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Chapter 142 - Soul Weakens, Unima Core

Tiana, Avelia, Qerin, and Mike were sitting around the round table while Athan was preparing to eat the Unima fruits.

He first selected the unima fruit that Tiana took a bite from and ate it.

It looked like a normal fruit when it entered his mouth, but after a few seconds, he started to feel dizzy, and a certain kind of power pressured his soul.

But it only lasted for 5 seconds before he stopped feeling anything.

At this time, Mimi spoke, " Guardian brother, Eat another. "

Athan nodded and ate the second unima fruit that was complete.

This time, He felt the same sensation but many times stronger as he felt unimaginable pressure on his soul.

All of the crystals inside his Energy Realm started to tremble while his soul started to weaken.

It started shrinking from 50 meters big as if his soul was being used to create something along with the trembling crystals.

45 meters.

40 meters.

35 meters.

...

His soul was shrinking gradually, and it finally stopped shrinking at 5 meters.

Athan's soul weakened a lot, but a new thing appeared inside his Energy Realm.

A perfectly round white crystal ball.

This crystal ball was in the middle of his energy realm, but it did nothing.

Athan didn't feel any new powers or felt stronger.

Looking at Mimi with confusion and doubt, He asked, " Mimi...can you tell me what benefits I get after eating unima fruits? "

Mimi giggled and said, " It will create unima core inside you. Unima core is essential for strong people. "

" Umm...But I don't see any benefits of this unima core. It's not doing anything, and my soul, which was 50 meters big, now became 5 meters. "

Athan spoke as he smiled wryly.

Mimi appeared confused, and she said with a pout, " But without unima core, you can't cast powerful magic spells. "

Athan appeared surprised as he thought, ' Does this thing strengthen my spell power? ' He then said to Mimi with a smile, " It's okay. I will know sooner or later what are the benefits of unima core. "

Mimi repeatedly nodded with a smile and said," yep yep. There are benefits of unima core. I thought guardian brother was powerful enough with his soul, but I guess I gave it too early, hehe. Anyway, its effect will be fully shown when you get stronger. "

After that, Mimi giggled and ran back to play with Lucky.

Athan, Tiana, and others went behind the mountain range to check if unima core really strengthens his spell powers.

" Mimi said that you couldn't cast powerful spells without unima core, so it might be something that I won't be able to activate or use with my current stage.", Said Athan to others.

" I feel like it's definitely the thing that requires us to be more powerful since it shrank Athan's soul from 50 meters to 5 meters, and the limit of soul at Soul Altar Plane is 5 meters max. " Avelia spoke after thinking for a bit.

Athan nodded and said, " Anyway, Let's see if my spells are strengthened or not. "

He stretched his right hand forward and released an impact shot of Ice energy, but it wasn't strengthened by unima core.

But when he used ice energy, he felt something.

' What was that? ' A frown appeared on his face because he felt some kind of connection to something powerful when he used ice energy.

He released a few more spells of different elements and kept feeling the same thing, but he couldn't do anything about it.

' It's like I am close to grasping something powerful but not yet ready for it. '

Tiana and others saw Athan frowning and deep in thought for a few seconds before he sighed and shook his head.

They wondered what he was thinking about, but Athan looked at them and said with a wry smile, " Let's go outside. I am not strong enough to activate this unima core and don't want to waste time thinking about it. Instead, Let's try out the new soul technique I created. "

" The name of this technique is called soul-linked threads. I will use it on you all, and if it succeeds, We can train and participate in the trial without much danger while also tempering ourselves better. Alright, open your soul realms and connect the threads I am about to give to your soul. "

Tiana and others nodded, and seeing this; Athan used the technique.

He used his soul energy and created threads with it before entering them inside their soul realm.

Afterward, Avelia and others connected the thread to their soul by consuming a bit of soul energy.

Feeling the connection, Athan said with a smile, " Now let's check the duration of this technique and its limit. "

Athan took everyone outside before he returned to the special space.

" Hmmm, I can feel the connection even if they are outside, so it will probably work. " muttering this, Athan snapped his finger, and Mike and others appeared in front of him.

They were suddenly surprised to appear inside the special space.

" Hahaha, bro. This is a good technique. If it can work inside the trial, you can transport us inside the special space if we are in danger. "

Mike laughed as he realized the usefulness of this technique.

" Indeed, but we still don't know if it will work inside the trial and every trial is different. For now, Let's see how long the threads last. "

After that, They sat down around the round table and started filling up their genome tree's 2nd branch.

They didn't make any progress in this since they were nurturing their Altar Spirits past two months.

After two hours, The soul threads linked to their soul expired, which meant that this technique's duration is two hours.

Athan fell into thought, ' I used 10% of my soul energy, which means that it will last longer if I consume more energy to create the threads. '

The recovery of soul energy is a natural process that can't be accelerated by pills or anything.

If he consumes all of his soul energy, then it will take 5 days for him to recover all of that in his estimation.

Previously, he didn't spend that much soul energy since he had abundant, but now he knew.

" Alright, everyone. Let's explore outside and see if we can encounter one more trial. "

Everyone nodded as they were eager to participate in trials since they would " adjust " themselves.

Athan used 50% of his soul energy to use the soul-linked threads this time and took everyone outside.

The area had weird plants, mostly red and orange, while a few of them were green.

The ground and terrain were all dark orange and light red-colored.

After moving for a short while, they actually came across a giant tree.

The tree was actually ten kilometers tall and four hundred meters wide.

Its trunk was fully red, while the leaves and branches were a mix of red, orange, and green.

There was a hole in the shape of the giant door on the trunk, which was probably the entrance of this trial.

Athan put Tiana and others inside the special space and entered the door.

[ Welcome to the Trial of Infernal Ascendency ]

[ This trial requires six participants to start. ]

As soon as Athan entered, He arrived in a round wooden hall. Green vines were sticking to the round hall's red and orange walls, and there was already someone in the hall before Athan arrived.

The being in front of Athan seemed to be a member of the Terred Race, One of the five great races just like that Lord Tiragian and Qinci.

[ A/N: Terred race: three tentacles in place of hands and feet, red skin color, and white eyes with a red iris. ]

Athan was surprised that he was not attacked directly this time, but then he just realized that he couldn't sense his powers or anything like energy realm or genesis realm or soul realm, just like in the trial of pandingram.

' So that's why he didn't attack me. It looks like this trial was originally meant to seal everyone's powers. '

He then decided to bring out others since there were four participants needed to start the trial.

The terred race being was shocked to see four people arriving in front of Athan and revealed confusion.

[ The Trial of Infernal Ascendecy will start now. Please select your first team trait and individual talent. ]

At this time, The terred race member spoke while looking at Athan and the group, " My name is Roukin, and I have participated in a trial of similar nature, and the rewards of this trial will be very high depending on our performance, but this nature of trial is also the most dangerous. It will probably be something that we need to work together to overcome so I suggest we work together. "

Athan and others heard this and looked at the big screen in front of them.

[ Team trait ]

1) Attack up: Every floor cleared will grant 5% attack power to all members. ( level 1 )

2) Defence up: Every floor cleared will grant 5% defense power to all members. ( level 1 )

3) Suffer Together: The damage will be shared between all members. ( can prevent someone from dying directly. )

4) Chain attack: attacking one by one will increase each member's subsequent damage greatly, with the last member's successful attack being able to instantly kill the enemy.

[ Highest voted trait will be selected ]

There was another smaller screen in front of everyone with four different talents and a vote section with numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 that corresponded to the four-team traits.

When they looked at the list of talents, They couldn't help but reveal a confused expression.

Chapter 143 - Fights And Ascending.

[ Select one talent ]

- Transformation: Tensen

- Alluring Blood

- Bone Blades

- Berserk

Athan and others each have a different list of talents.

The tricky thing was no detailed information. They didn't specifically know the details of the talents.

They talked for a bit and decided to pick the talent which they deemed powerful.

Athan chose the talent [ Transformation: Tensen ]. Although he didn't know anything about this talent, he still decided to pick it since other talents looked lackluster to him.

Others also selected a talent.

Tiana selected [ Burning Wings ] as many flame feathers sprouted behind her back and turned into burning wings of 6 meters wingspan. She could control the burning feathers to attack and fly.

Avelia selected [ Valiant Aura ], which made everyone feel invigorate and increased their physical functions.

Qerin selected [ Resistance Field ], which can reduce the energy type damage done to them. The field is always activated.

Mike selected [ Body Expansion ], which turned his body into a giant 7 meters tall and increased his physical power.

Seeing that everyone has selected their talents, Roukin spoke, " I suggest we choose [ Suffer Together ] team trait because it will help us survive fatal attacks. The [ Chain Attack ] sounds good, but the enemy will not be so easy to let us hit it, and we are all powerless right now as we can only use physical attacks and talents. "

Athan and others fell into thought. They actually wanted to vote [ Chain Attack ] since it was a powerful trait that could kill any enemy, but what Roukin said also made sense.

After discussing a bit together, Athan looked at Roukin and said, " We have decided to vote for [ Chain Attack ]. "

Roukin shook his head and sighed but didn't say anything and everyone voted.

[ Team trait, Chain Attack selected. The hidden condition revealed. ]

- Before successfully finishing the chain attack, none of the members should be hit by the enemy, or the chain will break, and you will have to start again.

