Chapter 195 - 743-755

Chapter 743: You Don't Need To Hold Back.

Lily's body trembled…but with excitement and happiness.

…

Athan saw Lily suddenly appear in front of him as she entered inside the Ark space with a red face and eyes filled with love.

Right after appearing in front of Athan, Lily dashed forward and hugged him tightly.

"Y-y…you are not joking, right?"

Athan smiled and caressed her back, "I am not."

"So as you said, I…I don't need to hold back, right?"

"Yep," Athan nodded with a smile as he caressed Lily's soft cheeks, "you don't need to hold back."

Lily let go of Athan and looked at him with tears in her eyes before planting her lips on Athan's lips.

After three seconds, she separated with a blushed face, her eyes misty as she looked at Athan.

"You are bad at kissing," Athan said with a smile.

"It's my first time kissing, humph," Lily said with a red face, "you must have a lot of experiences because of Tiana, Avelia, and Sen."

"Don't worry, I will teach you everything," Athan said with a grin, "but for now, focus on training. Your soul is getting stronger fast, and you have to lay your foundation properly."

"Mhmm," Lily nodded as she hugged Athan again and closed her eyes to savor it for ten seconds before separating, "I…will come back later."

Afterward, Lily disappeared.

…

Mimi, Huarin, and Dreevindo came outside of their blessed house, and Lily also came out after a few minutes.

"Eh, sister Lily, you look very happy. Did anything good happen?" Mimi asked with curiosity.

Huarin looked at Lily and was surprised, 'Her eyes…that slight pain and longing disappeared. It looks like something happened between her and Athan. But that means Athan returned?'

"Did Athan return?" Dreevindo asked as he could read Lily's expression easily, just like Huarin.

"Yep. He is training right now," Lily said with a beaming smile, "anyway, while our souls are getting a boost, we should consume soul energy. My soul is already overflowing with soul energy."

Mimi, Huarin, and Dreevindo nodded as the same thing was happening with their soul.

As such, the four of them started clashing with each other using their soul energy; this also served as a refinement of sorts for their souls while they were receiving this boost.

…

While everyone was training and practicing, the situation outside was chaotic.

The name Athan and his images were spreading everywhere rapidly.

Time passed quickly as, in six months, everyone in the Orchos Firmament knew about Athan and saw his picture.

However, the real shock was among the highest echelons in the Orchos Firmament.

Those families who had their ancestors in Outrious Expanse and were allowed to contact them did so to pass on the news.

Some ancestors initiated the contact because they found something wrong in their Bloodline tree.

Everlasting Legendary powerhouses were sure to become Mythical unless they failed during their final test of entering into Absolute Transcendence Mythos.

As such, those people in Outrious Expanse were infuriated at Athan for killing those Everlasting Legendaries.

…

Outrious Expanse was a blanket of cloud—illusionary colorful clouds.

It was a vast expanse of clouds, and there were bubbles in those clouds but hidden.

Outrious Expanse already had a solid society structure established by Nihility Council.

Nobody had seen Nilhilty Council, but it was believed that they would appear during important moments.

That aside, the entire Outrious Expanse had five zones.

Shinrai Zone, Okulus Zone, Celestial Zone, Legumeta Zone, and, Trixen Zone.

These zones were vast and but they had a border as well. The clouds blanketing these zones were always present but behind these clouds were large mysterious continents with myriad lands and waters.

However, beneath these continents was another space filled with clouds, and amidst these clouds were bubbles. These bubbles were none other than worlds like Orchos Firmament and other realms.

All those Absolute Transcendent Mythos from Orchos Firmament were currently inside Okulus Zone. They would automatically ascend there.

Since they were from the same world: Orchos Firmament, the majority of them decided to stick together from the start and then formed their clans or joined the same organization.

And to strengthen their positions and powers, they would eagerly wait for their next-generation from Orchos Firmament every few thousand years.

Right now, forty-seven of them had gathered together in a large hall since the most powerful being among them was a Mystic Lord and owned a City. She was also their leader, known as Vinery Deqont.

Vinery Deqont was sitting on the city lord chair in the hall while other forty-six powerhouses were seated at different tables in groups.

Vinery Deqont had 739 tiny dreamy fishes floating behind her. She looked pure human without any additional body features except a third closed eye on her forehead.

"Lord Vinery, it seems that you yet again made progress and achieved Mystic Power scale of 3739," a powerhouse with vampire features spoke, "I wonder how is your power level once you burst out with your full strength?"

"You can check that after five months since I am going to be challenged by another Mystic Lord for City Lord's position," Vinery spoke plainly.

"Alright," the vampire being spoke with a smile. This person had something floating behind, but they were tiny dreamy turtles —a total of 8771 worms.

"Shall we start the meeting now? Two Everlasting legendary powerhouses from my clan and my wife's side's clan were killed."

People started talking, but Vinery spoke somberly, "Silence!"

She then waved her hand and showed everyone a picture. The picture was of none other than Athan.

"This is a person who killed over five hundred Everlasting Legendary powerhouses in Orchos Firmament, that included my granddaughter as well," Vinery spoke with a serious expression, "he didn't kill them one by one but killed them when they were gathered together."

Everyone knew about it as they got information from their clan members. Their blood was boiling because they absolutely needed their descendants to reach here and aid them.

Everyone was from different organizations or had joined native clans here. Some had also made clans here like Vinery. She had three husbands. All three were natives of Okulus Zone.

"Sigh…my situation is already bad since my brother died a year ago, and I wanted my son to become a Mythos and come here. But that Athan killed him," A bearded man spoke with devilish wings behind his back and dark red skin with two thick horns, "I am in debt since I used Hounus Clan's Hell Door of Weeping Ghost for training, and I need to pay for the resources within the deadline, or I will likely be killed."

"Hounus Clan…, you will probably not live if you failed to pay," Vinery shook her head with pity.

"I could work together with my son since he was really at the very peak of Everlasting Legendary. But that Athan…," the bearded devil gritted his teeth, "how can he kill so many people? Everlasting Legendary powerhouses are supposed to be the strongest. With over five hundred of them together, how come they couldn't do anything to Athan and got killed instead?!"

"That's the mystery," Vinery said with a frown.

Chapter 744: Target: Athan, Training

"We have to collect more information about that Athan," Vinery said with a grim expression, "I will ask an Anarchy Lord to aid me with that."

"Oh? Does Lord Vinery have some ties with an Anarchy Lord? I wonder if you could disclose the name of that Anarchy Lord?"

Vinery shook her head, "I can not disclose his name. Anyway, you all should also continue to keep track of Athan. Once he leaves Orchos Firmament, he will come to Okulus Zone. So we must keep a lookout at the Ascendency continent of Okulus Zone and find him there. If he leaves Ascendecy continent, it will become much harder to find him."

Everyone nodded.

"We will hire some people as well. Since we know his appearance, it will make things easier to find him. Humph, there's no way we can let him live after he caused us such disastrous losses."

"Not all people managed to arrive at this meeting, so I will contact them and relay them about our discussion."

"We all should also keep track of Athan in Orchos Firmament by remaining in contact with our families there. Once he leaves, we will immediately deploy the hired people."

…

Time passed as hours turned into days, days into months, and months into years as four years passed.

Their progression speed drastically increased after Athan initiated the huge soul origin boost to Lily, Mimi, Huarin, and Dreevindo.

Tiana and others didn't benefit because their soul power is already very high due to being helped by Voidlings and going into the Origin AVOF realm. Naturally, that was only possible because Athan made them void beings first using his Touch of Transcendent and Seed of Transcendence.

As for Lily and others, nothing was holding them back, and in four years, all of them reached the peak of the Disaster-stage.

In this stage, they had to break the disasters that came into their Genealogy inner world and soul because they have become a Disasterous lifeform after leaving their Epic tale in Orchos Firmament.

They quickly progressed, broke all disasters, and increased their powers before reaching the peak of Disaster-stage, becoming a cosmic disaster.

Now they went out to gather more resources and money since their time in Blessed House was over.

However, the high echelons of Orchos Firmament knew where Athan was already.

When he came out from the Plaza and left the city, many eyes were on him and following him.

However, Athan didn't care about them; there was absolutely no one in this Orchos Firmament who could be a threat to him anymore because…he had absorbed 176 Everlasting Legendary powerhouse's souls.

He had actually hit the limit now and couldn't absorb any more soul powers to improve his soul power.

The origin soul power at the quality of Everlasting Legendary couldn't improve his soul anymore. Now they could only be used to recover his soul energy.

However, since that would be a waste, Athan decided to do something that could transfer the soul origin power that he refined from those Everlasting Legendary souls to Lily and others.

So he was working on that solution while staying inside the Ark space. On the other hand, Lily, Mimi, Huarin, and Dreevindo were making tremendous progress by adventuring in Rift Dimensions.

Just like that, four years more passed, with everyone making tremendous progress.

Athan refined his unique body even more, increasing the fundamental power capacity of his body, improving Void Crux and Void Empowerment Veins.

Currently, he could store 1000 Abyssal Blood Crystals in his void crux, but he had reached 539 Abyssal Blood Crystals so far.

