Chapter 717: Weak Body, Expelling Energy.
"What?" Yokan was startled, "how could you not know how powerful you are? What stage of the path have you reached? What about the level of your side-genome power?"
Athan shook his head with a smile, "It's different. Anyway, lead me to the location you told me about previously."
"Damn, I am curious, but whatever. I guess we will find that if someone messes with us in our journey, which is bound to happen in this world, hahaha," Yokan laughed and floated as he unfurled his devilish wings.
"I don't see your wings, but you should be able to fly with some ability, right?" Yokan asked.
Athan nodded as he unfurled his unique wings from his back and floated in front of Yokan.
"Eh? What kind of wings are those?" Yokan was surprised, "they are blinking, but I also see blood vessels and veins in them when they appear every other second."
"They are called…void wings," Athan said before he fell into thought, 'my soul power, abyssal darkness, and voidpulse are too powerful right now compared to my body. The Abyssal Blood Crystals inside my Void Crux also upgraded along with my progress in soul and AVOF. Hmmm…I have absorbed knowledge, but I still have to gauge my power to use that knowledge and integrate it.'
"Which direction are we going in?" Athan asked Yokan.
"That…at the north-west," Yokan said as he pointed his hand in the north-west direction. The land around them was red, but plants and trees were green. The direction that Yokan pointed had shadows of giant mountains and trees.
"Go straight in that direction. Straight! Don't curve off even a little," Athan said, "fly for five thousand kilometers and wait for me,"
"Why?" Yokan asked with confusion.
"Just go; I want to test my flying speed," Athan said, "how long will it take you to go reach 5000 kilometers mark?"
"With my full speed and on top of an ability I use to increase my flying speed, It will take me thirty-two seconds, I think," Yokan answered with a thoughtful expression as he made some quick calculations.
"Then go," Athan said with a nod, "I will come after thirty-two seconds."
"Alright," Yokan said before he turned around and flew with a sonic boom.
Afterward, Athan made some preparation with his body as he was going to use his 1st void frame, Extremity Drifter. But this time, he didn't know how much power he could display since those Abyssal Blood Crystals were several folds more powerful than before.
After all, the jump was 25% to a whole 55% in the understanding of AVOF; the portion of AVOF origin in his soul had also increased since he didn't use it after reaching 20% understanding in AVOF years ago. He wanted to receive it, but he didn't and decided to save it for a dire situation.
Because he knew…that once he activates that portion of AVOF origin and baptizes himself, he will become an invisible existence for a certain amount of time.
Thirty-two seconds soon passed, and Athan also consumed a single Abyssal Blood Crystal as its power infused in his entire being, and his body transformed after the gemstone on his forehead pulsed.
Athan's body convulsed as blood came out from his pores, and a frown appeared on his face, 'this body really needs upgrades. It can't even handle one Abyssal Blood Crystal's power now.'
Shaking his head, Athan held up the body forcefully.
But just as he was going to fly, he paused and turned to his left side. He looked at a tree several kilometers far away and spoke, "come out."
Three shadows came out from the underground under the tree after Athan spoke.
However, they only came out but didn't approach Athan.
"I don't sense any intention to kill, but you are obviously here for something," Athan said plainly and shook his head, "you are fortunate right now, but…"
Narrowing his eyes, Athan continued, "the result of our confrontation will only end in your pointless deaths because I won't be able to hold back, not in this state."
"So choose," Athan's deep voice reverberated in their ears, "turn around and leave or die a pointless death."
"You have three seconds."
After saying that, Athan turned around and faced the northwest direction, preparing to fly ahead with his newfound power in Extremity Drifter void frame.
The three shadows felt that death itself was talking to them. They couldn't sense any power from Athan, not a spec of aura released from his body but his appearance right now screamed anything but trouble to them.
They looked at each other as one second passed. Sweat appeared on their dark appearances as they looked at Athan's back in the next second.
"Turn around," one shadow spoke before the third second as he turned around. The other two shadows turned around at the same time.
On the other hand, once three seconds passed, Athan's blinking wings flapped one time, and he disappeared…with complete silence.
Not even a sonic boom resounded despite his fast speed because Athan lived in his own unique dimension…a field that always surrounded him. Nothing can go past that field, and Athan can make it such that everything can be contained in that field as well. So even though his speed was enough to affect the atmosphere and space, nothing happened because of that void field.
A second later, Athan passed by Yokan, who was floating 5000 kilometers away and continued.
"What the…?" Yokan was dumbfounded because he captured Athan's image with his eyes when he passed by him and was shocked at his speed.
"Damn…so he is really way more powerful than me," Yokan muttered, "but which stage? is he at man-disaster, natural-disaster, or cosmic-disaster stage?"
A second after Athan passed by Yokan, he returned and stood in front of Yokan with a bloodied body.
"What happened? Did someone attack you? Damn, so you invited trouble already?" Yokan spoke as he looked at Athan's appearance.
"No," Athan shook his head as his Void Crux's passive kicked in and healed his entire body in a second to its previous state. Athan also deactivated his void frame: Extremity Drifter and pointed his palm towards a thousand-kilometer tall mountain that was filled with disastrous atmosphere with no one living on it.
"What are you doing?" Yokan asked as he saw Athan pointed at the mountain.
Athan's body glowed for a bring moment with countless tendrils that gathered in his hand.
An orb started to form in front of his palm. The orb looked black with red and white patterns.
"Expelling leftover energy since my current body can't hold it," Athan said as the orb in front of his palm started to become bigger.
"Why I can't sense anything from the orb? It should at least release some aura, right?" Yokan asked with confusion.
"You will see soon," Athan said as the orb reached two meters radius size, and Athan controlled his void field such that the orb was outside of its range.
However, the orb still stayed stable and silent with Athan's control because all energy of Abyssal Blood Crystal was inside the orb.
The orb continued to get bigger and bigger as it reached a Five-hundred-meter radius gigantic orb.
"I still can't measure its power? Why can't I sense anything from this giant orb?" Yokan asked with doubt, "what's going on?"
The orb had a smooth, watery outer layer of black with white and red patterns on it. But inside, the orb was filled with a gaseous substance that was a mix of abyssal darkness, soul energy, and his physical body's blood energy through voidpulse.
That was the source of potent energy that Athan could produce through his new body's process of Void Crux and Void Empowerment Veins by consuming abyssal darkness, voidpulse, physical energy, and soul energy and storing it in the form of Abyssal Blood Crystals inside his Void Crux.
After the orb reached that gigantic five hundred meters big, It started to shrink.
Athan continued to shrink it before it reached the size of a basketball and finally…released it.
The orb didn't travel at a fast speed but at a slow speed of hundred meters per second.
"This is such a slow attack….anyone can dodge, hahaha," Yokan laughed seeing the orb slowly traveling towards the disastrous mountain that was a thousand kilometers tall.
Athan shook his head with a wry smile, "It's not an ability or a technique attack. I am just expelling the energy. That big mountain can't dodge it anyway."
Indeed, the orb didn't have a complex energy system to make certain applications like his void frames. The void frame: Extremity Drifter transformed Athan's body and wings such that he could use that energy to make every fiber of his body reach the extreme speed possible by him.
It was like how fans, refrigerators, television, radio, air conditioners, and heaters have different uses, but their energy source is one thing, electricity.
"The orb finally reached the mountain and came into contact with it.. Let's see what it does," Yokan said with a curious expression.
Chapter 718: Cosmic Disaster?
The orb hit the mountain's outer part, but…it did nothing.
"What?! It's just passing through it…," Yokan spoke with a speechless expression.
The orb shredded the disastrous mountain's energy crust and simply continued forward as it entered inside the mountain like a knight cutting through the water.
"it looks like that intense energy of that mountain was not enough to trigger the explosion of the orb," Athan spoke with a wry smile before he snapped his finger, "it should explode…now."
When Athan said that, Yokan focused on the mountain and in the next second…
After a brief moment of stillness…
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*
A loud explosion resounded as five hundred meters big giant hole was created in the middle of the mountain. That hole suddenly increased to become five hundred kilometers big with a loud blast and entirely separated the thousand-kilometer tall mountain.
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMM…*
*THAAAADAK THAAAAAAADAK….DHOOOOOOOOOOOOM….*
Destruction and Disaster.
The entire mountain was destroyed after two seconds, with only its debris left in existence.
At this moment, several powerful auras suddenly appeared at that mountain as they saw the sight of destruction.
"Mhmmm…," Athan nodded before he turned to Yokan and asked, "how powerful was that? I mean, what level of existence is capable of displaying attack power like that?"
Yokan was dumbfounded with his mouth agape as he looked at the empty space where once there was a thousand kilometers tall mountain.
"T-that…that's the power of cosmic-disaster powerhouse at his full strength," Yokan spoke with a shocked expression before turning to Athan, "brother Athan…you, are you a cosmic-disaster powerhouse?"
Athan was surprised, 'cosmic-disaster at this weakly handled energy? then what would be my true power like when I increase my soul's power and match it to its current high-quality by devouring other soul and…when I refine and strengthen my current body to match the power-level of the soul?'
Athan didn't know how powerful he would be at that point. Furthermore, Yokan didn't know the true power of AVOF, especially the quality of offensive power that abyssal darkness was. After all, it couldn't be measured just by that orb that destroyed the thousand-kilometer-tall mountain.
"Come on, we continue on our way," Athan said to Yokan, "lead me to the best place filled with powerful energy sources; no matter how powerful those energies are, I will take them all."
