Chapter 198 - 783-795

Chapter 783: Unknown Threat

"Master! We have made a formation to aid you in battle," Calvacuz spoke as its wing fluttered slightly in excitement.

"Indeed, Athan. Their formation is really powerful," Komin said with a smile, "Calvacuz's tier-1 Outrious power is almost like another forgotten figure of ten thousand years ago."

"Yep. That figure had formidable formations, and he was truly unstoppable. He alone was not that powerful, but with his domain, he could use his companion's powers and weave them into his grand formation for extremely formidable powers," Cromwer said with a nod.

"Interesting," Athan was surprised and was happy. With these voidlings, the future burden on him will really decrease a lot.

"However, stop the ship right now," Athan said as he stood up and left the flying ship as he arrived outside amidst a sky that was currently raining.

"What happened," Komin, Lienia, Cromwer, and all other voidlings arrived outside.

Komin also put his ship away in his inner space before speaking, "It looks like we will be flying from now on."

"Yep," Athan nodded as he looked in a particular direction and closed his eyes.

After a few seconds, a frown formed on his face as he opened his eyes and spoke, "let's go! I feel a sense of uneasiness."

Athan spread his blinking wings as they glowed before he flew forward.

Komin, Lienia, Cromwer, and other voidlings followed Athan as well.

'What happened to Master? It seems that the situation is grave,' Pixlote spoke with other voidlings through telepathy.

'Indeed,' Eleos nodded with a frown, 'I hope nothing happened to lady Avelia.'

"Athan," Cromwer flew faster as he appeared beside Athan and spoke while flying alongside him, "if we go straight in this direction for one hour at this speed, we will soon arrive in the Bokant Market region. It's the biggest market hub of this Okulus Zone and also a place for challenges and competitions."

"Avelia is likely in that region," Athan said as a frown formed on his face," with the distance I am sensing through her presence, one and a half hours seems right. However….I am feeling uneasiness. Increase speed!"

Aren started consuming Abyssal Void Essence to power up his flying speed and also put all voidlings in his void region.

Komin, Lienia, and Cromwer also used their profound techniques and increased their speeds.

Inside the void region…

Athan showed his second soul to all voidlings and spoke, "you all, be ready with your grand formation. We might have to go into offensive mode."

…

On the other hand, Avelia was indeed in trouble inside a big city called Bokant Golden City.

This city was huge, and there were many big shots here. As such, there were also mansions of big shots in this city. The requirement of having a mansion in this city was high.

One must be an Arbiter plane existence that is capable of invoking 100,000 Arbiter symbols or a Fear plane existence.

Avelia was inside a mansion that belonged to one such powerhouse. That powerhouse was obviously Starzin.

Currently, there are three people inside the mansion.

Avelia, Lulu, and…Starfinn.

"Hehe, how long is that barrier going to last? It's already been twenty days," Starfinn said as he sat down on the couch while watching Lulu and Avelia inside a barrier at the wall.

"Humph, brother. I didn't expect that you would become a beast like this. I thought you were still that gentleman, brother," Lulu said with a snort, but her eyes revealed sadness.

"Lulu," Starfinn looked at Lulu for a few moments and showed emotions before he suddenly laughed and smacked his hand on the table continuously, "what a naive sister!"

"I have always been like this," Starfinn said with a grin as he licked his lips.

"I don't believe it!" Lulu shouted angrily, "You changed after going on a long adventure with your friends in Celestial Zone."

"Shut up!" Starfinn shouted as his scepter towards the barrier and released a dark green laser attack.

"Bastard," Avelia clenched her fist as she cursed him, "you brainless maggot! You think you can do anything to me?! stop dreaming, you retard!"

She then turned to Lulu and spoke, "let me out of this barrier; I will teach that bastard brother of yours a lesson and send him to the afterlife if there's any."

"Hehe," Starfinn grinned and spoke, "you think you can beat me just because we are in the same Supremacy realm?"

"Avelia, don't," Lulu shook her head, "he has two powerful artifacts, and you are still not as strong as him. He can invoke 48,600 golden dragon symbols."

"So what?!" Avelia clenched her fist with an angry expression, "Lulu, let me out!"

"Don't worry, that barrier will at most last forty minutes more," Starfinn said before he started laughing loudly.

"Father will surely find something amiss that we haven't returned home after over a month has passed," Lulu said while gritting her teeth.

"Hahaha, he is busy with the preparation of the Grand Meet. Also, do you think he would do anything to me?" Starfinn spoke with a funny expression, "I am only going to hurt Avelia, not you. He won't punish me."

…

However, there were ten other people in the mansion, and three of them were in the Arbiter plane.

They have concealed them such that Starfinn and others couldn't sense them.

"What do we do? Should we stop young master Starfinn?"

"I don't know. But I have already informed Master about the situation here."

"What did he say?"

"He said that he divined the future of Starfinn and Avelia with his Astral power, and it turned out that there is a grave danger to Starfinn. So, his instructions were such that we prevent Stafinn from doing anything to Avelia and keep him safe from something unknown that threatens his life."

"What if the threat exceeds the threshold of what we can handle?"

"I have Horizon Fetter Portal. In case something like that happens, I will activate the portal so that master Starzin can come here."

"Alright."

Chapter 784: Mess, Reunion

[A/N: Hehe, this will end in an unexpected manner. To be honest, I liked how I ended it. Sometimes, it's good to write such characters and scenarios instead of repeating actions. Read this and the next chapter to understand what I mean.]

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"Hehe, just a minute before this barrier breaks," Starfinn licked his lips as he leaned back on the sofa with a wicked smile on his face.

"A minute left before you die," Avelia coldly spoke as she took out her daggers.

The daggers were silver with black inscribed patterns on them. She held those two daggers in her hand as she infused her power in them.

…

"Do we stop Starfinn directly or let them fight for a bit?"

"Those daggers are quite powerful, it seems. Well, let them fight for a bit."

…

On the other hand, Athan and others have entered the city after paying a fee.

"Athan, don't get reckless in this city. There are many big shots here that we can't afford to fight," Komin said with a somber expression while following Athan.

"Hurry up," Athan spoke as he continued flying in Avelia's direction.

After two minutes, Athan stopped in front of a huge mansion.

"Is she inside this mansion?" Cromwer hurriedly asked with an anxious expression.

"Shit…this mansion clearly belonged to a Fear-level powerhouse," Lienia cursed before she looked at Athan, "Athan, don't be reckless. A Fear-level powerhouse can instantly kill us, and we won't even know how we died."

"If a Fear-level powerhouse got in my way, then he will have to kiss goodbye to his life," Athan spoke in a cold tone as he walked into the mansion before arriving at its grand doors.

"Cough…Athan, don't break into yet. Let's just knock first," Komin said with a cough as he moved forward and knocked.

"All of these mansions are sealed with plated barriers, so it's not a good idea to attack it," Lienia said as she frowned a bit.

…

"Die, bastard!" Avelia shouted as she was floating inside a mystical black cube with her daggers and changing her position as if teleporting from one place to another in the hall while releasing dark slashes towards Starfinn from her daggers.

"Y-you…," Starfinn was livid as he wanted to go easy on her since he wanted her alive, but she was forcing his hand.

'What the hell is this forcefield?' Starfinn was having a hard time moving, and he was also feeling fear without knowing why. On the other hand, Avelia was showering attacks from her daggers without stopping.

On the other hand, Lulu heard a knock on the door and went to open it while trying to contact her father with a comm crystal, 'Father…hurry up and accept the comm request. Why is he not accepting it this time?'

Actually, her father knew about the situation here, but he already had everything under control with those ten shadow guards he sent.

Lulu opened the door slightly, and right after that, the ten shadow guards also revealed themselves as they surrounded Avelia and Starfinn.

"Back off, young miss Lulu!" Two shadow guards appeared in front of her as they led her backward before standing in a defensive stance while looking at the slightly opened door since those shadow guards sensed the presence of people outside the door.

"What?" Starfinn was startled seeing shadow guards before he clicked his tongue, "tsk, shadow guards. I should have expected that."

"Naive sister, father already knows about things happening here, but he didn't stop it, hehehe," Starfinn grinned before he saw the door opening and four people entering the hall.

"Ek…," Cromwer almost choked as he used his unique technique to sense the power of those shadow guards who were not oozing out any aura, 'guys!! There are three freaking Arbiter plane powerhouses. Let's finish this as peacefully as possible.'

Lienia and Komin's expressions changed because they really couldn't sense the presence of those shadow guards, but since Cromwer said that, it must be true.

On the other hand, Athan saw Avelia surrounded by those shadow guards.

Looking at Athan, her body trembled as tears flowed out from her eyes, "Athan…,"

"How dare you!!" Starfinn saw this scene and grunted as she dashed towards Avelia.

Seeing that, Athan almost exploded with his origin baptism power, but one shadow guard was faster than him as he trapped Starfinn inside a transparent bubble before chaining him.

"What are you doing!? Release me!" Starfinn shouted while inside the bubble.

On the other hand, Avelia dashed towards Athan, but she was also blocked by the shadow guards as a barrier covered her. But she was not chained like Starfinn.

Athan's expression turned dark as he spoke, "release her!"

"She is a special guest of Starling River Organization," the strongest shadow guard indifferently spoke while talking with master Starzin via a method, 'Master Starzin, four people have arrived here looking for lady Avelia. Lady Avelia also seems to be eager to meet with a man.'

'Release her, dumbass.'

The shadow guard was stunned before he hurridly released Avelia.

"Athan!" Avelia arrived in front of Athan teary-eyed and hugged him tightly.

"I am here," Athan closed his eyes and also hugged her tightly while caressing her back.

"You really took a long time!" Avelia spoke as she looked at Athan with a happy smile and wiped her tears before kissing Athan.

"ARGHHH! Release me!! SHE IS MINE!" Starfinn angrily shouted as he smacked himself in the bubble.