These new Abyssal Blood Crystals contained 200k abyssal darkness 160k voidpulse each, while the old Abyssal Blood Crystals only contained 20k abyssal darkness and 13k voidpulse each. Athan had already consumed all old Abyssal Blood Crystals, so these 539 Abyssal Blood Crystals were of the latest versions that contained powerful vitality power of current Athan as well.

One should not forget that current Athan's body was the most powerful in the entire Orchos Firmament.

As for his void frames and void arts…

[Void Frames & Void Arts]

-Extremity Drifter-> Void Art 1: Point of Extremity, Rumbling Disaster, Blinking Flash.

-Zontheos Prime-> Void Art 2: Oblivion Fist of Wisps, Apololyptic Clap, Corporeal Execution.

-Arcane Lord-> Void Art 3: Mayhem of Arcane, Doom Spiral Orb, Magnum Arcane Bullets.

-Void Art 4(Fetterless Void Art): Sanctuary of Void, Void Predatory, Contracting Oblivion, Voracious Doom Pull, Gaze of Void.

He practiced with everyone in battle once in a while and also created Blinking Flash and Magnum Arcane Bullets.

Two more years passed as Athan finally perfected the transfer process.

He called Lily and others inside the Ark space.

"Did you finally complete it?" Dreevindo asked while rubbing his hands eagerly.

Athan faintly smiled as he waved his hand and four white threads with red patterns shot out from his chest area towards Lily, Mimi, Huarin, and Dreevindo.

"Don't resist," Athan said as those four threads attached to Lily and others' chests.

"First, I will transfer you the profound vitality power from Unbound Spectrum Vitality Heart. Absorb it and refine your body with it to make your physique more powerful.

"My unique cells will also enter inside your body and help in this process, so you don't be overwhelmed. You will feel tremendous pain, but you have to endure it."

"Brother Athan, I will endure pain!" Mimi said with determination, "even if I am on the verge of crying, don't stop this process, okay? I will endure it."

Huarin patted Mimi's head with a gentle smile, "Mimi is strong; she can surely endure it."

"Yep," Lily grinned and pulled Mimi's cheeks, "but if you really can't endure, then say it. Sometimes, it's good to take things to step by step."

Athan nodded as he looked at Mimi with a gentle smile, "yep. I experienced different levels of pain before finally reaching this stage. You don't have to endure everything at once."

Mimi pouted and shook her head, "but I can. Okay, so we can do it like this. If I scream, then you can pause the process."

After saying that, Mimi gritted her teeth and clenched her fist, ready to endure whatever was coming at her.

"Alright, I am starting," Athan said as he directed the profound vitality power from the heart into the threads as they went into everyone's body.

The thread glowed, and after a second, Lily, Mimi, Huarin, and Dreevindo's body showed countless tendrils as the vitality power was spreading in their entire body through Athan's unique cells.

They were also actively absorbing it to refine their body.

Everyone's body was trembling intensely as the pain was really tremendous.

Mimi's eyes had already turned tearful, but she gritted her teeth and didn't scream.

Chapter 745: Athan's Concern. Lily's Love.

Lily, Mimi, Huarin, and Dreevindo refined their body using profound vitality power from Athan and made leaps in their progress. Their genealogy path's progress increased a lot because to ascend to legendary; one must have a profound understanding of genealogy vitality, orchos energy(evolution energy), and soul power.

They need to have those three things at their limit before they can form their Legendary Genealogy path.

After refining their bodies to the limit, they told Athan to stop since they couldn't make any more progress.

They need to break through to the Legendary stage to make more progress.

As such, Athan started transferring origin soul power to them with the same method, but the threads were connected to their soul this time.

"Get ready. This process is mild, so you should train while your souls are getting soul origin power in them. I have already refined this soul origin power to be of utmost pure with my whirlpool, so once it enters your soul, it will instantly become yours and elevate your origin soul power," Athan said before he started the process.

Lily and others nodded and sat down crossed-legged before entering deep meditation.

…

Athan made this process automatic, and he also entered meditation to comprehend more of Abyssal Void of Fabrication actively.

After closing his eyes, he went deep within his soul and found a grey phenomenon symbol with black and white streams chasing each other.

He felt a strong connection to the origin AVOF realm through this symbol, but he couldn't see anything in that. He could only feel the pure Abyssal Void of Fabrication's power through that symbol.

As such, he started feeling that power with utmost focus to increase his understanding of Abyssal Void of Fabrication.

…

Time passed as everyone continued to make progress…Tiana and others inside the AVOF realm dimension, while Athan, Lily, and others in Orchos Firmament.

After two years, Lily opened her eyes as she had reached the limit and needed to out to breakthrough. She passed Mimi and Dreevindo in progress.

She saw that Athan, Lily, Huarin, and Dreevindo were in deep meditation.

Seeing Athan's face, Lily stood up and got close to him before planting a kiss on his lips.

Athan's eyes opened, and seeing that, Lily took her head back a bit before smiling with a blush, "you said I don't need to hold back, so…."

After saying that, she once again kissed Athan before leaving the Ark space.

Athan shook his head with a smile, but he felt happy that Lily was happy. He understood how it feels to have the person you love exist but not be able to meet them and show your love to them.

'Athan, do you truly love Lily? Because I can clearly see Lily's love for you in her eyes and behavior, but I can't see that in you.'

Athan suddenly heard Huarin's voice and saw that she had her eyes opened and was looking at him.

Athan looked at her with a smile and replied, 'You can not see through my eyes because I don't show that side, and my behavior is indeed not actively in love like her. However…'

Huarin saw Athan's eyes suddenly turning misty and saw an expression in him that showed boundless love.

'I miss my other beloveds, and I want to get them back. I don't know where or how they are. I…am feeling anxious about their conditions. The one who killed them and took their souls away was a person far more powerful than I ever imagined,' Athan's eyes trembled before he sighed.

'I am only moving forward by believing in that person's words…that they are still alive. But I have no proof of them, which sometimes makes me anxious.'

Athan's eyes turned cold and ruthless as he clenched his fist tightly, 'If…after reaching the top as that person said, I didn't find them or that person lied to me, then…then…'

Huarin sighed as she couldn't imagine Athan's inner struggle, but she must ask certain things since she cared more about Lily.

'If they were really no more and that person lied to you, then…would you live with Lily? Naturally, that is after taking revenge on that person you are talking about.'

'I don't want to think about that possibility, so I will not think what I will do if that was the case,' Athan took a deep breath as he calmed himself down and smiled, 'As for Lily, her place in my heart is same as others. She is precious to me as well. Love is not a complicated thing. After seeing how much I mean to her, how can my heart not sway and fall for her? It's impossible. I will do anything for my women and shower them with boundless love as they do the same for me.'

Huarin's heart started beating faster hearing that, but she calmed down nodded with a grin, 'I am kind of envious but…if you are saying that, then you should show your love to Lily even though I know that you miss your other wives. You must do that because that's how it should be.'

Athan became silent for a second before he nodded with a smile, 'I understand.'

…

Days passed as Mimi, Dreevindo, and Huarin also broke through and started their Legendary Path in the next fifteen to twenty-eight days.

Lily and Athan were inside the Ark space while Mimi, Huarin, and Dreevindo were outside, preparing their breakthrough and consolidating their strength.

Athan was meditating, but Lily wanted to cuddle and hug Athan while others were not here, so she went behind Athan and hugged him rightly.

"Ah, it feels good to hug you like this. How I wish I could hug you and kiss you forever," Lily muttered with a jubilant expression with closed eyes.

"You can," Athan said as he opened his eyes.

Lily arrived in front of Athan with a blush on her face and put her face closer to Athan before kissing him.

"Athan…I'll always get excited of your kisses and hugs, no matter how much time passes. They will always make me lively and happy, no matter how many times I do them. So…keep me with you whenever you go, okay?" Lily said with said moist eyes filled with happiness, "I want to do romance with you until the end of my life."

Athan felt the strong emotions of Lily as he nodded with a beaming smile and caressed Lily's cheeks before moving his head behind her head and gently pushing her towards him while he also leaned his head forward to kiss her proactively for the first time.

The kiss became passionate as it lasted for five minutes before Lily took her head back with a red face and took a deep breath before smiling, "let's continue training now. After all, I also can't wait to meet Sister Tiana and others.. Hehe, they are my seniors, and I have to learn much from them."

Chapter 746: Revenge Time 1

"It's finally time…," Dreevindo muttered.

"Sigh, can't believe our training speed increased that much after Athan boosted us with his powers," Huarin said with a sigh.

"Well, fifteen years passed since then, and we also finally achieved the very peak of Legendary path. Now it's time we ascend," Lily said with a grin.

"Since I reached the peak legendary, I finally know the true use of this Ark of Exordium," Lily said with a wry smile.

"What is it, sister Lily?" Mimi asked.

"It's to ensure that we properly elevated to Absolute Transcendent Mythos and a have a cohesive build of our unique Genealogy power," Lily said before sighing, "once I breakthrough to Absolute Transcendent Mythos, I will lose Ark of Exordium."

"What? Really?" Dreevindo asked with shock, "but why?"

"Because these Firmament Artifacts are exclusive to Orchos Firmament," Lily said, "Once I finish my breakthrough, the Ark will detach from my soul and wander elsewhere when another person finds it. There were some rules set in it by the first owner of this Ark, who was a human. But I am erasing them so that not just humans but any races of people can activate it if they can get their hands on it."