…
"Who attacked the mountain?"
"I sensed a presence over there, but it was of an Epic-powerhouse. he doesn't have the strength to destroy this mountain."
"That powerhouse was at least Cosmic-disaster because the barrier I created here to mature my plant is destroyed. That barrier at the strength to defend against natural-disaster and cosmic-disaster beasts that occasionally appear here."
"A figure at cosmic-disaster can't be unknown. Or maybe that being came from another devil realm?"
"Anyway, try to find that person because he destroyed my valuable plant along with that mountain. Humph, he has to pay for the damage he did here."
"Indeed. I was also cultivating a set of plants from this mountain's energy, and I even used my resources to mutate that plant."
"Ask in the surrounding cities and find him. Also, you catch that Epic powerhouse and ask him. He was here before us, so he should know who did that."
"Alright."
The two legendary powerhouses returned while the other four powerhouses at cosmic-disaster flew in different directions.
One of them followed in the direction where he sensed that Epic-powerhouse's presence going in and flew towards that direction.
…
Athan and Yakum were flying side by side at stable speed while talking.
"You got it, right? That place will be filled with other people with powerful backgrounds so let's not attract trouble to us," Yokan said as he explained to Athan about their destination place.
"I got it, but don't you also have a powerful background?" Athan asked with doubt, "you said before that your clan has Legendary powerhouses. Those two high-positioned guides also recognized you."
"Eh…hehe," Yokan gave a silly laugh before he did a fake cough and spoke, "There are indeed two legendary powerhouses in my clan. However, one of them is close to dying because of a soul injury that is unrecoverable unless a peak legendary expert helps him. That person is my great-great-grandfather. While the second powerhouse is my grandfather, he is just at the start of his Legendary path."
"How strong is your great-great-grandfather?"
"He is at the 2nd patch of Legendary stage. The peak legendary powerhouses are called Forever Etched Legendaries, just like that city lord Nukkil," Yokan said with a wry smile.
Athan nodded before he suddenly frowned and stopped flying, "It looks like we have an uninvited company."
Yokan paused and returned beside Athan and looked back like him with doubt, "who? I don't sense anyone."
However, his expression changed after a second as he saw a person flying towards them with a powerful aura.
Seeing the aura, Athan internally thought, 'the aura of that person is the same as those two guards.'
A man arrived and stopped in front of Athan and Yokan one hundred meters away with a frown.
'How come I can't sense that person despite him being in front of my eyes? Was he always together with that brat at Epic stage?'
"What's the matter, senior?" Yokan asked politely.
The man who looked to be in his forties and with a bald head with four demonic horns looked at Yokan and Athan for a few moments before deciding to ask the quest first, "do you know who destroyed that mountain?"
"Oh, that mountain?" Yokan asked and nodded, "I was there when it was destroyed, but I don't know who did that."
"Hmmm…," the middle-aged man narrowed his eyes as they gleamed with a slight white brilliance for a second. After that, he shook his head and exploded with power as his body got covered in the dark green and dark red aura, "you can't lie to me, kid. Honestly, tell me who did that."
"Sigh…I really didn't want to use another Abyssal Blood Crystal and waste it," Athan sighed and shook his head while muttering.
*Ziiiiiing….*
Chapter 719: Mayhem Of Arcane
The gemstone on Athan's forehead shined before countless tendrils appeared on his body as if channeling the intense energy of Abyssal Blood Crystal into every fiber and cell of his body for a brief second.
His body slightly changed as he became taller; his hands and legs became finer with stylist protruding patterns that looked like small black pipes with white and red patterns.
This was his third void frame: Arcane Lord.
Athan pointed his finger at Yokan as a small orb released from his index finger. That orb went on top of Yokan before covering him with a whirling barrier of darkness and whiteness.
"It looks like you were the one who destroyed that mountain," the middle-aged man spoke as he narrowed his eyes and exploded with even more power and summoned two gates of hell behind him as two large great demonic swords came out from them.
The man held those swords before the hell gates released ten hellish beasts of different types.
"Hellcraft Devil Clan!" Yokan exclaimed as he knew about the clan who utilized the same power used by the middle-aged man.
"B-brother Athan…this barrier will hold against his attacks, right?" Yokan fearfully spoke as he looked at Athan, who looked more mysterious.
However, right after he finished asking that, the left arm of Athan burst and exploded.
Yokan became blank as he looked in the sky and muttered, "sorry, father and mother. I might not come home today."
"Don't worry," Athan said while shaking his head wryly, "that baldy is not making my soul feel even a bit of threat, which means that…he is at food-level for me."
"What?" Yokan was confused. However, he saw that Athan's arm recovered extremely fast, with tiny white and red threads connecting everything back in a second.
"Who are you?!" the middle-aged man questioned with caution in his eyes. He had summoned his most powerful weapons, those two giant swords and also his best hellcrafts beasts, and also used his buffing abilities to make his body stronger and tougher.
However, he didn't attack right away because of how strange Athan felt to him. He just couldn't make heads or tails about Athan.
'If destroyed that mountain, then he is obviously at the same level of power as me or…above. It all depends on our accumulation, techniques, and abilities,' the middle-aged man thought as he looked at Athan and waited for Athan's answer.
"I am Athan," Athan said with a smile, "so you want the person responsible for destroying that mountain? Was there anything valuable on that mountain?"
"There was," the middle-aged man nodded grimly, "two lords of my clan were cultivating plants and flowers there using the energy of that disastrous mountain. If you can pay for the things we lost, we will not find trouble with you."
"I can't pay because I am poor," Athan said as he shook his head.
*Burst!*
Athan's right leg burst into a bloody mesh, but it recovered perfectly after a second, the same way as his arm.
Both Yokan and the middle-aged man looked weirdly at Athan for this strange situation.
"Why are you not attacking me?" Athan asked as he narrowed his eyes, "because you are not sure of defeating me, right?"
"Indeed," the middle-aged man nodded indifferently, "however, don't take that stance as me fearing you."
"You should fear, though," Athan muttered.
"Huh, how arrogant," The middle-aged huffed as he intensified his aura, ready to attack a moment's notice.
"It's a fact," Athan said with a grin, "if I don't feel a threat from you, then you should feel it instead, but you can't feel it because you are not capable of feeling that."
"Anyway, I can imagine what would have happened to me if I was weaker than you, so….off you go in your new life since I am not devouring your soul," Athan said as he pointed his hand at the middle-aged man.
"Humph,!" the middle-aged man roared as he pointed both of his demonic swords at Athan, releasing two different types of thick energy laser attacks with destructive aura, and the ten hellish beasts also opened their mouths and released different types of attacks.
"Good decision to your full power, but it's useless," Athan muttered as he opened his hand's palm before those attacks could reach ten meters in front of him and released his most powerful directly offensive attack of a large area from his third void art, related to third Void Frame.
Third Void Art, Second Ability: Mayhem of Arcane.
Athan's body glowed as those eccentric patterns on his body pulsed with intense energy before an orb with countless linear grey lights with red patterns going crazy everywhere inside the orb released from his palm.
Right after that orb was released from Athan's palm, it expanded enough to cover all incoming attacks and…
*Zooooooooooooooooooooom….Chichihcichichcihcihcihcihc…*
"Wha-"
The middle-aged man saw all of his attacks getting destroyed by those countless blinking linear lights from the orb after the orb exploded and shot towards him.
He had no way to dodge such a large attack with not a single point of centimeter unchecked in that range.
He conjured his most powerful defending techniques and barriers he could, but…
The first linear blinking grey light hit his barrier, directly passed through it, and pierced his body.
"Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh….t-this…soul p-power as well? ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH…."
Those countless linear lights shredded that middle-aged man into pieces in two seconds before not even a shred of his lingering aura was left.
"Let's continue," Athan said as he looked at Yokan and turned around.
The barrier around Yokan disappeared, but he had a dumbfounded expression on his face and pointed at the place where the middle-aged man died, "W-what about that?"
The place where the middle-aged man died at those grey linear blinking lights stationed into absolute stillness. They were at least millions of those lights, but they were still and just blinking.
"That? On, I used all of my energy in that attack, so there's still so much of it left," Athan said with a wry smile.
"B-but…but what will happen if someone comes near them? People can't even measure this attack since it gives off a very strange aura," Yokan said.
"Well, if someone came into one-meter range of those lights, then…mayhem will happen," Athan said with a grin before he turned around, "now let's go.. I need to strengthen my body fast. Didn't you see how it was unable to hold my power?"
Chapter 720: Vitality Spectrum Zone 1
Athan and Yokan continued on their way while those two legendaries powerhouse who had their plants destroyed by Athan mistakenly were sitting on a floating palace's backyard.
Suddenly, a person came running and hurriedly spoke, "Gorant is dead! His soul lamp turned into ash."
"What?!"
Both legendary powerhouses were startled before adopting an angry expression.
"I think he went to follow that epic powerhouse to ask some questions and to find the perpetrator who destroyed that mountain."
"Indeed. However…," pausing there, the dark red-haired legendary powerhouse spoke with narrowed eyes, "if we count the time, it has only been roughly ten minutes and…Gorant was a peak cosmic-disaster powerhouse."
"I see…to finish him off this fast; it can only be another legendary powerhouse. But who dared to pick a fight with us knowing our background and ties."