Athan glanced at Starfinn before he turned to those shadow guards, "send him away before I kill him."

"Athan…that bastard couldn't do anything to me, humph. He is just a brainless beast," Avelia snorted as she stood alongside Athan and locked her arm with Athan's arm before looking at Starfinn.

"Brother, you…," Lulu also sighed as she shook her head as she also became teary-eyed, "how could you become like this? This is not you!"

Suddenly, a portal appeared in the circle that the shadow guards created.

From that portal, Starzin arrived with his hands behind his back.

A powerful presence spread in the entire hall as everyone felt a bit pressured.

After coming out of the portal, the first thing he did was walk toward Starfinn.

Chapter 785: Astral Eyes Starzin

"Father! These damn shadow guards trapped me! You must punish them!" Starfinn spoke with red eyes.

Starzin didn't speak anything as he arrived in front of Starfinn. The bubble was dissolved by the shadow guard who conjured it as he knew that the matter was resolved now that master Starzin was here.

Starzin arrived in front of Starfinn and slapped him with a glowing hand.

*Patak!*

The slap blew living nightmares out of Starfinn…literally!

Yep, some strange black waves with creepy facial features were released from Starfinn when his father slapped him and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Starfinn was stunned as his gaze became blank before he regained clarity and frowned, "this…what am I doing here?"

Lulu and other shadow guards were stunned, while Athan and others were startled to see the sudden change.

"Brother!" Lulu dashed towards Starfinn and hugged him, "you are back! I knew that you could never do something like that!"

Starfinn smiled, but he had a headache as the memories of him doing and behaving in a way that he never would surface in his mind.

"I apologize for my son's behavior as he was affected by a certain curse before returning here from his adventure in the Celestial zone," Starzin turned to Avelia and said with an apologetic smile.

Starfinn looked shameful as he bowed towards Avelia, "I am truly sorry for what happened. I didn't realize that I was cursed, which was changing my behavior and turning me into something that I was not."

'This is really a good twist,' Komin thought as he wiped the sweat from his face and sighed relief.

'Indeed,' Lienia and Cromwer also wryly smiled and wiped the sweat.

They really thought that they landed themselves in deep shit for a second when they saw Starzin arriving here. Komin was going to utter Lord Raizor's name to get out of the situation peacefully, but it seems there was no need for it.

"Uhh…well, I guess it's fine. He didn't really do anything to me, nor could do anything now that my Athan is here," Avelia said proudly.

Starzin looked at Athan with a curious expression. The Nihility Lord Staercia indeed told him that there would be a person coming to pick her up after a year when she left Avelia in his organization.

"How about you come to my Starling River Castle?" Starzin said with a smile, "I am very busy right now, but I can afford to have a meal with everyone."

"Father, how come you could not detect the curse before?" Lulu asked with a pout.

Starzin looked at Lulu and wryly smiled before saying, "At first, I also didn't sense the curse. It was really a unique curse, which was deep-rooted in him. If I tried to take it out recklessly, it would permanently damage his soul. As such, I scolded him hard and forced the curse to take effect in a drastic manner, and here we get the result."

"Ohh," Lulu and other shadow guards realized the matter.

"You really like to risk your son's life like this, huh?" Avelia muttered as he tightened her lock up with Athan's arm.

Athan smiled as he grabbed his waist and pulled her closer.

"Hehe, sister Avelia. I don't think your dear husband could do anything with his Supremacy-plane strength," Lulu grinned.

"Cough…Nah," Starzin shook his head as he wryly smiled, "I divined the possibilities with my power, and I was surprised that my son's death was in all divination possibilities despite there being ten shadow guards here with three of them having Arbiter-plane strength."

"Do any of you have a Fear-plane existence as your backing?" Starzin asked with doubt.

Hearing that, Komin, Lienia, and Cromwer's expressions slightly changed before they exaggerated it deliberately to mask it and shook their heads, "of course not. We really thought that we would die when we saw your presence, sir Starzin."

Actually, Komin, Lienia, and Cromwer are not really powerless. All three of them had gotten two talismans from Lord Raizor for their safety, and Athan was also going to get two once he decided to join them in support during the Grand Meet.

"Now, now," Starzin brightly smiled as he shook his head, "you can't fool me. Speak, whose party do you belong to? I don't believe you have not heard about my ability, right?"

"You can't hide things from father," Lulu giggled, "it's better to speak the truth."

Athan was speechless as he shook his head, "I really have no backing."

"Cough…well, I guess we can't hide it from Astral Eyes Starzin, after all," Cromwer said with a wry smile, "Indeed, we have a backing. We will be supporting Lord Raizor in the Grand Meet."

"So it's Raizor," Starzin nodded with a smile, "well, it doesn't matter. Come, let's have a good dinner at my castle. After that, you can go on your way."

"What do you say?" Athan turned to Avelia with a smile.

"Ahem, Athan…," Komin, Lienia, and Cromwer looked at Athan and called him at the same time.

"Oh, and Athan, how about supporting me in the Grand Meet?" Starzin suddenly spoke before Komin and others could say anything.

Komin, Lienia, and Cromwer jumped as someone stepped on their tails, "NOOOOOOO!!"

Athan was a big treasure for them!

He was a one-man army with his voidlings, and they also know about their voidling's formation because of that Calvacuz voidling. There was no way they would hand it to Starzin.

'Contact lord Raizor! Athan is valuable to us! With him, we can conquer 3rd Layer entirely, so even if Lord Raizor doesn't become the top 5 rulers, he will still get the majority of stacks in the other 50% area in this Okuluz Zone!'

'I…I can't make contact with Lord Raizor,' Cromwer said as he looked at Starzin, who was smiling like a fox towards them.

"Sir Starzin…this, you are bullying us," Lienia said with a pout.

"Athan," Komin turned to Athan as he spoke with a sincere and serious expression, "we can't force you to do anything, but I hope you can consider our friendship as well."

"Chill," Athan smiled at komin and others before he turned to Starzin, "I have already decided that if I join someone, then It will be them."

"Hahaha, fine!" Starzin said as he laughed loudly, "I only made that proposal after looking at their expression. I don't even know your capabilities, but seeing how eager they are to recruit you, You possess some weight."

"Come on, at least have dinner before leaving and allow me to redeem my son's mistake," Starzin as he turned around and walked into the portal.

"Astral Eyes Starzin," Cromwer muttered, "he is indeed humble as the rumors say about him."

Starzin left by entering the portal, meaning that the decision was up to them. He wouldn't mind even if he rejected his dinner invitation and left directly.

"Sister Avelia," Lulu said with puppy eyes, "we can't part messily like this. We've been friends for over a year now."

"Fine, let's go, Athan," Avelia said with a smile before she looked at Athan.

"Alright," Athan nodded as he walked towards the portal.

Komin, Lienia, and Cromwer looked at each other and wryly smiled as they never expected it would come to this and also entered the portal.

The shadow guards were the last ones to enter before the portal disappeared.

Chapter 786: Avelia and Lily

an and others ate dinner in the exquisite dining hall. All the food was top-notch, and everyone literally benefitted by eating it, strengthening their body's foundation.

After eating there, they used Starling River Organization's Star River traveling function and arrived at a close region next to Thousand Deaths Valley. From there, it only took three days to reach Thousand Deaths Valley.

…

Athan and Avelia arrived at the small hall of the house where Lily, Mimi, Dreevindo, and Huarin were living…

"Sister Avelia!" Mimi rushed towards Avelia upon seeing her and hugged her directly, "*sob* I missed you so much!"

"Awe~," Avelia smiled and caressed her back," I missed you too, Mimi. You really grew up from little girl to young maiden."

Athan told Avelia about Mimi's circumstances, and she was happy that Mimi was such a strong girl.

"Hehe," Mimi giggled as she looked at Avelia, "I also want to meet sister Tiana, sister Qerin, and brother Mike. Do you know about them?"

"I don't know," Avelia said with a sigh, "It's up to Athan on how to find them."

Afterward, Athan introduced Avelia to Huarin and Dreevindo, but Lily was nowhere in sight.

"Where is Lily?" Athan asked.

"Who is Lily, Athan?" Avelia asked with curiosity.

"She…, "Athan smiled and paused before he continued, "she was my first crush and now, my life partner like you."

"Ohh…," Avelia was surprised.

"Cough…Athan returned?"

Suddenly, Lily arrived in the hall where Athan and others were gathered after opening the door.

Lily seemed weak, as if she had suffered some injuries. Her face was pale.

"What happened?" Athan asked with a frown as he and others dashed towards her.

"It's fine, it's fine," Lily weakly smiled, "I just overdid myself in the forest and was injured while fighting. But I already ate a pill given to me by elder Komin's subordinate, and that foreign power inside my body is cleansing rapidly.

She then looked at Avelia and walked towards her with a smile, "you must be sister Avelia. Nice to finally meet you."

She then leaned closer and whispered into Avelia's ears while conjuring a barrier around them, "Athan was really worried sick about you all, you know? Also, we didn't do anything…umm, except for a kiss. Athan's love for you is immense, and I didn't want to take advantage of your absence."

Avelia smiled and grabbed Lily's hands, "when Athan asked for you and uttered your name, I could see his concern and love for you. Also…"

*pat*

Avelia flicked Lily's forehead and pouted, "why didn't you do anything with him?"

"Huh?" Lily was startled, "b…because…"

"Stupid," Avelia sighed as she shook her head, "I and all others knew how much pain he must have suffered when all of us were separated from him, with him not even knowing about our condition and state. He doesn't feel physical or soul pain, but we could imagine his state when all of us left from his lives…for 2nd time."

"So it would have been better if you made him happier and lifted his mood by being romantic with him," Avelia said with a sigh.

Lily was stunned and also remembered something.

It was at that time when she decided to open up to Athan completely. Athan also said that she didn't need to hold back.