"Anyway, since we are all ready, then let's start our breakthrough inside the Ark space since the unique evolution energy of Ark will help us, as I said," Lily said with a smile.

"Brother Athan said that he went to finish an unfinished business. Did he tell anyone what that business was?" Mimi asked with curiosity.

"Nope. But he said he would return before we finished our breakthrough, so let's start," Lily said.

Huarin and Dreevindo nodded.

…

On the other hand, Athan arrived in a different realm in 7th Lerento. It was the realm of Elvira Race.

"Elvidelen, I hope you didn't forget me," Athan muttered as he flew towards the central territory in this realm.

After flying for ten minutes at his full speed, he arrived at the largest Empire of Elvira race.

It seems that some kind of celebration was happening here.

But Athan had no time to waste as he simply broke the barrier and entered inside the vast city.

"STOP!"

"WHO ARE YOU?!"

Several people shouted and started following him, but they were left in the dust in a second.

Athan directly went to the largest structure in the city, which was a giant palace.

Several powerful auras rose from the Palace because of Athan's intrusion as seven powerhouses with Everlasting Legendary aura came out.

"There you are," Athan spoke with a grin as he looked at the man in the middle.

Seeing Athan's gaze on their soon-to-be Emperor, Leader, and Ruler of their entire race, the other six elder figures were startled and asked with a dark face.

"Who are you?"

"What business do you have with us?"

…

Athan was surprised before he laughed out loud, "you are really introverts. Don't you know about me? Have you never seen my image before?"

"And you, Elvidelen. You might not remember me since my appearance changed, but…," Athan paused as he waved his hand and changed his appearance to how he looked tens of years ago when he first went to Purple Monarch of Deep Chasm's Genome realm. There, he was made fun of and tortured by this Elvidelen just because he was human and then thrown in the darkness of nothingness space where he suffered the highest level of pain and died.

"Wait…I recognize him. Y-you…," one of the elders pointed his finger at Athan before he started trembling, "you are Athan, the Void Emperor."

"You were the one who killed over five hundred Everlasting Legendary powerhouses years ago…," the elder continued with fear, and hearing him, other elders were shocked.

"W-w-what do you want from us? We can give you anything you want."

On the other hand, Elvidelen's mind had turned blank when he saw old Athan's appearance when Athan changed his face.

"You…, you were supposed to be dead," Elvidelen muttered with disbelief, "you are him? But, H-how?"

"It looks like you finally remember me," Athan said with a smile as he turned back his face to his current one.

"Humph, so what?" Elvidelen suddenly snorted, "Our Ancestor, who is in Outrious Expanse, already contacted me, and he knows my vital status since we share bloodline at a high level. If you do anything to me, then the Great Purple Monarch will kill you for sure."

Hearing that, Athan started laughing and also activated his 2nd void frame, Zontheos Prime.

His body turned bulky with extremely fine muscles; his hairs turned thick long while two devilish horns grew out from his body.

An intense pressure released from his body that suffocated everyone in the city, including those Everlasting Legendary powerhouses.

"I will only attack you once; if you can survive it, then I will leave without doing anything," Athan said with a grin, "You all can resist together. So? are you ready?"

"Whatever, you must be ready," Athan said as the gemstone on his forehead flashed for a bit before he consumed five new Abyssal Blood Crystals and condensed all of their power in his hand.

Hearing that, those seven powerhouses exploded with their powers and conjured their most powerful defensive abilities.

Zontheos Prime's cell structure can condense all powers to the absolute limit possible and release them in the most powerful physical force. In his Zontheos Prime's frame, Athan condensed five Abyssal Blood Crystals powers in both his hands before he stretched his hands apart and clapped.

Apocalyptic Clap.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM..*

*CRAAAAAAAAACKKKKKKKKKKKK….*

The sky literally changed colors, and countless cracks appeared in the space before recovery quickly.

A second later, all seven powerhouses saw their defenses crumbling like paper before the apocalyptic force hit them and shredded them apart.

"You wanted to kill me simply because I was a human, huh? Racial hate, where you hate a whole race simply because of some people's action, is the vilest of all hate," Athan spoke as he looked at all people below, his voice reverberating, "It only makes more enemies and involves people who are innocent."

"Now, onto the next revenge," Athan said before he spread his blinking wings and disappeared.

…

He appeared in the Devil realm and found the woman who had married to that Devil to take revenge on her Empire's destruction.

He killed her and read her memories before going to Lower Chaosverse.

After five days, he arrived at a location filled with glittering sand structures. He saw a large glittering sandcastle, which was his target.

It was filled with bastards from the memories he got, and they were responsible for that state of earth where billions of people died, including his uncle and aunt.

Chapter 747: Revenge Time 2, Reunion!

Athan waved his hand as terrifying shockwaves hit the castles and destroyed them.

Some people were injured, but none were dead as they came out with their leader.

"Cough, cough….what the hell happened?"

"We are under damn attack! Get ready to defend and retaliate."

"But I don't see anyone attacking us! What's going on?"

Athan arrived in front of them since he was far away when he attacked, and everyone started to suffocate due to the faint pressure that Athan intentionally released.

He found the leader and waved his right hand's palm, Corporeal Execution!

*BOOM…*

The leader's body was destroyed before Athan pulled his soul into his void region and put it under torture, just like the other soul of that person from Orchos Firmament who threatened him.

Everyone was dumbfounded seeing their leader dying instantly.

"Please let us go!!"

"Don't kill us, please!"

"Yes, yes! We will become your servants and do anything you say to us. So, please don't kill us!"

Athan raised his eyebrows before he grinned, "so none of you want to take revenge for your leader?"

"Screw him! We are all bound by interest! We followed him because he was a schemer and had great connections to powerful people."

"Yeah, yeah!"

"Please don't kill us; we will work for you! We can do all types of work. You can use us to do dirty deeds as well so your name won't be sullied."

Athan shook his head before waving his hand, "I don't need you."

*Swooooooooosh….*

A powerful shockwave with a black aura hit them before they were killed into nothingness.

Afterward, Athan left and arrived back at the Upper Chaosverse.

He first Yone, Tronel, and others as they were now powerful Chaos Paragons.

Inside one of the Palace, Yone, Tronel, Samira, and Aakerin were talking at the table and were startled when Athan suddenly appeared in front of them.

"A…Athan?" Yone stood up with a dumbfounded face.

Athan smiled and nodded.

"Hahaha!" Yone loudly laughed as he patted Athan's shoulder and said jokingly, "I thought you forgot about us."

"Athan, you've changed considerably since we last saw you," Aakerin said with a smile, "You look taller and muscular than before you."

"I'll call everyone," Tronel said with a grin, "Linci's parents are here as well. Actually, they have created a separate organization, and we are working with them."

"Btw Athan, we suddenly received a huge boost some fourteen years ago. That should be your doing, right? Hahaha, since then, we've been making progress by leaps and bounds, and in just fourteen years, we went from Chaos King to Chaos Paragon."

"Indeed," Aakerin smiled with excitement in her eyes, "our souls and comprehension ability are increasing each day as we increase our limits by breaking through. The only limit we have is the resources."

Athan smiled and nodded, "well, you still have a long way to go, but I will be waiting for you at the top."

"What is the top? You found it?" Yone asked with curiosity.

"Not yet," Athan shook his head with a wry smile, "however, above this place is Orchos Firmament and Orchos Firmament is actually a tiny part of a vaster, more powerful world called Outrious Expanse."

"Once people breakthrough from Legendary and reach a higher state of existence, they go out of Orchos Firmament and into Outrious Expanse," said Athan with a smile, "I am going to Outrious Expanse in a month since I have reached the absolute limit of strength in Orchos Firmament."

"Damn! I wonder how powerful you are right now," Yone punched Athan as he spoke with a wide grin.

At this moment, Chunshi, Joza-Eile, Leib, Samira, and Linci's parents arrived with Tronel.

"Athan! Did you…did you find Linci?" Elena asked with hesitation.

Athan turned silent for a second before shaking his head. Seeing that, Elena's face became increasingly worried.

"Don't worry," Athan spoke with determination, "I will find them soon. I feel like I am very close to them."

Gaarshil looked at Athan as he nodded with a somber expression, "we trust you."

"Athan, we heard about that incident," Samira spoke with a severe expression, "however, we believe that you can save them. We want to meet Shiromi as well, so you better save them all."

Chunshi, the eldest sister type, arrived in front of Athan and hugged him before saying gently, "I know you've also been missing them since they are obviously very important to you. We don't know your inner struggles, but we will always believe that you can do anything that you set out to do. So you will definitely save them."

Athan closed his eyes for a moment before he opened them and nodded with a smile, "of course. I will save them. No matter where they are, I will reach there at any cost."

Leib, Joza-Eile, Yone, Linci's parents, and others talked with Athan as Athan also told them about some things regarding Orchos Firmament before leaving after half an hour.

After five days, Athan arrived back at the place where Lily had stationed the Ark in the 6th Lerento of Orchos Firmament and entered inside the Ark space.

After entering, he saw that all four of them were far away from each other than a vast amount of profound forces were gathered around her as they sat crossed-legged amidst those forces and floated.

"It looks like they are still breaking through," Athan muttered before he also decided to close his eyes and further comprehend the AVOF through the connection in his soul.

