odds will be lowered.'
'Alright, I'll trust you. I am going all-in with 10,000 Etons on them when they arrive here.'
Similar things happened to tens of people more.
….
"Before entering, we must tell you something," Dreevindo said as he stopped in front of the golden ring while facing Athan, Lily, Huarin, and Mimi.
"What?" Athan said as he raised his eyebrows.
Blankrino looked at Mimi and then at Athan, Lily, and Huarin before saying, "this young girl's origins are actually very high profile. The Kings at the stadium would definitely have more information regarding her than me."
Dreevindo nodded before he looked at Lily, "So if you don't want to raise a commotion or attract attention, then you should let her enter into the strange space that you are always using to disappear."
'I will stay inside the ark space,' Mimi telepathically said to Lily, Athan, and Huarin, "even though I want to stay outside, I don't want to trouble you. Anyway, I can leave freely once this battle game of theirs finishes, right?'
Athan smiled gently and said, 'yep. Once the battle game finishes, you can come out. I will give you a new look and a new dress that suits you as well. You will accept this gift from me, right?'
Mimi smiled happily and nodded, 'of course! Hehe, I can't wait for it.'
Lily understood Athan's intention and agreed with him. After all, they want to hide Mimi's real identity so that her parent's enemy and people who are looking for the Ark of Exordium won't find her.
"We will let you out very soon, Mimi," Lily said with a smile as she patted Mimi's hand, and right after that, Mimi disappeared.
Dreevindo and Blankrino raised their eyebrows at that as they still couldn't see through this trick of Lily.
'Did you sense anything?' Dreevindo asked Blankrino.
'Nope, no clue.'
"Alright, let's enter now," said Dreevindo as he entered the golden ring first.
…
On the other hand, the audience, waiting for fifteen minutes, saw the golden ring pulsing as several people finally came out.
Athan, Huarin, Lily, Dreevindo, and Blankrino arrived while Mimi stayed inside the Ark space.
Seeing them, the audience started booing on them and hurled curses.
However, this only lasted for a few seconds as a middle-aged man with white patterns on a dark blue robe arrived in the stadium as he floated in the center and thundered, his voice suppressing everyone's voice.
"WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, WE WILL START THE GAME IN ONE MINUTE!."
"The last three candidates are registered. You all have twenty seconds to finalize your bets for the first round!!"
Almost everyone started betting on Athan, Lily, and Huarin that they would be out in the first round.
No one bothered to do the superficial inspection on Athan, Lily, or Huarin like they did on other candidates. If they did, they would find that Lily and Huarin definitely were more powerful than other candidates.
At the same time, Athan would be an enigma to them since they wouldn't be able to inspect anything of him, not even his body aura, because of Athan's void robe and void mask.
…
The people managing the betting house in the ground below the stadium were shocked as they saw statistics on a large screen in front of them.
"What the heck? Why are those 67 people betting on the last three candidates winning? Some people even betted as high as 20,000 Etons on their wins."
"It's strange but not at the same time. They are usually not lacking Etons, and also seeing that the odds of their win are 1:100, of them getting 100x in return if those three pass the first round, they would bet out of greed."
"Yeah, that's possible."
"But if they win, then we will suffer quite a loss."
"It's not our money in the first place. We will just earn less if they win, that's all."
…
"The first round is the Trial Domain round! One by one, each candidate will enter into the trial domain and defeat a Risor-grade monster! Top 32 who kill the monster fastest will enter the second round!"
After saying that, the middle-aged man, who was known as Sinish, took out a pulsing dreamy blue cube from his storage and put it on the ground at the center before it turned into a five-meter tall door with dark blue patterns on its borders. The door was a portal door leading to the Trial Domain.
Afterward, Sinish waved his hand as ten square meters large display also appeared in the sky in all directions so that everyone could see the battle.
"Candidate Yorin! You will enter first," said Sinish as he looked at Yoring, who was the first candidate to arrive here.
Yoring nodded with excitement and nervousness in his eyes as he entered the portal door.
*Roarrrrrrr!!*
Right after that, everyone saw a lavatic scenery filled with smoke and ashes on the screen.
There was also a giant three-headed humanoid monster with four hands. The monster looked demonic with red skin and two large horns. Its eyes were bright crimson with a yellow iris in them.
The screen zoomed out to see more area as Yoring appeared on the screen, approximately one kilometer away from the monster after he entered through the portal door.
"Candidate Yoring took 54 seconds to defeat the monster!" shouted Sinish, the middle-aged man overseeing the battle game.
After defeating the monster, Yoring came out from the large portal through a portal that appeared in front of him inside the trial domain.
"Not bad! He managed to defeat it under one minute; that's above-average performance according to all statistics from previous battle games."
"Too bad that the betting limit is only 20,000 Etons. Welp, I still won some despite his small scaling odds on winning, so it's good."
The audience started walking while Sinish spoke the second name.
…
One by one, candidates went and defeated the monster.
After an hour, It was finally nearing the end as Huarin's name popped up before Athan's and Lily's.
Seeing her walking towards the portal door, the audience remembered that she was one of the three candidates who arrived here very late.
Some started booing, but Huarin rapidly entered the portal door and appeared one kilometer away from the monster that respawned again despite being killed so many times.
By now, it was obvious that the monster was a puppet of some sort but very lifelike. It seems that they had a large stock of these lifelike puppets that also had a soul.
Huarin didn't waste any time as she flew towards the monster with light blue and emerald wings materializing behind her back; this was one of the skills from her genome power known as Ruination Twilight of Rinoxis.
Rinoxis Wings.
The monster conjured four powerful star-shaped disks to attack Huarin in his four hands after seeing how Huarin came close to him.
However, Huarin easily dodged the attack before muttering as she used one of the abilities she shaped from her chaotic powers, "Hoxus Spears of Stillness."
Her soul energy and stamina depleted as five shining spears of silver, blue, and red patterns materialized in front of Huarin before they shot towards the monster's two heads.
After conjuring the spears and releasing them, Huarin flew high in the sky before using her most powerful ability that she shaped from her mythical-grade Cynrailic Orchos Genome's power during her enlightenment.
Prison of Orcudames.
A hellish cage burning with dark purple, pale yellow, and crimson red materialized and trapped the monster.
After trapping the giant monster, the three colored flames burned with tens of times the intensity from their initial state and completely obliterated the monster.
Outside…
Everyone became silent.
"What the heck? How did she finish off that monster so fast? How many seconds was that? Five? Six? Seven?"
"Why that giant didn't use his defense?"
"Those fast spears! They probably had the effect of confusing the giant and preventing it from using its power. I noticed that it couldn't move after that despite seeing that powerful prison on top of him."
"But…what's going on? How come she came late despite being this powerful?"
"Hehe, actually, I bet on her because, with my superficial inspection, I found that she had a more potent aura around her than other candidates, it's the same with the other girl, but I don't know about the guy."
"Fuck! This is a scam!"
"Hahaha, this is a record! No candidates of the past had killed that monster this fast before."
"Damn! I lost my money T-T."
"Hehe, her winning odds are going to become abysmal in the next round. Even if we bet on her, we won't win much, sigh…"
At this time, Sinish smiled faintly and shouted, "Candidate Huarin defeated the monster in 5 seconds. She currently holds the no.1 rank!"
Huarin arrived from the portal door and smiled wryly after hearing the words of Sinish, 'No.1? Not for long.'
The ten kings floating in the edges of the stadium high in the sky didn't say anything. They already knew those last three candidates were abnormal after they did their superficial inspection on them, finding two of their auras much more potent while finding nothing about the third person.
"Cough, I am afraid one of the King Polu's candidates will fail," said the King of Zonik Empire with a smile.
King of Polu Empire snorted but didn't say anything. Even though he taunted King Zonik previously, he hadn't seen those last three candidates at that time.
"Humph, the real question is, why did those arrive late despite possessing such powers? Those two girls definitely built Mythical grade Cynrailic Orchos Genome, making them top tier powerhouses in Raisor-stage."
"That guy with the gray and black outfit is strange. I can't check his aura and how potent power he possesses. Cough… So…is it only me or you all are also unable to check him?"
"I can't as well."
"Same here."
Everyone looked at the King of Limbark Empire, who maintained his indifferent expression.
"Hey! Say something. He is your Empire's candidate."
King Limbark's lips twitched a bit before he spoke, "No comment."
"Boring old man!"
"Anyway, let's see the performance of that other girl now. She just entered the Trial Domain."
…
Lily entered the Trial Domain after Sinish called her out.
After arriving inside the domain, Lily used her abilities and skills right off the bat as two strange silver/mercury doors appeared. One in front of Lily while the other behind the giant monster's head.
The monster roared as it sensed the door behind it, but three golden beams struck his head from the portal as Lily used her most powerful control-type skill, which was from her genome power that is called Ambience of Divine Aurelion.
The monster was stunned and couldn't do anything.
After that, Lily stepped into the door and appeared behind the giant monster before using her most offensive skill from the Mythical grade Cynrailic Orchos Genome.
Crescent Moon Death Slash.
Outside…Everyone saw a sparkling crescent silver slash flashing before it cut off all three heads of the giant monster, killing it instantly.
*UPROAR!*
Everyone in the audience went nuts and started shouting.
"DAMNNNN! WHAT A SCAM. This is a scam!"
"Yeah! Playing pig to eat tiger! Our money is eaten by the betting house now!