However, instead, she indeed held herself back after that one long kiss in consideration of Athan's feelings and his wanting to get back to Tiana, Avelia, and others.

'Should I not have held myself back?' Lily thought with regret.

Actually, when Lily opened up to Athan, he did that subconsciously in a way. That's why he told Lily not to hold back.

Actively, he really didn't want to do anything until he found Tiana and others, but he wanted to reciprocate the strong and intense feeling that Lily showed him with action. That's why he told Lily not to hold back because of that subconscious thought process.

Seeing Lily's face, Avelia smiled and said, "don't worry about that anymore. Now that I am here, you don't need to hold back. Athan loves you, and you also love him, which is clear to me. Now, we will not let Athan be depressed or gloomy. He must smile and be cheerful like before."

Lily looked at Avelia as she actually admired Avelia's character, "alright."

Both girls found a strange connection between them. It was absolute trust and related to one thing.

They both loved Athan and could do anything for him, just like how Athan would do anything for them.

They shared this same sentiment, and as such, they understood each other.

"What are they talking about?" Dreevindo asked as he rubbed his chin.

Huarin rolled her eyes as she smacked Dreevindo, "you don't need to know."

"Cough…looking at how they are grinning and chuckling, it seems that they are planning something," Dreevindo said with a cough.

"Mimi wants to know," Mimi said with a pout as she walked toward them.

Athan smiled as he was happy as well. Suddenly, he sensed something and took out his comm crystal.

'Athan…about your answer, do we make it final that you are really joining us?'

Athan nodded, "make it final."

"What, Athan?" Huarin asked.

"I am joining the Grand Meet that will happen after four years," Athan said.

"What is Grand Meet?"

Lily asked as she, Avelia, and Mimi walked towards Athan.

Lily and Avelia stopped talking when Mimi was coming toward them, so Mimi's mood was down as she had a big pout on her face.

"Why is our little Mimi in a bad mood?" Athan asked as he smiled and rubbed her head.

"Brother Athan! They are keeping me in the dark. I also want to know what they were talking about," Mimi said with a sad face, "they stopped talking when I approached them, so it's clear they don't want to tell me about it."

Avelia and Lily looked at each other and shook their head helplessly, "it's not like that, Mimi. We finished talking about a matter regarding brother Athan, that's why we stopped talking. It was not because of you."

"Really?" Mimi asked with narrowed eyes.

"Absolutely," Lily and Avelia nodded with a smile.

"You already know about it, but sister Lily here didn't know, so I was telling it to her."

"Really?" Mimi asked with doubtful eyes, "then tell me."

"We will tell you later, but first, let's talk about the Grand Meet," Avelia said, "I have heard about it as well."

Chapter 787: Innocent Mimi, Meeting

Actually, Avelia was telling ecchi stuff to Lily, like how they will do that and do this tonight with Athan and disappear all of his exhaustion and pent-up desire that was stored for decades.

They didn't want to tell Mimi about that stuff because if they said it, they felt that that would occupy her mind, and her target of affection would probably become Athan.

It was not like they were against it, but they knew that Athan would never be able to see Mimi as such since he had always treated her as his sister. So until Mimi finds someone else attractive and falls in love with someone, it is better to keep her in the dark about it.

…

After everyone knew the details about Grand Meet, Lily asked with a frown, "so…Athan, you and Avelia are going to participate in it?"

Her fists were clenched in frustration again because…She was not strong enough!

She didn't even qualify to participate as one has to be Supremacy existence to take part in the Grand Meet as someone's supporter.

"I will participate!" Avelia said as she looked at Athan with burning eyes, "you will not go alone this time, ok?"

Athan wryly smiled as he knew that there was no use convincing Avelia to stay back, "fine."

"But I will have to ask if there is a spot," Athan said as he took out a comm crystal and told Komin and others to come into this house for a meeting.

Avelia eyed Lily as she singled something and talked with her telepathically, 'Lily, you prepare a good place for us. I will take Athan there after this meeting.'

Lily blushed slightly, but she instantly returned to normal and nodded strongly before speaking, "Ahem, Athan. We will be returning to training since we can't participate in the Grand Meet or whatever."

As such, Lily, Huarin, Dreevindo, and Mimi left and returned to do their different training in different training areas of this Thousand Deaths Valley.

Thousand Deaths Valley's territory was very vast enough that the residents only took a small space. Those whole mountain ranges and the forest around here all belonged to Thousand Deaths Valley. There were various training spots in those different areas.

…

After five minutes, Komin, Lienia, and Cromwer arrived as they, Athan, and Avelia sat down on couches in the hall.

"So? What's the matter, Athan?" Lienia asked as she leaned back, "wait…"

She looked at Avelia and smiled, "could it be that Avelia wants to join as well?"

"What is her Outrious power?" Cromwer and Komin asked at the same time.

Avelia grinned and pointed her palm forward as a mystical dark space cube manifested on her palm.

"This…," Komin, Lienia, and Cromwer narrowed their eyes as they observed carefully and gauged the potency of her Outrious power.

"Wait for a second, doesn't this power resemble that of Teronyx's power?" Komin asked with a stunned expression.

"Exactly!"

Suddenly, all voidlings came out of the void region.

Avelia looked at Teronyx and rolled her eyes, "so you are finally willing to meet me?"

Teronyx scratched the back of his head. Well, his body was made up of dark space and looked humanoid with silver sparks.

"Eh, what do you mean?" Athan asked with a startled expression, "you told me that all of you were sent to the origin AVOF realm, so didn't you meet this voidling there?"

Avelia told Athan the truth as Staercia allowed her to tell him everything when Athan found her. Naturally, Athan knew that now he had two ways to find others.

Either Staercia reveals their presence to him one by one, or he becomes as strong as her and sees past her isolation from others to easily find them.

The second option was very far from him right now, so he had no choice but to rely on the first option.

"Well, your deal voidlings didn't want to meet anyone other than their master first," Avelia snorted, "hypocrites. You already saw us when you infused your core power into us. So, why did you refuse to meet us?"

"Ehh, you are wrong," Teronyx, Calvacuz, and others shook their heads.

"We didn't meet you at that time; we only saw you and helped you while you all were in deep slumber," Teronyx said with a grin.

Avelia rolled her eyes, "fine."

"Teronyx, you must help in Avelia's training now since you are the source of Avelia's outrious power," Athan said.

"Roger, Master," Teronyx said with a laugh, "I will do it to the best of my ability."

"So Avelia indeed has the same outrious power as Teronyx," Lienia said as she smiled, "well, then there's no need to consider things; the second last spot will go to Avelia."

"Indeed," Komin and Cromwer both nodded with joyful smiles.

But suddenly, Cromwer said, "how about you two combine to re-create the terrifying techniques of Dark Lord Ajaxes?"

"Dark Lord Ajaxes? Who is that?" Avelia asked with a frown.

"That could be a good idea," Athan nodded as he looked at Avelia, "Apparently, this Dark Lord Ajaxes had the same Outrious power several ten thousand years ago. He became a peak Fear-level existence, and his trapping maze techniques were really notorious."

"Trapping maze…," Avelia muttered before her eyes shined and nodded, "I understand! This Terror Hellion of Full Buster power is all about dark force fields. If I can add several layers of forcefields and create a complicated pattern in maze structure…."

Avelia trailed off as she rubbed her head, "it's going to be very difficult to create such profound techniques."

"That is natural!" Komin said with a smile, "Dark Lord Ajaxes had put tons of effort into honing his craft. Nobody could escape alive once trapped inside his profound techniques. He was a pain in the ass existence to other Fear-level powerhouses, and he had records of killing other Fear-level beings as well."

"Master, leave this to Derbios and me," Calvacuz said as he flapped his nine mysterious wings, "we both can help lady Avelia and Teronyx create a profound technique like that."

"Oo..Oo…we will become your test subjects," Taezin said with a grin, "let's see if you can stop us from escaping."

"That would be a bad idea," Calvacuz glowed in denial, "we would easily be able to escape given our versatile powers and the passive power of Abyssal darkness within us."

"However, we can arrange one vs. one session after creating the technique, "Derbios said, "the reason why I could mutate all of your powers to create mutated offensive blasts through my dragon robots is due to the passive effect of Voidpulse in me."

"Wait…wait," Avelia stood up as she paused and grabbed Athan's hand, "we can all train later, but for now, I have some serious business with Athan.

Turning to Komin, Lienia, and Cromwer, Avelia said, "sign me up as I want to join with Athan. Also, you three and these voidlings can train or do anything. Just don't disturb Athan for a few days."

"I was thinking about adding our powers in Calvacuz's domain as well," Komin nodded with a smile, "let's practice together then."

…

As such, Athan and Avelia left while the voidlings, Komin, Lienia, and Cromwer, went to practice.

Chapter 788: Drifting Higher than Nine Heavens

"Aaaahhhhh….more!"

At this time, Athan, Lily, and Avelia were inside a room sealed by a barrier, and the three of them were having an intense battle as Athan's mighty dragon was exploring their juicy pink caves and sending them to the ninth heaven of pleasure while also feeling the same.

It's been simply too long since Athan did this activity. Same with Avelia. On the other hand, it was literally the first time for Lily.

The peach-white body of Lily with pink cherries on her two soft breasts was sucked by Athan while his dragon rampaged inside Avelia's juicy pink cave.

She was crying in pleasure and moaning as she had carved this thing for decades.

Lily was also having spasms of tremble due to the euphoria she was feeling by having Athan touch her and fondle her soft breasts.

Naturally, her pink cave was already explored by Athan, and it was now Avelia's turn.

Lily's eyes were closed while her hand was rubbing Athan's head as Athan's mouth was on her chest, sucking and fondling her plump melons.

"Faster, Athan!" Avelia moaned as her eyes went backward, indicating that she was reaching climax and wanted Athan to be faster and stronger for the best climax.