In the past fourteen years, he had made 3% progress on top of perfecting his body and other things. So he was now 58% understanding of AVOF.

…

On the other hand, Tiana, Avelia, Sen, Shiromi, Linci, Drizzly, Tealery, Arcued, Qerin, Mike, Theo, Nimpere brothers, dean Lenix, dean Zangrel, Zorgia, Tamiril, Yoha, Foujir, Gouken had finished training in the first stage of their powers.

"Nyaa! Since you all have learned the first level in your respective powers, then now it's time…battle! You all have powers but have yet to create techniques tailor-made for you. But you will have to create them yourself," Primo said with a wide smile.

"Hehe, for that, we will go to the battle zone! That's also where we voidlings fight all the time and create techniques suitable to us," Taezin said with a wide monkey grin, "our bodies are different and how we course energy through them is also different, so you can't learn our techniques. You have to make techniques yourselves."

"Once you all create a single technique that can bring 150% power from your raw power attacks, we will move to the 2nd level," The Book said before a pair of glasses appeared on its page, "I will be measuring the power of your techniques. It can be attack-type, defense-type, mystic-type, or any kind of technique; I can measure if they are 150% of your basic use of power or not."

Tiana and others listened carefully before nodding their heads.

"Let's go! I am going to create the most powerful offensive technique so I can erase anyone blocking our Emperor's path!" Arcued said with fervor.

"Cough…mind if we brothers make some seducing techniques? We really need them, right brothers?"

"Right, right."

Chapter 748: Going Out Of Orchos Firmament

"This…it seems that we are supposed to go inside this strange whirlpool portal," Dreevindo said as he looked at a whirlpool portal that appeared in front of them when he finished breaking through from Everlasting Legendary.

Lily, Mimi, and Huarin also had the same whirlpool portals in front of them.

They were all at a barren place in 6th Lerento where a rust power that rusted everything was present everywhere.

This was one of the highly dangerous zones in 6th Lerento. They arrived here for the last step of their breakthrough and finished it here.

"But I didn't expect it would take us two months to finish this breakthrough. This resistance I am feeling on top of this overwhelming power in my body, hahaha, we are really mythical beings now," Dreevindo said with a laugh as he waved his hand and conjured a hundred kilometers big hammer with sparkling golden and blue patterns before attacking Huarin.

Huarin snorted as her eyes shined with a dreamy light purple glow and three palm-sized orbs appeared around her with the same patterns as the glow in her eyes.

One of the orbs disappeared, and Dreevindo suddenly lost control of his hammer and went into a daze for a second.

"Damn…this dream power is really tricky to deal with," Dreevindo said as he wiped his sweat.

The hammer didn't hit Huarin but at a large mountain range and entirely razed thousands of kilometers tall mountains into dust.

"Oh shit…," Dreevindo suddenly spoke, "I am feeling a powerful attraction…wait..,

He was forcefully pulled towards the portal and entered inside after a second.

The same thing happened with Huarin as she also entered the portal.

After both of them entered inside, their portals also disappeared.

"How will brother Athan enter the Outrious Expanse? There's no portal for him," Mimi said with confusion.

Lily smiled and spoke, "Athan can enter in his own way. When he became too powerful for Orchos Firmament, the will of Orchos Firmament already approached him and told him that it can open the gateway for him to go out of Orchos Firmament and enter the Outrious Expanse."

"Ohh…," Mimi was surprised before she smiled, "that's good. Anyway, when is brother Athan coming back? He went to finish off those rats that always trailed us whenever we went, but he should be finished by now."

*Swoooooosh…*

"Well, he is here," Lily said as she saw Athan flying towards them and arrived in two seconds.

"So? Did you find out why they were keeping our tracks all this time?" Lily asked.

"Yep," Athan said with a grin, "It seems that they have prepared a big gift for me in Ascendecy Area of Okulus Zone in Outrious Expanse. Apparently, your whirlpool portals and my gate will lead to that Ascendecy Area of Okulus Zone."

"Hmmm, I don't have Ark of Exordium anymore, so we won't be able to hide like before," Lily said with a wry smile.

"It's fine," Athan said carefreely with a smile, "you two go first and if someone wants to recruit you or something, then go along with them. The people targetting me are ONLY targetting me. They have my images so they can recognize me but not you all."

Lily and Mimi were worried, but before they could speak, Athan showed his palm to them and spoke with a grin, "don't worry. With our soul connections, I can easily find you and…I have a big surprise ready for them."

Suddenly, Athan frowned as he felt that he was being observed, but this was a very different feeling than when those rats observed him.

"You two, go fast!" Athan said, "Go!"

Lily and Mimi were already feeling the powerful pull, and since Athan told them in such a serious expression, they entered inside their portals hurridly.

"Orchos, what's going on?" Athan muttered.

Right when he finished speaking, a tiny white butterfly-like wisp appeared in front of him and spoke, "well, an Anarchy Lord is trying to observe you. That being will get clear feedback of you and will be able to see you as clear as day in three seconds."

Athan raised his eyebrows before he nodded and asked, "so that person didn't see Mimi and Lily, right?"

"Nope. That being can only see and can't hear anything."

"Well, conjure that gate for me; I am leaving as well. He can take a look at me before I go since…three seconds just passed," Athan said with a smile before he looked in the sky.

A square gate appeared in front of Athan with space ripples of silver-blue in it.

"Remember my request, Athan. If you reach the top, then absorb me into your realm. This whole Orchos Firmament will be your inner world."

"Hahaha, sure," Athan said with a laugh before he entered inside the gate.

…

Athan didn't resist the powerful and mystical space power enveloping him the moment he entered inside the gate, and after two seconds, he appeared in another place, with grassy plains. There were plants here and there but no thick jungle around him.

Athan spread his soul sense, but it couldn't go after three hundred and forty kilometers radius around him. Within this radius, he sensed a total of twenty-three presences.

*pot…pot…*

"Hmmm?…," Athan was surprised because he felt very strange here. A feeling that he had never felt before.

Tiny bubbles slowly started to conjure around him, but they picked up the speed as many bubbles started to conjure rapidly.

They also burst fast, making tiny pot-pot sounds.

"A mysterious force…what it is? It's like I am transparent in front of it," Athan muttered before he observed that after those bubbles burst, even tinier symbols started to hover around him.

Those symbols looked like winged tigers. There were a total of 195 winged tigers symbols with three eyes floating around him.

"What is this?" Athan muttered as he touched those symbols. The moment he touched tens of them with his palm since they were very tiny, they disappeared.

However, they materialized again.

Suddenly, Athan felt a gaze on him as if someone was observing him.

"Well, come on," Athan spoke with a grin as he also had a party for them.

He sat down crossed-legged and closed his eyes as black and white force started to ooze out of him. A grey whirlpool also formed on top of him before slowly, the forces covered him entirely.

The whirlpool also integrated over him as a cocoon was formed.

Yep, it was the usual cocoon in which he would establish his understanding of AVOF and come out stronger. Naturally, he wouldn't last that long like the previous, but only for twenty to thirty days at most. Because according to his instincts, he would at most reach a 60% of understanding of AVOF with everything he comprehended in the past years.

He had made progress of 3% in the past years, and he could feel that he just needed to comprehend a bit more to connect dots of everything he understood during those years to get an additional 2% of the increase in his progress.

Chapter 749: Shock

After five minutes, powerhouses started to arrive at this location in batches.

"Where is he?"

"I don't see him here except for that egg-like thing."

Lord Vinery and a black eagle that perched on her shoulder also arrived. The Eagle's eyes glowed as it spoke to Vinery, "I saw him turning into that cocoon."

The Eagle had a dark blue crystal 3rd eye on its forehead with red and purple patterns in it. It also looked majestic with exquisite black-gold feathers.

Vinery looked at the cocoon and spoke loudly, "Athan has turned himself in that cocoon."

"Wait…Anarchy symbols?" The Eagle spoke with narrowed eyes, its voice containing disbelief, "why does he have them?"

Slowly, everyone also noticed the 195 winged-tiger symbols floating on top of the cocoon.

There were no symbols around Eagle, but other powerhouses had tiny symbols floating behind them. Vinery had mystical fishes, while most powerhouses here had exquisite worm symbols.

Everyone's heart turned cold when they noticed 195 winged tiger symbols around the cocoon.

"Why…why does he have Anarchy symbols around him?"

"What's going on? He should be a powerhouse who had just recently ascended from the Under realm," the Eagle spoke to Vinery, "I am sure he came from your Under realm, Orchos Firmament. But why does he have Anarchy symbols around him?"

Vinery was also shocked and speechless as she shook her head, "I…I don't know, lord. He was indeed very powerful in Orchos Firmament, since he managed to kill Legendary powerhouses like ants. But…but, how could he have Anarchy Symbols?"

A total of one hundred and eight powerhouses had gathered here; all wanted revenge from Athan.

However, all of them retreated behind Vinery once they noticed the winged-tiger symbols on top of the cocoon.

Vinery turned her head to the Eagle as her lips trembled a bit before she spoke, "can…can Lord help us kill this person? He only has 195 Anarchy symbols while Lord is almost at the peak of Anarchy plane, having more than three thousand Anarchy symbols, right?"

"That was not in our deal, remember?" Eagle spoke as its eyes glowed.