[ To pass the first floor, Please defeat Furazin ]

After that, All of the screens disappeared, and the hall started to tremble as a formation circle appeared in the middle of the hall.

Everyone moved back to create some distance as after a few seconds, a strange creature appeared.

The creature known as Furazin had two legs, two hands, big dark green wings behind its back, and its face had a giant beak and red eyes, while its fur was fully orange with red patterns.

In the hand of the creature was a green wooden spear that was glowing.

Everyone's face turned serious as Furazin looked very powerful with a height of 4 meters tall.

They were also a bit shocked by [ Chain Attack ] 's hidden condition, but Athan had confidence that they could use this team trait without trouble.

Furazin roared and flew towards Mike, who looked the biggest with his [ Body Expansion ] Talent.

But when Mike tried to punch Furazin, It nibbly dodged and pierced the spear in Mike's upper left arm.

" Aaaaa...Shit, " Mike cursed, but he still used the same hand while enduring pain and hit the Furazin's back.

A black " 1 " appeared on top of Furazin.

Athan then transported Mike into the special space, confusing Furazin.

Avelia and Qerin moved and kicked Furazin as " 3 " appeared on top of its head.

Both Avelia and Qerin could only use physical attacks. Hence, they took this chance when Furazin was confused due to Mike's disappearance and kicked it before Athan transported them inside the special space.

Furazin roared, but Avelia and Qerin already disappeared and went inside the special space.

Tiana was floating near Furazin, so she attracted its attention before retreating and started dodging its attacks, albeit with difficulty.

Meanwhile, Athan shouted to Roukin, " If you have any long-range attack, then use it. "

Roukin had his eyes wide opened, seeing how Mike, Qerin, and Avelia disappeared. Still, he soon snapped out of his reverie after hearing Athan and opened his mouth as a freezing breath released towards Furazin.

" 4 "

Tiana was barely dodging Furazin's attacks, and when Furazin was hit by Freezing breath, It slowed down considerably.

Athan and Tiana both took this chance to hit Furazin as " 6 " appeared on top of Its head, and just after that, It started to turn into ashes from top to bottom and disappeared in a few seconds.

Athan didn't even have a chance to use his talent.

[The first floor passed, Ascending to the second floor. ]

The round wooden hall started to tremble and started to move upward.

At this time, Tiana came near Athan and told him something.

Hearing it, Athan raised his eyebrows in surprise and smiled, " Let's try it. "

Athan brought out Mike and others from special space. Mike's injures already healed since it was a minor injury for him after entering the special space.

Roukin watched everyone appearing with his mouth wide open, but he didn't ask or say anything. He was just glad and felt fortunate.

' Looks like I am lucky to be in the trial with this bunch of humans. '

They finally ascended to the second floor and were shocked to see that it suddenly became much smaller.

Roukin's face turned grave as he said, " It will be hard to dodge and run in this small hall. "

Mike, Qerin, and Avelia nodded.

The round hall practically became half of the first floor's size.

But Athan and Tiana just smiled.

" You got any plan? " Avelia asked, seeing them smiling.

Athan nodded but didn't say anything as they focused on the screen in the middle.

[ The reward for passing the first floor is a random will imprint, and it has been sent to your inner space. ]

[ To pass the second floor, please defeat the Belaoarg ]

Once again, the floor started to tremble as Belaoarg appeared in the same fashion as Furazin.

Belaoarg had four horse legs and four hands. He had a bull's head and two red horns, while its whole body was a dark yellow skin with black patterns.

Athan wanted to try something, so he entered the special space.

After entering, He told lucky to create several destruction orbs.

The creatures like Furazin and Belaoarg looked fierce like demons, but their general strength was weaker. But since their powers were also sealed, they had trouble defeating them.

Now he would bring the destruction orbs outside and see if he could use them to kill Belaoarg.

Seeing five destruction orbs that were 2 square meters big in front of him, Athan smiled and went outside.

The Belaorg was targeting Mike for obvious reasons.

Athan saw that the destructive orbs didn't disappear, nor the trial said anything, so he threw them towards Belaroarg.

It was overkill as Belaroarge died blasting into pieces, and those pieces turned into ashes soon.

[ Second floor passed. ]

[ After passing the third floor, You can select another team trait and individual talents, OR you can also choose to leave the trial and get the final reward. ]

[ The reward for passing the second floor is a random rule fragment, and it has been sent to your inner space. ]

[ Good luck. Ascending to the third floor. ]

" Hahaha, we are cheating once again, and it's working very well. " Mike laughed and said.

Roukin was confused and doubtful for a moment, but he put those useless thoughts at the back of his mind and just thought of himself as a lucky guy to encounter these humans.

Athan, on the other hand, fell into thought after hearing Mike and said, " We already saw how mysterious these trials are, and I doubt it would've let us cheat like this. I think it didn't reject or did something to destructive orbs because they are within the range of this trial's power ceiling. "

At this time, Roukin nodded and spoke, " Indeed, the energy you used was origin energy, so the trial didn't reject it since the freezing breath talent I got also utilized origin energy but. If you had used primal energy, then the trial would've dispersed your attack. "

Right after he finished speaking, They also arrived at the third floor, which turned out to be a bit wider than the first floor.

[ To pass the third floor, please defeat the Enizom Trio ]

The Enizom Trio were slim humanoid creatures with the head of a weird bug and had long green legs and scythe-shaped arms with blades in place of hands.

They moved very fast and directly started attacking Mike, Roukin, and Athan, who used his talent.

After using [ Transformation: Tensen ], Athan's whole body became black, and he got bigger.

He became a solid black shadow as five dark orbs surrounded him, and he felt that he could control them.

But the Enizom was really fast, and its claws were powerful as Athan was slashed a few times.

Athan finally got the hang of the abilities that came with this transformation as she controlled the dark orbs with his hand movements and hit the Enizom. Still, it didn't die right away, and it could dodge too, so Athan was having a bit of a tough time while Mike was a bit better since Athan told others to support him.

Tiana was shooting her burning feathers while Qerin used force fields to protect him from the energy blast that Enizom sometimes released from its mouth.

Avelia was standing behind the group as she didn't have any special attacking moves because she chose a supporting talent which was actually coming in very handy.

Athan was annoyed as he couldn't defeat the Enizom with this transformation talent and instantly entered the special space before bringing out his chakrams.

*swoosh...swoosh*

After a few seconds, He easily killed the Enizom that was after him, and after another few seconds, he killed the other two.

Chapter 144 - Completing The Trial, Acquiring The Grand Reward

After passing the third floor, everyone chose their talents and a new team trait.

[ Strategic Swapping ]

-Members can swap position with each other every 10 seconds.

-Both parties must agree to the swapping before it proceeds.

Everyone voted for this team trait because it was the most useful among the four options.

As for the talents, Athan chose [ Fire dragon's tail ], Tiana chose [ Frost Bubbles ], Avelia chose [ Eyes of Decay ], Qerin chose [ Transformation: Devil Butterfly ], and Mike chose [ Damantain Body ].

Mike's second talent [ Damantain Body ] complemented his first talent [ Expansion Body ] greatly. His giant, powerful body now became grey diamond color as his strength, particularly defense, increased greatly.

Qerin's 2nd Talent was more powerful than Athan's 1st talent. After she transformed into Devil Butterfly, She could flap the wings and produce glowing white pollen that could confuse enemies and even attack their minds.

Athan's 2nd talent[ Fire dragon's tail ] was as its name suggested. A tail emerged from behind him, and its attack power was very great. He could shrink and expand the tail, and it also does fire damage.

Avelia's [ Eyes of Decay ] could crumble the armor or defense of enemies, so it was a potent talent.

Lastly, Tiana with her 2nd talent [ Frost Bubbles] could produce bubbles from her mouth, and She could use it to trap enemies by freezing their body where the bubble hits and damage them.

They readily passed the floors. With Athan using his advantage of the special space, it wasn't difficult to defeat their enemies despite them becoming very powerful on each next floor.

But the boss of the 6th floor looked like a Metalic Titan with three heads and six arms wasn't even scratched by Athan's destructive orbs.

The three heads of titan had different colors. The leftmost head was yellow, and it could shoot a yellow laser. The middle head was red and could shoot destructive fire breath, and Its rightmost head was green in color, which would spray dark green liquid in a wide area that made it hard to dodge. Even Qerin's [ Resistance Forcefield ] barely stopped it for a few seconds before it was destroyed, so Athan had to transport them inside the special space.

Roukin, on the other hand, stood behind the Titan and was attacking it with his freezing breath and throwing square silver cubes from his hand. The silver cubes would explode and take away a bit of the Titan's flesh, which would regenerate shortly.

But They still managed to defeat the titan.

" Phew...If we didn't choose the [ Chain Attack ] team trait, it would take us much more effort to defeat this titan. " Avelia said as she heaved a sigh.

Others nodded, and even Roukin felt that it was the right choice to select [ Chain Attack ] team trait.

They could easily trigger it with Athan's special space transportation and their new team trait [ Strategic Swapping ], and this was how they defeated the Titan.

After passing this floor, they got another option besides selecting new talents.