Chapter 693: High Profile
"Elder Sinish! You only gave us ten seconds to bet after those three arrived here! We didn't even have time to do even superficial inspection on them! You clearly knew they were powerful, right?"
A middle-aged man with vampire fangs and crimson-gold eyes shouted towards floating Sinish in the stadium.
Sinish snorted and said, "of course not! I just wanted to start the battle game fast. I also didn't know they would be this powerful right after they arrived here."
Shaking his head, he announced the result, "Candidate Lily defeated the monster in 2.3 seconds! She currently holds the no.1 rank!"
After Lily came out of the portal gate, she grinned at Athan and said, "Athan, I wonder if you can beat this record?"
Hearing her words, the audience and everyone else was dumbfounded. The way she talked indicated that the guy actually had the capability to do that.
Can someone tell them where did these monsters come from?
The ten kings in the sky were also shocked at Lily's performance. However, after hearing her words, the other nine kings once again looked at King Limbark with doubt.
"If we can't see through that person, it means he has the capability or a power preceding us, interesting."
"Let's see how he performs. We might be able to find his origins once he uses his powers."
…
On the other hand, Athan shrugged and replied to Lily with a smile, "I am just going to test the skills I created. Let's see how it goes."
"Candidate Athan, It's your turn now," Sinish spoke as he looked at Athan with doubt and curiosity. He had no clue about this young man because he couldn't sense his aura at all.
The audience sighed and shut their mouth as they just decided to watch.
Inside the Trial Domain, there were ten very obscure eyes that nobody could see. They naturally belonged to those kings, so they could observe everyone's power and have been there from the start.
Athan walked towards the portal door unhurriedly and entered inside. While walking, he was thinking about how he should finish off the monster, 'since Lily challenged me, then I guess I'll use the Extremity Drifter and its void art.'
Athan's void art had different compatibility with his void frames. For instance, The void art compital with his Extremity Drifter Void frame was called Kinon Void Art.
Kinon Void Art had two skills: Rumbling Disaster and Point of Extremity. Both skills required the extreme speed of his entire body, and in Extremity Drifter void frame, he can speed up the action of every single fiber of his being to the current limit possible for him.
As Athan entered inside the portal door, he confused two Abyssal Blood Crystals and thought, 'guess I'll use Point of Extremity. It should be able to finish the things in a second.'
While entering inside the portal, the crystal on his forehead shined a bit as countless tendrils flashed on his body for a brief less than a second before he appeared in the trial domain.
The atmosphere in this domain was very hot, and the space was thicker than on the outside.
Athan didn't waste time after he came out of the portal and used Point of Extremity right away as he disappeared from his location and appeared just five meters away from the monster with his finger pointed at the monster.
Athan's body was vibrating at insane speed, even faster than light, as even the space bent around him. From his finger, A blinding crimson and black supernova were released in a huge area that covered the monster as it disappeared from everyone's view.
*CRACKK…BOOOOM…*
Behind him, the destruction followed due to his extreme speed and power that affected the ground and its surrounding, causing them to be destroyed as lava pillars shot towards the sky and loud sounds of wind and sound barrier-breaking reverberated.
Everything was over in one second, while this aftermath destruction followed after Athan obliterated the monster out of existence.
Athan nodded internally as he was satisfied with the Point of Extremity, this skill gathered all of his power that he produced through high speed and distance before converging into one point. From that point, the converged potent power would blast in front, with pure destruction.
He could increase the power of this skill even more with more time he converged the power by moving every fiber of his being at the extreme limit of speed possible for a longer time. The longer he held on, the more power he could produce. However, from the test did he once, he could hold out for three seconds as most before he had to release the power from the point.
Outside…
Everyone was stunned speechless outside, as they just watched the giant screens with wide eyes and opened mouths.
Even the ten kings floating in the sky had shock over their faces.
"What happened? Did anyone of you sense his power?" asked the King of Gojaal Empire with a dumbfounded expression.
"No…It's strange. I have never sensed that kind of power. However, I sensed his body's aura, and his body was also giving off a strange aura along with the powerful aura of blood and flesh."
"Indeed, his body structure is different from us as well. I didn't even sense a spec of Orchos energy from his body, which is very strange because everyone has it."
"Not everyone," said the king of the Noabu Empire while shaking his head.
"Wait, you mean…No, that's bull shit! His body is not that powerful, while the power he displayed also doesn't have such potency. There is no way that his existence has become Legendary," said the King of Klenkai Empire while shaking his head in disbelief.
"I know. However, only Legendary and Myth has their own unique existence, and they dominate the orchos to shape their way," said King Noabu.
"That's true, but…," King Izakin nodded before looking at Limbark, "Hey Limbark, what's going on? He is your candidate so you should know about it. Did Dreevindo say anything to you?"
"Heh, he was also shocked like us. I saw that," said Gojaal king with a mocking smile.
"Cough…Indeed, I don't know anything about him," Limbark king spoke with a wry smile, "Dreevindo only told me that no.1 rank is decided, and it belongs to Athan."
"Let's continue with the battle game now. We will meet with that Athan after everything is over," said the king of the Oppanu Empire, who was the most senior out of all of them and also was the strongest.
"Alright."
…
"C-candidate Athan defeated the monster in o-one second. He currently holds the no.1 rank!"
"Hey, slap me, please; I am not dreaming, right?"
*Slap!*
"Fuck! Why did you use that stinging power while slapping? It fucking hurts now! you're dead!"
"Relax! I was properly making sure that you were indeed not dreaming and everything was true. You lost your big bet that you put on him out of the first is true! Yes, everything is true!"
…
Lily and Huarin smiled wryly as Athan walked towards them and stood behind Dreevindo.
"I knew that you could break my record, but that was really very destructive and high profile."
"That was my intention from the start," said Athan with a faint smile as he looked at the ten seats in the sky.
Chapter 694: Final Round, Athan's Power.
After the first round, the top 32 candidates who killed the giant monster fastest moved to the final round, which was simple.
The final round was also related to fighting against monsters, but it was a bit complicated this time.
"Since everyone understands the rules of the final round, let's start! Rank 1, you will go first!"
Athan walked towards the portal door and entered inside as he appeared at the edge of a cliff. Behind him was absolutely nothing. It was just plain blankness with a deep, unending abyss.
However, in front of him was a square box with a small hole in it. Even further in front of him was a vast land filled with giant trees and mountains. However, one mountain was tallest of all, but it was also the furthest. This tallest mountain peaked at a hundred kilometers high in the sky!
First came the large forest with kilometers tall trees. The tricky part about this forest was that the higher you fly in the forest, the more gravity you will feel. Sinish clearly spoke that it's impossible for anyone to fly over the forest, and if one tried, they would be smacked down with a greater force.
So everyone must go through the forest and reach the mountainous area before climbing the tallest mountain to take a flag at the top.
Naturally, the forest and mountains are filled with monsters, and the candidates will have to go through the forest and reach the tallest peak where a golden flag is fluttering.
After taking the flag, they will have to run back and return to their starting point before putting the flag in the hole on the box.
Athan didn't waste time after entering the trial domain because his void frame: Extremity Drifter was still activated as he had yet to consume all of its power.
There was still 64% of its capacity left since the skill, Point of Extremity, only consumed 36% of the power of Abyssal Blood Crystal fuel.
As such, Athan blazed through the forest with nothing blocking his path.
*ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM….*
No monster or tree could block him as he just continued flying towards the mountain with the wings that materialize when he activates the Void Frame: Extremity Drifter.
From the start of the forest to the foot of the mountain was one thousand kilometer distance, but Athan crossed it in five seconds. This was actually slower than he expected because the space of the Orchos Firmament was more powerful and its wind and atmosphere resistance was more sturdy.
As Athan cut through the forest, there was a wake of destruction as a large trail of the empty path was formed from start to finish.
After arriving at the foot of the mountain, Athan flew up and reached the mountain's peak in one and a half seconds.
Several monsters had put a blockage, but they died instantly as Athan just passed through their bodies, killing them instantly before he arrived at the top of the peak.
40% of the power was consumed by now, so he was left with only 24% of the power.
After grabbing the flag, Athan decided to fly from the peak and return at the starting point while flying, 'let's see if whatever force above the forest can stop my abyssal void of fabrication.'
Athan's Extremity Wings blinked as he disappeared and flew towards the forest as he activated his void field from the void cloak.
However, a strong pressure bore on him right after he did that, and the void field around him was rapidly depleting its power. The void field could negate anything coming at him into nothingness, but it naturally consumed abyssal darkness to do that.
The void field was broken in a second as a powerful pressure bore onto his body.
His entire body was hit with a powerful force that jumbled his body to its foundation as blood came out from his eyes, nose, ears, etc.
"HAAAAAAAAAH!" Athan shouted as he condensed his body structure and consumed another Abyssal Blood Crystal to activate a defensive skill that he created: Sanctuary of Void.
A structure of countless red and black threads appeared around him and turned into an orb that pulsed with a faint black glow every brief second as they released vibration waves containing the effect of abyssal darkness.
This skill was from the 4th Void Art: Unbound void Art and skills originating from this void art can be used in all void frames. Naturally, all skills in his four void arts can be used in all void frames, but their power would vary if they were used compatibly. For instance, the Point of Extremity would show its full power only when Athan was in his Extrmity Drifter void frame.
However, the skills from Unbound Void Art would show their full power any time he used it, even if he didn't activate any void frames.
The thing to note is that his void art and void skill both consume the unique energy of Abyssal Blood Crystals.
Once Athan consumes 2 Abyssal Blood Crystals to activate a void frame, he can use it for 30 minutes.