"Hehe, fine," Athan grinned as he stood up while grabbing Avelia's waist and putting her in front of him. As he observed her beautiful milky white body with curvy twin breasts while his dragon was still inside her pussy.

"Get ready for the hyper euphoria ride," Athan said as he laughed and activated the Extremity Drifter void frame.

"Bring it o-," Avelia couldn't finish her sentence as Athan moved his at extreme speed, sending her lighting speed jolts of intense pleasure.

Athan's hands that grabbed Aveia's waist also moved as he was moving Avelia's hips in sync with his own waist, going at an extreme speed to feel the extreme pleasure.

"Aah…Aah…Aah…Aah…Aah…Aah…Aah…Aah…Aah…Aah…," Avelia was moaning in ultimate pleasure, and her moan was cut off every half second due to Athan moving her body up and down extremely fast while his mighty penis rampaged inside her dripping pussy.

Lily saw with a blushed face as Avelia reached the climax, spraying her love juice like a fountain as Athan continued to push in and out at a fast speed.

"In..si…de…me…Ath..an," Avelia barely spoke after she climaxed and also wanted Athan to release his thick load inside her.

Avelia went even higher than ninth heaven pleasure with Athan's Extremity Drifter mode, closing her eyes with exhaustion and euphoria lingering inside her.

Lily was suddenly getting an itch on her crotch, and her libido was increasing.

"A-Athan…me too," Lily spoke in a tiny voice with a red face.

"Hahaha, of course, honey," Athan laughed as he put the exhausted Avelia on the bed.

Lily had never seen Athan like that, but she was also happy and excited to finally become one with him today.

Now, she was going for a round two, but this was going to be the hyper-speed one, unlike the first round, which was moderate, and she also climaxed easily because of doing it for the first time.

…

In the end, the trio stayed in the room for three days and three nights, doing various posses and battles with Athan in his Extremity Drifter form, sending them the highest form of pleasure while he himself also felt the extreme rapture upon releasing his load multiple times inside them.

After three days of carnal pleasure, Lily and Avelia were sleeping with Athan in the middle of them on a large bed. Both of Athan's hands were grabbing the soft and plum melons of Lily and Avelia as this touch felt heavenly.

"I am kind of feeling bad that Tiana and Sen are not here to experience this," Lily said with a smile as she kissed Athan.

Avelia chuckled and spoke, "there's two more, Linci and Shiromi. Both of them love Athan. Shiromi doesn't show it, but her eyes show a clear longing for Athan while Linci…Athan is like her entire world."

"Athan…," Avelia turned to Athan, but Athan put his finger on her lips and shook his head with a smile, "I know. I would be stupid to reject their love for me when I also won't stop myself from loving them seeing how much they care about me and think of me."

"If even one of you is missing, then my life will become a waste. All my ambitions and my goals are so that I can live with you all until my end."

…

"It seems that Athan is going to participate in the Grand Meet," Staercia said as she sat on her throne in the Nihility Council with the other five mysterious powerhouses.

"So?"

"Eh, I am thinking if I should reveal those two girls' locations to Athan or let him finish the Grand Meet first."

"Hahaha, give him some rest. Tiana and Sen are in Celestial Zone, while Athan will be participating in the Grand Meet of Okulus Zone. Let's not hinder his progress just to increase our waiting time more."

"Fine. But those two are also participating in the Grand Meet of Celestial Zone under Sarozy. Let's hope they don't die there," Staercia said while filing her long nails.

…

Thousand Deaths Valley…

Athan, Avelia, Komin, Lienia, and Cromwer were sitting in a grand hall of Thousand Deaths Valley.

"So, since both of you have officially decided to join, we will have to go and meet Lord Raizor," Komin said as he took out two talismans.

Athan and Avelia looked at the talisman, and it was pretty easy to tell that those two talismans were very valuable.

"What are those two talismans?" Athan asked with raised eyebrows. He could not actually see through those talismans. But it was to be expected since Athan was still in Supremacy-plane while those talismans were created by Fear-level powerhouses and contained that level of power.

"The red talisman is the defensive-counter talisman, and purple talisman is the offensive-utility talisman," Cromwmer said with a faint smile, "however, both of them have multiple uses."

Chapter 789: Raizor

"First, the red talisman can defend a casual profound technique from another Fear-level powerhouse, and even if this red talisman can't block such attack, it will still teleport us one million kilometers away," Komin said.

"Interesting," Avelia said as she raised her eyebrows. This was extremely valuable.

"One more thing, the defensive talisman will counter-attack upon detecting that the attack is from Arbiter-plane powerhouse," Komin said with a grin.

"Now, the purple talisman, it also has two uses," Cromwer pointed at the offensive talisman and spoke, "first, you can use it to attack, but it will be useless against Fear-level powerhouses. Second, If you don't want to attack, you can use it to gain a mystical buff that will allow you to have a speed equal to that Fear-level powerhouse for five minutes."

"So I assume that Avelia and I will also get those two talismans, right?" Athan said with a faint smile.

"Yep. We are precisely going to receive them now and also meet Lord Raizor," Lienia nodded with a grin.

"Alright, let's go," Athan said as he stood up. Avelia also stood up.

Komin nodded as he took out a white-silver crystal and activated it by infusing a bit of Outrious Potency.

After two seconds, Komin threw the crystal two meters away as a portal opened there.

"Let's go," Komin said as he entered the portal.

Athan, and others also entered inside one by one.

…

Athan, Avelia, Komin, Lienia, and Cromwer appeared inside a huge dark-red palace with golden chandeliers glowing the whole place up.

There were exquisite demonic-type designs and carvings on the walls of this palace hall.

There was a giant table in the middle of this hall with several seats.

"Let's sit here. Lord Raizor will soon arrive here," Komin said as he walked towards the table and sat down on a comfortable chair.

Athan and Avelia sat down as well, along with Lienia and Cromwer.

After two seconds, everyone felt a mysterious presence filling the air as a man with a black cloak appeared at the other end of this giant table.

"Welcome to my Rycanvenial Castle," Raizor said with a smile as he snapped his finger as two dark red portals opened, and several vampires arrived with food plates.

They put the food plates on the table where Athan and others were seated before leaving.

Athan looked at Raizor as he had elf ears and two pure white vampire fangs. He didn't know that the lord Raizor would be a vampire.

"You must be Athan and Avelia," Raizor said with a faint noble smile, "I would like to witness the show of your strength, but before that, we shall have some good dinner."

As such, everyone started eating the delicious food on the table.

"Lord Raizor, how many spots are left in the Supremacy supporter quota?" Komin asked with doubt as he felt that there was some twist to this case.

"Three slots were empty two months ago, but now there are three candidates from my Arbiter-plane supporters. Naturally, I am also curious about Athan and Avelia's powers after reading your message," Raizor said with a smile.

"So…," Lienia spoke, but her word trailed off.

"So, there will be a battle," Raizor said as he took a sip from a red wine glass, "winners will take the spot. After all, I want capable supporters, and I would also like to have capable people managing the territories."

"Lord Raizor, you will not be disappointed," Cromwer said with confidence, "whoever those three are, they won't be able to beat Athan and Avelia."

"Is it so?"

Suddenly five people entered through the door as they arrived in the hall and walked towards the table.

"Sit and start dining," Raizor said as he gestured for them to sit at the giant table.

Two of them were Arbiter-plane powerhouses, while the other three were in the Supremacy plane like Athan and others.

"Cromwer, you didn't forget that you barely managed to defeat Rolaxin, right?" Akin spoke. Akin was second-in-command in the team of four Arbiter-plane supporters of Raizor.

"Hahaha, surely you jest," Cromwer said with a smile, "I was merely holding back so that Rolaxin-Kun could last longer against me."

"Humph," Rolaxin snorted.

Rolaxin was a bulky guy with a military haircut and thick purple hair. He also wore a tight outfit with fancy leather armor, showing his explosive body.

"The battle will decide the spots," Nia spoke as she gracefully ate," don't quarrel while eating."

Nia was the Arbiter plane powerhouse. She was a slim but busty woman with a long single maroon ponytail. She wore a ninja-like outfit and a mask that covered her mouth. Her thighs and long legs were visible, making her look very sexy with her eagle eyes with golden irises.

On the other hand, the other two Supremacy powerhouses besides Rolaxin were women. One of them seemed to be the relative of Nia as she also wore a similar outfit and style.

Another woman wore a multi-layered elegant dress.

"No meaning quarreling now, but we can do introductions," Raizor said with a smile.

After saying that, he looked at Rolaxin.

Rolaxin nodded as he looked at Athan and Avelia, "Rolaxin Korkan, not pleased to meet you as you have appeared to take my spot."

"Cornella Mave," the elegant woman said with a gentle smile, "I look forward to our battle."

"Katagiri Enox," Ninja-girl said with a plain nod before she turned to the food on her plate.

"Athan Void," Athan also plainly spoke his name and indifferently smiled, "It's your bad luck that I have appeared."

"Avelia Void," Avelia said with a smile, "Just don't be scared while fighting me, or it won't be fun."

Afterward, Raizor said, "for your information, Katagiri's spot is confirmed. So, Athan and Avelia will fight with Cornella and Rolaxin for the remaining two spots."

"Now, let us fill our stomachs and head to the battleground," Raizor said with a grin.

…

After a while, everyone finished eating and followed Raizor as they left the palace hall.

Chapter 790: Wrong words

"First, let's start the battle between Athan and Rolaxin," Raizor said with a smile as he sat on a throne while floating in the air.

Beside him, the two arbiter powerhouses, Komin, Lienia, and Cromwer, were also seated.

In front of them was a large floating platform, and on top of it, Athan, Rolaxin, Avelia, and Cornella were standing.

Hearing Raizor's words, Cornella and Avelia left the platform and simply floated in the air outside of the platform.

"The battle will start once this coin drops on the platform," Raizor took out a thumb-sized silver coin and spoke.