"I know, but…" Vinery sighed, "he has found out about us already and knows that we were planning to kill him. But now that he turned out to be more powerful than us, he will kill us."

"Please, Lord. Only you can save us," Vinery said with helplessness.

The Eagle didn't say anything and turned its head to Athan-cocoon, 'he should be at Mythos plane, with worm symbols. However, he skipped that and even skipped Mystic plane, with fish symbols and directly invoked winged-tiger symbols of Anarchy plane; how is that possible?'

"Please, Lord. Help us kill this man."

"We beg you."

Other powerhouses started requesting the same thing.

Vinery turned around and looked at all people before sighing.

The Eagle flew from Vinery's shoulder and floated in the air as a mystical barrier with dark blue and dark gold patterns expanded and covered a hundred kilometers around them.

"What I am about to tell you will be a secret, and if you dare tell anyone a word of what I spoke today, I will kill you in the most brutal way," the Eagle spoke as its voice reverberated in everyone's ears.

Everyone looked at each and gulped. Till now, they still didn't know the true identity of this mysterious Anarchy plane being that Lord Vinery sought help from.

"Now, here is the deal," the Eagle spoke as its eyes flashed with a cunning gleam, "I will help you kill this man, but in turn, you all will have to co-operate with me for four years. First, all of you have to accept some people that I will send to you regularly and have them work with you. As for the second thing, I will tell you about it later."

'Lord Nixin, are you sure? If Anarchy Lord Dusarn knew about your movement here, he would start purging. Your previous preparations to take over this region from Anarchy Lord Dusarn might become useless,' Vinery spoke to the Eagle telepathically.

'No worries. I will make some plans to distract as much of his attention as I can to somewhere else during the next four years,' the Eagle oozed out resentment and spoke with determination, 'no matter what, I will take back Starseverer region from him.'

"Do you understand? If you don't co-operate with me for the next four years, then I will not do anything, and if after agreeing here, you spoke about this matter to anyone…I will kill you."

"You have five minutes to think. Do you want to die by this man in the future or live and thrive by working with me?"

Lord Vinery looked at everyone and nodded before speaking, "I suggest we agree to him. I have already been working for him, and that's why I am progressing faster than you all despite being in Mystic Plane. Follow my footsteps, and you will benefit as well."

"What about our families back in the city?" one of the powerhouses spoke, "will provide enough help for only us or our whole families?"

"Only you, of course. I am not doing charity, humph."

"Since Lord Vinery has no problem, then I also have no problem."

"Same here; I will co-operate with you, Lord."

…

Everyone agreed eventually, making the Eagle (Anarchy Lord Nixi) happy.

"Alright, I will take care of this person for you," the Eagle flew towards Athan-cocoon before stopping one hundred meters across Athan.

'I'll have to channel some of my real body's power in this Avatar…,' the Eagle thought before it started glowingly faintly and the patterns on its feathers and third eyes lit up.

Winged-tiger symbols started to conjure around it rapidly before they reached the four-digit number, 1001.

'This should be enough power,' the Eagle thought before it flapped its wings twice towards Athan-cocoon and used an offensive technique.

Emeris Shredding Waves

Right when the Eagle released its attack, the number of winged-tiger symbols increased significantly as they reached whooping 6390 winged-tiger symbols.

A whirlwind mass with sharp mystical blades looking absolute deadly shot towards Athan-cocoon.

"Woah, this mysterious Anarchy Lord's technique is so profound, increasing the base power of 1001 to 6390 Anarchy symbols."

"Indeed. So far, my base power is 1450 Mythos symbols, and my most powerful technique can only increase my power to 3205."

"Damn, I also want to master a technique that can bring out that much potential of my Espera Ghost Fire."

However, once those blades hit the cocoon, which also produced a crack in it, everyone saw an unbelievable scene.

Chapter 750: A forgotten feeling invokes & Powerful Foe

"Wha…what the hell?" the Eagle uttered in disbelief. His attack was being neutralized with a black tornado that spawned from the cocoon.

Moreover, the Anarchy symbols around the cocoon were increasing.

However, their increment stopped at 5890. Still, the Eagle's attack was neutralized.

*crack…*

The cocoon started cracking before it burst into gray, white, and black forces as Athan came out. The forces entered inside his body before he looked at the Eagle with a wary expression.

He immediately consumed 10 Abyssal Blood Crystals and activated his void frames. Activating void frames only took 1 Abyssal Blood Crystals while the other 7 Abyssal Blood Crystal's energy was circulating in his body, ready to be consumed when Athan used any of his void arts.

As he consumed those 10 Abyssa Blood Crystals, the Anarchy symbols started increasing again, reaching number 7320.

Absorbing these ten new Abyssal Blood crystals at a time was his current limit. If he absorbed one more, his soul would be under pressure, making him unable to do anything, and his body would be destroyed.

"This feeling, I finally understand," Athan spoke as a wide grin formed on his face, "It's the feeling of being vulnerable and of being challenged."

Since the time he got Abyssal Void of Fabrication, he always felt passively invulnerable. Even the wills of worlds couldn't see through him, and his qualitative power was always higher. Even though there were some life-threatening moments, he still solved them because he had counter-measure against them through his unique power.

However, when he arrived in Outrious Expanse, that innate invulnerability disappeared. A feeling of being challenged seeped into him through the atmosphere of this new world.

"Athan! You are an interesting person. You possess a power unknown to me, but I can feel that its origins are somewhere in this Outrious Expanse, just like all other powers that these people make resonance with," the Eagle spoke, its voice indifferent.

"It's rather strange how were you able to resonate and comprehend that power even before arriving here," the Eagle spoke, "Anyway, I have an offer for you. You should be aware that these people behind me are your enemies. They want you dead because you killed their descendants in Orchos Firmament."

"What do you mean, Lord?" Vinery spoke with a frown. She didn't know why this Anarchy Lord Nixin was initiating conversation with Athan.

The Eagle ignored Vinery and continued looking at Athan as it spoke, "how about you work under me? My plan is to take over a region called the Starseverer region, consisting of fourteen cities. This region is one of the five minor regions inside the Swallowbright continent in the Okulus Zone."

The Eagle's eyes gleamed as it spoke, laughing, "if you agree, then you can kill these people behind me. Hahaha, I will aid you as well."

"What?!"

"No! Lord, you can't do that to us."

"Please, Lord! You…how can you do that? We trust you, and we are also willing to work under you."

Some people tried to escape, but the barrier conjured by Anarchy Lord Nixin prevented them from going out.

'I conjured this barrier so that whatever I peak or do here won't get leaked, but I guess it became more useless,' the Eagle thought as it looked at all the people panicking and begging before sneering.

"I would rather take an Anarchy Lord under me than you all ants," the Eagle exploded with more power as it as its wings and body glowed. A crown materialized on its head, and the Anarchy symboled (winged-tiger symbols) around him increased to 9888.

"What do you think, Athan?" Anarchy Lord Nixin asked. The Eagle had now become 50 meters long with 100 meters of wingspans as well as oozing out even more power.

Everyone looked at Athan. Vinery and all other people were already showing despair because they were sure that Athan would take up on that offer.

"Are you dreaming?" Athan uttered as he shook his head while smiling ferociously, "you are indeed powerful. Giving me an original threat and a feeling of challenge that I've forgotten since a long time ago."

"Hahaha, this is exciting," Athan laughed as he looked at his hand and clenched his fist with excitement in his eyes.

"As for your offer," Athan spoke with a smile as he shook his head, "If you want work WITH me, then I am up for it. But…

"You can forget about making me work under you," Athan spoke as his smiling face turned cold. He also changed his normal body into the Zontheos Prime void frame, increasing the Anarchy symbols around him to 8390.

"Humph," the Eagle snorted before it flapped its giant wings and its third eyes gleamed. The Anarchy symbols around him increased to 11,999 before two giant slash projections shot towards Athan.

Those two crescent clashes had spiraling dark green and dark red energy around them, while the slashes themselves were of black-gold energy.

Athan hurridly executed Sanctuary of Void as a barrier appeared around him. He consumed two energy worth two Abyssal Blood Crystals on that.

*Swooooooooosh…Crack…*

*BOOOOOOOOM….*

The sanctuary of the void was broken, but it also consumed the slash's power a lot. However, it was not enough.

The void field around Athan was broken, but Athan didn't give up as he crossed his arm to block the slashes. Naturally, he created a crude defensive coat on his arms using the Abyssal Blood Crystal's energy.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Athan roared, but his arms only lasted for a before they were destroyed. The next second, his body was sliced into four pieces and exploded.

However, his body parts didn't separate, and in the next second, countless white threads pulled each other from his body parts as his body recovered in the next second.

"Fabulous," the Eagle spoke loudly before laughing, "what a recovery power. However, you are no Anarchy Lord. Your body is too weak compared to an Anarchy Lord. Your soul is at best at the level of Anemon-Mythos."

Hearing that, some powerhouses who had butterfly symbols around them were startled. They were at the 2nd phase of the Mythos plane. The first phase of the Mythos plane invokes worm symbols (Transcendent Mythos symbols), while the second phase of Mythos powerhouses invokes butterfly symbols (Anemon Mythos symbols).