However, if he uses any skills from the void arts, then that duration would reduce. Naturally, Athan can consume Abyssal Blood Void Crystal to fuel himself once again.
Point of Extremity consumes 36% of the unique energy of a single Abyssal Blood Crystal minimum. However, the full-powered Point of Extremity consumes a total of 97% of the unique energy of a single Abyssal Blood Crystal.
97% is the limit of Athan, which is the power-up of 3 seconds, unlike the 1 second power-up he used against the three-headed monster in the first trial.
Even if he intends to consume more energy to power up the Point of Extremity to its 4th second, he can't do it as it would be too much to handle for his body, and the skill would be executed right away as he wouldn't be able to hold it any longer.
On the other hand, the Sanctuary of Void has a larger capacity as the full-powered version of this skill is achieved by consuming 2 Abyssal Blood Crystals.
Chapter 695: Speculations Of Kings And Their Decision.
Three seconds passed as Athan reached halfway, but he had to consume another Abyssal Blood Crystal to maintain the Sanctuary of Void, which was negating the powerful force from the sky.
After two seconds, he successfully left the range of the forest, and the pressure boring down on him suddenly disappeared.
He then descended from the sky in a second and put the flag inside the hold on the box.
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Everyone was speechless outside, and it was pin-drop silence.
This final round was supposed to be exciting, thrilling, and full of cunningness as candidates would carefully pass through the forest while fighting and fooling the monsters with their newfound strength.
They would carefully make their way out of the forest to reach the sky and then ascend the mountain while defeating the monster or passing through them sneakily with their means.
After ascending the peak and taking the flag back, they would encounter more trouble, but they would still successfully return back to the starting point and put the flag in the box.
Everyone should be able to do this because the monsters are not more powerful than them. However, there are a lot of them, so they must use their energy and stamina sparingly. The only deciding factor would be who took a long time and who took a shorter time to complete the whole process.
Alas…The performance of Athan simply blew their mind, and their expectation was betrayed as well because he finished it very quickly.
The audience snapped out of their thoughts after hearing Sinish's voice, who announced the result and started talking.
"Why is a candidate who just arrived from Chaosverse is this powerful?"
"Indeed! Something is very strange about him. I wish I could experience and feel his power and check his aura to see how it is."
"Well, only those kings in the sky can do that."
…
In the sky, the ten Kings had solemn expressions on their faces.
"He could resist the sky force and…that destructive aura. From his speed and superficial power, his strength already rivals that of Atomix-stage powerhouses," said the King of Gojaal Empire.
"What about his soul power? I couldn't sense it. I couldn't see through him, and he hadn't used his soul power, so I couldn't check its potency. However, from his soul sense, which he used to observe and sense things….," said the King of Xan Empire as he paused at the end.
The King of the Klenkai Empire said while nodding, "Yes, his soul sense indicates that his soul power is a bit lower than Atomix-stage beings. However, the nature of his soul sense was also very strange. I felt that there was more to it,"
"His soul power aside, what was that destructive aura? It was mixed with blood and flesh power of his physical body," said the King of Oppanu Empire with a serious expression.
"That is indeed very strange. I couldn't make heads or tails about it either," said the King of Zonik Empire with a nod.
The King of the Oppanu Empire spoke while putting his hands below his chin in the cross-fingers form before saying in a deep voice, "one thing is for sure. He is not in this system. He is not in the path to the Mythical Evolution and becoming an Absolute Transcendent Mythos like us."
Hearing that, everyone nodded. They couldn't sense any evolution energy or powers related to Orchos Firmament from Athan, even when he used his powers.
"His power and that black aura…," said the King of Limbark Empire with a frown on his face, "they do feel superior to me. It's like it exists above my existence."
Everyone revealed an uncomfortable expression, but they had to agree to this as they felt the same when sensing the aura coming out of Athan.
"We should meet with him after everything is over," said the King of the Oppanu Empire with a thoughtful expression, "his existence is out of our scope right now. He might also be…"
"A reincarnation? or Rebirth?" King of Limbark Empire spoke with a slight frown.
The King of the Oppanu Empire nodded, "We are also not aware of what kind of powers those Absolute Transcendence Mythos possess because they disappear after becoming the Myth. So it's not impossible that Athan is a reincarnation with the legacy of his previous life based on the power we are sensing from his aura and his existence, which is outside of our scope."
Everyone nodded as they couldn't deny King Oppanu's speculation.
"How should we interact with him?" King Klekai asked a crucial question.
Indeed. After all, they were far more seniors than everyone here. They had lived long and are currently in the Epic stage of Evolution.
So it was natural that they would act as seniors and elders while interacting with those weaker than them.
However, Athan was an anomaly to them.
"Let's interact with him as if he is our equal," said the King of the Oppanu empire after thinking for a moment.
King Oppanu was the most senior among them all, and since he was willing to treat Athan as his equal, the other kings didn't have any complaints.
"King Kelnkai, you should talk to your Queen because of her background, hehehe. She is from a powerful family in 4th Lerento and is naturally arrogant," said the King of Noabu Empire with a sneer.
"Indeed, as per ceremony, Athan will be rewarded in your Royal Court since we are in your Empire right now," said King Limbark with a wry smile, "Dreevindo had told me that this Athan will not act servile towards anyone and will move in his pace."
"At first, I thought about putting this Athan in his place later after Dreevindo told me about these things, but now that we have seen his performance and come up with some speculations due to sensing his strange powers, It makes sense as to why Athan acts like that."
King Kelnkai nodded with a helpless smile, "alright. I will tell Lauratina about him. Even though we don't have concrete claims, I'll have to say to her with certainty that Athan is a hidden powerhouse. Otherwise, if Athan showed no respect to her in court, she would surely flare-up."
While the kings were talking, Lily also finished her goals, but she took 43 seconds. Her spatial doors power was quite good, but it was not usable with their short range here. After all, she had to traverse 1000 kilometer long forest.
So, despite using her full power and everything in her arsenal, from her Genome power to her newfound abilities from her chaotic powers and from mythical grade Cynrailic Orchos Genome, she still took 43 seconds.
After coming out, Lily smiled wryly towards Athan while walking and spoke, "quite a big gap this time."
"Don't compare yourself to me because our power structures are totally different," Athan said while shaking his head with a small smile.
Lily walked beside Athan and stood behind Lingarmin before muttering, "I know that. But…I want to become as powerful as you and stand by you…"
'Stand by your side forever this time…' thought Lily as she glanced at Athan with loving eyes.
Athan looked at Lily and revealed a faint smile, "this reality is vast, there is a world above this one too and everything is possible I believe. I want everyone to become as strong as me. Tiana, Avelia, and all others…"
Athan closed his eyes as he remembered everyone. His fist clenched as he would not stop until reaching his goal.
'Let's see how those kings react now.. They should be given quite a shock and would have done a lot of speculations on me by now,' thought Athan with a glint in his eyes.
Chapter 696: Genealogy
After Lily, Huarin also went into the trial domain and managed to bring the flag back in 1 minute and 36 seconds.
Of course, her performance was also very shocking, and it would be blown everyone's mind if not for Athan's and Lily's performance.
The difference revealed itself when the next person went to the trial domain.
The 4th ranker took a whole 5 minutes and 54 seconds to bring back the flag from the tallest peak.
The winning odds of Athan, Lily, and Huarin were very low, so even though people went all-in with the limit of 20,000 Etons, they didn't earn much by betting on them.
After everyone took their turns, the final result was announced. Naturally, the top 3 didn't change, but the rest changed as this trial domain displayed their overall capability of strength, wits, and will.
All top 32 got the rewards, with the top 3 getting the best rewards.
Naturally, Dreevindo and Lingardim were overjoyed as well because they received even more valuable rewards than the top 3.
They received resources and an opportunity to go in the Skyward Dome, where there is a chance that they can break through and evolve to Epic-stage.
On the other hand, Athan got a rare-grade artifact that can be activated using his soul energy, an Epic-tier Evolution Method, and 100,000 Common-Etons and 10,000 Rare-Etons.
After the rewarding ceremony, Athan, Lily, and Huarin were led to rest in the Royal Guest Palace. Naturally, only the three of them got this treatment while the other candidates were accommodated in inns in the city.
After going there, Dreevindo told them general information about the Orchos Firmament. The most surprising thing was Etons.
Etons was a common currency used to buy everything. They can be used to purchase resources, materials, foods, artifacts, and more things.
The thing about this currency was that it was not physical but mystical. One can mine this currency in its special mines. The mines were physical, but they contained dreamy blue-white stones, and if you hit them or break their structure, they would turn into sparks and disappear.
However, there was a material that could contain the spark of Eton stones. Later, some Runic Artists ( the real ones ) used this material and designed a device that could contain the spark of Eton stones and display them in numbers. These cards are known as Eton Cards.
Since then, Etons has been used as the common currency. Naturally, there were different tiers of Etons. Common Etons, Rare Etons, Epic Etons, and Legendary Etons.
Etons mines are harder to find because their locations are in dimension rifts that appear in Firmament Chams. Once a mine is found, it is immediately excavated, and its sparks are stored in large devices that work similarly to Eton Cards. Naturally, to make the work easier, special pickaxes are used to hit on the Eton stones and store their sparks.
Afterward, Dreevindo explained to them about the Evolution Method and how they can use it to absorb orchos energy and evolve their entire beings (body and soul). After reaching the limit, they can invoke genome Relics and breakthrough. Naturally, they have to comprehend their relics to gain more power.