[ You can either choose to upgrade your any talent or select a new one ]

Everyone went with the option to upgrade their existing talents because it was the best choice.

The enemies are getting harder, so instead of choosing a new talent that is not so powerful, they upgraded their talents.

As for the new team trait, Their luck was bad as all four options were subpar, so they choose the go with the most useful one.

[ Speed Debuff: Attacking enemies will decrease their speed by 10% ]

The other three team traits were similar to this, like increasing their attack power, defense power, and speed.

But since they only needed to trigger their [ Chain Attack ] trait, they chose [ Speed Debuff ] trait so their attacks could slow down the enemy and make it easier for them to hit.

They also received rewards for each floor, but they didn't have time to go inside their special space and check.

The most rewards they received were Rule Fragments, but there were some other things as well.

They continued to clear floors and finally reached the ninth floor, where they heard a different kind of announcement.

[ This is the last floor. If you can clear it, then you will receive a grand reward. ]

[ Good luck. ]

This time they didn't even receive the name of their enemies or anything of the sort. The floor was also different than other floors as this floor looked like a jungle, and they couldn't see the walls.

There wasn't even a magic circle that indicated that their enemy was coming.

Athan was feeling uneasy, and just then...

*puchii...*

Avelia, who was at the furthest back, had her arm cut off by a humanoid creature with a tiger's face and body.

This creature had two swords in his hand, and it appeared behind Avelia directly.

Actually, the creature was aiming at Avelia's neck, but Avelia sensed the danger at the last moment and instantly counterattacked by throwing a back punch.

This punch prevented the creature from cutting her neck, but the creature had two swords in his two hands, so it cut Avelia's arm from a part below her elbow as blood sprayed out, but Avelia gritted her teeth and endured before she disappeared.

Although late, Athan sent Avelia inside the special space where she started healing using white gold energy.

But the creature once again disappeared, and they couldn't even sense its presence.

" Everyone, get close to me. " Athan spoke while feeling uneasy because their enemy this time seems to be a tricky one.

This time, the creature appeared behind Roukin and attacked him.

Mike was waiting for it as they swapped position but surprisingly, The creature's blade cut through Mike's upgraded [ Damantain Body ].

" Fuck!! " Mike cursed with a pained face.

Blood gushed out from his leg as There was a deep cut between his thighs and knee area as his right leg was barely hanging. His leg didn't fully cut off because the creature couldn't cut all of it due to his large body.

Athan frowned as this creature seemed even more dangerous than expected. It would attack once and disappeared.

Just now, after it attacked mike, It once again disappeared.

He decided to bring everyone into the special space except Roukin.

Roukin, who was near Athan, saw him disappearing along with others and was dumbfounded. Still, fortunately for him, Athan returned after a few seconds with Lucent Tiger and A prism surround them with five illusions clones of everyone.

Right now, There appeared a total of twenty-six people, and it confused the creature.

The creature once again attacked, but this time, it attacked Athan's illusion clone.

The clone exploded as it released blinding white light of Flux element and blinded the creature, which Athan and Tiana took as a chance and attacked.

But after receiving their attacks, The creature disappeared into thin air once again.

" Just stay alert, and we can do this. Attack the creature when it appears. "

Everyone nodded, hearing Athan as they started playing game of tag and hit and run with the creature.

Although it took some time, They successfully defeated the creature.

[ Congratulations, you have passed the final floor!! ]

[ The grand reward is a random soul quirk. ]

[ Existing the trial zone in ten seconds. You will be transported to different locations. ]

Roukin bowed to Athan and the group before saying, " Thank you very much. Without your special ability, I wouldn't have dreamed of acquiring this grand reward. Soul quirks are hard to develop and get, and the only guaranteed acquisition is in Roumbra Blood War. If you are in trouble, I will do my best to help as long as it's within my means. " He suddenly paused as if he realized something and started laughing while shaking his head.

The ten seconds were up, and Athan sent others inside the special space at the last second before he disappeared and reappeared at a different location.

The place he appeared at was on top of a giant mountain, and there were many mountain ranges with valleys and water bodies on the land.

But Athan didn't start moving and entered the special space to see the rewards they acquired in the trial.

Chapter 145 - Will Imprint, Soul Quirk And Rule Fragments.

Athan entered the special space and saw that everyone already sat down and closed their eyes. But their faces had smiled filled with excitement because they were checking the rewards they got.

He also sat down and started checking the rewards.

Inside his soul realm was a golden orb that was shining; Athan inspected it.

" Imprint of Valor? "

He remembered a reward they got on the early floor.

The white orb started moving and entered his soul body.

" Hmm...To activate this imprint, I have to do acts of valors, and these acts should be accepted by my core beliefs and the universe's will. But what does it do after it is activated? "

He wanted to ask Avelia, but he decided to up it on hold and checked other rewards.

The Rule fragments.

He looked at the milky white short strings flying around in his soul realm. These strings were rule fragments, but he couldn't sense anything from them. He didn't get any information even when he tried to touch them.

He knew that he would need to break through to the higher planes to use rule fragments, so he put them aside and checked one last thing inside his soul realm.

" soul quirk...this is certainly mysterious. " Athan looked at the silver-white wisp and touched it with his soul body.

The wisp scattered before it appeared on top of his soul body's forehead.

Athan felt a bit of pain in his soul before gaining an ability.

[ Soul Birth ]

Athan's eyes started shining when he found the use of this ability but soon, his face fell.

He could produce another soul body with this ability, but the thing was that...The requirement to use this soul quirk was quite high.

The first requirement was that his soul body needs to be 20 meters in height, and he would have to sacrifice 15 meters of his soul to give birth to a tiny soul using this soul quirk [ Soul Birth ], and then he would have to provide soul energy to nurture it.

Although the requirement and process were high, the benefits were also tremendous.

" Looks like we will have to focus on progressing our planes of existence and get stronger. That's the only way to strengthen our souls for now. "

He then moved to his genesis realm and checked other rewards.

...

Athan, Tiana, and others were sitting around the round table while eating fruit.

In addition to will imprint, soul quirk, and rule fragments, They also got two fruits and two plants.

The fruits strengthened their souls, and everyone's soul body size increased by 2 meters.

" I feel like this is a fortune in misfortune. If we didn't arrive in this dimension, then we couldn't have strengthened our souls like this. " Athan said with a smile.

Avelia nodded and said, " Indeed. As far as I know, there are no treasures like these fruits on our Supercluster that could strengthen our souls directly. "

Beside the lake, There were ten half a meter plants, and they were still growing every five minutes.

They watered these trees, but unlike the previous plants that grew rapidly, the plants they received this time didn't have rapid growth.

Everyone also received a different will of imprints.

Tiana received Imprint of Zeal, Avelia received imprint of wrath, Qerin received imprint of temperance and Mike received imprint of humility.

Athan asked Avelia about what it does after it is activated and Avelia said that it depends on how it's activated and after it is activated their effects also vary from person to person.

" After it's activated they will receive certain kinds of benefits and this benefit is related to what did they do to activate the will imprint. " Avelia concluded.

" And bro...The trial told us that we would receive a random soul quirk, but instead, we all received the same [ Soul Birth ] quirk. "

Athan and others crossed-checked their rewards and were surprised to find that they all received the same soul quirk.

Athen had a guess regarding this and spoke, " I think it's because our souls are still weak, and this quirk should be the only one we could handle. "

Avelia nodded and said as she seemed to know about this, " [ Soul birth ] is not that hard to develop, and most of the ruler plane existence have this soul quirk. But seeing that our souls are weak, we received this quirk. That Roukin guy should have received a better and powerful soul quirk, I believe. "

" I think we should train from now on and nurture our Altar Spirits. Our aim to so nurture three SSS rank Altar spirits and then understand a profound meaning. After that, we will go out once again. " Athan said.

...

Everyone spent their time nurturing altar spirits every day, and after three months of continuous nurturing, They finally succeeded in getting their altar spirits to level 3.

Once their altar spirits reached level 3, their soul started to strengthen as their size increased by one meter, and everyone entered into deep meditation as they received an epiphany.

After the epiphany was over, Athan and others upgraded their soul altars.

Inside Athan's soul realm, the Lucent tiger roared loudly, and its eyes revealed humane emotions.

The cave of the Lucent tiger, which was its soul altar, also got bigger. Still, most importantly, the Lucent tiger now had its own energy source inside the cave from which it could use the concept and use the conceptual energy to strengthen itself and fight in battle together with Athan.

Athan and others summoned their Altar spirits as they looked around curiously and even communicated against each other.

Tiana's altar spirit was standing on top of Lucent tiger, but Lucent tiger didn't mind.

Mike's altar spirit also a flying spirit that looked like an eagle but with very long dark claws and razor-sharp black wings.

Avelia's altar spirit looked like a silver furball and looked most simple and most cute with its two big eyes.

Qerin's altar spirit looked like a tortoise that had wings and two horns. She named it dertoice, and It actually looked the fiercest among the group, but it acted dumb and was eating grass.

The furball was jumping around it, but the dertoice ignored it.