"The only reason why you invoked Anarchy symbols is because of your unique power, and you also match that level of power since you can probably kill people below Anarchy plane. Interesting," the Eagle as a gleam passed in its eyes.

"I am giving you a 2nd chance. You are no match for me, so the wise decision would be to work for me. I will guide you and help you get stronger as well."

Chapter 751: DIE! Brainbird

"Stop dreaming in daylight," Athan spoke with a grin, "If you think you can order me around, then you are mistaken."

"Stubborn fool, humph," Anarchy Lord Nixin snorted as he attacked Athan once again.

"Idiot," Athan uttered with cold eyes, "if you think you can kill me, then you are mistaken again."

Athan changed his body into the Extremity Drifter void frame before dashing towards the Eagle at the extreme limit possible by him.

The space here was WAY thicker and more profound than Orchos Firmament. His speed was rendered to merely 2340 meters per second at full speed. Naturally, it was very normal.

*Swooosh….*

The Eagle flapped its wings also dashed towards Athan, "I'll knock you out of your illusion that you can beat me."

Athan grinned as he changed his entire body except for the wings into Zontheos Prime. With just wings of Extremity Drifter, he could at least retain his flying speed.

He then consumed all of his remaining Abyssal Blood Crystal's energy, and on top of that, he consumed one more since he spent one crystal worth's energy to defend previously.

"DIEEEEEEEEE!" Athan coldly shouted as he released his most powerful single-target attack of Zontheos Prime, which had the capabilities to cast the most potent destructive attacks.

Oblivion Fist of Wisps.

This Oblivion Fist of Wisps was more refined and more potent than the previous version.

A giant fist projection released from Athan's fist, but it was still connected to his hand as Athan exhausted all of his physical body's power on top of the potent 7 Abyssal Blood Crystal's energy condensed to extreme power in the attack.

The Eagle snorted as its beak and wings shined before a threading nova was conjured in front of it, meeting the giant fist of Athan head-on.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM….*

A powerful shockwave was released that sent everyone flying backward before the fist of Athan tore through the Eagle's attack in a second and blasted with even more destruction.

*CRACKKK….BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!*

After the fist blasted and destroyed the Eagle's half head. The Eagle saw with disbelief as ten harrowing wisps with demonic appearance stuck to its body instantly like glue by biting their creepy teeth and…blasted, shredding his body into pieces.

*Chreeeeeeeeee….BOOOM*…BOOOM*…BOOOM*…BOOOM*…BOOOM*…BOOOM*…BOOOM*…BOOOM*…BOOOM*…BOOOM*

After the Eagle was destroyed, a faint hologram-like image appeared in place of the Eagle.

It was a man with an eagle head, two hands with wings attached to it, and legs with sharp talons. It wore luxurious black-gold furry clothes and had two blades floating on both sides.

"Athan…you better make your decision to work me before I find you," Anarchy Lord Nixin spoke with narrowed eyes before turning around and looking at all Vinery and all those powerhouses.

"Listen, you idiots. Athan can't kill if you are all together. So make a formation by combining your powers and escape."

"We…we can also kill him if we work together since you said that he is not truly at the same level as Anarchy plane existences," Vinery said with hesitation, 'fucking bastard. Now you want us to escape because you want Athan to work for you? Damn you!'

Everyone was thinking the same. Their heart truly turned cold when he gave that offer to Athan and how he would also help Athan kill them all if he decided to work together.

"Cough, forget that bird brain and listen to me," Athan spoke loudly, attracting everyone's attention.

"You, there's no business for you here," Athan spoke as he consumed a single Abyssal Blood Crystal and waved his palm towards the faint image to attack.

*Swiiiiiiiiiiish….*

The faint image dispersed, but a rageful voice of Anarchy Lord Nixin sounded, "If you dare to betray me, then I will make sure you all die! As for you, Athan. Take my offer obediently and work together with Vinery and others, or the first time that I will do is to kill every single one of you."

"Bird brain," Athan muttered as he shook his head and smiled coldly, "I don't know about this world, but I am here to rule it, not become a part of it."

He then looked at Vinery and others before speaking with a grin, "you want to kill me?"

"Because I killed your descendants?" Athan asked.

Vinery and others looked at Athan with somber expressions. Even if they MIGHT be able to kill Athan by working together but…at what cost?

Many of them will surely die, especially Vinery, since she would be at the forefront of the battle as the most powerful among them.

"Athan, we are no match for you. But if you intend to kill us, then we will have no choice but to retaliate together," Vinery spoke with a grin.

"I've got no interest in you nor any conflicts. I also don't mind killing you all if you want to fight, heh," Athan spoke with a cold smile, "I would have killed you for your souls, but it seems that this Outrious Expanse is a bit unique and related to my powers. Simply devouring your souls wouldn't cut it for me to get strong rapidly since I am constantly feeling a resonance of sort in my soul. So…"

"So?" Vinery asked with a serious expression.

"So, you all will have to work for me," Athan said as he conjured a throne and sat down on it before looking at everyone, "tell me more about this Outrious Expanse and bring me to your territory. As for that Birdbrain, you don't have to worry about him because my worries come first."

"He is not here, but I am here, which means your death is here since I don't mind doing experiments with your soul even if I can't successfully use them to elevate my origin soul power to a higher level."

"So, do what I say and prevent your deaths at this moment," Athan spoke as he swept his gaze at everyone, making them shiver as they felt that they were looking at a devouring abyss that could swallow them to the depths of a terrifying hell.

Chapter 752: Master will spank your A$$

Athan gave them five minutes to think carefully as he simply looked at them carefreely while leaning back on his throne.

"I…I am willing to co-operate with you."

"Me too."

"Even if you are not an Anarchy Lord, you possess the same level of power since you managed to defeat that avatar of Anarchy Lord Nixin," Vinery said as her eyes showed some hesitation before she buckled up and spoke with determination, "we will work with you, but I hope you can use your strength to bring us some benefits as well."

"As long as I am satisfied, then I can help you. Since you decided to work for me, I won't treat you badly unless you do something that irks me," Athan said with a grin, "now start telling me about this world."

"Atha…um," Vinery spoke but paused as she remembered that Athan was called void emperor in Orchos Firmament, so she decided to go with that, "Void Emperor, we should discuss this at my palace in the city instead of doing it here."

"Fine, let's go," Athan said with a nod before he asked, "do organizations station their people here to recruit people who come from lower worlds?"

"Yes," Vinery nodded, "there are other worlds like Orchos Firmament under Okulus Zone. People from those worlds arrive here in Ascendecy Area of Okulus zone, so organizations of Okulus zones have their people here to recruit them."

"I see. Well, then, let's be on our way," Athan said before thinking, 'I can sense Lily and others, but for now, I shouldn't interact with them and let them settle down since many organizations should be here to recruit them.'

…

When Athan arrived at Outrious Expanse, the woman Staercia, who had the power of Infinite Void of Absolute Stasis, observed Athan along with the other five beings and saw the whole thing before she entered into the Origin AVOF realm.

"Your beloved Master and companion, Athan, is finally in the Outrious Expanse, hehehe, do you want to meet him?"

Everyone suddenly heard this voice and saw a large projection of the woman inside Origin AVOF realm.

"Athan is here? What do you mean?" Tiana asked with a frown. She still didn't know the existence of Outrious Expanse like others. Even the voidlings didn't know since they were inside the origin AVOF realm the whole time since their birth.

"He is in the Outrious Expanse," Staercia smiled before she told them about the world and everything for half an hour before finally revealing her goal of coming here.

"Now that you know about the Outrious Expanse and that Athan is here. I am planning to send you all out. Naturally, you will become core members of different forces under my rule and won't be allowed to meet Athan."

"But…he can come to look for you as I slowly remove the isolation field around you."

"However, with the isolation field around you, he won't be able to locate you, and it's up to me who to reveal to Athan first among you," Staercia said with a grin.

Hearing that, Tiana and others were startled but also hopeful.

"Can we also go outside?"

"Yes, yes, we want to go outside and meet our Master."

The voidlings started speaking as they were excited to meet their Master.

"Nope, you can't," Saercia said while shaking her head, "you can only go out once Athan integrates this origin AVOF realm in his void region. If I let you out right now, you all will be hunted by Fear plane powerhouses."

"Nyaaa! Why must we be hunted? We will hunt them instead!" Primo said with an angry hiss.

"Silly cat, you can't hunt them. You have the same level of power as them, but their numbers are greater, and they have profound techniques to beat you easily. You are new beings birthed by the thoughts of your Master and his influence on his AVOF realm. You all haven't matured yet to have your own profound techniques of that level."

"As for you all," Staercia looked at Tiana and the group before waving her hand, "It's time to go out and become stronger on your own under my different organizations. I will reveal one of you to Athan after a year."

"What about the second person?" Linci asked, "when will you reveal the second person among us to Athan?"

Staercia smiled and shook her head, "I haven't decided that, sweetie. It's up to Athan's progress and how he moves."

"Now off you go," Staercia waved her hand as Tiana, Avelia, Sen, Shiromi, Linci, Drizzly, Tealery, Arcued, Mike, Qerin, Theo, Nimpere brothers, dean Lenix, dean Zangrel, Zorgia, Tamiril, Yoha, Foujir, and Gouken disappeared.

After they left, all voidlings gathered together and looked at Staercia.