The Evolution Methods could direct their speed of getting stronger and are related to certain powers that would partially decide their relic invocation.
The Epic-grade Evolution Method that Athan got was called: Diabolic Nendosram.
The process of evolution and invocation was relics to gain power was also unique. For instance, once someone has reached Atomix-stage or any other stage, they can invoke more relics or catalysts by training and roaming in various places to fill up their genealogy path once again. However, the relics they would invoke at that time would not surpass their limit.
Atomix-stage beings have Atomix-grade relics, Epic-stage beings have Epic-relics. So to gain more power and abilities, they can invoke more of their current stage's relics.
The main thing is the Genealogy path. This thing exists in everyone, but it is only revealed in people born in Orchos Firmament and those who transformed and went through the ascension process.
The Evolution Method is also used to absorb Orchos energy and fill up the Genealogy path, which is the core of everyone's existence. Filling up the path would strengthen both their body and soul both.
However, the Genealogy paths are complicated, and one must carefully fill it with the Orchos energy while training. This path is Ethereal and spreads through their entire body to soul level. These paths change their shape as one gets stronger, and there is a place in this path, the core part, which is known as Genome Firma.
In Genome Firma, the various relics and catalysts are situated. It is also imprinted with an individual's powers and abilities that they comprehended.
So in simple terms: The evolution method is used to absorb Orchos energy and fill up the Genealogy path of an individual. Filling up the path would strengthen one's body and soul until it reaches the limit. Once it has reached the limit, the person can invoke a genome relic or catalyst.
After invoking them, they must comprehend their genome relic or catalyst to absorb their power and acquire abilities. After doing this and breaking through to the Atomix stage, they can fill up their genealogy path again to invoke a relic or catalyst of the same grade if they want to gain more power and abilities.
Naturally, there are more complicated processes after Atomix-stage, but all of that didn't matter to Athan.
The only thing that mattered to him was the information about power sources that exist in Dimensional Rifts and Firmament Chams that Dreevindo told him.
"Take one day of rest today. Tomorrow, you will have to be present in the Royal Court for another reward," Dreevindo said with a grin.
"Hahaha, of course, you can reject this reward as well. But you can accept it as well; it's your choice," Dreevindo said with a wide smile.
"What kind of reward is that?" Lily asked with raised eyebrows as her institution told her that something was up.
'Athan can accept this reward and reject as well….hmm,' Lily fell into thought before a light bulb lit up in her head and her expression turned somber as she looked at Dreevindo, "The reward…don't tell me it's about a girl?"
Dreevindo looked at Lily with a shocked expression before asking, "how did you know?"
Athan frowned and asked, "what is that reward? speak clearly."
"Cough…," Dreevindo coughed before speaking with a grin, "To have some ties with you, the King of Klenkai Empire will marry one of their daughters to you. This is a one-of-a-kind reward, hahaha."
"You should know that nothing like has happened before. Hehe, I am telling you, Athan. Their daughter is an otherwordly beauty and y-you….," Dreevindo stopped as he felt a death glare of Lily and stuttered before he stopped speaking.
Athan patted Dreevindo's shoulder and leaned closed on him before speaking in a clear voice, "tell that King Klenkai or whatever that I will not accept this reward. If they don't want to be rejected in public, then better change the reward."
After saying that, Athan went back and lay on the bed. Of course, he was checking out the Evolution Method to study it for research purposes.
"Ahem, alright," Dreevindo said with a wry smile before turning to Huarin and Lily, "you are going to stay in this room, or should I show your rooms?"
"Humph, no need," Lily snorted before disappearing and entering the Ark space.
Huarin also disappeared after giving a glance to Dreevindo.
"Then I will leave now and call you tomorrow. After exact 23 hours," Dreevindo said as he looked at Athan.
"Alright," Athan nodded without looking at Dreevindo, "also, don't forget to give my message to King of Klenkai. Naturally, if they are okay with rejection in public, then it's fine."
Dreevindo wryly smiled and shook his head as he left the room.
"Brother Athan!"
Suddenly, Mimi came out from the ark space and spoke with a pout, "brother Athan, you come inside too."
"Ahh, food!" Mimi's eyes went to the delicious dishes of food on the large table, and her eyes lit up.
Athan smiled and spoke, "let's bring it all inside and eat."
"Yey."
…
"The dishes are really delicious," Huarin said with surprise, "way better than the ones we ate in chaosverse."
"Of course. The mystic chefs here are stronger and got more profound, hehehe," Mimi said with a chuckle, "I really missed the of Orchos Firmament for years."
Suddenly, Mimi's expression dropped a bit as she remembered something, "Mom was a very powerful Legendary Mystic chef; she would daily cook me very delicious food."
"Mimi, I also walked the path of Mystic chef, so I will become the Legendary Mystic Chef and cook you delicious food," Huarin said with a gentle smile.
Athan also remembered Avelia as his eyes revealed longing.
Lily saw that the mood was getting off, so she changed the topic.
"This Orchos Firmament is not limited to just Order and Chaos, but there are a lot more mystical powers here. It's truly so vast and profound from what little we knew from Dreevindo. I especially want to go to Dimension Rifts and Firmament Chasms. Although dangerous, they are filled with natural wonders, according to Dreevindo."
Athan nodded as a glint passed through his eyes, "That's where most people would go to train and fight wars for resources and treasure; it ought to be interesting there."
…
On the other hand, Dreevindo decided that it would be best to tell King Klenkai about Athan's words, so he went to the Royal Garden, where all kings were gathered together.
Chapter 697: Dreevindo's Decision.
"What's the matter, Dreevindo?" King Limbark asked. Dreevindo was a subject of his Limbark Empire.
After finishing everything here, Athan was also supposed to go to the Limbark Empire, while Lily and Huarin were supposed to go to the Zonik Empire because Lingardim was a subject from that Empire.
Naturally, things might not go as usual this time for these Kings.
"Cough…I told Athan about the thing that's going to happen tomorrow. Like how King Klenkai is going to give his daughter's hand to Athan for marriage," Dreevindo said with a fake cough.
"What did he say?" King Klenkai asked as he raised his eyebrows.
"Well, he is not going to accept the marriage," Dreevind said with a wry smile, "he said that he would definitely reject such a thing and told me to relay to King Kelkai not to bring this up tomorrow if they don't want to get rejected in public."
Hearing that, every King looked at King Klenkai, who changed his expression into that of a thoughtful one.
"Alright, It's good that this matter was cleared early," King Klenkai said with a nod.
Suddenly, everyone's expression changed as they looked at the entrance of the Graden.
"Who does he think he is to reject my daughter?!" A lady with arrogance oozing out of her body entered the garden. She looked to be in her late thirties with a busty body and currently wore a layered thick dress that displayed her royalty.
She had long dark green hair with a slight orange hue on them, and her eyes were also the same color, dark green with a slight orange hue.
"Lauratina…," Kelnaki spoke with a wry smile and stood up, "come with me. I have some important matter to talk to you about."
"Humph, first tell me about that arrogant bastard who rejected my daughter! I was already angry that you decided this thing without my consent, but that lowly being dared to reject my daughter? NO! This is an insult towards us! Towards my daughter and me!" Lauratina said with a cold voice.
She walked towards King Klenkai and spoke stubbornly, "tomorrow, he MUST accept this proposal, but after that, I will reject him!" said Lauratina before she declared, "this marriage will not happen! Not because of his rejection but from my rejection!
Everyone smiled helplessly after seeing this Queen of Klenkai like this. Naturally, along with being a Queen of Klenkai, she was also a daughter of an Elite Legendary being in 4th Lerento. Her father was also a King of a powerful Empire.
"Come with me!" King Klenkai said with an indifferent expression as he passed by Lauratina.
Lauratina naturally followed him out as her husband was the nagging target for her, not the other Kings.
…
"That Athan is really not afraid of us," King Oppanu said with a thoughtful expression.
"Indeed. If he dared to say something like that, then it means that he has the power to back up his statement…," Limbark said with a nod.
"Just who is he? Such an enigma, I haven't encountered before," said the King of Izakin Empire as he took a sip from the teacup.
"Dreevindo, tell us more about him," King Limbark said. His words attracted everyone's attention as they looked at Dreevindo.
After all, Dreevindo was the person who stayed with Athan the most, and he ought to know about him more than anyone else.
Dreevindo's eyes and heart jumped as this was a crucial moment for him, 'must I pave the way for Athan and go with him or stick with the Limbark Empire and this Osmes Empire Alliance? Or….maybe I can do both?'
"Athan…by now, you must have realized that his power and his existence…actually sits above us," Dreevindo spoke slowly with a calm expression.
All Kings nodded because they had felt Athan's power up close and had that inferior feeling sprout in them. Even though they didn't want to admit it, it was true.
From their inspection of Athan's power, Athan's body and also his soul were not as strong as them from what they sensed through Athan's soul sense. However, his strange power was the thing that bothered them. It was completely outside of their scope.
"Do you know about his origin?" asked the King of Zonik Empire, "where did he come from? or any other information?"
Dreevindo shook his head, "I don't know. He never told me about it. However…," pausing there, Dreevindo's expression turned grave, "one thing I can tell you for sure is that…he is not one to be messed with."
After hearing that, All King's ears perked up, and their expression turned serious. From how Dreevindo spoke, it was clear that he knew more in-depth about Athan.
"What do you know? Tell us everything so we can prepare," King Oppanu said with a somber expression.