Athan decided to let the altar spirit roam outside behind the mountain range and then said, " Everyone, Let's form our 2nd SSS rank concept and birth another soul altar spirit. "

Mike sheepishly smiled and said, " Can we go through a linked session of profound impartation? I need to comprehend a few more intents to form my 2nd SSS rank concept. "

" Actually, I also need to comprehend a few mystic intents and master them. "

Avelia also said with an embarrassed smile.

" Alright then, It won't take so long, so let's do it first. " Athan said with a smile.

Chapter 146 - Domain

Athan and others were continuously practicing as they formed new SSS rank concepts and birthed altar spirits as it's finally been a year since they arrived in this dimension of Roumbra Blood War.

Athan had finished forming the assisting concept that could be used with Spatial Rend chakrams though He would not make it altar spirit and waste his slot since it was not an SSS rank concept and only 3 SSS rank altar spirit can be birthed inside one's soul realm.

If he birthed two SSS rank altar spirits and one SS rank altar spirit, then he can't birth his third SSS rank altar spirit.

The second altar spirit he birthed was formed from his self-created concept, but he didn't name the concept. This concept was a multi-purpose offensive type concept.

He designed the vessel as a dragon with four wings, and after he birthed the altar spirit from the vessel, He named it Skylord. It had a dark body with silver patterns and looked strong. Its four wings looked white but were inscribed with silver, red, green, and dark patterns.

Athan named the third altar spirit he birthed as Deathknight because he designed it as a Centaur with full-body armor like a knight.

Its dark armor had a starry glow, and its main function was defense and offense.

Athan and others were currently merging their understanding of profound meaning to their soul altars to form a domain.

The domain requires a huge amount of genesis energy and conceptual energies from their altar spirit.

But they didn't have this problem in this special space.

Athan decided to create the domain of his Lucent tiger first.

His genesis avatar stood in front of the black chamber inside his soul realm and recalled back the Deathknight who was racing with Avelia's second altar spirit, Triominy.

Deathknight looked at Athan with a pitiful expression, " Master, I was going to win the race this time. "

Deathknight had a bow hanging on his right shoulder, and it was shining with dark red color.

Athan shook his head with a smile and said, " Nope, You were going to lose again. I told you that Triominy is just baiting you. Triominy is an offensive-burst speed type, while your ability is specialized in offense and defense. "

Triominy is a creature that looked like a horse but with three tails and a single horn like a unicorn; its body is covered in light red flames and had silver patterns on its body.

Deathknight revealed disappointment and muttered, " I wanted to win against that cocky bastard. "

Athan laughed and said, " After I am finished, you can use the domain ability and easily beat him in the race. I am sure Avelia and others have yet to start the process of domain forming."

Deathknight's eyes shined as he revealed the joy and said, " Thank you, master. "

Athan just smiled and started the process.

From the epiphany, he understood the profound meaning, and he had to use this profound meaning, which is basically a way to form a domain.

Genesis energy gushed out along with the conceptual energy of Deathknight as Athan started forming the domain and breakthrough to Profound Domain Plane.

...

Athan will form this domain based on Deathknight's ability. Once it is formed, He can also use the abilities of the Deathknight but only inside the domain, and the freedom of using the ability inside the domain is vastly increased.

For instance, If Athan first created the domain using Lucent Tiger and its Soul altar, then after the domain is formed, He can easily create illusion clones of himself and others with much more specifics inside the domain. He can also create not one but many small prism defenses. All of these are possible inside the domain as long as they have enough energy.

The domain requires constant genesis energy and respective conceptual energy to maintain, but all of that concept's ability is enhanced inside the domain.

The domain will also vastly strengthen the altar spirits once it is formed.

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Once Altar Spirits reach level 3, and their soul altars are upgraded, Altar spirits can absorb energies from the atmosphere to cultivate their conceptualize energy and store it inside their soul altar. Whenever they battle or use their concept powers, their conceptualize energy inside the soul altar is consumed.

Both Altar Spirits and Soul Altar are deeply connected at this stage. The Altar spirit's main source is always in their Soul Altar, which is inside their owner's Soul Realm.

Another main use of the soul altar and why they are called soul altar is that if the altar spirit dies while fighting, Their owner can resurrect their Altar spirits from their Soul Altar by continuously injecting soul energy and genesis energy into the soul altar.

The amount needed is high, so it takes some time to resurrect altar spirits.

...

Athan was currently standing behind the mountain ranges with Deathknight.

He and Deathknight both were inside the [ Domain of Deathknight ]. The range of the domain was 500 square meters, with Athan as the center point.

Both Athan and Deathknight can form their separate domains and fight. If Athan forms the domain, it will consume his respective elemental energies and genesis energy, and if Deathknight forms the domain, it will only consume its conceptual energy.

Athan stretched his left hand, and a bow appeared in his hand that was the same as the bow in Deathknight's hands.

He pulled the string as a dark red arrow with destructive properties like death, blood, fire, pierce, corrosive, etc., materialized.

Deathknight started running as he stood in front of Athan and similarly activated the domain before a dark blood wall with a golden brown pattern appeared around him.

Athan lowered the power of the arrow by a notch before he released the arrow.

The arrow became three halfway before they disappeared, and when they appeared, they were near the bunker wall made by Deathknight.

*Boooom!*

The arrow hit the bunker with a loud sound. But after the dust settled, The defense bunker only revealed a few cracks and was not much damaged.

After that, holes formed on the bunker as dark red lasers released from them as they shot towards Athan.

Seeing this, Athan grinned and waved his hands before several small lotuses appeared that had exactly the same patterns as the bunker wall made by Deathknight, and those lotuses easily absorbed lasers before firing back.

Athan nodded with a smile as he was completely satisfied with this domain. The degree of control he had over conceptual ability and energy was simply astounding.

" I give up, master. Your creative is far better than mine. "

Ultimately, This was Athan's own power that he created himself, so he obviously had better control. He could also use it better since his intelligence was higher than Deathknight.

But Their altar spirits also learn from them. Their intelligence will keep developing as they continue to live and fight, just like how a child slowly learns as he or she grows up.

Athan returned and saw that Tiana and others were still in meditation and were likely forming the domain.

He also decided to form domains of Lucent Tiger and Skylord.

...

After several days, Everyone had reached the Profound Domain Plane and also formed their domains.

Everyone was sitting around the round table while Mimi and Lucky were completely busy having fun with their new friends.

Their trees near the white lake had grown quite big and each one bore a big 10-meter long fruit but the fruits were still not ready because they had to let the fruit fall from the tree automatically to use them.

" So what do we do now, bro? Go out and participate in the trial? " Mike asked.

" Our soul bodies have become 8 meters tall, and Athan's soul body is likely around 10 meters tall. To make use of the soul quirk [ Soul Birth ] as soon as possible, We should participate in trials and gather rewards that could strengthen our soul. " Tiana spoke after pondering.

Athan nodded and said after thinking for a second, " Let's do just that. Eating those fruits is the faster way to increase our soul power than tempering our soul. After we use [ Soul Birth ] We will continue to progress in the Profound domain plane. "

...

Afterward, Athan and others exited the special space and started roaming.

After moving for a while, They encountered a beast and hurriedly hid inside the special space.

The beast was a flying-type beast that looked like a dragon.

They were all on top of giant mountain ranges and the dragon that appeared here had stone grey and brown scales and was 300 meters long with a wingspan of 700 meters.

" Should we try to kill it, bro? "

Hearing what Mike said, Everyone became speechless.

Athan shook his head and said with a wry smile, " We can't beat this dragon because it's too big. Our only way of damaging it is Genome power but we likely will run out of it before killing the dragon and put ourselves in danger as well. "

" If we can quickly grow our soul body and use the soul quirk [ Soul birth ] Then our speed of practicing Genome technique will increase so we should just find a trial and participate in it. "

Chapter 147 - Conflict, Trial Of Dandreid

They waited until the dragon left before coming out. But they could feel energy waves as if a battle was ongoing in the direction where the dragon left.

" Let's go and check it out. I will try to hide our presence. " Avelia spoke as she summoned a jellyfish-like creature that was transparent but had starry white patterns like veins which looked a bit scary.

She didn't activate the domain but used the ability of her new SSS rank concept as a wavy veil covered them, and they disappeared. They became completely transparent. This veil also provided defense.

Athan touched the veil and stretched his hand outside, and if someone were to see this from afar, they would see a half arm floating in the air.

He pulled his hand back into the veil and walked towards others, " Let's move in the same direction as the dragon went. I think someone is battling against that dragon. "

...

After flying for a few minutes, they felt waves of shockwaves and saw that a fat bronze person was beating the dragon. His bronze body had black patterns, and those patterns were shining.

He was throwing punches and kicks at the dragon, which produced a phantom projectile of his moves and hit the dragon.

*Roarrrrrr....*

The dragon roared as a rock-grey breath left its mouth towards the fat person.

Branzol race is one of the top five great races, and they have solid but round fat bodies.

Seeing the breath attack coming at him, The Branzol race member snorted and clamped his hands together before stretching them.

A dark bronze field seemed to have produced from his hand, but just when the breath was going to hit the dark bronze field, Two portals appeared. One portal appeared in front of the dark bronze field, which devoured the powerful stone grey breathing attack, and the second portal appeared behind the Branzol race member.

The results were devastating as the Branzol race member was screwed from behind because the two portals were connected. The stone grey breathing attack went into the first portal and came out from the second portal behind the Branzol race member.

