Crown of Void (part 1)

The next day came quickly and I left my room to explore the city. It was early, but the streets were already filled with people. I started walking in a random direction, just admiring the mid-century buildings and a completely new and different culture, I walked aimlessly for about half an hour. Until I heard a voice in my head that I had overlooked.

[I sense a powerful treasure 100 kilometers northeast of the host, I recommend you go in that direction as soon as possible].

Unexpectedly, Akame decided to speak, and what she said was even more unexpected. Without giving it much thought, I quickly left the city, and a little farther away from the city, I changed my form and began to fly in the direction indicated as quickly as possible. "Hey, Akame, what is this treasure?" After all, Akame was a powerful primordial god, so she might be able to know such things.

[I'm curious myself, it must be something salvaged from the Ancient War, because something that powerful shouldn't naturally appear in this world. Hopefully, it will be useful to the host].

Now I was even more curious about what the object was, but I decided not to think about it and concentrated on the road. After about an hour, I was standing in front of an ordinary mountain where there was nothing unusual, but I heard a soft cry, the voice clearly belonged to a woman - "Come to me" - I immediately took out my katana and activated my divine sense, but I could not feel anything, nor could I identify where the woman's voice was coming from. Akame seemed to be able to hear it as well. 

[Let the host be careful, we don't know what it is and how powerful it is].

[I ask the host to place a drop of blood on the large stone in front of the host.]

Still on high alert, I did as Akame said, pricked my finger lightly with my katana and squeezed out a drop of blood that fell on the indicated stone. Immediately after that, I felt something enter my body, but I didn't know what it was or how to fight it. But after a while, the strange feeling of being examined disappeared and a strange, passionless voice appeared in my head. It sounded like my system, but it wasn't.

{Candidate #1 meets all requirements}

Immediately after the unidentified voice said this, I felt that I was losing the ability to move my body, and my vision began to spin. 

[The host has just teleported to *@#&%$#.]

Akame spoke, but I could not understand the end of her sentence. I began to lose touch with reality, seeing a mass of changing blurs of color. After a while it passed and so did I was standing in a black place, or it was so dark that I couldn't see anything, and I tried to look around and use my divine sense, but I couldn't, because something was blocking it.

{Cultivation Realm Establishing Foundations}

{Participant #1 will be joining the battle rehearsal soon, please prepare}.

The unknown voice spoke again, I was afraid, but I decided to fight it, I could not be afraid all the time, I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, this allowed me to calm down, I opened my eyes, but there was no trace of fear in them, only the desire to fight. I did not know why, but I felt excited to fight something unknown.

Suddenly, my opponent appeared in front of me, a creature I had never seen before, maybe 1.5 meters tall, it had a tail, not naturally long arms and legs ending in sharp claws, all black, no eyes or ears, just a blank face without any details. This made it even more frightening. - "Analysis"

<race-???? >.

<Cultivation Level - Foundations High>.

At least I knew what realm he was in. I tightened the grip on my katana and moved forward, deciding to attack first. The creature was 50 meters in front of me, with a flap of my wings I appeared in front of it and used a storm of steel, the creature jumped back and wanted to counterattack, but I didn't give it that chance, once again I swung my wings and appeared beside it, slicing my katana into its side, The creature did not intend to dodge this time, as if it was sure that I could not hurt it, and swung its hand to hit me in the side, I had no intention of blocking it either, my attack reached it first, my katana leaving a deep wound in its side.

The creature tried to attack me as well, but to no avail, a wave of wind deflected its attack just as it was about to reach me and knocked the creature back a few steps, I wasn't going to take that chance, I quickly shortened the distance between us and used a tempest of steel, the creature tried to block it, but to no avail, my katana pierced its head, but the creature wasn't dead, it swung its tail and hit me in the side with great force. If I had held the katana a little lighter, I would have left it in its head. I flew back 20 meters, bouncing off the ground, quickly picking myself up, the right side of my stomach hurt badly, but I ignored the pain and watched the creature carefully.

The creature, seeing my situation, rushed straight at me, it was very fast but still slower than me, it swung its paw at me, trying to attack me in the head, but I easily blocked it and this time I hit it with my tail, the creature flew back about 15 meters and hit the ground, rolling on it for a few more meters. I didn't give it a chance to get up, thanks to my wings, I shortened the distance between us and with a strong movement of my katana I cut off its head, I didn't stop there, I cut off its arms, legs and tail. I expected the unknown voice to say something like "the fight is over", but nothing of the sort happened. 

When i end, it was left with a body without limbs or a head, strangely, it did not bleed at all. With a few strokes of the katana, I cut his body into smaller pieces, and only then did an unidentified voice tell me that the fight was over.

{Congratulations, contestant #1 is ready for the next attempt.}

[The next test is a pain test]

{Try not to pass out}

I had no time to prepare and no time to rest and recover. Immediately after these words, my entire body was attacked by pain, my body was heated to high temperatures only to be cooled moments later to temperatures where an ordinary person would freeze, after that it felt like countless blades were cuting my entire body, and so on and so forth. I didn't know how long it lasted, at that moment I just wanted to die so that the pain would end, but I couldn't, there was also another thought, I wanted to enjoy this life, I couldn't just die, so I persisted in this pain. Finally, when all the pain was gone, I started to breathe quickly and tried to calm down.

[The host is strong, something like this can't break the host, am I right?]

Akame's worried voice appeared in my head. It was reassuring and happy, having someone who believes in you is really uplifting to the spirit, "You're right Akame," I left the pain behind and answered Akame with a smile on my face.