Dreevindo nodded and spoke, "I know one thing for sure, and it is that he has yet to fully tap on his power. However, he is progressing in it, and…he has beings that are complete monsters!"
A fearful look appeared on Dreevindo's face as he remembered the glimpse that Primo showed him and later how he felt pure fear from the power of Primo and Taezin.
"Athan had one being at the start; it was a mystical black cat…," said Dreevindo before taking a deep breath, "however, trust me that the power of that cat far….it far surpassed me and everything I have witnessed in Orchos Firmament."
"There is also a tiny monkey, and I felt even more power from it! Unlike Athan, whose soul power is still lower, those two beings' soul power and their dept have surpassed anything I could imagine," Dreevindo said as he breathed ruggedly.
"Those beings, far more powerful than Athan, called him as Master! Their loyalty is such that they can die for Athan without the slightest of hesitation," Dreevindo said as he remembered one of his earliest meetings with Athan and Primo, where Primo spoke about how Primo would protect his Master at any cost.
Seeing skepticism in some King's eyes, Dreevindo swore right then and there that if he was lying about anything, then may his soul scatter and return to the Primal Orchos.
Once Dreevindo swore, and nothing happened, the Kings looked at each other with shocked expressions.
Suddenly, Dreevindo remembered something, and his expression turned even graver.
"What now?" Limbark asked with a frown seeing Dreevindo's expression.
Chapter 698: Dreevindo's Investigation
"The thing is…actually, Athan had more companions with him, and all of them were very strong, comparable to that Huarin and Lily. However…," Dreevindo spoke as he paused and remembered the result of his investigation.
"Huh? He had such powerful companions? Where are they now?" asked the King of Limbark.
"Actually, on that day, several forces had surrounded an Island bubble where Athan's companions were staying. However, from what I found, Athan had entered into that island bubble with his unfathomable pets, that cat and monkey. But then the entire island devoured and disappeared, leaving a cocoon. From that cocoon, Athan came out."
"So Athan killed his own companions?" The King of Xan Empire asked with a surprised expression.
"Impossible!" Dreevindo shook his head with absolute certainty, "there is no way that Athan would do that. He cares about his companions very much. They are his life."
"Then what happened?"
Dreevindo smiled wryly and shook his head, "I am not sure exactly. But something indeed happened. After coming out of the cocoon, Athan changed his ways completely. He slaughtered people and devoured their souls to get stronger; his power also increased tremendously. Naturally, the disappearance of his companions affected him the most."
Pausing there, Dreevindo adopted a peculiar expression, "as you all know how Chaosverse came into existence. So, after that day's incident, I went to the Nexus of the Chaosverse and visited its will there. Of course, I was not going there to grasp the true order and chaos but to know more about the situation. And I found…something unbelievable."
"What?"
"Dreevindo, finish without pausing, or I will beat you to a pulp."
Dreevindo smiled wryly and continued, "The will of Chaosverse had weakened, and I also saw some damage on the Nexus of Chaosverse."
Everyone became shocked after hearing that. Naturally, of them were able to do anything at the Nexus of Chaosverse. Not even Legendary beings can do anything there.
"The only power capable of doing something like that should belong to an Absolute Transcendent Mythos or….someone more powerful than that," King Oppanu spoke in a grave tone.
"Indeed," Dreevindo hurridly nodded before speaking, "I even licked ass of that will and tried to get some information, but I almost died because of that."
"And you are saying that…the matter at the Nexus of Chaosverse is related to Athan?" asked the King of Polu Empire with a frown.
"That's the only explanation. We Orchos Celestial would occasionally visit the Nexus…cough, to see if we can get some fortuitous encounter from whatever remains of that Absolute Transcendent Mythos left," Dreevindo smiled and coughed.
"Anyway, so I asked other Orchos Celestials, and the recent one who went there was just a few days ago before that incident with Athan," said Dreevindo with a small smile, "that's why I concluded that Athan is related to how that will be weakened and the damage to the Nexus of Chaosverse."
All Kings fell into thought, and King Klenkai also returned at this time. He was surprised that everyone was silent and thoughtful, "What happened?"
Everyone told King Klenkai about the information that Dreevindo provided, causing him to be shocked as well.
…
What Dreevindo said was indeed true. When that woman who wielded the power of Infinite Void of Absolute Stasis arrived and took away Tiana and others, she indeed damaged the Nexus of Chaosverse.
The will of Chaosverse tried to resist the power of that woman who stopped the time and space of the entire Chaosverse, which resulted in the damage.
The ignorant will of that Chaosverse obviously doesn't know the immensity of Infinite Void of Absolute Stasis, which surpasses the Absolute Transcendent Mythos.
That will's scope is limited to the power of Absolute Transcendent Mythos, and that's why it automatically resisted the power. At that time, that woman told it that she didn't want to destroy this Chaosverse; otherwise, she could do it easily and quickly.
Unlike Athan, that woman had truly mastered her Infinite Void of Absolute Statis and was simply too powerful.
That will didn't even notice anything, not even that woman until a mysterious power forcefully stopped entire Chaosverse's time.
…
Twenty-three hours passed, and when Dreevindo arrived in the room, he saw Athan, Lily, and Huarin sitting in the room at a table while a maid served them food.
Naturally, they could order the food using a card on the table and they did just that.
"Let's go; it's time," Dreevindo said with a smile.
"What about the reward?" Lily asked as she glanced at Dreevindo.
"Of course, of course, the reward has been changed," Dreevindo said with a wry smile.
'Athan, I have made preparation for you. So you must also treat me good from now, okay?' Dreevindo said to Athan telepathically.
Athan raised his eyebrows in surprise before smiling, 'good. You made the correct decision. Once we leave, I will bless you.'
Dreevindo grinned before he left the room while Athan, Lily, and Huarin followed.
Mimi was sleeping inside the Ark as she preferred to train while sleeping, one of the traits of her race. She could train faster while in the sleeping mode of her race. Naturally, the people of her race would only do this when they were in their territory and had protection around them.
…
Halfway through walking, Lingardim arrived and spoke with a smile, "Athan will have to go alone from now. You two should come with me and join the audience in the Royal Court."
Lily and Hauarin nodded as they left.
On the other hand, Dreevindo took Athan to another path.
The royal court was not too big, but it wasn't too small either.
Only the most important people of the Empire were present. It was a hundred square meter hall, and Ten kings and Lauratina were sitting on thrones at the end. There were also two young men and a young woman sitting a bit behind King Klenkai and Lauratina.
From the middle of the hall, Athan arrived from underground with an indifferent expression as this farce was not to his liking.
Chapter 699: Gaze Of Void, Killed By Mistake.
Because of Athan's words, the rewards were changed as Aren received an Epic-grade beast's egg and an Epic-grade flying ship that could fight and defend against 1st step Epic-stage powerhouses.
After the ceremony was over, Dreevindo led Athan back, but they encountered two people on the way. A young man and a young woman with the appearance of twenties. They were other hand price and princess of this Empire. The prince is called Yenkal, and the princess is called Binita.
"So you are the one who rejected my sister?" the young spoke as he looked at Athan with narrowed eyes.
"Yeah, haha, what are you going to do about it?"
At this moment, Lily and Huarin also arrived in the corridor.
Yenkal and Binita turned around with a frown on their face as they saw Lily and Huarin walking towards them.
"Humph, you are not as important as this guy, so better watch your mouth and know who you are talking to before speaking anything," Yenkal said with a snort as he looked at Lily and Huarin. His words were laced with explicit threats.
However, Lily chuckled and shook her head, "what are you going to do to me?"
"I can't kill you because it would be a waste, heh," Yenkal sneered before saying, "however, I can make your life miserable. Don't forget where you are standing, silly woman."
"And you," spoke Binita as she looked at Athan with a deadpan expression, "you are not worthy of me. I already have someone I love, and if he knew that there was someone, a person from Chaosverse, who dared to reject me, then he would kill you, and my father also can't stop him."
Binita gritted her teeth and continued, "my father made this decision because I have yet to tell him about me getting together with Prince Valiod. We met in the Murken Star Academ-"
"Look," Athan interrupted her with a plain expression and spoke, "I am not interested in your story or you or your affairs. Go tell your father whatever you want to and stop picking trouble with me."
"Let's go," Athan said as he passed by the brother and sister. Lily and Huarin also turned around seeing Athan coming towards them while Dreevindo naturally followed Athan.
*tham…*
"Stop!"
Yenkal grabbed Athan's shoulder and spoke, "you can leave but not those two women. Heh, even if you are important, you can't harm me in my own territory."
Yenkal then looked at Lily and Huarin before speaking with a sneer, "you wanted to know what I'd do to you, right? Just stay here, and I will show you, hahaha."
"Heh, I dare you to try anything," Lily mocked and smiled, "I swear that I will entirely remove the gene root of your reproductive organ and destroy it so that it will never be regenerated. You can become a eunuch of this Empire after that, hahaha."
"YOU!" Yenkal fumed, but before he could say anything, he saw Athan turning around, and his gaze fell into Athan's eyes.
Athan looked at Yenkal as a gleam of black and white passed through his eyes, 'I might as well check out the new Gaze of Void.'
"Remove your hand," Athan spoke as he used his Gaze of Void, which consumed a single Abyssal Blood Crystal and also 20% of his soul energy.
Suddenly, Yenkal felt an overwhelming pressure upon his existence, and his hand on Athan's shoulder was removed before both of his knees gave away as he kneeled.