The stone grey breathing attack of the dragon was no joke as it actually turned the back of the Branzol race member into stone before breaking apart and injuring him.

The Branzol race member roared in pain before hurriedly using his rule domain to defend himself as his body started shining dark light, and also his body started to cover with dark bronze armor that was shining.

" Fuck!!!...." Lerise cursed as he looked at his left side with a wrathful expression.

A small and slim dark blue being with a silver horn on his forehead and holes in his palms and long fingers appeared out of nowhere. It felt like he materialized from nothing, but he was hiding using his dimension technique.

But his gaze first swept towards the place Athan and others were hiding.

The dragon was stupid, so even though it saw another one appearing, it didn't run despite its cracking and the injured body but continued to attack Lerise.

Lerise turned his attention back to the dragon as he gathered some kind of energy before a giant dark bronze axe that was five times his size appeared in his hands and dashed towards the dragon.

On the other hand, the Dision race member was on guard because of the group of Athan.

Athan and others also noticed the member of the Dision race looking at them.

" What should we do? If we are slightly careless, then we would die. " Qerin said worriedly.

" Let's go back into the special space first. "

Athan took others inside the special space, which caused a confused expression to appear on the Dision race member, ' I could feel space energy there, so one or more people were hiding there, but just now I couldn't sense anything. Even if they teleported, There should be residual space energy or some others energies, but now, I can't feel even a speck of energy. '

One more thing he was puzzled about was that the energy he felt was the origin energy which is only used by lower plane existences, " Could it be they brought Origin elemental crystals here? " He muttered this but shook his head as doing so would not benefit them in any way.

*Roarrr...*

A weak dragon's roar resounded before a loud thud.

The Dision race member saw that both of the dragon's wings were cut off, and half of it was body was mangled as its whole body was covered in blood. He revealed displeased expression and muttered, " damn bastard, He did it deliberately. "

" Leave half of its core and body. "

Hearing this, Lerise didn't show his anger as he knew that this would happen. That's why he mangled the dragon's body.

Lerise was injured pretty badly by the dragon's breath due to this Dision race member's interference, and there was no point in fighting against him as it will only worsen his situation.

Just then, the mountain started to tremble as large cracks appeared before revealing a deep gorge.

Lerise stored half of the dragon's body and core inside his inner space and let the other half fall into the deep gorge before flying upward.

Seeing this, Dision race member snorted as he waved his left hand, and his silver horn started shining before a portal appeared below the falling dragon's remains.

The remains fell inside the portal before they disappeared. He then didn't spare a glance at Lerise and dived into the deep gorge.

Lerise, on the other hand, started healing his injuries.

...

Athan and others saw everything from inside the special space.

Everyone concluded that the deep gorge was an entrance to a trial.

" We will go inside after that guy enters. If he doesn't enter even after healing his wounds, then we also won't as it means that the deep gorge is not an entrance to a trial. "

Athan suggested, and nobody had an objection to this.

After seventeen hours, The Branzol race member stood up and flew towards the deep gorge before diving inside.

Seeing this, Athan left the special space and started moving towards the deep gorge while being invisible as Avelia used her concept ability on him.

Athan dived down, and he could see the ground, but halfway through, he felt like the same sensation as when he entered the cave door as he arrived in a different space.

The area was just simple ground with few plants and trees.

[ Welcome to the trial of Dandreid ]

[ Lower energy being detected. ]

[ Adjusting the trial...]

...

Athan had taken others out from the special space while the trial was adjusting.

" Looks like we will be able to win some rewards from this trial. " Mike grinned and said when he heard the adjusting trial announcement.

" Who knows? These trials are smart, and all trials are kind of different. " Just as Athan finish speaking, The trial was also done adjusting.

[ Adjustment completed. ]

Everyone's powers were sealed after this announcement.

[ The trial will start after the thirty slots are filled. seven more participant needs to join before the trial starts. ]

Athan and others waited for a few hours before all the slots were filled, and a blue screen appeared in front of everyone.

[ Everyone will be randomly given a grade 1 magic beast pet; you will have to train your pet and command them to do battle. Trialists can not fight directly or indirectly. They can only command their pets.]

[ You are only allowed to leave this trial after winning three times, but if you lose three times first before winning three times, Your life will be forfeited. ]

[ Every three wins will grant you a new pet and an evolution stone that can evolve your pet. Those who can win 9 times will be given a grand reward. ]

[ After 10 minutes, Everyone will be matched against a random trialist, and you have to use your wits and your surroundings to defeat your opponent. ]

Everyone saw white sparks in front of them before they turned into magic beasts.

The magic beasts came forward towards their master.

Athan could see the status of his magical beast.

[ Grade 1, Poison Spider ]

- Element: poison

- Skills: Web threads, poisoned fang.

Tiana's pet was a flying type beast that looked like a bat.

[ Grade 1, Synth Bat ]

-Element: Sound

-Skils: Sonic wave, sonic boost.

Avelia's pet looked like a tiger with black and white stripes.

[ Grade 1, Greyscale Tiger ]

- Element: none

- Skills: Dash, Scale Cover, Extending Claws.

" Why my magical beast has no element? " Avelia asked with confusion.

Others looked at the tiger that looked menacing and powerful.

" But you got three skills, and it looks like a great beast if you utilize it well. " Athan said after looking at the skills.

Avelia nodded and said with a smile, " Yep. And I guess that If I can win three matches and use evolution stone on this tiger, It will awaken its element. "

Qerin looked at her magical beast and said, " My magical beast is also without element. "

[ Grade 1, Primape Fighter ]

-Element: none

-Skills: Haste, Body control, enhanced shot.

Primape Fighter looked like a monkey that was 4ft tall and had a muscled body. Its body was covered with brown fur.

Finally, Mike's magical beast was a snake covered in fire scales.

[ Grade 1, Flaming Snake ]

-Element: Fire

-Skills: Flame tongue, Scale shots.

Chapter 148 - Poor Trial's Efforts To Make It Fair And Square, Failed.

When the ten minutes were up, Everyone disappeared and appeared at different places.

When Athan saw his opponent, He was dumbfounded.

" Hahaha, This is such a coincidence. " Mike laughed seeing Athan in front of him.

They were in a dried forest with close to zero greenery.

Athan's Poison Spider and Mike's Flaming Snake were already glaring at each other.

" Let's start. Our pets seem like if we didn't give any command soon, they would start fighting on their own. "

Athan issued command from his mind and told the spider to go on top of a tree on the left side.

Mike grinned and said, " Scale shot."

The snake shot the flaming scales towards the spider and even destroyed the dried tree it stood on.

The spider jumped into another dried tree, but Mike was already aiming at that tree as fire released from the snake's mouth.

The spider shot its web thread towards another tree and dodged before shooting its web at the snake.

But the web didn't work on the flaming snake because of fire.

Seeing this, Athan smiled wryly because the flaming snake was a nemesis to his poison spider due to its fire element.

Both of them fought, and Athan managed to use poisoned fang skill on the snake after getting close to it, and even though it managed to injure the snake, his spider gave away first and died.

After the fight was over, Mike received [ 1 win, 0 loss ] while Athan received [ 0 wins, 1 loss ] status.

They disappeared from that place and reappeared at the place where they previously were.

Tiana and others were already there.

Athan's spider once again appeared from white sparks.

[ The next round will start in 5 minutes. ]

When they asked each other's results, they were dumbfounded at Athan and Mike's coincidence, and it turned out that everyone won their first match except Athan.

"Ahem...I have something serious to announce. " Athan said with a serious face.

Everyone paid attention as he continued, " When we were sent to different locations to fight, I couldn't sense my soul threads in you, which means that we were all transported to completely different spaces to fight against our opponents. So I have decided that If you all lose two times, you won't be allowed to participate further and stay in the special space. "

Everyone nodded and agreed because the rules stated that if you lose three times, you will die. They were fortunate to have the special space to quit the trial halfway, unlike other trialists.

" What about you, Brother Athan? "

Hearing Qerin's question, Athan said while shaking his head, " I don't know. Although I am sure that nothing will happen to me as long as I go inside the special space after losing my 3rd match, I won't take that risk. " He paused here and smiled before continuing, " Anyway, I have an idea. "

He took others inside the special space, and their pets also appeared there.

Seeing this, Athan laughed and said, " Great. Now let's do this. "

He then told everyone about his plan.

...

Before the five minutes were up, Everyone was barely finished with their preparation and went out, and they soon disappeared after coming out.

After four-five minutes, everyone appeared once again with smiles on their faces.

Everyone won their matches, and that too without struggle.

The reason was obvious when one looked at their pets.

" hahaha, bro, Your idea is excellent, and it's working very well. "

Mike's flaming snake had wings and one more layer of armor.

Athan's Poison Spider also wore armor and two small cannons on its back.

Avelia's Greyscale tiger was even more ferocious with its dark silver armor on its body, which could rebound attacks and release sound shockwaves when enemy attacks hit the armor.

Qerin's Primape Fighter had ferocious full body armor and dark brown gauntlets on its hands.

Finally, Tiana's Synth Bat was smaller in body size but had a 3-meter wingspan. So she covered it in armor that suits its body, and there were additional layers of red lightning wings on it that could attack enemies.