"Wait," Athan suddenly spoke.

"Hmm?" Raizor and others looked at him, "Any questions?"

Athan faintly smiled and spoke, "there's really no need for me to battle because he will lose even if I don't move from my position or even any of my fingers."

"Arrogant!" Akin, the middle-aged man Arbiter plane powerhouse, spoke with a grim expression, "control your words, Athan. You can not disrespect someone like that and get away scot-free. Both of you are in the same plane, and Raizor can invoke 47,400 symbols."

Athan devilishly grinned and spoke, "I am not being arrogant. I am simply stating the truth, and you will see that being a fact shortly. If you don't believe it, then how about we bet?"

"Hahaha, interesting. Battles without bets are indeed less interesting," Raizor said with a laugh, "you shall bet."

"Lord Raizor…"

"What do you want to bet?" Akin asked with a snort.

"Tons of resources! I want resources worth 20 Labyrinth cores," Athan said with a smile, "naturally, I have to get this level of reward because my side of winning condition is hard."

"Sounds fair," Raizor nodded with a grin as he looked at Athan, "so you win only if you defeat Rolaxin without moving from your position or even moving your fingers."

"Humph, fine," Akin said as he looked at Athan, "I'll accept this bet."

Afterward, Raizor looked at Rolaxin and spoke with a smile, "what do you want if you win? State your bet."

Rolaxin looked at Athan menacingly before glancing at Avelia and speaking as his lips curled upward, "I will sleep with your woman if I win."

Hearing that, both Arbiter plane's faces changed as they looked at Raizor.

However, Raizor maintained his smile, but no one noticed a dark glint flashing in his eyes. He then looked at Athan.

Everyone felt a raging aura oozing out of Athan due to the pure rage he was feeling after hearing Rolaxin's words. But this rage was silent and cold.

The smile from Athan's face was gone as he looked at Rolaxin with a cold expression. His eyes were utterly icy as the cold rage oozed out of him, "If anyone interferes in our fight, I will kill them."

He turned to look at Akin and uttered icily, "you too,"

Akin wanted to speak, but he didn't and held himself back while side-glancing at Raizor, 'that bastard spoke one thing that he shouldn't have spoken.'

"No one shall interfere," Raizor spoke. His tone changed slightly, but it was really subtle.

After saying that, he tossed the coin towards the platform, and after four seconds, it touched the platform with a clinking sound.

"DIEEEEEEE!" Rolaxin roared as a giant golden rhino figure appeared behind him, and he was entirely covered in golden rhino-shaped armor as he dashed towards Athan in his giant ten meters tall form.

"Extremely high overall defense," Cromwer muttered wryly, "he used his best profound technique right from the start. Each touch of his in that form is filled with explosive power."

However, everyone's face changed in the next second except for Avelia, Komin, Lienia, and Cromwer.

Even Raizor was startled.

"BLOODY BASTARD!"

"HOW DARE YOU!"

"DIE, MOFO!"

All voidlings came out and released their attacks at once, with angry expressions as they could feel that this bastard had made their Master Athan angry.

Rolaxin was wiped out of existence in a second as various colorful powers lingered on the platform in the place where he died.

"Hahaha, well done, well done. So you were hiding that kind of power," Raizor said with a laugh, "marvelous!"

The voidlings returned to the void region while Athan nodded plainly.

Raizor grinned and spoke, "I would have killed him myself for the words he uttered, but it was better that you did it."

Afterward, he turned to Akin to his left side, who was sweating, "it looks like you don't really manage your people well. Who was he to you?"

"H-he…he was my nephew," Akin spoke while sweating.

Shaking his head, Raizor spoke coldly, "one can ask for anything, wealth, power, anything. But…one shouldn't ask for another man's woman."

"I…I'm aware, but…," Akin said as he slightly trembled, "please forgive me."

He never expected his nephew to ask something like that in the bet. He knew that his fate was sealed the moment he spoke that.

Lord Raizor has a harem, and he loves them dearly; if anyone disrespects his wives or sees someone do that, he never tolerates it.

Raizor had even killed two Fear-level existences because they spoke something similar to Rolaxin.

That fight was intense, and everyone saw for the first time how rageful Raizor could be at that time and his power. Not just him but his wives also joined in the fight. Without caring about injuries or anything, they utterly shredded the two mighty powerhouses.

Apparently, one of the Raizor's wife had a mystical Outrious power about the bonding that connects everyone together and increase their potential strength depending on their emotions and situation.

Raizor had a harem of seven women, and three of them were fear-level.

"Alright, let's start the next battle," Raizor said.

Avelia and Cornella entered the platform while Athan left the platform and floated beside Komin and others' chairs.

"How lucky that you got someone like Athan," Cornella said with a smile.

"Indeed, I am," Avelia said with a beaming smile.

Chapter 791: Avelia vs Cornella

*BOOOOOOOM….*

*Crack!!*

*phoooooooo….phoo phoo phoo, phoo…phoooooooooo*

Avelia was traveling inside a dark space forcefield since she could travel faster in that.

She was releasing dark space slashes toward Cornella while Cornella had a flute in her mouth, and she was producing a beautiful but also a powerful sound from it.

Various colorful animes were conjured as they blocked Avelia's attacks.

"That power looks similar to the power of Dark Lord Ajaxes," Raizor muttered as he looked at Avelia's powers.

"Indeed," Nia, the ninja-woman, nodded, "however, her battle power, profound techniques, and such are severely lacking."

"That is natural; after all, she is just in the Supremacy plane," Raizor said with a nod.

Athan was observing the battle, but his brows were creased because it seemed that Avelia was losing the fight.

Her attacks were not able to break faster than the various defensive shields and barriers created by Cornella's fantastic beasts.

She had summoned nine different beasts and was also released soul attacks from her flute that was giving trouble to Avelia.

"Cornella's power is a direct counter to Avelia," Raizor said with a smile, "it seems that the last spot will go to Avelia."

Avelia was anxious because she really didn't have any powerful profound techniques, and she could only use her powerful slashes from her daggers.

She mostly focused on making progress in his Outrious Power and reaching a higher plane instead of learning and horning her profound techniques.

Actually, Avelia and others were severally lacking guidance and mentorship like other people. They could carve their path out themselves…but only if given enough time.

The voidlings also got their powers innately, and even though they created profound techniques, they did with constantly working hard since they were born, while Avelia and others just recently went into origin AVOF.

Most importantly, the voidlings had a solid foundation and powerful soul from the start as they were born Fear level directly. On top of that, they were literally the manifestation of their respective Outrious powers, which made it easier for them to create profound techniques SUITABLE to them.

"Athan, how long its been since your wife ascended to Outrious Expanse?" Raizor asked with a curious expression.

"A few decades," said Athan with a wry smile.

Hearing that, everyone was shocked.

"A few decades to reach Supremacy-lifeform? Who are you kidding?" Akin uttered with a dumbfounded expression.

Raizor was speechless as well, "are you jesting?"

"Nope," Athan shook his head, "our situation is slightly different."

"Interesting," Raizor murmured, "if that's true, then it makes sense regarding how her battle style is not honed enough, and she is severally lacking in her profound techniques."

"However, that weapon is a bit mysterious," Raizor spoke with raized eyebrows as he turned to Athan, "where did you find it?"

Athan hollowly laughed and shook his head, "you can say that the weapon is from a Fear-level powerhouse and custom-made with a legacy in it."

On the other hand, the battle was getting intense because Avelia was attacking like mad, with the intention of spending every inch of her power.

"It seems that I can't extend this battle longer, this fear…"Corenalla shook his head as she felt a headache and fear that was affecting her ability.

Soon, she released a profound technique in a large area from a giant centipede beast with beautiful butterfly wings and trapped Avelia in a field.

Avelia felt that she could break that field with her Space Hellion of Full buster power as she hurriedly released a Buster Hellion Slash from her daggers that exploded into motes of dark silver sparks upon hitting Cornella's field.

*BOOOOOOOOOOM….*

Cornella saw her trap field getting destroyed, but she smiled, "it's too late, Avelia."

The six other beasts had joined together into a mysterious nature formation and released a whirling beam inside the trap field that was half destroyed.

The trap field instantly recovered when that whirling beam entered.

Athan frowned and was going to move, but he stopped after hearing Raizor's words, "don't worry, Athan. That beam will not injure Avelia."

Indeed, before the beam even hit Avelia, her dark space forcefield was destroyed, and she herself lost her consciousness and fainted because that whirling laser was not an offensive attack but a debuff technique that put the target in her trap field into sleep.

"Welcome to the team, the successor of Ninveh Fantastic Beast Temple," Raizor said with a smile.

"It's my honor," Cornella did a noble bow etiquette as she grabbed her dress and bowed slightly.

Cornella's power, Nineveh Fantastic Beasts, had a total of nine beasts, but she didn't show all of them here.

Also, her outrious power was a bit unique as the formation places of those beasts could conjure nine different drastic attacks with varying effects.

So, she already had nine unique innate techniques based on her Outrious Power. Naturally, her Outrious Power was also a tier-1 outrious power.

On top of her nine innate profound techniques, she could conjure more combinations with her own understanding of the powers of those nine fantastic beasts and the nature of her Outrious power, which was more on the soul-mental side.

…

Athan flew towards Avelia and checked her condition before nodding towards Cornella. Avelia was not injured and she had just been forcefully put into slumber.

Athen touched Avelia's forehead before he used his soul energy and void pulse to recover her.

Opening her eyes, Avelia sadly smiled, "I lost…,"

"It's fine," Athan said with a smile as he kissed her on her forehead.

"Come on, let me give you the talismans," Raizor said with a smile.

Afterward, Raizor gave red and purple talismans to Athan, Cornella, and Katagiri as they will officially join the Supremacy team in the Grand Meet.