"Yenkal?" Binita was confused, but then her expression turned into anger. However, Dreevindo hurriedly stood in front of her and stopped her from attacking Athan.
"Princess Binita, calm down!" Dreevindo said before he created a barrier around Binita and then turned to Athan before speaking in a helpless voice, "Athan, please stop."
Suddenly, everyone felt overwhelming pressure.
'Dreevindo, don't resist!' Athan said telepathically to Dreevindo as he touched his head because he was a shorty and his head was the closest thing to Athan.
'Lily, Huarin, enter inside the Ark, NOW!' Athan spoke telepathically to Lily and Huarin before he and Dreevindo disappeared.
Lily and Huarin also disappeared.
After four of them disappeared, a roar resounded across the entire palace.
…
"What is this place? Woah…this, this almost like a blessed land, such pure orchos energy. It's perfect for consolidating our Gene roots and whole Genealogy path after every training," Dreevindo muttered as he closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
Suddenly, Dreevindo felt a life-threatening feeling, and a cage suddenly materialized around him. The cage was golden with red patterns, and Dreevindo felt that he would die if he did something funny.
He looked at Lily because she was the one who used it; he felt her soul sense when this cage materialized, 'what the hell? How can she be this powerful?..NO! This is not her power, this…this power.'
Dreevindo looked around in this strange place before coming to a conclusion, 'It's the power of this place.'
"What happened, Athan? Why did you tell us to enter here in a hurry?" Lily asked.
Huarin also nodded.
On the other hand, Mimi was looking at the scene outside with a started expression.
Athan smiled wryly and sighed, "I mistakenly killed that Yenkal. I was trying out my new ability but didn't know that he was that weak, or maybe my power was too much."
Shaking his head, Athan looked at Dreevindo and asked, "how powerful was that Yenkal?"
Dreevindo was stunned speechless, while his expression slowly turned into that of neither crying nor laughing, "are you serious?"
"Ahem, I am serious," Athan nodded, "his soul was more powerful than any Chaos Supremes, but those Chaos Supremes are also now very powerful after their transformation and ascension. So, I don't know how powerful was that Yenkal."
Dreevindo spoke with a crying face, "he was actually even weaker than current Chaos Supremes, who are now at Raisor-stage. That dumb prince was at the Wrux-evolution stage."
"Geez, why was he so arrogant then?" Lily spoke while shaking her head.
"Well, because he was a prince of this Empire, and he was inside the main palace. Naturally, his sister, Binita is more powerful; she is at 1st-overhaul of Atomix-stage," Dreevindo said with a wry smile before he remembered something and spoke in a doubt, "wait…Athan can't possibly kill Yenkal that fast."
"Yenkal has protection from his father, and King Klenkai should have surely put soul protection talisman and other things in him that would ensure his safety," Dreevindo said as he doubtfully looked at Athan.
"Your current strength is not enough to break King Klenkai's powers and preparation and kill Yenkal that fast…if I am right, right? Right? Don't tell me you got even stronger in one day?" Dreevindo asked with a speechless expression.
"I didn't get stronger in one day," Athan shook his head with a smile, "however, my new technique directly, straight to the point, just attacks the soul, and it's not blockable by anything If the target used his soul sense during my Gaze of Void."
"The Gaze of Void would bypass anything, find the source of that soul sense, and attack the soul before devouring it and transferring its power to me," Athan said before he shook his head, "however, I didn't know that he was that weak. He instantly died."
*claps….*
"Wow!" Dreevindo spoke with a speechless expression and started clapping.
"Now, can you release me from this trap? I am in the same boat as you since I also disappeared from that place," Dreevindo said with a sigh as he looked at Lily, "I also can't do anything here; apparently, my powers are also stripped now."
Athan was surprised and turned to Lily, "you can do that too?"
"Yep," Lily grinned and nodded, "this Ark activated its full power when I transformed and arrived at Orchos Firmament. Hehe, I can do a lot of things with it. That's why I was not worried about anything. We can escape anytime and go anywhere; nobody can do anything to us."
Athan shook his head and said telepathically, 'for now, yes. But later, when we go to 7th Lerento, we will have to be careful. Mimi's parents also had this Ark, and they were more powerful than you and me, but they still met their end. Naturally, there are treasures on par with this Ark of Exordium.'
Lily nodded before she looked at Dreevindo, "what do we do about him?"
"He is with us," Athan said with a faint smile, "those Kings won't make any ruckus even if we leave because I showed them something out of their scope, and Dreevindo also filled them with stories, real stories. I had to do it so that we could leave here without any trouble and that no one would follow us to waste our time."
"Let's go now, to the so-called power sources at Dimension Rifts and Firmament Chams," Athan said.
"Right! I will create power source orbs for you with the Ark's power once we reach there so you can easily absorb or make use of them however you want," Lily said with a grin.
On the other hand, Huarin and Lily were standing side by side and looking at the interesting scene outside where everyone had gathered around Yenkal's body.
"Sister Lily, brother Athan, they are searching for you but are very shocked that they couldn't find you anywhere, hehehe," Mimi chuckled.
Lily waved her hand as she created a large 3d cloudly screen so that everyone could see the happening of side in a 360-degree view.
"There's no point in staying here. Let's leave," Lily nodded as she controlled the Ark's movement with her thought and left the palace.
"Dreevindo, tell us where do we need to go now," Athan said as he looked at Dreevindo.
…
After leaving the Empire, they arrived at another Empire's territory and left the Ark as they had to leave through a teleportation formation to arrive at the nearest Firmament Chasm.
Chapter 700: Star Seer Firmament Chasm
In a bustling city filled with colorful wooden structures, Aren, Lily, Mimi, Huarin, and Dreevindo were walking in the street.
Mimi's appearance had changed entirely now. Her eighth and age appearance was still that of 17 years old, but her face had changed a bit, and the crystal on her forehead was nowhere to be seen.
She wore a frock dress with black and light blue designs.
"Let's hope that they haven't sent their men to search for us here," Dreevindo said while looking around.
"We have worn disguises, so it's fine," Lily said.
…
After walking for a while, they arrived at a large plaza filled with many people as they waited for their turn to get on the giant dark silver disk floating at the end of the plaza.
After arriving here, Athan and others saw fifteen people standing on the dark silver disk. A second later, the eccentric patterns on the dark silver disk glowed for a moment before all fifteen people disappeared.
"Dreevindo, go and buy our tickets," Athan said.
Dreevindo nodded as he went to buy the tickets and came back after two minutes.
"Let's go; we don't need to stay in the queue, hehe," Dreevindo said with a grin as he walked towards the dark silver disk and told Athan and others to follow him.
"How?" Mimi asked.
"By paying more money, of course," Dreevindo said softly with a smile, "the next turn will be our."
After walking towards the disk, they waited for the next batch to leave.
After the batch left, Dreevindo said something to the person who was controlling the disk through telepathy and showed a token.
Seeing that, the person nodded.
Athan and others then flew on the disk and stood there.
"Why are they skipping queue?" A young man with long pointy ears and two antennae on his head spoke with dissatisfaction as he looked at the main guy controlling the disk.
"Pay triple, and you can go as well."
Hearing that, the young man shut his mouth and muttered with a frown, "humph, my turn is next; why would I pay more?"
"Then shut up."
…
After Athan and others disappeared, they arrived on another dark silver disk at a large floating city.
"Phew! We are finally at the Star-Seer Firmament Chasm, hahaha, now we are safe."
"Wow, so beautiful," Mimi said as she looked at the sky.
The sky was really beautiful as it had large and wide colorful slashes that spanned across thousands of kilometers.
"Hehe, look below," Dreevindo said with a laugh.
Athan and others flew away from the disk and directly left the city as they were at the very corner of the floating city, and there weren't any walls or anything. It was a flat floating land with buildings on it. However, a barrier surrounded the whole city with a hundred meters of a gap between the barrier and the city's border.
Athan, Lily, Mimi, and Huarin were once again surprised as they looked below, which had almost the same scenery as the sky.
"Mimi, since you were born in Orchos Firmament, didn't you ever go to Firmament Chams?" Dreevindo asked with doubt.
"Nope, I never went to places like this one," Mimi shook her head.
"This place, it's indeed like a chasm between something," Athan said as he observed the sky and ground.
"Yep, but these are unending. You can go below or at the top; it will never end. However, the spawning of dimensional rifts will increase as you go far below or top," Dreevindo said.
"But there are really many people here, some are going in the sky, and some are going below," Lily said, "And those floating islands, what are they?"
The sky and ground were unending and were filled with floating islands of different sizes.
"The floating islands around here are of private companies. It's better that we stay away from them," Dreevindo said with a wry smile, "anyway, we can either go top or bottom; the going top is known as Empyrean Path, and going below is known as Abyss Path. What we will encounter is not up to us, and going to either side is the same thing."
"Can we go to the next Lerento from here?" Athan asked as he looked at Dreevindo.
"We can; when we encounter a golden-colored rift portal, we can go to a Firmament Chasm of different Lerento. However, it's random. We may appear in any Lerento from 1st to 7th."
"Are these two sides really unending?" Huarin asked with doubt.
"Ehh…actually, nobody went to measure their size or see if there is an end, so we don't know, "Dreevindo said with a wry smile, "people would usually go into Dimension Rifts to train and gather resources or go into Lerento Rift to go to different Lerento, so it's been told that they are unending."
"Let's go to the top," Athan said as he flew towards the sky. Lily and others followed him as well.