"If that person killed Gorant while knowing about our background, then It can only be our enemies, someone who doesn't fear us, or someone who has more powerful forces than us. But we still need to investigate. Let's go."
…
"Hahaha, you are here, lady Reventas. I've been waiting for you," Nukkil spoke as he welcomed lady Reventas in the open garden filled with beautiful flowers and plants as he gestured her to sit on the exquisite flowery couch, "please sit."
"Nice garden," Reventas said as she looked around the garden and also the small tiny sparrow-like birds that chirped beautifully and soothed one's soul.
Nukkil nodded with a smile. Nukkil looked like a man in his forties with a medium bulky build and long silver-red hair.
He was a PEAK legendary powerhouse, but his eyes were filled with respect as he looked at Lady Reventas.
Reventas also called Nukkil by his name without using honorifics, indicating that she was somewhat mysterious. After all, Peak Legendary powerhouses were considered to be the strongest echelon of people in Orchos Firmament.
"Nukkil, you will have to abolish that rule about everyone needing to bow their heads to me when I arrive here," Reventas said with a frown while shaking her head, "Your city might have been ruined today because of that stupid rule."
"Oh?" Nukkil was shocked, "I heard about that person from those, but…this is a shock."
Nukkil sat down on another couch in front of Reventas and asked with curiosity and caution, "for lady Reventas to say that…It looks like that person has great origins."
Lady Reventas sighed and nodded, "such great origins that I couldn't see through him."
"I-Impossible!" Nukkil stuttered at those words, describing his immense shock.
Who was Reventas Kiely? She was a Legendary power that was actually weaker than Nukkil in term one stages by one. However, she had GREAT origins and could beat Nukkil in a fight.
After all, she had direct connections with Outrious Expanse, which was said to be the place where all those who breakthrough from Legendary existence go after becoming Absolute Transcendence Mythos.
AND lady Reventas had powers blessed upon her existence by her mother, who had gone to Outrious Expanse after becoming Absolute Transcendence Mythos.
Those clans who had one of their existences going to Outrious Expanse after becoming Myth can't contact them right away, and all ties are cut. However…after a certain time, those directly related to them can receive power and special traits through their one-generation bloodline relatives.
Lady Reventas was one such person. She had also received powers from her mother, and her eyes were said to be able to see through anything in Orchos Firmament. However, the special thing about her clan was that at least one existence became a Myth in their every generation throughout the past thousands of years.
Clans with such backgrounds are hidden, and only top powers in Orchos Firmament know about them.
Lady Reventas was one such person who came from that clan, and her clan was considered the most powerful one out of all hidden clans in all devil realms.
So her saying that she couldn't see through Athan came as a big shock to Nukkil.
"You are not joking with me, right?" Nukkil asked with a wry smile, "for you, who is considered to be able to see through everything in Orchos Firmament to say such words…It's hard to believe."
Nukkil narrowed his eyes after sighing and spoke, "since that's the case, doesn't it mean that he is an existence above Legendary?"
"I don't know," Reventas shook her head, " but he indeed felt very out of place. It looked like he didn't belong here at all but somewhere higher. There was a certain force around him, but which was really hard to sense for me. That means that it was out of my scope."
"Geez…such a person. How come he is here? If I remember correctly, there has never been an incident where an Absolute Transcendence Mythos entered Orchos Firmament."
Reventas nodded with a thoughtful expression, "I don't know what kind of place Outrious Expanse is, but surely people who die or want to rebirth or reincarnate would do that in Outrious Expanse instead, not here. Uh…. never mind."
She shook her head, "I don't know what kind of place Outrious Expanse is, so there's no point in speculating about it. We don't even know if there are really reincarnators or re-birthers here who once had been Absolute Transcendence Mythos."
"Indeed," Nukkil nodded in agreement with a wry smile, "such people would just go about their business and only focus on reaching their previous level of strength even if they choose to reincarnate or be reborn here."
"So…is it safe to say that the person-"
"Athan. He called himself Athan Void," Lady Reventas interrupted Nukkil.
"So is it safe to say that Athan was a Mythical existence in his previous life?" Nukkil.
"Possible," Lady Reventas said with a smile, "that's why we must make ties we with him. He might give us valuable information or enlightenment."
If Athan was here and heard that conversation, he would really want to slap their cheeks and say that he was not mythical or whatever existence in his previous life but an ant that was tortured and pinched to death.
"Should we go greet him now?" Nukkil asked with some excitement.
"No," Lady Reventas shook her head, "I had a feeling that we would meet again, and it's not good to follow him and annoy him. Let's just go to the Vitality Spectrum Zone as planned by us. I need that relic from the ancient devil's ruin dimension."
"Alright, the teleport formation to the nearest point to that zone is ready. Let's be on our way," Nukkil said with a nod as he stood up.
…
Athan and Yokan had been traveling for two days and finally reached the place.
"So that's the place? Mystical indeed," Athan said as he looked at a several thousand kilometers long slash in the sky, and many small buildings were floating before that slash.
"Yep. This is one of the most famous places in the entire Orchos Firmament. Many people from the Central realm and other realms come here for opportunities as well. That slash is a crack in the sky, and it leads to a place known as Vitality Spectrum Zone," Yokan said with a grin, "that should fulfill all requirements of brother Athan."
"Great," Athan faintly smiled and continued flying, "then let's go."
"Nah," Yokan shook his head, "I won't go there right now but later."
After saying that, Yokan took out a token and gave it to Athan, "brother Athan, just keep this token on your body, and I will be able to find you when I enter the Vitality Spectrum Zone after half a month."
"Alright," Athan said before taking the token and putting it inside his pocket. Afterward, he also deactivated the void field around him.
Yokan suddenly looked at Athan and spoke, "it just felt like brother Athan's presence became stronger and distinct just now."
"Yeah, it happens," Athan nodded with a grin, "now I am going inside. Come here whenever you want, and become my good guide for good rewards."
"Hahaha, of course!" Yokan laughed loudly and nodded.
…
Athan flew near the slash and felt a strange twisting space inside the crack, 'Interesting.'
Suddenly, several powerful auras at cosmic-disaster level approached from behind Athan.
A large carriage pulled by two five hundred meters big lions with wings came flying towards Athan, but the crack was their destination.
Both those majestic lions with wings and purple-green crystalize patterns on their body exuded cosmic-disaster level aura from their body.
On the carriage were seven people with young appearances and two middle-aged men that had similar powerful auras as the lions.
The people around Athan scattered far away because of the intensity of power being released from the lions and those mystical flames around them and the carriage.
Any person below disaster level would directly turn into ashes if they came into a hundred meters within them.
Other people around Athan scattered far away while muttering.
"Sigh…those people of Mozarik Devil Alliance are really arrogant. There is such a big place for them to go inside the crack, but they choose this way."
"who cares? Just ignore them and move on. If you are more powerful than them, then go and pick a fight with them."
"That person isn't moving away."
"Interesting."
Athan turned around and saw a large super-fast carriage coming right towards him while oozing out destructive flames around them.
Shaking his head, Athan consumed one Abyssal Blood Crystal, 'I guess I might as well try to execute one of the new techniques I developed while staying in that tower for a year,' Athan thought as he looked at the incoming carriage, 'a perfect training opportunity for it.'
Chapter 721: Contracting Oblivion
"Move away, you donut!"
A shout came from the carriage as it reached 100 meters across Athan; in the next one and a half-second, it would reach Athan.
Athan had prepared the rough execution of his new ability, known as Contracting Oblivion. In this ability's model that he visualized and ran the simulations in his mind to construct it, he could expend all of a single Abyssal Blood Crystal's energy in it so it wouldn't damage his body as well.
This ability could be used to full potential in his normal body form, so he didn't need to activate any of his void frames as well.
A dark red aura covered Athan's body while his right hand had grey patterns on them.
All of the Abyssal Blood Crystal's energy was poured into the aura on his body, and it was connected to his right hand.
"If you don't want to get out of the way, then die!" A man with light orange and silver robe spoke with a sneer.
The two middle-aged men, who seemed to be the protector of those seven people(four young men and three young women) in the carriage, didn't say anything and just watched indifferently.
They saw Athan covered in some kind of aura and seemed to have the intention of attacking them. As such, they extended their soul sense towards Athan to gauge his strength to check whether they were going to hit a steel plate or a paper tiger.
A second later, their expression changed as they looked at each other, and Athan also waved his right hand in a claw motion from top right to bottom left towards the carriage when it was still ten meters away from him.
A giant black claw with red patterns materialized, and there was a gray orb in the center of that claw's palm. The claw was not big enough to cover the entire carriage and the two giant beasts as it was at most 50 meters big, while the beasts were five hundred meters big.
However, the grey orb in that claw was mystical. It first shot towards the carriage from the side and passed through it before creating a horrifying gravitational pull in a fifty-meter radius that contracted the beasts and carriage. They were literally being folded into space as the carriage came to a sudden halt and got forcefully pulled into that grey zone.
Several lights shot out from the carriage as the two middle-aged men hurriedly came out from the carriage with seven other people before it was too late.
'Not fast enough, I guess,' Athan thought.
However, the surrounding people and those people who were in the carriage were terrified to see the result of Athan's attack.
The two five hundred meters giant lion beasts with wings were contracted into fifty meters zone as they screamed in terror while the carriage was also folded into space along with them. Right after that, the fifty meters big dark-red claw swept upon them and entirely obliterated both cosmic-disaster beasts and the carriage with not a single trace of them leaving in this world.