Tiana chuckled and said, " The trial tried its best to adjust and make it fair, but unfortunately, it failed. "

Inside the special space, They used their elemental energies and genesis energies to create additional gadgets on their pets, and they were practically invincible against other trialist's pets.

" At first, I thought we might not win many rewards in this trial, but I guess we will all win 9 matches each and win the grand prize. " Mike spoke with a grin.

" Let's hope this trial doesn't make any more arrangements. Although I am sure it will not make it since our armors and gadgets are made from origin energy. ", said Avelia.

Athan smiled while nodding his head, " Yep. I also think there won't be a problem on that part since our pets are also using origin energy. It should be the same thing as what happened in the Trial of Ascendancy. "

Avelia nodded, " Yep. "

They waited for the next round to start, and soon they also won their 3rd match, which granted them a new pet and an evolution stone.

Though Athan didn't receive any since his score was [ 2 wins, 1 loss ]

The new pet they got was already at Grade 2, but when they tried to use evolution stone on their grade 2 pets, it didn't work.

" Looks like we can only use this evolution stone on our first pet. " Saying this, Avelia used her evolution stone on Greyscale tiger, and three options appeared in front of Avelia.

[ Evolution Path ]

-Dark Tiger

-Holy Tiger

-Aerial Tiger

There were no in-depth details, but there was no need since it was obvious from the evolution path's names.

" I'll go with Aerial Tiger since there's no need for additional elements when It already has offensive armor. "

Avelia chose Aerial Tiger, and two wings sprouted on each of its sides, breaking the armor in the process.

[ Grade 2, Aerial Greyscale Tiger ]

-Element: none

-Skills: Aeriel Strike, Flying Dash, Extending Enhanced Claws.

" Ouch, I need to make the armor once again. "

Athan sent her inside the special space, where she started to create armor once again.

Chapter 149 - Easy Wins, Qerin Fainted.

Athan sent everyone inside the special space so they could gear up their pets because the time given to them was still five minutes.

Only a few seconds were left for the next round to start when they came out, so they disappeared in few seconds to fight their next matches.

After a while, Everyone came back as they won their matches easily, and Athan also returned with a win as he got a new pet and evolution stone.

Athan's new pet was an armored bee with horns and four slim yellow wings

[Grade 2, Stelling Bee ]

-Elements: Metal, Glass

-Skills: Golden beam, Missile Shards

He also evolved his spider and chose the Abyss evolution path.

[ Abyss Spider ]

-Element: Poison, Shadow

-Skills: Abyss Fangs, Shadow Web.

Mike chose the Amphitere path for his snake evolution as his flaming snake evolved to a flaming snake with wings.

[ Grade 2, Flaming Pterotos ]

-Elements: Fire, Wind

-Skills: Flame breath, Enhanced Fire Scales.

His new pet was a plant-type pet that had the shape of a mushroom with two big leaves on its left and right side and two vines that acts like its feelers on top of its round head.

[ Grade 2, Shrambell ]

-Elements: Wood, Poison

-Skills: Fungus spray, Mushroom blast.

...

There was no suspense in this trial as they won all their next matches with ease.

One unique thing about this trial was that it let more participants enter the trial when others were eliminated ( dead ) after losing 3 times.

They would also get an option to quit the trial after winning every three matches, and if they decided to quit, they would get the final reward.

But to receive the grand reward, They have to get 9 wins.

After many rounds, Tiana, Avelia, and Qerin acquired 9 wins first and received the grand reward.

The grand reward turned out to be a single fruit that had mango's shape but was light gold in color and had pure white patterns.

Athan [ 8 wins, 1 loss ], Tian [ 9 wins, 0 loss ], Avelia [ 9 wins, 0 loss ], Qerin [ 9 wins, 0 loss ], Mike [ 8 wins, 1 loss ]

The funny thing was that Mike was matched against Athan once again, and in their next fight, Athan won.

At this time, Athan and others were at their usual place, and the next round was going to start in five minutes. But Tiana, Avelia, and Qerin can't participate anymore since they won 9 matches, and they would automatically leave the trial zone after 10 minutes.

Tiana spoke while looking at the fruit in her hand, " Athan, send us into the special space. Avelia, Qerin, and I will eat the fruit and see its effect. Since it's a grand reward, it can't be bad. "

" Alright. " Athan nodded and sent them into the special space while he and Mike waited for their next round.

When only a few seconds were left for the round to start, Mike suddenly thought of something as he grinned and said, " haha, I just had a funny thought. What will happen if we are matched against each other again? "

The round started as they both disappeared.

Mike and Athan looked at their opponents and heaved a sigh seeing that they were not matched against each other.

...

Both Athan and Mike won their matches easily and left the trial zone before entering the special space.

Tiana, Avelia, Qerin were still sitting closed-legged with their eyes closed. Both Athan and Mike could feel surging soul energy around them.

" Looks like this fruit's gonna strengthen our soul by a large margin. "

Athan nodded with a grin as this was what they most needed, " I suppose Ruler Plane existences need powerful soul or something related to the soul as one the requirements to breakthrough or they are giving rewards based on what winners needs the most. "

" Anyway, Let's eat our fruits too. "

Both Athan and Mike also ate their fruits and sat down as their soul started to strengthen.

After a while, Tiana, Avelia, and Qerin opened their eyes. But Qerin was rubbing her head with a painful expression.

Tiana and Avelia noticed this.

" What happened Qerin? " Tiana asked with concern.

Qerin shook her head while rubbing it and said, " I don't know, But I am having a splitting headache and..."

She stopped as her face turned white, and cold sweat appeared due to intense pain inside her head.

Avelia and Tiana were worried and tried to inject the white gold energy inside her, but it seems that it couldn't cure her intense headache, and Qerin soon fainted.

On the other hand, Athan and Mike opened their eyes with smiles as Mike laughed and said, " Hahaha, the fruit was really a grand reward. Our soul body increased by 7 whole meters. "

" Indeed. We are close to getting our soul body to 20 meters and use our soul quirks [ Soul Birth ]. " Athan said.

" You two, Something happened to Qerin, and she fainted. We tried to use the white gold energy, but it seems that she wasn't injured and fainted for another reason. " Said, Tiana. She guessed that Qerin wasn't injured because if she was injured then the white gold energy would've healed her.

Mike panicked as he dashed towards Mimi's bed where Qerin was sleeping.

Athan also arrived there with a frown and thought of a possibility, ' Could it be that she is regaining her memories? '

" Calm down, Mike. If she were injured, then white gold energy would've healed her. But since white gold energy did nothing, it means that she is fine and will wake up soon. "

Hearing Athan's words, Mike calmed down, but he was worried internally.

' Could it be that she is regaining her memories? ' Mike thought worriedly, ' Please don't forget me, Qerin. ' He kept saying this inside his head and waited.

It didn't take long as Qerin woke up after ten minutes.

Mike grabbed her hand and looked at her nervously before saying, " Qerin...Do you remember me, right? Right? "

Athan, Tiana, and Avelia could understand him, and they also looked at Qerin.

Qerin smiled and said, " Of course I remember you, idiot. Why would I forget you? " But her eyes were a bit complicated.

Mike hugged her as he smiled with a silly face, " Yeah. You will never forget me. "

" Alright, guys. Let's take a break. " Saying this, Athan snapped his finger with a smile, and both Mike and Qerin disappeared as he sent them their house on the mountain.

Afterward, Tiana, Avelia, and Athan also went to their house on another mountain.

Mimi and Lucky were playing with altar spirits behind the mountain ranges, and she noticed them going towards their house.

" Lucky, Let's go and see what they are doing. Mimi is curious. "

" Nyaaa...We shouldn't go there...I think. " Lucky shook its cute head and sat on Mimi's head before saying, " Let's continue our game. This time, Me, Yinu, and Lucent will find you all. "

They completely changed the scenery behind the mountain range to play their games.

There were lots of giant trees, and the underground was also burrowed with holes. Athan had also build rides and tunnels for them some time ago, so they spent most of their time here.

Chapter 150 - Most Exciting Trial, The Trial Of Bloodbath-1

The next day, Athan and others started to move to find another trial and soon came across a trial entrance.

In front of them was a tall gate that looked demonic. There were no doors and just darkness.

" Is this really an entrance to the trial? It looks way scary and creepier than all other trials' entrance we came across. "

Qerin commented after seeing the demonic gate that was giving off bad vibes.

Athan thought for a moment and said, " No harm in checking it out. Though I will send you all inside the special space and go alone. "

Seeing that they were going to object, he said while shaking his head, " I am not taking a NO for an answer. Don't worry; if something is wrong, I will immediately come inside. "

He then sent everyone inside and started walking towards the gate and entered.

After a brief moment of darkness, He appeared at devastated lands covered in fire and dark clouds with lightning raging in the sky.

[ Welcome to the Trial of Bloodbath ]

[ The trial will be paused due to lower level energy being entering and will adjust the rules. ]

[ Adjusting ]

...

There were currently thousands of beings inside this trial, and many were coming here each minute and second.

Many were irritated and angry due to the pause of trial, while even more were relieved.

Athan took everyone out from the special space, but just as they came out, they disappeared.