Once they left the barrier, they suddenly felt a change in atmosphere and were surprised.
Lily raised her eyebrows and asked, "why is there no orchos energy here? This is completely empty except for the space, which feels more sturdy."
"Indeed, that city was powered by a large power source of Orchos energy that is found in dimension Rifts and kept that atmosphere. However, this chasm is like this," Dreevindo said with a smile, "naturally, the real exciting and dangerous part is dimensional rifts."
"Those dimension rifts will only appear for several seconds before disappearing, and…," Dreevindo continued with a serious expression, "we can also encounter people inside who are vying for resources and training, so we must be careful once we enter inside one."
Athan and others nodded before everyone continued flying high in the sky.
After flying for ten minutes, they passed by a floating island. The island was surrounded by a transparent barrier as Athan and others could see many people of different races, including humans, dwarves, elves, vampires, partying and celebrating as if something good had happened.
Dreevindo said enviously, "they must have found a good haul in a dimensional rift."
Chapter 701: Full Power!
Athan and others continued flying for thirty minutes more before a black-purple rift suddenly appeared two hundred meters in front of them.
Athan's eyes gleamed as he spoke, "let's go!"
Athan, Lily, Huarin, and Mimi flew towards it and entered inside while Dreevindo stood there dumbfounded. However, after a second, he snapped out of his thought, hurriedly flew towards it, and entered inside while cursing, "Fuck it!"
Athan and others arrived in a nightly world filled with glowing stars and seven moon-like things in the sky. The atmosphere was very cold and chilling. They arrived near a waterfall with shining black water with sparks flowing in a river towards deep into the jungle.
"Sigh…"
Athan and others turned to look at Dreevindo after hearing the sigh.
"What happened?" Athan asked with a frown seeing Dreevindo's expression.
"My bad, I forgot to tell you about the color of dimensional rift portals," Dreevindo said with a wry smile, "there are several colors, and among them, this black-purple combo is connected to devil realms. So, we will mostly find devilish races."
"What do you mean?" Lily asked with a frown.
"Eh…It's like this, the black aura from the portal represents devilish realms, while the purple aura represents epic-grade. So we will find Epic-evolution powerhouses and monsters here," Dreevindo said.
"What's with devilish realms? I saw some devils or demons, whatever they are called in the city as well," Athan said as he raised his eyebrows.
"It's not like that; the devilish realms are the realms where powerful devil races stay. There's no race discrimination or anything, but they prefer to stay there because it's more comfortable for them. After all, it is their birthplace.
However, black-purple combo means that this dimension rift will give more advantage to devilish people because of this atmosphere," Dreevindo said with a weak smile, "And If we encounter any epic-evolution devilish people, then we will have to run or give up our resources to them."
"Brother Athan, I found this in the river!"
Athan and others saw that Mimi was standing near the river with a black shining crystal in her hand. The crystal had red vein-like patterns inside it.
"That's…it's an Umbra-catalyst crystal," Dreevindo said in a surprised tone, "It's an epic-grade resource that people of Epic-stage use to progress in their Genealogy path."
"Whatever it is, it's filled with the powerful energy of some kind," Lily said as she inspected the crystal.
Dreevindo nodded, "those devilish people would kill for it since this crystal gives them more benefit."
"Take it, sister Lily, and evolve it further with Ark's power," Mimi said as she threw the crystal towards Lily before saying to Athan, "I'm sure brother Athan can make use of it."
Lily caught the crystal and disappeared.
"Dreevindo, there's no need to worry since we have arrived here. Just keep on the lookout for us from now on while we gather resources and train."
However, suddenly, everyone heard a sound of air ripping apart as they saw two people coming out of the jungle and stopping as they saw Athan and the gang.
Everyone became cautious.
The two individuals were a man and a woman. They had a slim build, white skin, black horns, red eyes, and eccentric, dark red patterns on their body.
"Where is it?" Arunki, the woman asked as she looked at Athan and others while keeping her flying form in some sort of stance as if she was ready to attack any time.
After she finished speaking, the man followed up with a sneer, "we have sensed its energy since whatever you got is very compatible to our genealogy path, so don't try to fool us and obediently give it to us."
'Support me from behind,' Athan said telepathically to Dreevindo, Mimi, and Huarin before he consumed ten Abyssal Blood Crystal and activated all three of his void frames, such that he could change any part of his body to a different void frame's structure when he wants.
'It's time to go all out,' Athan thought as he disappeared from his location and appeared beside the woman in his void frame: Extremity Drifter, while his right hand had turned into a cannon of his third void frame: Xeno Arcane.
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOM….*
Athan used a fully offensive skill of his third Void Art: Theurgist Ravage as a black spiral beam with blood patterns shot from his hand cannon.
The woman couldn't even scream before her entire trace of existence was erased.
Right after that, Athan's body turned bulky and very muscular, his height increased to two meters tall, a pair of horns grew out of him, and black scales appeared over his body.
The current him looked more devilish than any devils.
"Y-you…HOW DARE YOU!" The man shouted with red eyes and pointed his palm forward at a breakneck speed before a black orb materialized. However, a phantom holding a red scythe also appeared over the man and attacked Athan.
At this moment, Dreevindo and Mimi attacked the man while a barrier honeycomb barrier also appeared around Athan, obviously by Mimi as it was her power.
The barrier blocked the orb's blast while the scythe of the phantom cracked the barrier.
However, Dreevindo's attack, which looked like a giant hammer, hit the man squarely as he flew away several kilometers away while spewing blood.
Athan once again disappeared as he wanted to devour the soul of that man.
On the other hand, Dreevindo was sweating waterfalls, 'what the heck? Those two were almost as powerful as me, just one step away from being the peak of Atomix-realm. However Athan…he, he…instantly killed one of them, although there was surprise element since he took the initiative but still…'
Dreevindo then remembered the words of Athan when he took on Athan's attack, 'so he was not kidding. The power he showed previously was really not his full strength. Damn, what a freak!'
On the other hand, Athan was actually very pressured right now because using ten Abyssal Blood Crystal was his limit, and that put a lot of pressure on his entire body and soul. However, he wanted to test his full strength and decided to do it given the opportunity.
After blasting off the head of the man, Athan devoured the soul and started refining it while returning, 'Let's see how much improvement I get from the first soul of Orchos Firmamament.'
Chapter 702: Purity Soul Whirlpool, Contract, And, Treasure!
"Give me two minutes," Athan said as he sat down crossed-legged and focused on refining the soul to get the pure soul energy from it using the new way that he had developed.
Lily, Huarin, Mimi, and Dreevindo stayed cautious while Athan was meditating.
Inside Athan's void region…
The soul of that devilish man was currently submerged in a black and white whirlpool that was above Athan's soul.
From the bottom of the whirlpool, pure-white glowing drops were continuously pouring on Athan's soul and making it stronger from a fundamental level.
Athan had discovered that his soul's depth was even more complicated than his body. Not just him, but every soul had a complicated structure, even more than the physical body.
While fully studying the soul to its fundamental level, Athan created a way to make his soul stronger from its roots. This way, as long as there was soul energy that could affect his soul, he could use it to strengthen his soul.
He created that whirlpool for this method, which could purely refine the soul and extract its pure power that would easily make his soul stronger.
Previously when Athan refined the souls of other beings and devoured them to get stronger, he was wasting a lot of pure essence during his crude refinement. That's why he needed to get more souls to reach on the same soul wavelength as them and more if he wanted to make his soul stronger.
However, with this new method, which he called, Purity Soul Whirlpool, he could purify and refine any soul ultimately, extract it completely, and recieve pure soul power without wasting even a single bit of it.
The Purity Soul Whirlpool was something that was closet to the union of Abyssal darkness, voidpulse, and his soul energy. All three looped together inside and refined the soul to produce pure soul power from their target.
The only different thing about this whirlpool was that he had to consume 11% of his soul energy to make the whirlpool do its work. Naturally, the whirlpool required that much soul energy to do its work on that devilish man's soul.
However, with that small price, Athan's soul was getting stronger at unprecedented speed, and since Athan allowed it, Dreevindo and others could clearly sense Athan's soul power rising as well.
Unlike other people who had to break through their soul's limit when they break through to the next stage to receive more power and make their soul stronger, Athan didn't need to do such a thing because his soul had already broken its chains and was at a much higher quality each time he comprehended more percentage of Abyssal Void of Fabrication and went through a qualitative transformation inside the cocoon.
So he just needed soul power that could affect his soul to make his soul stronger, and that could be gained from more powerful people.
"He finally stopped," Dreevindo wiped the sweat from his forehead when he saw that Athan's soul finally stopped getting powerful.
'Now his soul power is almost as powerful as me, geeeeeeeeeeeeez,' Dreevindo internally thought with a sigh.
"Woah, brother Athan, your soul power that you released is now almost as powerful as my soul power, hehe," Mimi chuckled and said, "It looks like brother Athan is going to get stronger at light speed."
"Here, Athan, I have improvised the Umbra crystal with Ark's power. See if you can use it to make your body stronger," Lily said as she gave the black crystal with red patterns inside it to Athan. The crystal had become smaller, but it was exuding more power than before.
Athan hurriedly took the crystal and put it inside the void region before smiling wryly, "I wouldn't be able to use my Abyssal Blood Crystal to use my full power for the next thirty minutes, so let's move cautiously."
After saying that, Athan turned to Dreevindo, "how do we leave these Dimensional rifts?"
"The exists would appear randomly here. The exit portal is the same as the entry portal," Dreevindo said.