"Those who have resonated and planted the source seed of your power in them should occasionally aid them through your connection with them to increase their progress," Staercia said.

The voidling Phor, who looked like a Phoenix but with explosive red-orange various bombing patterns on its body, spoke with a snort, "we will do that even if you didn't say that."

A humanoid voidling with five silver blades at his waist and looking like a samurai spoke, "would you remove this isolation around our realm so we can contact Master and aid him like before as Primo and Taezin did?"

Staercia narrowed her eyes before she smiled, "fine. However, your powers will be limited to the same level as your Master's. And…

"If you reveal the truth to your master, I will kill him and his companions, got it?"

Staercia's voice became several degrees colder as she finished her sentence, making every voidling shiver a bit.

"For the sake of your Master, you should seal your lips about certain things," Staercia said with a smile.

"Humph, fine," Taezin said with a snort, "but I swear my Master will spank your ass once he is able to do so."

"Hahaha," Staercia chuckled as she started to turn faint, "if he reaches my level, then sure. I will give him a chance to do that."

Chapter 753: Master!!!

Aren arrived at the Rek City in Starsever region with Vinery and five people while the rest of the people went to their own places in different cities.

Inside the palace's back garden…

Athan, Vinery, and a dark elf man sat at a table.

"So that's how you get strong. No wonder I felt that devouring souls simply wouldn't cut it now," Athan muttered as he nodded. When he arrived here, he felt some kind of mysterious force, and he felt completely naked in front of it.

Same as with those wing-tiger symbols spawning around him.

In a way, he had arrived in the main world whose rules would also apply to him, unlike how those rules of Chaosverse and Orchos Firmament didn't apply to him.

But the rules of this world were simple, as Vinery told them to Athan.

First of all, there was all-encompassing energy known as Outrious Potency, and then there were two more things, Profound Talents and Profound Techniques. These three things were the main thing.

Outrious Potency was medium energy, and it's present everywhere. Nothing can block it, and there's no space in the entire existence and reality that doesn't have Outrious Potency present.

People can absorb this energy, but their capacity depends on their soul and body potential. If one has 300 potential points, they can absorb 300 points of Outrious Potency.

When Athan felt some mysterious force entering his body when he arrived here, he felt completely bare in front of it. That mysterious force was none other than the Outrious Potency.

The only use that Outrious Potency has is that it can only be used through mediums. Those mediums were Profound Talent and Profound Techniques.

In the Mythos plane, those Mythical beings coming here would have their Genealogy Path resonating with a higher power in this world, and they can then try to absorb it in them by comprehending it.

As such, the Mythos Plane has three phases.

First, Transcendent Mythos

-Starting of resonance progress. Can breakthrough after achieving 100% resonance.

Second, Awakening Mythos

-Comprehension of that resonated power. Can breakthrough after comprehending 100% and forming Sigil of that power in their inner space using Outrious Potency and awaken a Mythical-rank Profound Talent.

Third, Anemon Mythos

-Using that Profound Talent to make themselves strong (both body and soul.) and also create profound techniques through their talent.

Then to Breakthrough to Mystic Plane, one needs to upgrade their Mythical-rank profound talent into Mystic-rank profound talent and learn another Mystic-rank profound talent.

To do that, people need opportunities, resources, and adventures.

Also, due to the nature of this higher world, Outrious Expanse, it's really hard to give birth. It's possible but needs a lot of resources and Outrious Potency. Naturally, that's why people born here actually skip Mythos plane and directly enter Mystic Plane. They can directly resonate with a mystic power.

Mystic Plane and further doesn't have any sub-stages or anything like Mythos plane.

The way to get strong is simple. Resonate, awaken a talent, create profound skills and upgrade them to enter into the next plane.

Naturally, it's not easy to upgrade them because they require resources, time, and opportunities.

Mythos Plane

Mystic Plane

Anarchy Plane

Supremacy Plane

Arbiter Plane

Fear/Dread Plane

There is one more plane, but it's just a myth, and no one has seen such a level of people. It's called The Nihility Plane.

According to Vinery, people say that it's related to the Nihility Council, which is also a myth of sort as no one has seen it.

"As for those tiny symbols that invoke around us, they are generally known as Potent Symbols," Vinery said as she pointed her finger at the front, and the fish symbols flew on top of her finger.

"You can control them by using Outrious Potency in you. But they don't do anything except for displaying your power scale," Vinery said as she closed her eyes to do something, and suddenly, all the fishes around her disappeared.

"Now the fishes have entered inside my inner space, so you can't see it. However, if I start fighting against someone, they will automatically invoke outside."

Athan nodded as he closed his eyes and tried to sense the Outrious Potency in the atmosphere and inside his body.

When he arrived here, this ever-present energy had already entered inside his body, but he had no time to sense it and know more about it.

After a minute, Aren clearly captured the presence of this ever-present Outrious Potency.

And the moment he did that and opened his eyes, he started feeling it clearly in the atmosphere unlike before, 'interesting. Such an obscure and mystical energy.'

It was literally everywhere.

*Swooooosh…*

The Outrious Potency started gushing inside Athan automatically, making him surprised, "what's going on?"

Vinery and the dark elf man called Rovin were startled as well.

"It should be related to how you directly invoked Anarchy symbols instead of Mythos symbols. You are unlike other people who ascended here from lower worlds like Orchos Firmament," Vinery said with a frown.

Athan was actually experiencing major changes regarding his soul.

This Outrious Potency appeared like waves and enveloped his soul before entering inside.

Athan was not receiving power or something but was feeling a strange sensation.

Like…scanning?

After five minutes, Athan suddenly felt something as Outrious Potency started gathering in front of his soul before forming into a sigil.

This Sigil was a symbol of his Abyssal void of Fabrication. It looks like an upsidedown light grey waterdrop shape with black and white chasing each other inside in whirling form.

'So this is the Sigil. Hmm…but where is my Profound Talent?' Athan thought, 'Or maybe I already have it? Which are these two energies, Abyssal Darkness and Void pulse? Or there's something more?'

"MASTER!!"

"NYAHAHA, Master! We are back!"

Athan suddenly heard the voices of Primo and Taezin, and he also suddenly felt a solid connection with his Origin Abyssal Void of Fabrication realm.

A portal appeared inside his void region as Primo, Taezin, and a humanoid kid looking like a three-year-old with sparkling pink skin and white glassy butterfly wings with red, violet, blue, and green patterns came out from the portal.

Chapter 754: Reunion

"Primo? Taezin?" Athan was pleasantly surprised.

Both of them came out of the void region and appeared outside in their miniature form.

Vinery and Rovin were surprised to see a monkey and a cat appearing out of nowhere.

"What happened? Why did you suddenly disappear, and I also couldn't contact you or make a solid connection with AVOF realm," Athan said with a frown.

"Oo…Oo…It's all because of that woman," Taezin said as he made some angry monkey sound.

"She isolated AVOF realm after taking Tiana and others' souls," Primo said angrily.

Athan was stunned before relief flashed in his eyes, "So they are all alive somehow, right? Nothing happened to them, right?"

Athan's voice contained anxiety as he wanted this confirmation.

"They are fine…but not fine both," Primo said with some hesitation, "basically they are in that woman's hands, and she got some plans."

"Master…nothing is in our control right now," Taezin said with a serious expression as the monkey slammed his bo weapon on the ground, "master, you must get strong and spank that woman's ass."

Athan didn't show any obvious hostility towards that woman because he didn't want to take such risks. She was far more powerful than him and didn't know the extent of her power.

At this moment, the baby-butterfly also came out from the void region with a shy and excited expression, "Master."

Athan noticed this baby girl butterfly voidling that looked like a tiny demon with pink skin and horns with colorful butterfly wings, but since she didn't come out of the void region with Primo and Taezin, he left her alone to confirm some matters with Primo and Taezin.

"Hehe, I also met Master finally. Master, I named myself Pixilot. Is it good?" Pixilot said with a nervous expression. She hoped that Athan liked this name because she got it from Athan's own influential thoughts.

"Pixilot," Athan smiled and nodded, "It is indeed a good name and suitable to you."

"Yey!!" Pixilot cheered with an extremely happy expression before she became a bit embarrassed and spoke, "ahem. Anyway, I am here to help Master with my power, which is known as Bard of Myriad Dreams."

"Yes, Master. Pixilot's power can increase the training speed of Master," Primo said with a grin.

"Oh? That's good, Pixilot," Athan said with a smile, "I will be relying on you then."

"Hehe," Pixilot grinned ear to ear as she was extremely happy to hear that.

"Void Emperor, who are these three?" Vinery asked with a wry smile while thinking, 'damn…these three creatures have even more powerful auras than me. Don't tell me they are also in Anarchy plane?'

But she was happy nonetheless because the stronger Athan is, the better her chances of survival are. From what she knew, that Anarchy Lord Nixin will definitely want to kill Athan, and if he succeeded, he wouldn't spare her also. But with the addition of these three creatures, she felt that Athan could win against that Lord Nixin as long as he became slightly more powerful.

The one Athan fought previously was just Lord Nixin's avatar, and his full strength was way above that, so Athan needs to get stronger to defeat Nixin.

"We are Master's Voidlings! You better stay respectful to Master, or I will put this bo stick in your back hole and expand it," Taezin said with a snicker as the mischievous monkey looked at Vinery.