The claw had the effects of entirely pouring all of its energy into that grey zone and it wouldn't leave outside of that zone, so all of its attack power was used to obliterate the things that got stuck into that zone entirely.
That grey zone was created by voidpulse, and the power he comprehended about it was through his imagination after seeing a similar attack in the tower by a person. Naturally, that person's attack was not as magnificent as the one that Athan developed.
Athan used Primo's space matrix power that he had somewhat comprehended into creating that grey zone as well. It could fold the space of the targets and make them contract to fit into them forcefully no matter how big they were.
Once inside, it's impossible to get out, and in the next half-second, the claw filled with concentrated Abyssal Blood Crystal's power would wipe them out of existence. That's why it was so terrifying.
Hense, Athan named this ability as Contracting Oblivion.
Seeing no trash of their carriage nor those powerful beasts, those seven people were truly scared, while those two middle-aged men had somber expressions on their faces.
'I still can't sense anything about him. However, since he managed to destroy those two beasts so easily, he must be a Legendary expert.'
They looked at Athan, but Athan was looking at the spot where he made the attack and was thinking about the way to make it better.
It was silence. Nobody spoke and disturbed him seeing his thoughtful expression.
Those seven people had red faces, but those two middle-aged men spoke to them to let them handle the situation.
They must not make this unknown person angry even if they got a powerful background because their background might not work here.
After all, that carriage had their Empire's flag as well, and this unknown person still dared to attack them.
After a minute, Athan nodded to himself and turned around since he had finished his analysis and would improve this ability later.
Seeing Athan simply turning around and leaving, the man with an orange-silver robe shouted, "stop! You think you can get away after attacking us?"
Hearing him, the surrounding people, and even his sister and other friends looked at him with speechless expressions.
The two middle-aged men flashed helpless expressions on their faces and looked at the idiot, 'Damn it! He is spoiled too much by his father and mother. That a-s hole is going to get us killed one day or today.'
'Shit! He stopped.'
Athan paused and turned back with an amusing expression. However, before he could speak, those two middle-aged men hurriedly spoke.
"Please don't mind this person. He is braindead and doesn't know much
….
"How comical."
"Indeed. Well, it was a good short show. Now let's enter."
"I wonder who that person was? Such a powerful person shouldn't be unknown."
Chapter 722: Vitality Spectrum Zone 2, Athan's New Capacity.
"Now he is known. He called himself Athan and said that he would be in this Vitality Spectrum Zone for the next few months. Now it remains to see what Maoshi Empire would do."
"Well, Mozarik Devil Alliance would probably aid Maoshi Empire as the Empire is a part of that alliance. With the combined strength of that alliance that has 6 Legendary powerhouses, it would be hard for that unknown person to survive."
The people talked and entered while those seven people had one person less and two middle-aged men had a helpless expression on their faces.
"King Bozok should have already got information about his son's death; we have also recorded everything."
"Uh…he is contacting me."
…
On the other hand, Athan had just entered the Vitality Spectrum Zone and was surprised at the atmosphere full of powerful vitality.
"Just breathing here is recovering my body's energy and speeding up the blood recovery," Athan muttered. Naturally, that was also because his body was too weak right now.
Athan's body was at most on par with people at Peel-stage right now.
The scenery was full of greenery with giant trees and floating green islands.
The sky was clear and sunny as powerful vitality permeated every inch of this place.
Those islands were vast. Each one was several hundred kilometers big. Powerful auras could be sensed in those islands, and people were either entering those islands or roaming further in groups.
'That dunce made me expend two more Abyssal Blood Crystal, but anyway, I should get my soul food supply with that,' Athan thought with a smile.
He would soon need souls to devour, so he decided to kill that person who dared to curse and threatened him and his close ones. Now that he told them his name and how he will be staying here, he would get souls to devour when they come here for him.
"Hmmm…the vitality is increasing as I go further," Athan muttered while flying and decided to fly further inside in this vast and lively place.
After flying for a while, he sensed a powerful vitality coming from an island and swooped towards it.
Many other people also went inside.
After entering, Athan directly flew towards the source of that powerful vitality that everyone could sense.
*BOOOOOOOOOM…*
Suddenly, several large dark orange fireballs with violet chains around them flew towards Athan and all other people around him.
Everyone hurriedly scattered while some were injured. All of them were in groups, so powerful ones protected weaker people in their groups. However, their gaze wavered and didn't continue forward.
"DAMN! The Blooming spot is occupied by those people from Kronel Deadsea Union."
"EVERYONE! Let's band together against them. We have more numbers, and if we fight together, we can win!"
"Sorry, but we are not staying here and risking our lives."
"Same here. We can't put our lives in strangers' hands if we decide to fight against them. Who knows when you will abandon us and run away?"
"They are just twelve people while we are more than thirty total!"
"Doesn't matter! They should have called their other members who are nearby as well. Look, they already planted formation around them. We are out."
…
Everyone returned except for Athan, who continued towards an open ground where a giant twenty-meter-tall flower was blooming.
Twelve devilish people consisting of men and women were standing guard inside a formation that surrounded a hundred meters around them.
Of those twelve people, two were at peak Epic stage; three were at Man-disaster stage, three were at Natural-disaster stage, while the other four had Cosmic-disaster auras.
Seeing Athan flying towards them without any concern, the twelve of them looked at each other and attacked together once again.
This time, they used their individual offensive abilities and bombarded Athan with different types of attacks like Plasmic Orb, Harrowing Chainfire, Soul Enchant Hunt, etc., as three of them released powerful soul attacks towards Athan as well.
However, no attacks could come close to ten meters of Athan. When they arrived at the ten-meter radius of Athan, they would disappear.
Athan was also testing the limits of his new powers by taking his opportunity.
The void field was still intact even after taking all those attacks, 'interesting.'
"Keep going," Athan said as he stopped and just floated at one hundred meters away from the group of people.
Hearing him, the twelve people adopted a somber expression on their faces and didn't do anything.
'What's going on?'
'Did anyone gauge his strength?'
'No. I can't sense anything.'
'DAMN! He should be a legendary powerhouse then. Why the fuck is he here? He should be going deeper where all other legendary powerhouses go.'
'He was obviously attracted to here, where other legendary powerhouses wouldn't get attracted. So…he shouldn't be legendary.'
'But our attacks are not working.'
'It must be a powerful artifact! Let's keep attacking and exhaust its energy.'
'Alright, but I have also called Senior Tarole here since she told us to call us if any trouble arises. The blooming flower behind us will help Epic powerhouses a lot to break through and make their body gene roots stronger, so we must get it.'
Athan frowned since they stopped the attack, but just as he was going to speak again, they released their attacks again, and he nodded in satisfaction.
After ten minutes, the void field was finally breached by the continuous attacks of those people, and some attacks hit Athan, destroying his body in a mesh.
Seeing that, those twelve people were dumbfounded.
"So he was actively courting death? What the hell! Didn't know people like that existed."
"Hahaha, made us nervous for a second."
"W-wait…look, everyone! He just fucking resurrected!"
Athan's body was indeed constructed into a new one by consuming his voidpulse.
Nodding his head, he thought, 'so the void field itself has passive one million points of Abyssal darkness energy in it. As for the time it takes to renew itself.'
Athan saw that the void field was connected to his soul as one of his core abilities, and after checking it, he estimated that it would take one hour for the void field to renew itself.
As for the capacity of abyssal darkness and voidpulse in his black and white orb, they had reached 2.4 million and 2 million points, respectively.
His soul had a lower capacity since it was still smaller in size. However, its quality was improved several times as the intensity of his soul energy had progressed by leaps and bounds once he came out of the cocoon.
After all, his understanding of AVOF had reached 55%, and the current abyssal darkness was just too powerful. Same with the voidpulse, as it was extremely flexible, and he could easily create anything he imagined with it with sufficient understanding of his own on that subject. Basically, he could bend reality by using voidpulse.
"Wait…his body aura is so weak! It's not even at Epic-level."
"Yeah! Why is such an ant-like him trying to do by facing us alone?"
"His artifact must have lost energy, but it should be intact. Since he has presented himself to us, then let's get it, hehehe."
When Athan resurrected, his body aura oozed out, which was sensed by those people.
Chapter 723: Vitality Spectrum Zone 3
"Hey, If you obediently give us the treasure you got, then we will let you leave from here alive."
"You have five seconds to choose."
Athan cracked his neck and stretched his arms before saying plainly, "You don't even have five seconds of your life left."
After saying that, Athan consumed one Abyssal Blood Crystal and executed the defensive technique of his 4th Void Art known as Fetterless Void Art.
Sanctuary of Void.
He then consumed one more Abyssal Blood Crystal and executed another technique of Fetterless Void Art known as Void Predatory. This was another technique he had created alongside Sanctuary of Void in Fetterless Void Art, and these two techniques were meant to be used together.
Inside the Sanctuary of Void, several small crystals appeared with one giant black crystal with grey and red patterns on them. They floated around Athan inside the Sanctuary of Void as Athan flew towards the twelve people.
Seeing Athan coming towards them, those people looked at each other and discussed whether they should attack him or not.
However, seeing the strangeness of Athan, they decided to attack when Athan was just twenty meters away from them.
But this time, the results were different.
As soon as those attacks hit the Sanctuary of Void, they disappeared. Naturally, they were nulled by the barrier.
However, the crystals inside the barrier glowed as they released snake-like lasers that zig-zagged and hit all ten people at a fast speed.