"Let's move now. Since we are here, then we better gather some resources as we also want to get stronger," Lily said with a pout, "Athan is cheating right now by getting stronger this quickly, but we can't stay behind."
Huarin rolled her eyes and said to Lily, "we are also cheating with that Ark's power."
Athan nodded as when he wasn't using even 1% of the Ark's power; he was able to skip stages when he got it. So, now that Lily got full control of it, he didn't know how much benefit it would provide.
"You guys are calling Ark, Ark, Ark…..don't tell me you are talking about that Firmament Artifact, Ark of Exordium?" Dreevindo asked in a joking manner, "hah, forget it. There's no way you can acquire one of the ten Firmamemnt Artifacts that had birthed at the same time as the creation of Orchos Firmament."
Dreevindo shook his head with a wry smile, "however, the treasure you got should still be at Supra-Legendary grade since nobody was able to sense us when we were inside it."
Athan patted Dreevindo's shoulder and smiled, "let's go and continue our journey. Don't think too much about the Ark."
Lily, Huarin, and Mimi nodded with a smile as they followed Athan.
"No way, right?" Dreevindo muttered before he also followed them.
Dreevindo had already sworn an oath, and Lily forced him to do a soul-bound contact that should he ever betray them or do anything that could directly or indirectly harm them intentionally, his soul would scatter. Lily used the Ark's power to do this, so Dreevindo had no way of resisting this forceful contract.
Since this was a contract, both sides had an agreement. They also can't hurt or harm Dreevindo or betray him.
…
After traveling for ten minutes, they encountered a beast, but it was taken care of by Dreevindo as it was an early-stage Hexa-grade beast.
The grades of the beasts were ten. Mono-grade, Di-grade, Tri-grade, Tetra-grade, Penta-grade, Hexa-grade, Hepta-grade, Octa-grade, Nona-grade, and Deca-grade.
Naturally, Athan didn't waste the body of that deer-like beast with gigantic horns and wings. He had to consume blood and flesh physical power to produce more Abyssal Blood Crystals.
After half an hour, everyone was traveling on a mountainous region while searching for resources, and suddenly, they saw a sparkling purple beam shooting off in the sky a few kilometers away.
"Birth of a Catalyst!" Dreevindo shouted, "let's go, let's go!"
"It should help me and Huarin progress, right?" Lily asked.
"Yep!" Dreevindo nodded with a smile, "however, you both are still at Raisor-stage, and I don't know if that catalyst can be used by you, hehe. If it's an Atomix-grade catalyst, I can use it to reach the peak of the Atomix-evolution stage."
Lily shook her head with a grin and spoke, "don't worry, I know how to make use of it. For your information, I…can use anything, even if it's more powerful than my capacity. Using it will simply make me adapt and increase my capacity for it."
"Let's go," Athan said as he produced his normal wings from his body and shot off towards the beam.
Lily, Huarin, and Mimi also followed behind while Dreevindo smiled wryly and shook his head as he remembered Lily's power before following them as well.
…
When they were one kilometer away from the beam, Athan told everyone to descend, and they all entered inside the Ark space.
Inside the ark space…
"I sensed several presences at that beam already, so let's move while staying in the Ark," Athan said as he sat down at the table while watching everything through the permanent cloudly screen that Lily decided to create.
"I sensed presences that were more powerful than me and also two presences at Epic-evolution stage," Dreevindo said as he looked at Athan with a somber expression.
"Brother Athan, I can use my genome bloodline ability to defend against one attack of Epic-evolution powerhouse, even if that powerhouse is at the peak of Epic stage," Mimi said with a thoughtful expression, "however, I can only use this ability once every three days."
"It's fine, we will see how everything goes first," Athan said with a smile.
Huarin also stood at the table while Lily controlled the Ark while standing in front of the table.
They soon saw the scene where the sparkling purple beam was released in the sky.
It was actually released from a fist-size sparkling purple flower.
There were four groups of people at the flower. They all stood several meters away from the flower.
"We are leaving!"
"We as well!"
Two out of those four groups retreated with dark faces because both of their groups only had Atomix-stage powerhouses, while the other two groups had an Epic-stage powerhouse each.
One had four people from the remaining two groups, while the other group had three people.
The Epic powerhouse in the group of three, who looked like a middle-aged man with long white hair and two dark-green horns, spoke as he looked at the Epic powerhouse in the enemy group, "let's decide the ownership of this flower with a duel between us, what do you say?"
"Alright."
Chapter 703: Steal!, Lily's Alchemy 1
The two epic powerhouses started battling. One of them had a scepter in his hand as he conjured different types of phantoms to attack and defend. On the other hand, the other Epic powerhouse, who was a woman, had two mystical dark orbs with green and sparks floating around her as she released her abilities through them.
Naturally, both of them were moving at high speed to dodge attacks as well.
A strange field was also around them, akin to a domain, that covered one hundred meters area around them. So the other members of their groups were standing outside of that zone.
The flower was in the middle of their fights, but a naturally black-purple barrier protected it, and it didn't even budge amidst their fights.
Athan and others were watching the fight while staying inside the ark space.
"Lily, close in towards the flower. I'll go outside and take it," Athan said as he stood up.
"Wait," Dreevindo said as he pointed at the flower, "you have to destroy that barrier first. Also, when you go outside, they will instantly sense you and attack you together."
"I know, even if I activate my void mask to erase my presence entirely, they can sense me since they will find an anomaly inside their domain field when I go out," Athan said before he stretched his arm forward and opened his palm before abyssal darkness started to gather on top of it.
Athan closed his eyes as he used his soul energy and void pulse before gathering them on the same palm.
He then started shaping and honing the abyssal darkness on his palm using his soul energy and voidpulse.
After ten seconds, a metallic-black blade with white patterns and no hilt was ready in Athan's palm.
Athan grabbed the end of the blade and opened his eyes, "I will cut that barrier with this blade and return back with the flower instantly. Also, even if they are Epic powerhouse, I should be able to defend against their attacks for several seconds with my full power."
Right after Aren finished speaking, the gemstone on his forehead pulsed before his body flashed with countless tendrils.
He consumed four Abyssal Blood Crystals as he activated Extremity Drifter void frame and also activated his defensive skill from 4th Void Art, Sanctuary of Void.
"I am ready," Athan looked at Lily and nodded.
"Alright," Lily nodded as she decided to go with Athan's plan.
"Be careful, brother Athan."
Athan smiled and spoke, "no worries. Even if I get hit by their attack, I won't die instantly, and as long as I don't die instantly, I can recover myself."
…
"Alright, the ark is close beside the flower; you will arrive in front of the flower right after going out," Lily said as she looked at Athan and nodded, "be careful."
Athan nodded and disappeared as he arrived right beside the flower.
Since he was in his Extremity Drifter void frame, his speeds of all types of actions were at the extreme speed possible by Athan.
In a millisecond, the blade in Athan's hand swung and destroyed the barrier like a knife cutting through jelly; in the next millisecond, Athan's hand grabbed the flower.
However, two devastating attacks flew towards Athan in the third millisecond as those two Epic powerhouses released their most fast attacks the moment they sensed Athan.
One of the attacks was a slim laser beam from the orbs lady while the phantom man released crescent projections.
Both attacks hit the Sanctuary of Void right after Athan touched the flower and was about to unroot it.
*BOOOOOM…*
Athan sensed 58% percent energy of the Sanctuary of Void depleting, but that's it.
He disappeared in the next milliseconds along with the flower before those two Epic powerhouses' next attack could hit him.
"Yey! Great, brother Athan," Mimi chirped with a chuckle.
"Ho, ho….this flower. It's more than what I can handle right now," Dreevindo said with a wry smile, "I expected it after observing it, but I didn't want it to be the case…this flower…it's an epic-grade resource treasure."
Athan gave the flower to Lily and said, "you can make use of it, right?"
Lily grinned and nodded, "just watch."
After saying that, Lily sat down crossed-legged and waved her hand as a cauldron materialized in front of her.
Below the cauldron was a dark orange flame with silver sparks, and without hesitation, Lily threw the flower inside the cauldron.
"Aaaaaaaa….," Dreevindo shouted with a dumbfounded expression and spoke, "y-you….do you know what are you doing?"
"Humph, I know!" Lily snorted and grinned, "after arriving at Orchos Firmament, I've been exploring all functions of this ark, and I also found some inheritances. One of them was related to Alchemy.
"These cauldron and this flame are specially for alchemy. This mystical flame is full of life and evolution power with high adaption. It consumes the ark's power source when I use it," Lily said as ten threads shot out from her fingers and went through the flame below the cauldron before going inside the cauldron.
"This…Micro-Divine Alchemy!" Dreevindo uttered with a shocked expression, "whose Inheritance did you receive? Wait, how were you able to receive such a high inheritance with your current power?"
"Only she can receive, not us," Huarin said with a smile before she looked at Athan and wryly smiled, "maybe Athan can as well."
"Anyway, she can receive any power and be able to adapt it in her. That's how her entire physique is, both body and soul," Huarin continued with a smile.
"Even when I had this ark, it would flexibly make me stronger in any way, no matter what type of energies I used," Athan said with a nod.
"Alright, so it's confirmed," Dreevindo muttered with disbelief as he looked at everyone, "this is really the Ark of Exordium.. Your origin Physique, which can adapt to and contain anything, could only be gained if you are the true owner of the Ark of Exordium, no wonder, no wonder," Dreevindo wryly shook his head at the end.