Vinery felt a chill running down her spine as she tightened her buttocks before smiling wryly, "I don't dare, I don't dare. We owe a huge favor to Void Emperor as he had opened our eyes and guided us to the right path by not trusting that bastard Nixin."

"Primo, Taezin, and Pixilot, you three stay inside the void region for now," Athan said.

"Roger, Master!" Primo said as he, Taezin, and Pixilot disappeared.

"Now, back to our main point," Athan said as he looked at Vinery, "first, I want to get back my companions. I can sense their locations, and they are a bit far away, not in this city."

Athan pointed at the general direction, which was northwest, "they are in this direction, but not in your city."

"They should be in the Yoloshi City then," Vinery said with a nod, "in that direction, the Yoloshi City is the closest to our city, and if some organization recruited them, they should be there."

"Then let's go, and you come with me," Athan said as he looked at Vinery and stood up, "On the way, I want to test some things."

Vinery hesitated for a moment before she stood up and nodded, "alright."

"Rovin, manage the palace and city until I come back. If something happens, then contact me," Vinery said to Rovin before leaving with Athan.

Both of them left the palace on a flying chariot that was Vinery's vehicle.

On the way, Athan thought, 'the method to make my body strong should be the same. I just need to get powerful vitality resources. Oh, and that heart is slowly but surely increasing my fundamental physical strength.'

"Do you know about that Vitality Spectrum Zone in Orchos Firmament?" Athan asked Vinery.

"Oh, that…yes," Vinery nodded with a smile, "That zone resulted from a Mystic-grade beast's death. The Unbound Vitality Spectrum Heart is a manifestation of its power that was related to Vitality."

"It should be able to increase your physical vital power to the same level as me…I mean, at the same level as Mystic-plane powerhouses eventually," Vinery said.

Athan nodded before saying, "if we encounter any of those Labyrinth you spoke about on the way, then stop there because I want to enter inside one."

"As you wish," Vinery said while thinking, 'Hmm, I knew he would enter inside one, but I can't let him enter inside Anarchy-grade Labyrinth. It's better if we encounter Mystic-grade one.'

…

While Athan was on the way, Lily, Mimi, Huarin, and Dreevindo were going under competition in their new organization.

Basically, it was a resource gathering competition in a Mythic-grade Labyrinth and then the battle of the top ten.

"I hope Athan is fine, sigh," Lily said with a worried expression, "He said if he got out of the trouble, then he would come to us since he can sense our location."

"Don't worry, sister Lily," Mimi said with a smile, "brother Athan will definitely come here. He may be on his way here."

"Indeed," Huarin and Dreevindo nodded.

"Knowing him, he should have already made some slaves as he did to us," Dreevindo said with a grin, "You also know that his strange powers are really strong. We are proof of it."

"Indeed. We got such a large boost that we resonated with powers quickly and even awakened our profound talent in one day, entering Anemon Mythical-stage," Huarin said with a smile, "if we got this strong, then Athan would be even stronger."

Chapter 755: Kinka Kouko Labyrinth

After traveling for two days, Vinery stopped the Chariot at a floating golden mountain with colorful streams of lights flowing around it.

However, Vinery had a distressed expression on her face.

"Emperor, this…I won't be able to enter inside with you. This Labyrinth is of Anarchy-grade," Vinery said.

The thing was that Athan was one the who noticed this mountain here. He was sure that Vinery also noticed but didn't inform him about it.

"Why didn't you tell me about this mountain?" Athan asked with narrowed eyes, "I'm sure you noticed this."

"…I thought it would be better if you entered the Mystic-grade Labyrinth, "Vinery said with a wry smile, "although only powerhouses corresponding to their plane can enter the respective grade Labyrinths, I wanted your majesty to try entering Mystic-grade Labyrinth since you are not a usual Anarchy Lord. Your body strength is also weaker than Mystic powerhouses."

"Your idea might work, but since we encountered this here, then I am entering. You wait outside and wait for my return," Athan said before leaving the Chariot and flying towards the floating mountain.

Vinery sighed before she controlled the Chariot and descended on the ground where people had built a small temporary city due to the appearance of this Mountain-type Labyrinth of Anarchy grade.

Many Anarchy lords from nearby cities and settlements have entered the mountain since it's been a day that this Mountain-type Labyrinth manifested here.

One rule was absolute. Every Labyrinth would only appear for seven days, and they would disappear after seven days.

…

This Mountain-Type Labyrinth was huge. It was one thousand kilometers tall and one thousand eight hundred kilometers wide.

Athan entered the mountain and arrived at the foot of the mountain as the entrance of this Mountain-type Labyrinth was there.

It was a giant five kilometers tall and ten kilometers wide gate that everyone could see even if they saw the mountain from outside.

That gate was burning with golden flames that sparked with multiple colors.

Athan couldn't see what was behind the gate as it was all darkness.

After he entered inside, a palm-sized creature appeared in front of him in this normal-looking cave with no path extending anywhere.

"A fairy?" Athan raised his eyebrows as he saw a tiny fairy-like creature with leaf cloths and golden wings. She had emerald long hair that glittered beautifully.

"Hello, Adventurer, I am your assigned Labyrinth Fairy. You can call me Nina. Since you are the 17th visiter, you will be sent to the 5th floor of the Labyrinth," the little fairy said with a cute smile before she whirled her hands in a vertical circular motion as a portal appeared in front of Athan.

"Please enter inside," Nina said as she gestured for Athan to enter inside the portal.

"First, I would like you to tell me more about this," Athan said with a smile. He wanted to know more about this before entering the portal.

"As you wish, dear adventurer," Nina picked the corner of her leaf frock and did a short bow courtesy with a smile.

Afterward, the fairy started telling Athan about the Labyrinth.

One can do two things are entering Labyrinth. First, they can enter inside and hunt monsters, find resources like ore, plants, etc., to get strong, and another was to go the deepest part of the Labyrinth and conquer it by defeating the Ruler of Labyrinth.

The rewards of defeating the Ruler of Labyrinth were incredible, to say the least. They would come in various forms, but one thing was sure, it would help one progress tremendously and make them stronger than before.

This Mountain-type Labyrinth, which was golden, Kinka Kouko Labyrinth, had five floors.

The first five people can go directly to the third floor, getting their hands on better resources.

Sixth to tenth people can directly go to the 4th floor while all people after tenth will be sent to the 5th floor.

The Ruler of Labyrinth is on the first floor, but it only appears after three days since the manifestation of Labyrinth.

After hearing all that, Athan nodded and asked, "do you know what rewards will one get after defeating the Ruler of Labyrinth?"

"Nope, I don't know. But the rewards are based on contribution ranking. The one with the highest contribution will get the best reward," Nina said with a smile as she waved her hand, and a scroll manifested in front of Athan that was one meter long and fifty centimeters wide.

The scroll displayed a contribution ranking.

[Contribution Ranking]

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"So only the top five gets rewards in the end? or…." Athan said as he looked at the scroll, which only had five ranking slots.

"Yep," Nina nodded with a smile, "there are cases with fifty to a hundred people attacking the Ruler of Labyrinth, but only the top five get worthy rewards. However, the rest of the people get a random Stone, and cutting it might give something good, comparable to the top five rewards. But it all depends on luck."

"I see," Athan nodded before smiling, "Then let's go."

"Nyaaa! Master, we also want to come outside now, can we?" Primo said with puppy eyes…despite being a cat.

Taezin and Pixilot also showed the same expression.

Athan saw them doing this in the void region after they called him, and he smiled, "fine, come on."

"Hehe, thank you sooooooooooo much, master."

Primo, Taezin, and Pixilot came out aside as they floated around Athan.

"Ahh, so dear Adventurer have companions with him," Nina was surprised before she smiled, "that's good. I thought you would get the last contribution rank even if you managed to reach the top since all Anarchy lords before you had pets with them while you didn't."

"Humph, we are the best pets in the worlds," Taezin said while crossing his arms while his bo staff was floating beside him, "I will trample them with my new attack, Heaven's trampling."

Primo sneered and hissed, "don't forget that I helped you master that attack."

"Fine, fine," Taezin said with a sage monkey face," you shall get credit if this heavenly lord kills someone with Heaven's trampling."

"enough talking," Pixilot said as the cute little demon spoke, "Master, let's go, let's go."

She grabbed Athan's hand and pulled him towards the portal. Athan wryly smiled as he entered the portal. Primo and Taezin also hurridly entered inside while Nina looked at them with sparkling eyes before she smiled happily and also entered inside.

…

*Roarrrrrr!!*

Right when they came out of a portal, they saw a T-rex but with two heads and metal skull exo-skeleton spewing out steel grey liquid at them.

"Leave it to me, master!" Pixilot said as she flapped her multi-colored mystical wings, which created visible wind waves, "Hehe, taste my Enchanting Dream Wave Bubbles."

The wind waves and incoming steel grey liquid clashed.

*Siiiiiiiiiiii….*

The moment both clashed, transparent bubbles with a rainbow hue in them produced rapidly.

The wind waves were being consumed, and the incoming grey steel liquid was also consumed before producing those bubbles.

Those bubbles burst near Athan and others before he, Primo, and Taezin felt their physical strength and senses increasing while a layer of faint armor also appeared around them.