They saw, and some even managed to conjure defense around them. The most powerful among them even created a giant shield out of caution to cover everyone, but those snake-like black lasers with red and grey sparks easily pierced through all the barriers and hit their heads.
*BOOM*
Twelve heads blasted into pieces before they simply disappeared because of this overpowering abyssal darkness at 55% understanding of AVOF.
"I knew this ability would work since it was full proof with all the practice I did, but it's good seeing it succeed its active-defensive offense function in real combat," Athan nodded with satisfaction.
The Sanctuary of Void and Void Predatory could be used together for automatic defense and counter-attack. Once someone's attack hit the sanctuary barrier, the big crystal would sense the attacker's intent and directly counter-attack through small crystals by following those intents.
Athan flew towards the blooming flower but didn't do anything because the vitality coming out from it was increasing every second, indicating that it was still in the processing of blooming.
As such, Athan waited for the flower to complete its blooming process, and then he would just eat it raw.
After ten minutes, the petals of the flower were fully opened, and the vitality coming out from it was decreasing slowly, which means that it was very close to completing its blooming process.
However, suddenly, Athan sensed a powerful aura heading here as he looked in the sky.
*Swooooooooooosh…*
A woman wearing a white and light blue long dress entered the island and arrived at the sight quickly. She had two curvy devilish horns, and her skin was pale white with deep blue marks.
Seeing that there was only one person there while the union members were gone, she frowned and spoke as she looked at Athan, "where are the other people who were here?"
"Dead," Athan plainly answered while sitting on a stone beside the giant flower.
Athan saw that the aura of that woman was drastically way more powerful than the auras of cosmic-Disaster powerhouses he felt before.
'So…she should be a legendary powerhouse. However, since I am not feeling threatened, then she should be of no threat to me,' Athan thought as he trusted his soul's instinct.
"What stage of legendary powerhouse are you?" Athan asked without caring for the woman's expression, which had turned dark and the anger in her eyes.
The woman was silent, and she wanted to make a move but didn't do anything out of caution. She tried to sense and gauge Athan's power but failed as his soul sense could go past that barrier around him.
The sanctuary of void and void predatory were still activated. The sanctuary of void still had 64% of the energy of one abyssal crystal left, while the void predatory had 67% of energy left.
"Who are you? Were you the one who killed people here?"
"Yep," Athan nodded with a smile, "don't worry. They will properly be reborn somewhere because I didn't eat their souls."
If Athan devoured any soul to strengthen his soul more to increase its capacity, then his body wouldn't be able to handle that at all.
"You…," the woman became furious but didn't attack because she was not sure if she could beat Athan, 'I can't even call for support from Legendary senior associates right now since they are way deeper into this zone. What should I do?'
"You didn't answer. What stage of legendary powerhouse are you?" Athan asked with curiosity.
The woman hesitated and decided to answer, "I just entered into the Legendary path recently," pausing here, the woman adopted a somber expression, "however, since you have killed members of Kronel Deadsea Union, then you will pay the price."
"Then I should kill you too, right?" Athan said with a smile while thinking internally, 'more food, yes.'
The woman exploded with power and was ready to….escape at a moment's notice because Athan was strange in her eyes and she couldn't measure him. To her, this meant that he was more powerful than her.
"Why do you want that puny flower that is only useful for Epic powerhouses?" the woman questioned.
"To make my body stronger," Athan said with a grin.
"But you…didn't you kill those cosmic-Disaster members?" the woman became confused.
"Yep," Athan nodded.
The woman wanted to pull her hair out because of this confusion, 'If he was strong enough to kill them, then why would he need that flower? What the damn hell?'
Shaking her head, she eyed Athan before thinking, 'he is definitely more powerful than me. I…I don't want to risk my life and die when I just finally become a Legendary plane of existence.'
At this moment, Athan moved and jumped down from the stone as he saw that the flower was not giving out any vitality and had completely bloomed.
*Swoooooooooosh..*
Athan was startled, so he turned to look at the woman, but she was not there anymore. Raising his eyebrows, he speculated, 'don't tell me she was scared and ran away? She was indeed gathering energy from the aura around her, but I thought she was going to attack.'
Athan couldn't help but smile as he shook his head, 'well, let's hope she brings more people with her later so I can strengthen my soul once I make my body stronger.'
As Athan moved towards the flower, he came out from the sanctuary of the void.
Athan changed his body structure by consuming some voidpulse and became a hundred-meter tall giant so that he could eat that whole flower in one bite.
After eating the flower, he became smaller and sat down crossed-legged inside the sanctuary of void.
'Nice…,' Athan thought as he sensed the powerful vitality of the flower he consumed and started refining his body with that vitality energy to make his body stronger.
…
After ten minutes, he stood up and stretched his leg and hands before saying, "now this feels better. But it's not enough. I need to make this body even stronger."
Athan flew out of the island before going deeper into this zone.
However, he would stop by when he sensed a powerful vitality coming from a particular island on the way and take that source of vitality for himself. Those who blocked his path were killed without mercy because in this place, either they kill you for resources or you kill them.
Ten days passed by, and currently, Athan was inside an island where four legendary powerhouses were fighting each other for a single fruit on a vine that came out from a pond.
Entering into the Legendary stage requires to make embryo of their unique power, which requires a lot of comprehension and energy, and once it's done, they need to pour a lot of orchos energy in it and develop it into the first patch. This patch is a time period as they make their mark in this Orchos Firmament to become a Legendary existence. That's why when a legendary powerhouse dies; a phenomenon extends to the whole Orchos Firmament according to the strength of that legendary powerhouse.
Once this is done, they break through and get a powerful boost that makes them hundreds of times more powerful than before. Their body and soul elevate to a new height as they enter the legendary plane of existence, starting their legendary path.
Those four legendary were in the first legendary stage called the First Patch Legendary stage, where they developed the first patch of a unique power that belongs to them and integrated it into their genealogy. Now they have to mend this patch and make it stronger in this first stage.
These four powerhouses were fighting ruthlessly with dangerous attacks. They suffered injuries as they piled up on their body. They used panacea to recover as well, and all in all, the fight lasted for five days.
Athan silently observed the entire fight since he hadn't seen legendary powerhouses fighting in the tower.
After the fight was over, nobody died, but they reached an agreement as three of them retreated and let the fourth one, who was best out of them, take the fruit.
"Cough….nice work for five days, but that fruit is mine."
Chapter 724: Stronger Body 1
"Who?!"
The legendary powerhouses, who looked like a mix of vampire and a devil with three devilish horns on his head and sharp fangs, was startled when he heard the voice and turned around.
'How come I didn't sense him?' the man thought as he saw Athan floating a hundred meters away from him, 'could this be a plot of those other three or one of them? Hmmm…no, they wouldn't take the risk of killing me by joining together.'
The legendary powerhouses were valuable forces to each clan, empire, or organization. Death of even one would spark a feud, and it was not easy to kill a weaker legendary powerhouse because they are very resilient.
A dying legendary powerhouse could take multiple powerhouses before dying because their Legendary Genealogy Path has a Legendary Nexus, which is their core, where all of their profound accumulation are gathered. Everything they have learned and comprehended from start to finish is stored there in the form of a unique power known as Evogenic. This Evogenic is only activated when breaking through and dying.
So, suppose a legendary powerhouse decided to self-destruct their Legendary Nexus. In that case, the power exploding from it could be very hard to block. It's very fatal to their soul because that profound Evogenic power could kill other legendary powerhouses. By chance, they survive, that Evogenic power could mess up their genealogy path and rob them of their chance to further breakthrough or even cause permanent soul damage, reduce lifespan drastically, etc. It would mess up their evolution from the core.
That's why the death of a legendary powerhouse is rare. Naturally, powerful legendary with preparation can still resist the Evogenic blast.
In the first place, everyone has hopes of living, but if they self-destruct, then their soul will also turn into dust, robbing their chance at rebirth. So, not many are willing to self-destruct their Legendary Nexus.
Hence, among the legendary powerhouses, unless there is bad blood between the two or some deep hatred, then those who simply encountered each other here for resources wouldn't risk their lives against each other.
Not to mention, all of them have backings; the death of one person can trigger more trouble for two sides, especially when a close relative of legendary powerhouses dies. This would ultimately benefit people on the third side.
That's why when this man saw Athan, the first thing he uttered his was backing because he didn't recognize Athan and couldn't even gauge Athan's strength as well.
"I don't care about your backing," Athan shook his head with a smile, "But I have no one behind me. I am on my own. So you have two options. First, die here, and then I take that fruit. Second, you leave from here to save your life, and then I take that fruit."
"The end result will be the same; I will be taking that fruit," Athan said with a faint smile, "however, if you choose the second option, you can take revenge on me later. You can call other people from your clan or empire or whatever and join hands to kill me. Sounds good, right?"
"Huh?" the man was dumbfounded, 'wait…don't tell me he is one of those legendary mental powerhouses? Those that have severally impacted their souls and gained eccentric thinking processes. They are not afraid of dying or anything and do whatever they want.'
"My name is Athan, and I will be here for the next few months. So you can come any time you want," Athan said with a smile and then started floating towards the fruit.
The man gulped, and even some sweat appeared on his forehead. He didn't want to give up the fruit, but he had to recover himself first, even if he wanted to fight. Not to mention, he was not confident of winning because he absolutely couldn't grasp anything about Athan like this strength or stage.