" Fuck!! " Athan was shocked as this was totally unexpected and hurriedly used his soul technique to see if they are in the same space and if he could bring them back.

Tiana, Avelia, Qerin, and Mike were teleported to different places, and they also panicked because they suddenly found themselves alone and in a different place.

But after a few seconds, They felt Athan's technique working and disappeared from there before arriving inside the special space.

Athan sighed a relief when he succeeded in bringing them back inside the special space.

At this time, the trial was also done with its adjusting as a frame appeared in front of all participants about the adjustments.

[ The adjustment is complete. ]

[ The only new change is that the strength and plane of existence of every trialist will be capped at Peak-Profound Domain Plane. They won't be able to utilize higher levels of energy and powers beyond that of the profound domain plane. ]

[ The old rules remain the same: Everyone will have their positions changed every ten minutes, and every time you kill someone, you will receive rewards. The only way to leave this trial is after killing twenty people. ]

[ The trial will resume in one minute. ]

Athan was surprised and also...excited.

This trial was by far the fairest since everyone will be at the same strength, but Athan and others will still be weaker since they just broke through to the profound domain plane.

But they had their own advantages.

Avelia and others inside the special were also astounded as Tiana spoke with a smile that hid some excitement, " This trial will truly temper ourselves. "

Others also nodded, and Athan understood this, so he brought them out, but the same shit happened.

They disappeared right after he brought them out from the special space.

He tried to check the connection with all others as he had used his soul technique which will last for 8 hours before entering the trial gate.

When it's almost 8 hours, He will send them inside the special space via the soul thread connection.

But when Athan tried to check the connection of his soul technique, He frowned as a grave expression surfaced on his face, ' I can't sense my connection with Tiana's soul. Wait...I can sense, but it's very faint. '

He tried to send Tiana into the special space, but unfortunately, he failed.

" Dammnit..." Athan cursed while gritting his teeth.

The connection was very faint, but it might change after ten minutes because the trial will change their positions.

' Tiana is not that weak, especially with her Genome Art. ' Athan was worried, but he knew Tiana was not that weak.

The one minute was up, and the trial also resumed.

...

Tiana was currently inside an underground cave.

When she was teleported here, The first thing she did was to summon her altar spirits and check her surroundings.

Stormy was sitting on her shoulder, Slevyn was flying around her, and Liena was standing on the ground beside her.

Slevyn looked like a dark snake with white linings with two wings, and Liena looked like a white sabertooth cat with red and black patterns.

All three of them were in their miniature forms.

Tiana moving with caution but suddenly stopped.

Devilish wings appeared behind her, and her altar spirits were ready to take action as they looked at the left side of the cave, which had another pathway.

" Stormy, Activate your domain. "

*screee...*

After the domain was activated, Tiana waved her left hand as several small horizontal tornadoes were formed before they went inside the pathway.

But right after that, Her face changed as she dashed to her right side.

*Booom....*

The place she stood before was destroyed, and after the dust settled, Tiana saw a burly being of Blumbra race.

He grinned at Tiana before clapping his hand powerfully as waves of dark blue slashes shot towards Tiana.

Leina roared as three silver spinning disks with red and black patterns materialize as they cut through the waves before attacking the Blumbra race being.

The Blumbra race being already started his defense after he threw the attack, so the three disks hit the two square shields that appeared on the giant hands of the blumbra race as he blocked the disk with those shields.

He then put both of his hands on the ground as it started to crack. Tiana's face changed as she jumped up but then realized that she fell into his trap.

Two more hands appeared from behind the blumbra race member right after Tiana jumped as he shot two golden orbs with blue lightning around them towards Tiana.

Slevy produced two dark umbrella-like shields with white linings as the orbs were attracted towards it while Tiana focused on the attack that came from below the ground that looked like a dark blue flame geyser.

She slightly used her geno power as she activated her Geno Art: Solace of Blood Night.

A thin red veil appeared in front of the dark blue flame attack as the veil absorbed everything before a faint red outline appeared around Tiana.

She could absorb the power with her geno power. It would convert whatever power it absorbed into a powerful enchantment that could strengthen her physical body, soul, and mind for a certain duration.

But during this time, she will also suffer pain.

' I have to hurry. ' Thinking this, Tiana used her Leina's domain power as a white nova appeared behind her.

The blumbra race member had prepared four shields around him as he was ready to execute a big move, but Tiana didn't give him a chance as she instantly appeared behind with her the nova jump ability of Leina and pushed both of her hands that she coated in red and dark blue lightning in the form of claw inside the Blumbra race member.

" H-how? " The blumra race member was shocked because she completely pierced through his defense.

Tiana was breathing heavily as she was also feeling pain due to Solace of Blood Night's power-up, but that was also why she could instantly appear behind him along with Nova jump and how she could pierce his defense.

She didn't waste time after piercing her hands inside his body and instantly directed her powers in her hand before blasting his body into pieces.

Tiana was breathing heavily, but after a few seconds, She started to recover due to the white gold energy.

She was covered in dark blue blood, so she cleaned herself using water energy while her altar spirits stayed vigilant.

Tiana shook her hand and muttered with frustration, " I wanted to beat him without using genome power. "

' He was more cunning in his attacking and defensive patterns. I should also think several steps ahead and think of possibilities before the fight starts. ' Thought Tiana as she started to recover her energy while looking out for any enemies.

...

Avelia was at another place, and she was fighting with a Grakil race being.

She knew that the female grakil race being in front of her was a tough nut to crack, so she instantly used her Disruptive Ray, which rendered her useless, and she easily finished him off by shooting two dark silver blades to cut her head and destroyed her body.

...

Athan was having the easiest time among them.

Lucky was shooting Destructive Orbs while Athan was using various offensive abilities of his altar spirits without holding back since he didn't have to worry about energy.

The being in front of him was a crysax race being, and he could only defend himself with not even a single chance to attack Athan.

Athan threw colorful blades that were imbued with time, gravity, and other energy as they paused in the air without depleting their energy due to the time cage. After that, he broke the crysax race being's defense with other attacks before the colorful blades hit the crysax race member.

' What is this monstrous human? Does he not care about depleting his energy and not being able to fight when someone else comes? ' The crysax race member died with disbelief.

Athan finished the battle in under a minute.

Chapter 151 - Trial Of Bloodbath-2

" Damn...." Mike cursed with a painful expression as he hid on a thick tree.

His right hand twisted with bone protruding out, and he was currently trying to heal it.

' I should have used my genome power from the start. If I had done so then, I wouldn't have been injured. '

He wanted to fight without relying on genome power, but the opponent he faced was more powerful than him, and he gave almost no chance to Mike as he attacked him cunningly. Seeing the situation turning dire, He finally decided to use the genome power, but the enemy ran away with his ability after Mike using strange power.

...

At another place, Qerin was in the middle of her battle.

Her face was expressionless, and she calmly fought with her opponent.

She had small light green clouds on her feet and hands as she flew and dodged the attacks with ease while throwing out the attack towards her opponent, a member of the Requiroar race.

Requiroar race members usually have a big head and five long sharp fingers on their hands and feet. Their body skin ranges from light green to dark green.

While Qerin was flying, she also used her powers in the surroundings as she trapped her enemy inside a dark web-like dome.

Her opponent tried to escape, but she would always predict his movement and attack in advance.

Qerin completed the dark web and waved her left hand, which produced two golden crescent blades with a brown hue as they shot towards the required race member.

"Dark Net of Death. " Qiana muttered as the dark web started to contract while trapping the requiroar race being.

" Damnn... " Reitun cursed as he decided to use everything and put both of his hands below the ground to blast it.

But before he could do it, A dark humanoid creature with whip-like hands appeared behind him and grabbed his hands before wrapping its whip-like hands around them.

" Aaaaaaaaa....." His hands were corroded before a white light burst out from the black thing that wrapped his hands as hands disintegrated.

" Come back. " Qerin said to her altar spirit as it came back, But its hands were gone since it used them to blast the enemy's hands, but they were slowly regenerating.

Afterward, Qerin pointed her finger as a small white ball shot forward before entering the requiroar being's chest...Afterward, Qerin turned around and started walking.

*chreeeeeee....*

Just when the white ball entered into the requiroar being's chest, The dark net instantly converged with the white ball as the center point.

The result? Not even a piece of that being was left.

...

The ten minutes soon passed, and everyone teleported to different places.

Right after that, Athan, Tiana, Avelia, and Qerin received a voice in their head about the reward as they received different things.

Tiana received armor, Athan received a sword, Avelia received an enhancement robe, and Qerin also received armor.

Mike didn't manage to kill anyone, so he received nothing.

Athan tried to feel the connection with Tiana and succeeded. He then decided to call everyone back to check on their stats, and he also entered the special space.

Everyone appeared inside the special space and seeing them, Mimi pouted, " Mimi is once again alone now. I don't have anyone to play together. " But then she noticed Mike's hand. Qerin also noticed this as she became worried and ran towards him.

Mike smiled bitterly and said, " I was beaten up quite badly. If I didn't use genome power, then I would've had died. "

" Idiot, Be more careful from now on. " Qerin scolded in a worried tone.