…

Avelia, Athan, Komin, Lienia, and Cromwer returned to the Thousand Deaths Valley via the teleportation portal.

"Athan, I need to train and practice more. I am severally lacking in combat ability," Avelia said with a sigh, "these daggers are powerful but not powerful enough."

"Indeed," Athan nodded with a smile, "we all will train together, including voidlings."

The voidlings also came out as they gathered, "yes, master!"

"We will also aid you," Komin, Cromwer, and Lienia came forward, "less than four years are left before the Grand Meet so let us get as strong as we can."

…

Naturally, Athan didn't want to train in his Profound Techniques. What he wanted to do was to progress in his Abyssal Void of Fabrication.

As such, he turned into a cocoon and started training in his own form while Avelia, Lily, Mimi, Huarin, Dreevindo, and Voidlings were training under Komin, Lienia, and Cromwer personally.

Those three had much experience and by helping them, they could also gain some insights to increase their fighting ability.

Chapter 792: Four Years

Time passed as everyone focused.

Lily proved what she meant, and in two years, she worked hard enough and reached Anarchy-plane.

After six months, Mimi, Huarin, and Dreevindo reached the Anarchy plane while Avelia, Voidlings, Komin, Lienia, and Cromwer were training hard to improve their fighting ability and techniques.

On the other hand, Athan was inside the cocoon, making more progress in his understanding of Abyssal Void of Fabrication by invoking a connection to the Origin AVOF via his soul.

…

One year later, Athan finally came out of the cocoon as he had reached 65% in his understanding of AVOF and gained another small portion of origin that was added to the previous potion of origin.

He could use it to upgrade his Void region and get a small boost, but he decided against it as it could be useful in the future if suddenly some shit hit the fan.

After he came out of the cocoon, he joined others in their batting practice as well.

He planned to create two more techniques: one defensive and one utility.

He could also absorb 70,000 Outrious Potency from the atmosphere, and his capacity of Abyssal Void Essence motes also increased to 15,000 after this training session in the cocoon and making 65% progress.

"Athan, I learned three powerhouse techniques," Avelia grinned from ear to ear as she was truly happy to master three profound techniques.

"Nice," Athan said with a smile, "however, I need to learn some techniques as well. I also need to add two new profound principles to my existing techniques from the previously consumed resources.

"Yep. By the way, have you comprehended Profound Principals from that sword and bow?" Komin asked.

"Not yet," Athan shook his head, "however, I only need at most a few days to do that."

"Then you should do that first; afterward, we can practice and hone your techniques further," Cromwer said.

"Alright," Athan nodded as he sat down and took out the Icy Sword and the tri-colored crystal bow.

…

After three days, Athan finished comprehending the Profound Principals from them.

Razor Dexalator: This profound principle reduces the target's speed in the principle of "speed" and causes the target's defense to decrease against fundamental "slash" type attacks. Infusing Outrous Potency in this principle can reduce even more speed during the attack.

Tripod of Highreach: This profound principle will increase the penetrative power of your attacks by three times of its original penetrative power.

Athan comprehended these two profound principles while he already had two more principles. One was from the White flower, which he used during his cocoon training to increase his soul power; the second was from ginseng, which he used to upgrade his body Supremacy level a year ago.

Soulful Glory: This profound principle will trigger when your soul energy reaches below 30%. At that time, you consume 1000 Outrious potency to increase your soul energy to 100%.

The profound principle of ginseng was passive, which increased his body's blood recovery speed and stamina.

Soulful Glory was also branded in his soul.

On the other hand, he infused Razor Daxalator and Tripod of Highreach into his techniques.

He added Razor Daxalator profound principle in Rumbling Disaster, Magnum Arcane Bullets, Hyper Arcane Cannon Beam, Apoloclyptic Clap, and Oblivion Fist of Wisps.

While he added Tripod of Highreach profound principle in Point of Extremity, Blinking Flash, Mayhem of Arcane, Void Predatory, and Magnum Arcane Bullets.

Magnum Arcane Bullets got both profound principles because both were suitable to it.

Although the cost of Magnum Arcane Bullets increased more than other techniques, it was worth it.

Infusing Profound Principles in the techniques would obviously increase their cost; that's why people infuse them in profound techniques that can release the full potential of those Profound principles.

Currently, the minimum cost of all Athan's techniques is as such:

[Extremity Drifter Void Art 1]

Point of Extremity: 600 Abyssal Void Essence motes.

Rumbling Disaster: 600 Abyssal Void Essence motes.

Blinking Flash: 600 Abyssal Void Essence motes.

[Zontheos Prime Void Art 2]

Oblivion Fist of Wisps: 600 Abyssal Void Essence motes.

Apocalyptic Clap: 600 Abyssal Void Essence motes.

Corporeal Execution: 600 Abyssal Void Essence motes.

[Arcane Lord Void Art 3]

Mayhem of Arcane: 600 Abyssal Void Essence motes.

Doom Spiral Orb: 500 Abyssal Void Essence motes.

Magnum Arcane Bullets: 700 Abyssal Void Essence motes.

Hyper Arcane Cannon Beam: 600 Abyssal Void Essence motes.

[Fetterless Void Art 4]

Sanctuary of Void: 500 Abyssal Void Essence motes

Void Predatory: 600 Abyssal Void Essence motes

Contracting Oblivion: 500 Abyssal Void Essence motes

Voracious Doom Pull: 500 Abyssal Void Essence motes

Gaze of Void: 500 Abyssal Void Essence motes

Abyssal Void Whirlpool: 15,000 Abyssal Void Essence motes capacity. Each mote takes 4k Abyssal darkness, 2.5k Voidpulse, 3.5k soul energy, and 0.05% of Athan's blood energy.

Production speed: 2000 motes per ten minutes.

Soul energy: 7 million (one hour to recover fully)

Total Abyssal Darkness (both soul and black orb): 8 million (one hour to recover fully)

Total Voidpulse (both soul and white orb): 7 million capacity.

…

After Athan completed his small training session, he joined the practicing session with others.

Time passed as Athan honed his techniques and also created two more profound techniques after a year.

"Alright, Athan, it's time to leave," Lienia said with a smile.

Inside the hall, everyone has gathered.

"Athan…," Lily looked at Athan with worry and longing, "you still remember my words, right? You must stay safe because I want to stay by your side forever, whether alive or after death."

"Yep," Avelia nodded as she grabbed Lily's hands, "you better come back safe and don't be reckless."

"Haha, nothing can happen to master with us," Taezin spoke with a grin.

"That's right, that's right!" Infernox spoke as the tiny flame burning intensely, "I will burn anyone into oblivion if they dared to block our Master's path."

"They will have to go past us before touching our Master," Calvacuz's deep voice rang out.

"Bwahahaha, my army is also ready!" Derbios, the Cyborg dragon, roared with laughter.

"Hehe, with our formation, no one can do anything to us," Phor spoke with tiny sparks causing small blasts around it.

Pixilote, Primo, and other voidlings nodded.

"We voidlings share one thing very commonly," Primo raised its head proudly and spoke, "it is that we will not see our Master's death; that's absolute!"

"YEAHHHH!!" Everyone roared.

There was no need to explain further about Primo's words!

What he meant was plain and simple! Before anything happens to Athan, they will have either their enemy's life or their own life forfeited!

Seeing this fervor and absolute loyalty of these voidlings, Komin, Lienia, and Cromwer were moved.

Dreevindo, Huarin, Mimi, Lily, and Avelia were also affected by the burning emotions of voidlings.

"Bunch of cuties," Lienia said with moist eyes, "Athan, you better not let anything happen to them as well. An Emperor also has a duty to protect his subjects."

"Shssssssss, woman! Don't try to deny our purpose in life!" Slineria said while licking his lips, "we are born for Master, will live for Master, and die for Master."

Other voidlings nodded strongly.

"Alright, alright," Lienia rolled her eyes as she opened the portal using a crystal, "let's go. We are getting late."

"We have to reach the Meet-up in time at Lord Raizor's castle before traveling to the Grand Meet."

Athan rubbed his nose as he felt very moved hearing the voidling's words. They are his family, and he will also not let anything happen to them.

"Alright, get inside," Athan said with a beaming smile as the voidlings entered inside the Void region.

Afterward, all four of them entered the portal.

Avelia, Lily, and others saw Athan leaving as the portal disappeared.

"I have never seen Athan genuinely happy like that after that incident in the Chaosverse," Dreevindo said with a wry smile.

Huarin smiled as she looked at Avelia, "he managed to get Avelia back, which confirmed that he could get others back as well. His spirit is lifted."

"I have never seen Athan genuinely happy like that after that incident in the Chaosverse," Dreevindo said with a wry smile.

Huarin smiled as she looked at Avelia, "he managed to get Avelia back, which confirmed that he could get others back as well. His spirit is lifted."

"Alright, let's go back to training," Lily said as she made a first with determination in her eyes.

"Oh, Lily," Avelia said as she side hugged Lily with a smile, "Tiana and others will be definitely happy to see you."

"I can't wait for others to reunite with Athan," Lily said with a happy smile, "at that time, I will see a complete Athan."

…

On the other hand, Athan and others appeared in the castle where there were already six people present.

Raizor had not arrived yet, but Akin, Nia, Cornella, Katagiri, and the other two men were present. Those two men were not humans but a dark elf and a triclopes with bat wings. Both of them were in the Supremacy realm.

Now two Supremacy realm people, two Arbiter realm people, and Kaizor were yet to arrive.

However, after five seconds, the remaining people arrived in the hall, following behind Kaizor.

"Good," Kaizor nodded seeing everyone, "since everyone is here, then let's go."

After saying that, he waved his right hand; the silver ring in his right hand glowed a bit before a big rectangle portal was opened.

Kaizor was the first one to enter. Afterward, the four Arbiter plane powerhouses entered, and then eight Supremacy plane people entered.

…

On the other side of the portal, Athan saw a giant stadium with a ring-like shape.