When Athan arrived in front of him, he obediently moved aside while clenching his fist.
The fruit behind him was taken by Athan, and he could only watch in frustration. However, internally, he sneered angrily, 'since you are letting me go, then I will definitely repay you for taking this fruit away.'
Athan was not paying attention to that man anymore, and that man also left after seeing that Athan didn't give two hoots about him, not considering him a threat at all.
After the man left, Athan sat down crossed-legged and consumed two abyssal blood crystals to use Sanctuary of Void and Void Predatory.
He then took a bite from the palm-sized fruit. Just a single bite overwhelmed his body as intense vitality and some profound evolution power directly affected his body on a fundamental level.
Athan hurriedly ate the entire fruit in one go as overwhelming power entered inside his body.
He then entered meditation and properly guided the power of the fruit in his body's complex system such that every cell of his body get refinement, strengthening, and making sure that his body's strength evolves to a higher power.
Trillions of tendrils appeared on Athan's body as they pulsed with a red glow.
This intense vitality and profound evolution power of the fruit were strengthening Athan's body to a whole new level unknown to him.
He spent all of his voidpulse in just one hour as he consumed them to increase his body's limit on gene-level and properly absorbed the power of the fruit to strengthen his body.
After another half an hour, Athan finally opened his eyes and felt extremely comfortable in this body for the first time after coming out of the recent cocoon.
Taking a deep breath, Athan stood up and stretched his hands and legs as a smile stretched across his face.
"This power jump in the body….huuu, it's too big," Athan spoke as he inhaled and exhaled the pure vitality air from the atmosphere.
"However, I can still improve a bit," Athan muttered as he gained insights after eating this fruit and decided to improve the fundamental structure of his body a bit more so that it could mesh even better with his abyssal darkness and void pulse.
He sat down crossed-legged once again and started the process of modifying his body fundamentally.
Chapter 725: Stronger Body 2, Finally In AVOF….
Countless veins and tendrils appeared on his body as they pulsed and moved as blood was flowing in them intensely.
'The blood and heart…Hmmm, I can produce stronger blood by modifying my heart a bit. The void empowerment veins should directly combine the blood with abyssal darkness at a deeper level after this change. Let's start…'
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According to Athan, he had designed his body to be a perfect one with new organs and functions that could make full use of his Abyssal Void of Fabrication.
However, its blood and flesh were still weak, at epic-level previously. But after eating this legendary fruit. Athan gained more profound insight into the evolution of the body, and his physical strength of the body reached new heights.
After this modification process that lasted for ten days…
The blood inside his body had turned fainter red, and there were extremely tiny white motes in every single cell that consisted his body. Blood, all organs, bones, everything had those super tiny white motes.
Athan opened his eyes and stood up as he suddenly felt hungry.
This hunger was due to the modification he had done to his body. He had changed the entire blood-producing system of his body and enhanced his bone marrow system in all bones to make his overall body stronger.
Currently, the blood flowing inside Athan's body was very faint and thin. It was not at all energized and at full power. But its strength was still the same level when he finished enhancing his body to a new level after eating the fruit.
What does that mean?
It means that he had just broken the limit of his fundamental body and could make it even stronger, just eating things containing blood and flesh power, aka, high vitality food.
For starter, Athan consumed some voidpulse aspect of his soul energy and produced a lump of high-quality meat at epic-level.
He ate the meat as the blood and flesh energy of the meat was absorbed by his body.
His body function and digestion started to work as the white motes absorbed the energy to make his blood, bones, everything stronger.
Those white motes were tiny but had space in them, and they were now part of his body. So as they absorbed the blood and flesh energy, Athan's entire body became more vigorous.
But a single small piece of Epic-grade meat was not enough. Athan felt super hungry because his body was feeling a "lack" of strength despite his physical body not weakening.
His body didn't weaken, but the limits of his body increased, and those white motes were exuding hunger for his body.
FEED US! WE ARE HUNGRY is what those quadrillions of white motes spoke. They were even tinier than cells since they were inside every cell to make them stronger, essentially making his body stronger once they were fed.
The new Abyssal Blood Crystal that was just produced after Athan made his body stronger was also way more powerful than previous abyssal Blood Crystals.
"I need to go deeper in this zone…to satiate this hunger in one go; I need something even stronger than the fruit I just ate," Athan muttered as he flew up and consumed twenty old abyssal blood crystals and activated his Extremity Drifter void frame.
"Good," Athan nodded as he felt his hunger subside after consuming twenty abyssal blood crystals as his body became even stronger. Basically, he just fed his body the energy of abyssal blood crystal for now.
Athan consumed more abyssal blood crystal as he wanted to test the limits.
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Athan stopped after he consumed a total of 61 abyssal blood crystals as his body was on the verge of exploding.
'However, my soul is still not feeling the pressure. It's good that I am making more enemies since I don't think 5 or 10 legendary souls would cut it for my current quality soul to reach its full potential before I even think of upgrading it like my body' Athan thought before he flew out of the island.
Athan's soul was empty right now, in a sense where his soul had low energy in it. It was powerful, just its aura would scare some people, but the quantity of soul energy and the potential of his soul was not at full. His soul was small in size, and it could become bigger, way bigger just by eating pure soul energy.
However, he didn't do that previously because his body was too weak, and even though the current soul was small, its qualitative power was high, causing the previous body to barely even contain the soul inside it. But now that he strengthened his body to a whole new height, he could start devouring souls as well.
To put it simply, his soul was ten meters big, and its soul energy and his soul body were akin to the most powerful metals in the world.
The thing was that the limits of these most powerful metals were higher; they could be stretched to become bigger and contain more energy. They could go up to become 100, 1000 meters bigger, but Athan's soul was still at 10 meters.
So, this 10 meters big Athan's soul could get bigger and more powerful energy-wise as long as he devoured pure soul energy; he could further his soul energy intensity and comprehension as well since it hadn't reached its full "potential" yet.
…
With 61 abyssal blood crystals' energy inside Athan's body that he had to let out and then gather the stock of meat or natural treasures containing powerful vitality to satiate his hunger, the whole Vitality Spectrum Zone welcomed a period of chaos.
While Athan was busy causing chaos, simply to satiate his hunger and get stronger just like other people, Tiana, Avelia, and others inside the origin AVOF realm regained consciousness after the voidlings finally made them strong enough fundamentally to survive and live inside the Origin Abyssal Void of Fabricator's realm.
The cocoon around them slowly dispersed as they opened their eyes and saw many curious creatures and a mystical world around them.
Chapter 726: Origin Realm: Abyssal Void Of Fabricator
At this moment, Tiana, Avelia, Sen, Shiromi, Linci, Drizzly, Tealery, Arcued, Mike, Theo, Nimpere brothers, dean Lenix, dean Zangrel, Zorgia, Tamiril, Yoha, Foujir, Gouken were sitting near a water pond with beautiful and colorful fishes in it.
The pond and this place were surrounded by mountains with only one path open like a valley.
Primo, Taezin, and The Book, these three voidlings were floating in front of them and told them the entire situation.
"So that's what happened," Tiana nodded.
"But this power…," Sen saw as she waved her hand, and colorful red, orange, and such different shades of red and orange wisps appeared around her.
"Divine Malverous wisps, It's the power of Lil Wispy," Taezin said with a grin, "she probably has one of the highest raw firepowers among us."
"Nyaa! Hey Lil Wispy and everyone, come over here and meet with your respective partners. Why being shy now when you already accompanied them for years to make them adapt to this realm," Primo said as the cute cat looked at a mountain in the west direction.
"No! We will not come there!" A shout came from the mountain.
"You stupid cat! We are not shy! But we will not meet them now. We will first meet our master and then meet them, humph."
"Yeah, yeah! You already met master before us, but we haven't. We will not meet any other being before meeting our master!"
"Nyaa! How stupid," Primo said while shaking his cat head, "getting jealous because we met master first."
*Shuaaa…*
A white beam with silver sparks, very thin but super-fast, directly shot towards Primo from the mountain.
Tiana and others couldn't even see it properly, but Primo waved his paw hurridly as the beam actually bent and changed its direction.
"NYAAAAAA! Silver Swordlord, what are you doing? Trying to attack me like that."
*BOOOOOOOM…*
The silver beam, which had changed its direction, hit another mountain as it disappeared inside the mountain, but in the next second, a large hole blasted before the entire mountain was diced into tiny pebbles.
Tiana, Avelia, and others were shocked because they saw the toughness of things here and couldn't even bend a tree's branch, let alone damage a mountain.
But that beam destroyed the entire humongous mountain of two thousand kilometers tall and sliced it into tiny pebbles before they turned into dust and then simply faded away.
However, another surprising thing happened. The mountain that was destroyed reappeared again with a small white brilliance.
"It's fine. Anything destroyed here is repaired almost instantly, hahaha," Tazein said with a loud laugh.
"That silver thing, It felt similar to this power inside me," Mike muttered.
"So this power core inside our soul, which is not much right now, contains that much potential?" Theo asked with shock.
"Oo..oo, indeed," Taezin nodded with a grin, "for your information, I was helping Shiromi, so she will grow to have the same power as me."
At this moment, another shout came from the mountain.
"Anyway, we will meet our master first before meeting them face to face. This is our final decision."
"It's fine, Primo," Tiana said with a smile before she soul transmitted to Primo, 'they are all newborn beings and are like kids. You were also like that. They first want to meet Athan, who is basically their creator, father, and master is understandable…Hmm, maybe because they don't want to be influenced by us before meeting Athan.'