Athan shook his head and used some white gold energy to heal him, " Be careful from now on and use your genome power at correct timing. The genome power is the only advantage we have over them. Did any of you use the genome skill? "

" cough, I did use my skill right away because I felt that the enemy was too powerful. " Avelia said with some embarrassment.

Athan was glad and said as he looked at Avelia, " Don't hesitate to use your genome skill and power if you are in danger. And Avelia, you should stay here and recover your genome power. "

Avelia nodded as she didn't waste time and sat down in meditation.

Afterward, Athan took out Lucky and Lucent and said, " You two stay here with Mimi. Skylord and DeathKnight are enough for me. "

" Mike, Do you want to continue? "

Mike stood up and spoke with determination, " Of course, I have no intention of sitting back just because of a minor setback. "

Athan nodded with a smile and gave him the sword he received as the reward, " Use this sword. You can channel your power inside this sword and shoot blade projectiles to attack, but don't rely on it too much. "

" Thanks, bro. And don't worry, I will be careful. "

Afterward, Athan took Tiana, Qerin, and Mike out with him while Aveia stayed inside.

But the same thing happened as only Athan was left while others disappeared to other places.

Mike was planning to check the sword out, but he directly appeared behind an Amarphy race man.

" Crap...." Mike didn't waste time and instantly channel his power inside the sword and attacked.

The Amarphy race man was shocked, but he put up the defense behind him on time and barely defended himself.

' Humph, I will not give you any chance. ' Mike snorted and thought as he learned much in the previous fight where he was beaten.

Clawen, The first altar spirit of mike that looked like an eagle with oversized claws and razor-sharp wings, also appeared and started raining attacks per Mike's command.

" I just need to use a little bit..." Mike muttered as his Geno Art appeared on his hands, The two draconic and demonic-looking gauntlets.

The Amarphy race man wanted to dodge, but Mike's other altar spirit prevented him by throwing a white bubble with yellow and green energy mixed inside it.

This altar spirit had a big mouth and looked like a fish with wings. The white bubble was released by it with the use of its domain power. The bubble exploded as the man was bathed in a sticky substance and trapped him.

The Ampary race man cursed and thought, ' Damnnit, I need a few seconds to remove these sticky substances. '

But Mike wasn't going to give him this chance as he dashed forward a bit, swiping his gauntlet towards the man.

Even though Mike was not in direct touch with the man, He could see his hand pierced inside the man's body. He then slightly activated his genome power along with his third altar spirit's destructive offensive ability.

" Get blasted. "

" Noooo....." The Amarphy race man screamed as he felt the crisis, but it was too late as his body exploded.

...

Athan was currently facing a member of the Dision race.

" What's wrong, human? Why don't you attack me? " Derika said as she looked at Athan.

Athan smiled and said, " I am in no hurry. You can start first. "

Both of them had used domains, but Derika has suppressed Athan's domain due to it being only at the first stage.

Athan didn't mind this and shrank his domain to just 1 meter around him, and seeing that Derika really didn't have the intention to attack him first, Athan said, " Since you insist, then I'll go first. "

Derika smiled while thinking, ' Haha, stupid human, go ahead and attack. '

The chakrams appeared on his hands as he threw them, but he didn't aim them towards Derika.

He threw both of them in two different directions.

" Where are you aim- " Derika was going mock him, but suddenly, She saw Athan disappearing, and her face changed as she covered herself in a starry square barrier.

One of the chakrams hit the left wall of the barrier, but it didn't break the barrier and instead came out from the right wall of the barrier without damaging it.

Athan was currently at the position where his second chakram was located.

This was the assist concept he created.

He could exchange position with his chakram or teleport to the chakram. He could also exchange both chakram's positions with other things as long as it's within the range and the opponent wouldn't feel fluctuation since he infused a few silent and camouflage-type intents.

Derika pointed her palms towards Athan before many space blades imbued with destructive energy shot towards him.

" Harbinger Fan "

Athan pointed his palms forward, and a giant spinning fan with four colors, dark, silver, red, and dark blue, materialized that was created with Skylord's conceptual power and shot forward.

After releasing this attack, Athan teleported to his chakram that failed to break the barrier. Right after that, A horned crown appeared on his head as he punched Derika's powerful barrier.

Derika was not worried about her barrier being destroyed since she had confidence in it.

" What!!! ", Derika was shocked as instead of Athan being flung off and damaged by the rebound of her barrier, He actually broke the barrier.

' What's that purple aura? ' Derika thought, but this was also her last thought.

Athan didn't waste time and instantly threw his chakram and powered it up even more with DeathKnight's concept power as additional dark red blades started to spin around the chakram.

The chakram disappeared and instantly appeared at Derika's neck as it decapitated her.

Chapter 152 - Domain Core, Trial Of Bloodbath-3

Athan managed to kill two enemies in ten minutes while Tiana and the rest killed one each with the use of their genome power. Right now, They were gathered in the special space to recover.

Each one received a fruit that strengthened their soul while Athan received an additional armor.

" Let's stop for a while and form our domain core. We are already familiar with our domain powers, so it shouldn't pose much problem to us, and we don't need to worry about the lack of energy here. "

Everyone nodded and sat down to form their domain core. Athan did the same.

' Looks like this trial is giving out things that are needed to the participants as a reward. If so, then this is our best chance to get strong. ' Athan thought as he started the process.

The profound domain plane has five stages.

When one finishes forming all three domains of their altar spirits, They are considered at the first stage, Domain Formation.

2nd Stage: Domain Core

- In this stage, The people have to create a domain core inside their soul realm. This domain core will contain powers of all three domains of their altar spirits, but to form it, They need to make use of the profound meaning they received in the Soul Altar plane, some soul energy, and lots of genesis and elemental origin energy. After the core is formed, They can have their personal domain that contains all abilities and powers of their altar spirit's separate domain.

3rd Stage: Body Strengthening.

- After their domain core is formed, They need to strengthen their body by using their own domain. If they have a weak body, they won't be able to make progression in the next stage, and at this point, the conceptual energy of their domain is the only way to strengthen their body.

4th Stage: Core refinement

- After they have formed the core and strengthened their body, They can start refining the core to make their personal domain stronger. This refinement process needs an abundance amount of elemental origin energy & genesis energy because they need to condense all of their elemental origin energy regardless of its element and combine it with their genesis energy to create a small pond. After doing this, they need to put the core inside the combined energy pond and refine the domain core to make it stronger. If they have a weak body, they can't sustain the pond of mix elemental origin energy and genesis energy in their bodies and thus injure themselves. They need to refine the core until it reaches the limit. Generally, it requires five to six refinements.

5th Stage: Primal Break.

- In this stage, They have to use their profound domain core and try to sense the primal barrier and break it using their domain power.

...

Everyone was in meditation as they were forming their domain core.

They needed to spend a lot of time, effort, and energy to create the domain core.

Athan was inside his soul realm and had used all three of his domain.

[ Domain of DeathKnight ], [ Domain of Skylord ] & [ Domain of Infinite prism, Lucent ]

He needed to condense all three domains using genesis energy and some soul energy into a round core. Although it sounds simple, it's a bit tough since he needed impeccable control while condensing them.

Tiana and others were also doing the same.

All of them did this slowly as they condensed their domain bit by bit since they had no lack of energy here. For normal people, they have to prepare lots of Origins stones and Genesis stones before creating the domain core since they will have to activate their domain for a long time, and if they ran out of energy in the middle, their efforts would go to waste.

After fifteen days of gradually condensing their domains, They finally created their domain core.

Their combat power increased with this one step as they could now use the abilities and powers of all of their domains simultaneously and even combine them inside their personal domain.

...

" Let's fill up our genome power while we are at this and go out to fight. We can fight a round or two before coming back and continue our progress by strengthening our bodies. ", said Athan.

Mike clenched his fist as he thought, ' This time, I will definitely win without using genome power. '

Tiana and others were also thinking the same, except Qerin.

Qerin was internally lost in thought, ' Should I tell Mike that I regained my memories and I'll have to leave at some point? I also want to take him with me, but I wonder if he will come with me. Hmm...If I invite Athan and others, Mike will not stay here alone. Yep, I'll do this. '

After that, Everyone spent twenty days and filled their genome power.

Athan looked at everyone and said with a serious face, "Don't take unnecessary risks and use genome power; it is your own power, and there's nothing wrong with using it. "

Hearing this, Tiana, Avelia, and Mike flinched, but Athan noticed that and said while shaking his head, " Don't be stubborn and use genome power at the start of the fight to get the advantage but even so, don't let your guard down. We are here to temper ourselves, and we do this by fighting others and see how they fight while we try to counter them. We don't need to take unnecessary risks by not using our own powers because that's the foolish thing to do. "

Athan remembered about his previous life and spoke with a mocking smile, " If you have the power, then use it. No matter in what form that power comes from. It is something to be used for your survival. "

' If I had this power in my previous life, I wouldn't have died so miserably. '

Tiana thought about it and nodded with a smile, " I promise that I will definitely do my best in the fight for my survival and you. "

Avelia also clenched her fist and nodded.

" Sorry, bro. I was stubborn and thought about fighting without genome power, but I will abandon that thought and do my best from the start. ", Mike spoke as he scratched his head with an embarrassing smile.

Athan sighed relief as his point went through them and smiled, " Good. Now Let's go. "