The middle of this stadium was filled with sparkling mist, while the peripheral of this stadium had seventy-nine sections.

Each section had thirteen seats with three rows. The first row had one seat, the second row had four seats, and the third row had eight seats.

"So it came to seventy-nine," Raizor's lips curled upward, "it's going to be fun."

Chapter 793: Grand Meet Starts!

"You have met Starzin, I heard?" Raizor said as he looked at Athan with a grin, "let's go sit beside him."

After saying that, Raizor started walking while Athan and others followed him.

Soon, they arrived at section no.47, where Starzin and his four Arbiter plane supporters and eight Supremacy plane supporters were sitting.

"Ho ho ho, look who is here," Starzin looked at Raizor and grinned, "It's your daylight vampire."

Raizor sat down in the first row-single chair of section no.46, and others also sat down behind him.

Curling his lips, Raizor spoke, "I heard you tried to recruit Athan?"

"Indeed," Starzin said with a smile as he looked at Athan, Komin, Lienia, and Cromwer, "those three beside him appeared to give quite an importance to him."

"Hahaha, after seeing the result on the 3rd battlefield, you will regret not being able to recruit him," Raizor said smilingly after laughing.

"Sir Raizor is speaking like he can affect the entire battlefield," a man from Starzin's group spoke politely but with a hint of ridicule as he looked at Athan.

"Eh," Raizor smiled but said nothing. Looking at Starzin, he changed the topic and started talking about some other things.

…

After five minutes, all seventy-nine Fear plane powerhouses had arrived with their supporters.

"Raizor, wash your neck and wait for me to cut it," A man with a humanoid snake body spoke. He also had two mystical horns on his snakehead and wore a soft and simple white robe.

"Sure, come quickly, Panlai," Raizor said with a grin, "I'll also take that chance to eat some snake meat and drink snake blood."

Panlai and his supporters were sitting in section no. 45 in this grand ring stadium.

"Alright, things are starting," Starzin said as he looked at the center, which was filled with sparkling mist.

The mist slowly dispersed as it revealed three-door portals in a triangle formation.

On top of this giant barrier, a smooth slash suddenly formed as if the space was parted smoothly, and a bulky man with a bare upper body arrived. His body color was dark brown, and he had colorful rings on his fingers.

The man arrived on a majestic throne that was dark brown with golden patterns.

Mugen Curses of Divine Aurora!

Athan felt that the man was looking at him when he suddenly appeared and frowned. He felt some kind of unknown familiarity with him, which felt very strange to him.

"The battlefields are ready. First, the Supremacy powerhouses will enter the door portal with a round eye symbol," the man spoke with a bored face.

Hearing that, Raizor and all other Fear level people told their Supremacy supporters to get going.

Athan and others stood up as they flew from their seats and entered the third battlefield.

Afterward, the Arbiter plane people entered inside.

"As for you all, you know the rules, so you better follow them," Korhan said lazily as he waved his hand, "now go and start fighting."

All Fear level powerhouses stood up and nodded as they entered inside the third portal door.

"Now let's see," Korhan said as he waved his hand, and a large screen appeared that showed Athan.

He took a popcorn tub out of nowhere and started eating while watching on the screen.

After three minutes, the other five throned were also arrived by smoothly breaking the space like Korhan.

Staercia waved her hand and conjured four more screens.

The first screen displayed Tiana and Sen.

The second screen displayed Linci and Shiromi.

The third screen displayed Dean Lenix, Dean Zangrel, Zorgia, and Arcued.

The fourth screen displayed Drizzly and Tealery.

"So from all Athan's companions, only they are participating in the war?" Adlain spoke while holding his chin, "well, that's more than I expected."

"How much longer do you think Athan will take to grasp 100% of Abyssal Void of Fabrication?" Reilei asked.

Reilei, this person, held the throne of origin power, Meta-Overdrive of Anima Soul. He looked like an old man with white hair with a soulful aura around him.

"I think it will still take him more than a hundred years," Lifa spoke.

Lifa sat on a golden throne with white patterns. She was the owner of Omni Life of Fantasia Animation origin power.

"Hundred years…well, I feel like taking a nap so I can quickly pass this one hundred years, sigh."

"Calm, I also can't wait to find out about that mystery. That's the only purpose left in our life now."

"Athan has already started snowballing with those voidlings," Staercia said with a grin.

…

Five minutes ago…

The 3rd battlefield was vast, with various climatic zones filled with strange landscapes.

Athan and others arrived in a large forest with hundreds of kilometers tall trees and fresh rivers flowings.

"I suggest you all listen to me as I am the leader," the dark elf man spoke with a deadpan expression, "I was the first supporter of Lord Raizor, and he told me the helm this team."

Hearing that, Athan revealed a nonchalant expression while Komin, Lienia, and Cromwer frowned. There was no way that lord Raizor would do that after seeing Athan's capabilities.

"Are you sure?" Cornella asked with a graceful smile, "I don't think lord Raizor would do that."

"I will stay with Athan," Katagiri spoke indifferently. She had seen Athan's capabilities, and it would be safe to stay with Athan.

Cornella chuckled hearing that as she looked at Katarigi, "you really straightforward."

Katagiri looked at her and asked with the same indifference, "You will not join him?"

"I would be stupid if I didn't join him," Cornella said with a light smile while her hand covered her face.

"Do you think we are here to play?" the elf man spoke with a frown, "I don't care what kind of power that guy has, but you will follow my lead. I have made tons of strategies and studied most of the opponents. That's what I was doing for the last four years."

"Yep, I will follow Ladenil," the triclopes man spoke, "you all should also do that. Let's not create a dispute, or our overall power will suffer."

Hearing that, Komin, Lienia, and Cromwer looked at each other before laughing loudly.

Chapter 794: Dumbfounded, Formations!

Hearing that, three of them laughing loudly, Ladenil grimaced, "do you think we are joking?"

"Yes," Katagiri answered indifferently. She really sounded very honest.

"YOU…," Ladenil's face turned dark red with anger as he was already dark due to being a dark elf.

"Come on, I don't want to waste any more time doing nothing," Athan said as he summoned all of his voidlings.

"LET'S GOOOOOOOOO!" Taezin shouted while flying on his nimbus cloud and lightning crackling around it.

"Hehe, I can't wait to blast others," Phor said while flapping its wings to create tiny blasts around it.

Calvakuz's nine wings smoothly and slowly moved as it floated at the back of all other voidlings, "be quick when I activate my domain."

"Don't worry," Primo said with a grin as he flew towards Athan and sat down on his shoulder, "Master, we are ready."

"What about those two," Slineria licked his lips as he conjured a blade from his hand and spoke sinisterly while looking at Ladenil and the Triclopes man, "do we hunt them first so that they don't get in our way?"

Azure and Eleos stood beside Athan as they won't be participating in Calvakuz's formation. Their job was to support others with their powers.

"Bwahahaha, sorry for coming late, I was arranging my dragon bots," Derbios arrived at the end and stood floated beside Infernox, "hey Infy, those two bots are empty. Can you add your powers to them?"

"You too, Phor," Derbios said as the cyborg dragon sent a dragon bot to Phor.

Pixilote floated in the middle of the voidling group as she looked at Athan, "Master, we are ready."

Ladenil and the Triclopes man were dumbfounded and shellshocked looking at the small army of strange creatures.

"Y..you, what are they? How can they possess such pure concept of Outrious powers?" Triclopes spoke with disbelief as his third eye pulsed, "they are definitely not normal beasts. They don't have such pure powers."

"Let's go," Athan said as he ignored those two and started flying in a random direction.

"Good job studying and creating strategies for four years," Komin said with a grin, "if you want to make full use of your hard work, then you better follow Athan."

Katagiri silently followed Athan when Athan started moving before Komin, Lienia, Cromwer, and Cornella also joined.

Ladenil and the Triclopes man looked at each other for a second before they obediently started following Athan.

…

"You all only have to do one thing," Athan said without looking back as he was talking with the other seven Supremacy powerhouses, "spread your senses far and wide. If you discover someone, then try your best to trap him or slow him down with a soul attack or whatever."

Athan had also spread his soul sense along with others as he spoke with a cold glint in his eyes, "if we see someone, then that person must die."

"We have to kill everyone we encounter; not even one must escape," Katagiri spoke indifferently, "if even one person escapes, then we will be in trouble."

"Indeed," Komin nodded, "there are a total of six hundred and thirty-two Supremacy plane powerhouses on this battlefield, including us.

If we encounter one, two, three, or even four groups, we can handle them with Calvakuz's formation power, but if the numbers of enemies increases over that, then we will be in true trouble."

Cromwer nodded, "four groups are the maximum stretch, and it will also exhaust us."

Katagiri and Cornella were startled. They didn't know that Athan's voidlings had a grand formation and that working together could allow them to battle against four groups worth of enemy power.

"But no one should escape, as Katagiri said," Lienia spoke with a somber expression, "seeing as we have a huge number and such powerful means, the other groups will definitely work together to clear us out at first notice."

"Right side!" Ladenil shouted as he informed others about a group, "exact nine kilometers and seven hundred meters from here!"

Everyone turned like hunters who had found their prey and followed Ladenil.

…

"I sensed someone's soul sense! Prepare for battle! Position yourselves in the Ron Star Formation!"

"How far are they?"

"That person quickly retracted it, so I couldn't measure that! But since he is in Supremacy plane like us, then the most his soul sense can spread is ten kilometers."

A group of eight people wearing the same designed and colored coat stood in a place.

*swoooooosh….*

Athan was the first one to arrive in his Extremity Drifter void frame.

"Hi," said Athan with a grin, "and bye"

*SWOOOOOOOOOSH…*

The other group directly attacked Athan upon seeing him, but behind Athan, other voidlings revealed themselves.

They were surrounded by Athan's Abyssal Darkness so not a single bit of their aura spilled, and they failed to notice them.