Primo nodded before he turned to look at the mountain in one last attempt," You all! Tiana and others have only gained a basic affinity for these powers for now. Who will teach them and give them a source of comprehension so they can make progress and cultivate the power inside them?"
"I got an idea!" The book spoke as it glowed and spoke, "recently, this realm has started producing weapons embryos. There is one weapon embryo for each of our powers. Maybe, we can imbue our powers into weapons by separating them into nine levels and giving them to Tiana and others so they can progress step by step? Whatever we want, we can create in this world by requesting to the realm so they will have training ground or various environments as well. It's like the cultivation manual that I know of through my power."
"As expected of The Book, you know almost everything, hahaha," Taezin laughed.
"Let's go. You can tell me what kind of weapon you want, so we will first shape them, and then I will tell those voidlings to create a cultivation orb and imbue them into those weapons," the book said, "after that, you can comprehend the powers step by step by infusing your soul sense into the weapons."
"Good idea," Avelia nodded and showed determined expression, "we want to become as powerful as possible as we can before seeing Athan."
"Yes! I will assist Emperor with this power and help him conquest everything!" Arcued spoke loudly with dark purple fire in his eyes.
"We have already become much more powerful than before, judging from our soul, which has drastically improved fundamentally," dean Lenix said with a wry smile and sighed, "didn't know there was such a mystical realm here."
"But my son is in lower chaosverse…," Zorgia muttered and sighed, "when will I meet him again?"
Linci and Qerin also missed their parents.
Seeing this mood, the eldest Nimpere brother loudly sighed, "we brothers wonder when we will finally meet our future wives out there? Sigh…"
"It's sad…brother."
"Yes, brother."
"I guess the only thing we can do is to get strong here, brother."
"Indeed, brothers. Let's get strong, get out of here once big bro Athan comes here and step into the vast new world to find our beloveds out there!"
…
On the other hand, Yokan finally arrived at the Vitality Spectrum Zone after 15 days since he left Athan.
He was not alone, but there were two more people with him. One of them was a girl of his age, and another one was middle-aged.
Once they entered inside and went slightly deeper, they were dumbfounded.
"Young master Yokan….this, everyone is talking about Athan, and from the way things are right now, he has made enemies with forces even more powerful than us," the middle-aged man spoke as he wiped some sweat from his forehead.
Chapter 727: Clash
"Cough…let's not associate ourselves with your brother Athan right now," the girl spoke. She was Yokan's sister and had similar devilish features as him.
Yokan wryly smiled and nodded, "Indeed. If people found out, we will die even before meeting brother Athan."
"Anyway, I can sense the general direction of brother Athan with that token I gave him, so let's move," Yokan said.
…
Athan had indeed taken out the token and put it inside his pocket; he had also removed his void field completely so that Yokan could sense the token. Naturally, people also started to sense his body strength after that. He could prevent this using his void robe's effect, but he didn't do that.
His reputation right now was notorious, and since he deliberately let some people go, the news about him had spread far and wide.
After all, he had killed a lot of powerful Nona-grade beasts filled that were in the early stage. Nona-grade was equivalent to Legendary.
Athan basically went on a killing spree as he targetted only giant beasts and powerful resource treasures filled with vitality to satiate the hunger of his body.
His physical body strength had already entered into the legendary realm, and if measured roughly, his physical body's strength was in the Star-Shred level according to the measurement level of Orchos Firmament.
Star-Shred physical strength is only obtainable by Legendary powerhouses. There are four more physical body strength measurement levels above that.
With his current powerful body and its intense physical power in his blood, the Abyssal Blood Crystals he produced were also better than previous ones.
Currently, he possed 231 old Abyssal Blood Crystals and 15 new Abyssal Blood Crystals. He was only using old Abyssal Blood Crystals for now.
He also finally knew that the gaps between legendaries were big and more profound.
Their use of power was very bizarre as everyone had their own way of using their genealogy path's power.
It turned out that the weapons they had were created using their own relics and catalyst accumulation. A legendary weapon that could only be made by a Legendary powerhouse. But this was only possible for those who had reached the 3rd Patch of the legendary path.
1st Patch
2nd Patch
3rd Patch
Then comes Legendary Ascension, Legendary Call, and Everlasting Legend.
That lady that Lily, Huarin, Mimi, and Dreevindo met and saw those giant figures were actually Everlasting Legendary powerhouses.
…
The current Athan's physical body's strength was already in a league of Legendaries, and today, he was going to kill the first legendary powerhouse and devour the first legendary soul.
This person was a 1st patch legendary powerhouse and seemed to be from a prestigious, powerful clan from how he backed out two legendary powerhouses just by stating his background.
Inside an island, Athan approached this man.
The man sensed Athan and turned around, saying boringly, "scram."
After saying that, he continued walking towards the purple-red bubbling pond with a purple-red glowing stone in the middle.
That pond was exuding extraordinary vitality from it and also profound insights into power. Bathing in this pond and absorbing its energy would make legendary powerhouses stronger and make more progress in their genealogy path.
"What if I don't scram?" Athan said with a grin, showing his white teeth, "come on, I don't want to end this boringly, so do your best to survive."
The man once again turned around as he narrowed his eyes, "Haven't you heard of Grand Archdues Empire? You can't do anything me even if you are more powerful than me."
"Grand Archdues Empire?" Athan raised his eyebrows, "never heard of it. And I don't care even if that empire is the most powerful one in this entire Orchos Firmament. Today you are going to die unless you manage to escape from me."
After saying that, Athan consumed 49 Abyssal Blood Crystals and activated all three of his Void frames so that he could switch between them or one part of his body whenever he wanted.
In the past days, he had already expended the energy of 50 Abyssal Blood Crystals from his body while continuing to satiate his body's hunger.
Today he was finally done and decided to devour a soul.
Athan's hair became more extended as they reached his knees from behind, his body bulky, and two devilish horns that were more devilish than any devil produced from his forehead.
This was the complete form of the Zontheos Prime void frame.
"It looks like you will not believe it unless you see it yourself," the man shook his head before smiling sickly, "after you die, I will play with your family, especially women, as it's my favorite thing to do to people who dare defy me."
"Congratulations! You have prevented your death by saying that, "Athan's eyes flashed a black and white light as he punched forward with his 2nd Void Art's technique, Oblivion Fist of Wisps.
"But something worse is in store for you now."
A giant black fist with grey and red patterns shot towards the man.
Seeing it, the man clicked his tongue and adopted a serious expression as he extended his arms forward and produced a mystic spinning umbrella that was the same size as the giant hundred meters big punch coming towards him.
However, the punched obliterated the spinning silver-black umbrella easily as a somber expression appeared on the man's face.
The space literally trembled upon impact as the power of Oblivion Fist of Wisps was projected in that clash.
"So what if you broke my most powerful defense, Nineveh Umbrella of Godstone? hahaha," the man laughed as he simply stood while crossing his arms, "you still can't do anything to me!"
Right before the fist arrived in ten meters range of that man, a powerful aura shot out from his body, and a giant white-gold palm appeared to block the punch.
That power clearly didn't belong to the man.
"You can't do anyt-"
The man paused as the golden palm started to break down along with the Oblivion Fist of Wisp.
However, after the fist broke down, it turned into ten terrifying wisps with a beastly mouth as they shot towards the man.
Athan was going to stop the attack because he didn't want to kill the man that easily after hearing his threat but didn't disperse the attack after he saw that the man had something more up his sleeve.
"What! IMPOSSIBLE!" the man shouted at the top of his lunges, "FATHER!"
Another golden brilliance shot out from the man as a divine tornado formed that clashed with those wisps and both of them destroyed each other.
The energy of those wisps was used up to clash against that tornado.
At this moment, that man heard a voice full of seriousness in his head from his father, 'idiot! Who did you mess with? Run using Dimension Jump Stone, FAST. The talisman's energy is almost gone and if your enemy released one more such attack, you will die!
Chapter 728: Suffer
Athan saw the man taking out a stone, and in that instant, he used Gaze of Void to incapacitate him.
The man's mind went blank as his soul was suppressed, and he couldn't do anything.
Athan also changed his void frame to Extremity Drifter and swooped beside the man at the highest speed possible by Athan and cut the hand of that of man that held that stone.
Athan did that because he felt some space fluctuation, and he didn't want this man to escape.
After Athan cut off the man's hand, a golden brilliance shot out from the man's body as he regained consciousness.
Athan didn't want to kill this man quickly; that's why he didn't use the full power of his Gaze of Void and only used it to incapacitate him to prevent his escape.
"Y-you…stop."
The man now looked at Athan fearfully as his previous arrogance was gone.
An avatar of a middle-aged man appeared from the man's body as he looked at Athan somberly and spoke, "Leave him alone; I can give you anything you want. But if you refuse, then I swear upon my soul that-"
"Stop that swear, you will not be able to fulfill it anyway," Athan interrupted the man as he turned the arm of that man into nothingness along with the stone as they simply disappeared.
The middle-aged man narrowed his eyes, "what do you want? Isn't it just for that legendary pond? You can have it. Leave my son alone."
"Nope," Athan said with a smile, "such a vile heart, I can't stand him. He will suffer for thousands of years in absolute darkness, and the only thing that will accompany him would be…pain."
"Don't make a mistake that you won't be able to undo in the future," the middle-aged man spoke with cold eyes before he waved his hands and a golden seal shot towards Athan.