"Voidlings! Formation B, HALLOWEEN BLAST!"

From the domain of Calvakuz, the various attacks of voidlings were stationed and suddenly, they conjured into a pumpkin head as all voidlings who could produce offensive powers had their powers stationed inside the pumpkin head in various sections while its eyes and mouth were spewing out flames.

The pumpkin head shot forward like a rocket as it obliterated the incoming attack from the enemy group that was coming towards Athan and also utterly destroyed them.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM…*

Even Athan, Komin, and others were affected as the powerful shockwaves pushed them.

"W-what the heck was that?" Ladelin asked with a dumbfounded expression.

"HAHAHAHA, It was the great Phor's blast power!" Phor, the blasting phoenix laughed loudly.

It was indeed as such. This formation B was designed to expand Phor's power to a very high degree.

Calavacuz designed it such that Phor's core power, which was the reactive blast would cause a blasting reaction to all voidling's powers and cause a massive chaotic blast that will result in a huge destructive blast.

The interesting part was that Phor's blast would also contain minor effects of other powers. Usually, Phor can't cause such reactive blasts to such a huge amount and variation of powers but Calvakuz made it possible with its Domain power.

Naturally, Phor also consumed the most amount of energy in this formation activation compared to other voidlings as 50% of its energy was gone while other voidlings only lost 20% of their energies.

"This was great," Athan nodded with a grin.

"Next time, we will use Formation H, The Doom of Heavenly Scorch!" Taezin said with excitement as in this Formation H, he and Infernox would play a major part.

…

Afterward, Athan and others continued traveling in this huge and thick forest while spreading out their senses.

The voidlings just focused on recovering their energies instead.

"Northeast," Triclopes spoke, "also, they haven't noticed me yet as I have retracted my soul sense and I specialize in soul and ocular powers."

But suddenly, everyone's face changed as they sensed someone else's soul sense quickly scanning their area and retreating even faster.

"Two groups of preys," Katagiri spoke as she took out her two daggers, "let's finish off the one that discovered us first."

Chapter 795: Grand Meet Over-1

"This seems almost too easy, hahaha," Triclopes laughed joyfully.

Athan and the group were clearing each enemy group one by one.

For three times, they only borrowed individual voidlings' help instead of using the grand formations so they could also stretch their limbs and finish the enemies while getting experience.

"Master, we have recovered fully now. So…can we please use Formation C, The Giga Spiral Whirlpool?"

"Fine," Athan said with a smile.

"Alright, then I guess we will take some rest," Ladenil spoke with a grin. Now he was truly glad that they accompanied Athan.

Everything is going exactly opposite to his expectation.

He expected fierce battles and dangerous situations and wanted to overcome them with his knowledge and strategy.

He thought they would have to focus on surviving more until the big shots at Fear plane finish their battles, which will also mark the end of the other two wars.

However, what the hell was this?

They were snowballing everything on the way!

'This Athan person…he is simply too powerful with those voidlings with him,' Ladenil thought as he slightly glanced at Athan.

"Don't let your guard down," Cornella said, "keep spreading your soul senses at least."

"Right," Komin and others nodded.

…

Time passed as people in all three layers were fighting.

The third layer's fight was a bit different since it was basically a trial and duels set by the six beings.

There will be deaths for those who didn't surrender, and there will also be winners that continue the battles.

Those who surrendered will be disqualified directly.

The fights of Fear plane powerhouses had trials and duels, so teaming up was not an option.

It would be catastrophic for all Fear-level powerhouses if it was a free-for-all fight like on the other two battlefields.

…

"It's been nine months…," Avelia spoke with Lily by her side as both of them were sitting at the edge of a waterfall and looking at the great scenery in the forest in Thousand Deaths Valley's territory.

"The Grand Meet will finish after three months," Lily said with a smile, "afterward, we can go fight sister Tiana and others, right?"

"Sigh…I hope we can do that," Avelia said with a sigh, "that woman…she only said that she will periodically expose other people's presence to Athan so he can get them."

"Why did she do all that?" Lily said with a frown.

Avelia wryly smiled and spoke, "she wants Athan to become stronger at a quick speed for something."

"What thing? Do you have any idea?" Lily asked with curiosity.

"I don't," Avelia shook her head, "however, it is related to his power, the Abyssal Void of Fabrication."

"What I know is that Athan's power is above that Tier-1 outrious power, just like that woman," Avelia said, "I am really worried about what will happen in the future."

Lily grabbed Avelia's hand and sighed, "everything will be okay in the end…if it's not okay, then It's not the end. This is what I believe in."

…

Two months passed by more…

"Athan and his group almost clear the third battlefield," Staercia said with a smile, "the first in the first battlefield is ending as well."

"What about the other three zones?"

"The fights on their first battlefield are also ending soon."

"How many died so far?"

"75 Fear level powerhouses died,"

"That's more than we expected."

"Hahaha, of course! This is the first time we have done something like this. Everyone is hyped to become the Rulers of their respective Zones."

"Many dreams of reaching our levels but alas," Adlain shook his head with pity, "they will never breakthrough from Fear level to us Origin Outrious beings."

"Two of Athan's companions that didn't participate in Grand Meet died…," Staercia said as she got the news, "It seems that some low-lives plotted against them to escape from their mistake."

Lifa spoke as she looked at a screen, "that lover of Athan is close to dying…she must not die."

"What can he do even if we let them die?" Reilei spoke with a snort, "I was in support of killing some of his companions from the start. If they died, he would work even harder to get stronger and trigger his AVOF soul's power to quickly comprehend the power faster to take revenge on us."

"Indeed, however, I believe we should live harmoniously," Lifa said while shaking her head, "we can't injure each other because of this strange connection between our powers. Sometimes, it makes me think that it doesn't even truly belong to me despite my soul fully turning into the manifestation of this power."

"Only you are sensing something like that," Staercia said with a grin, "none of us actually have take kind of feeling in us."

"But I agree that we should not make Athan our enemy in case some mishap happens at the end," Korhan said with a grim expression, "what if our wills are not aligned when we try to open that thing?"

"Also, Reilei, your stupid idea of destroying AVOF would never work, so don't bring that up again," Jeuwu said, "that thing clearly has seven symbols in it, and we all seven need to use our power to light those symbols."

Juewu wore a queenly dress with colorful sparks whirling around her. She exuded the pure power of elemental manifestations.

Exotic Essentials of Wordly Creation was her power.

"I am saying that we might be able to extract that symbol from AVOF forcefully if we work together," Reilei said with a snort.

Lifa shook her head, "It's not possible. Those symbols only lit up when we infused our core powers from the depth of our unique souls into it. I think we are some sort of carrier, and AVOF also needs a carrier to produce the power to light up that 7th symbol. Simply the lone power of AVOF will likely not be enough to light up the 7th symbol."

"I don't think we are some sort of carriers, but Yep," Staercia nodded with a smile, "I agree with Lifa."

"Forget about it, Reilei," Adlain said with a grin.

Lifa shook her head wryly, "I am the oldest among us…at least, let us be careful when opening that thing. In the first place, we just assumed that it would open; we still don't know what will happen if all seven symbols lit up."

"That thing is a rectangle stone with a circle in the middle with seven symbols. It looks like it will open if we activate it," Jeuwu said thoughtfully.

"Anyway, I agree that we shouldn't make Athan antagonize us," Jeuwu continued, "I don't want to take any risk. There's nothing in here anymore, and I want to see what happens when all seven symbols light up."

Reilei made a bored face and spoke, "fine. But this is seriously…I AM BORED!!!!"

"Patience, patience," Staercia said with a wry smile, "waiting for a few more years will not harm us now."

"Yea, but no need to revive those two companions of Athan," Reilei said with a snort, "who died, by the way?"

"Lady Fu and Tamiril," Staercia answered.

"Those two…, I think Lady Fu is important. I remember she had helped Athan, and Athan also respects her," Lifa said with a frown, "I will revive her. Never mind, I will revive both of them and send them to another organization."

'Tsk…,' Reilei internally snorted, 'there's no fucking need to save them. After all, who can block the temptation of knowing about this mystery and curiosity? Idiots don't understand that Athan will also eventually have to use his power to light up his symbol even if he resents us for killing some of his companions.'

'I'll kill that bastard's companions right after he lights up the symbols with us,' Reilei thought with a glint in his eyes.

To him, killing someone was very easy. He was the lord of souls, and all types of soul power were in his control. Naturally, he couldn't do anything to the other five powerhouses here since they quite literally can't hurt each other even in the slightest. However, for other people in this world? He could kill him with a snap of his finger.'

Korhan looked at Reilei and spoke, "stop thinking about useless stuff, Reilei. You need to chill. We have already waited, so there's no problem waiting a bit more."

Shaking his head, Korhan continued, "Also, if Athan's companions die while they were with him, then we don't need to give a single hoot about it, but for now, we have kidnapped them and using them as a driving force for him so that his soul can trigger more powerful growth to comprehend AVOF faster. So…stop with the useless things. He didn't do anything to you, so don't be an asshole."

Reilei had a grumpy face, but he nodded, "I am just…irritated."

…

After half a month, the Grand Meet of Okulus Zone was finally over…

Only 43 people remained alive on the third battlefield where Athan and others had participated.

Near the end, they were just taking it easy and resting while mostly doing training with each other instead of finding other people.

When the Grand Meet was finished, portals appeared in front of Athan and others.

"Phew, it's finally over. I wonder what happened on the first battlefield?" Triclopes man wondered.

"Let's hope that Lord Raizor won one of the five Ruler seats," Cornella said with a smile, "so that we can also benefit more."

"Indeed," Komin and others said with smiling expressions.

They entered inside the portal and arrived at the ring stadium.

They were the first ones to arrive. After that, Arbiter plane people started coming out.

But no one was coming out from the 1st portal door yet.