The seal was not a thing but some kind of symbol with eccentric words and patterns that glowed purple and gold.
This seal shot towards Athan at a blinding speed. However, current Athan's speed was even faster. Not just his movement, but every action, thought, eyes, mind, and everything were at the extreme speed in Extremity Drifter void frame.
But Athan didn't dodge this seal because he didn't feel any threat from it and also understood a bit about it from the intent coming from the seal.
The seal hit Athan's chest, and Athan let it take its effect on him as a weird symbol imprinted on Athan's chest.
"I can't save my son right now, but mark my words that if anything happened to him, then I will find you and your family before giving you eternal doom in a special hell."
Athan smiled as his eyes glowed with a black and white bolt full of soul power before he stretched his arm towards the man and made a pulling motion.
"Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! F-father! My soul…he is pulling my soul!" he screamed and said before continuing screaming again.
In the previous Gaze of Void attack, Athan had contaminated that man's soul with his soul energy using voidpulse and connected it with his soul.
Right now, there were grey strings attached to that man's soul and Athan's soul.
Athan's soul was also making a pulling motion but in that soul's fingers were strings attached.
This was a new method of soul attack that Athan was developing and was trying since he would have to get a lot of souls in the future without harming them.
His new Gaze of Void was capable of obliterating one's soul as well as well used to suppress that person's soul. So Athan decided to modify it a bit and add more to this technique so that he could connect this soul pulling technique to the Gaze of Void.
Voracious Doom Pull was the name that Athan decided to give to this ability.
"STOP!" The middle-aged man shouted and used whatever energy he had left to attack Athan.
However, before his attack was fully released, his mind went black as the presence of his son's soul disappeared.
"You bastard!" The middle-aged man looked at Athan and growled angrily.
Athan smiled and changed his arm into Arcane Lord void frame's arm before pointing the finger at the hollow body of that man.
"St-"
*Zoooooooom…*
A tiny black orb with red and grey sparks hit the body of the man.
A loud blast occurred before a vortex covered the man's body, shredding it into dust and then nothingness.
Doom Spiral Orb.
This was another technique of 3rd void art and would only be usable in Arcane Lord void frame. Unlike other techniques, Athan can not use this Doom Spiral Orb in normal form because of its complexity that can only be achieved by the unique structure of the Arcane Lord void frame.
This was a single target most potent attack of Athan. Once it hit someone, their existence would be put into a doom spiral of Athan's unique Abyssal Blood Crystal energy consisting of Abyssal Darkness, Voidpulse, physical body power, and soul energy.
The doom spiral would disable all internal and external movement. Nothing can go out, or nothing can come inside in that doom spiral to prevent anyone from escaping. Even that Jump space stone wouldn't work, or anyone from outside wouldn't be able to teleport or save a person inside Doom Spiral.
But they only have a half-second because, after that, the doom spiral would spiral that person's body and soul before shredding them dust and then into nothingness.
The arms of Arcane Lord's void frame have millions of tiny threads in those pipes that make it possible to weave the execution of Doom Spiral Orb. So, his other void frames or normal form can't execute Doom Spiral Orb.
Changing one part of his body into one of the void frames doesn't display the full power of both void frames as well, which is quite obvious.
"I am coming for you!" The middle-aged man thundered as his avatar turned fainter.
"I will be eagerly waiting," Athan said as he waved his hand with a smile.
"Just you wait!"
…
That man's soul was inside Athan's void region, and it was utterly helpless, trapped inside a black cage with no gaps.
He tried to touch the gap, but he felt an immense pain that he had never felt before as he screamed, cried, and begged Athan.
Athan (his soul) arrived in front of that man and looked at him coldly, "I saw your memories…you are really a ruthless fiend. Even I have some bottom lines that I do not cross, but you? Well, time to suffer for the words of threat you have uttered to me."
Athan poured in abyssal darkness inside the orb, but he controlled it at the lowest intensity possible.
"Resist this until your soul energy runs out, and after that, die slowly while suffering for ten years."
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
…
"It looks like I will have to find another prey for my first legendary soul devourment," Athan muttered as he flew out of the island.
However, just as he came out, he sensed a familiar presence some kilometers away from him.
Chapter 729: Fight! 1
"Eh..b-brother Athan. Cough…it looks like you became very famous in just half a month," Yokan said with a smile, his lips twitching while speaking.
"It looks like you bought some people with you," Athan said while raising his eyebrows, looking at the girl and the middle-aged man.
"Yes, this is my protector, uncle Zonis. And th-"
"I am his sister, Yekin," the girl said as she stretched her hand towards Athan for a handshake.
Athan was in his Extremity Drifter void frame, but there wasn't much physical change externally when activating this void frame.
He then stretched his hand forward and shook hands before speaking, "come on, as long as you accompany me and provide information on the way about things, you will benefit."
Yekin and the middle-aged man, Zonis, looked at each other with worry.
They already knew that Athan had made a lot of enemies, so it would be dangerous to stay with him.
However, Yokan smiled and nodded, "brother Athan, I am willing, but you must protect us."
"Naturally," Athan said with a grin.
Suddenly, several overwhelmingly powerful aura approached them, causing a dire expression to appear on the Yekin, Yokan, and Zonis.
However, Athan licked his lips with a smile, "perfect timing. I guess I will start by devouring three Legendary powerhouses."
"B-brother Athan, are you sure you can handle them? Why don't you take us as hostages to make them believe that you caught us and then let us go after sensing them, so they don't do anything to us as well,' Yokan hurriedly sent his thoughts to Athan by using his soul sense.
At this moment, one lady and two men arrived there and floated five hundred meters away from Athan and others.
That lady was one the who ran away from Athan earliest. Athan recognized her and smiled, "good job."
"Seniors, he is the one who killed our members of the union. Senior Froech, your son…was probably killed by him as well."
Of the two men, one of them had a dark expression as he looked at Athan angrily.
*ZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP…*
A lightning-fast dark green lightning whip shot towards Athan from the middle-aged man along with many thunderbolts surrounding that whip.
Seeing this, despair flooded in the eyes of Zonis while Yekin and Yokan were also worried. Zonis had despair because he didn't have any protective charms that could defend himself from 2nd patch Legendary powerhouses like Yekin and Yokan.
'B-brother Athan!'
The attack fast, and Yokan could only send his thought to Aren before he closed his eyes, just like his sister and Zonis.
However, Athan smiled faintly as he was prepared and waved his hands as a sanctuary of void surrounded Yokan, Yekin, and Zonis.
Athan didn't defend himself but took the attack head as the potent destructive lightning hit him and charred his body. However, he forcefully absorbed all of their energy and refined his body through void empowerment veins and Void Crux as they used that energy to strengthen every cell of his body.
Naturally, this method brought hellish pain and injuries to Athan's body a lot as blood came out from everywhere, but…that didn't matter to Athan.
On the other hand, Yokan and others were surprised as nothing happened to them.
"That barrier, it didn't even budge," another man from the enemy spoke, his name is Gokez.
"Mirenda, you support us with your ability while we fight him. Don't get in the way."
"Yes, seniors."
On the other hand, Athan loudly laughed as he activated Zontheos Prime void frame on his entire body while still having the wings of Extremity Drifter.
Countless tendrils flashed on his body before he turned taller, muscular, and stronger! Two demonic horns grew out from his forehead while his hairs turned thick and long as they reached his legs.
Froech, Gokez, and Mirenda from Deadsea Union became serious, but they were also determined to take down Athan.
"Attack!"
Athan disappeared from his place before appearing in front of Froech and punched.
Froech's heart almost leaped as he saw Athan's speed, but it was not faster than his reaction speed as he hurridly activated defense and attacked at the same time by using his ability.
Lightning Death Spark.
A spark of dark green lightning produced from his body and covered him in an instant before Athan's punch hit him.
'Get bounded by this death lightning!' Froech thought as he saw Athan's punch connecting his Lightning Death Spark barrier.
At the same time, Gokez roared and also attacked with his sword as a literal tsunami of blades conjured and shot towards Athan.
All of those blades were burning purple and exuded a terrifying aura that was even more powerful than Forech's attack.
Blades of Ruin.
*BOOOOOOM…*
Athan's punch connected first as Froech's expression changed as he spewed a mouthful of blood before shooting directly towards an island that was a kilometer away.
At the same time, those blades also hit Athan. However, Athan didn't protect himself, so his body started to break down due to the power of those blades hitting him.
His body decayed and started to turn into dust.
Seeing that, Gokez sneered, "you are dead."
Athan had deactivated his void field and didn't use any defensive technique, so obviously, this attack directly affected his body.
The power of this attack started affecting his soul as well, but…It couldn't do anything to his soul as the abyssal darkness aspect of his soul energy obliterated that attack.
"Nice attack. It seems that I can't absorb it for my use since it had an immediate effect on my body right after it touched me," Athan said with a smile and looked at his arm and spots on his body that was breaking down.
However, seeing Athan being completely unbothered while suffering that attack caused a chill to run down the spine of every single person watching this battle.
In the next second, they saw Athan's body reconstructing in a second, and all power of that Blades of Ruin was also nullified.
"Now try this new technique that I created," Athan said with a grin, "Corporeal Execution."
Athan's body glowed with countless tendrils. His right hand became bigger before he palmed forward.
A palm with dark red patterns and blue sparks instantly appeared in front of Gokez.