153-166

Chapter 153 - Trial Of Bloodbath-4

*Screeeeee....*

*Screeeeee....*

*Screeeeee....*

Tiana condensed several birds that appeared the same as stormy but with different colors as they all flew towards the Crysax race women.

The crysax race woman snorted, and a giant quartz crystal barrier appeared around her.

The birds hit the barrier, but the barrier didn't break. But after the birds exploded, the surrounding became hazy with colorful lights that made it hard for the crysax race women to sense.

Tiana used her genome power as she powered up and instantly appeared behind the woman before condensing two destructive dark orbs that contained the unique energy of her domain that she made by mixing the destructive energies.

The woman noticed it when Tiana appeared behind her and tried to block it by rapidly condensing several layers of defense using her domain power. Still, Tiana was prepared for it as she covered the orbs inside her genome power, and her hands pierced through the defenses because her Geno Art powered her up.

After she got past the defense of the crysax race woman, she released the two destructive dark orbs.

*BOOOM!!*

...

Avelia created two horizontal silver destructive whirlpools on each of her sides. The grakil race man in front of her roared and used his domain power and innate talent as his body expanded and was covered in strange armor.

He then opened his mouth as a destructive breath released from his mouth, but Avelia curled her lips and ignored it entirely as Four wriggling silver sticks appeared behind her as they came in front of her.

The silver sticks sucked the entire destructive breath released by the grakil race member, making him dumbfound.

After the silver sticks absorbed them, They started to make circular rounds with Avelia as the center and created a force field that contained the destructive breath.

Each second passed while the sticks were spinning around Avelia consumed her genome power, so she didn't waste time.

She controlled the whirlpools and did a space jump towards the dumbfounded grakil race man before covering him with both whirlpool and his even destructive breath that contained another mysterious energy that made him distracted.

Avelia knew this was not enough to kill, so she was already prepared with her ultimate move.

" Dixi, NOW. "

A blinding golden light silver hue released from Tiana's chest and decapitated the grakil race being.

...

Mike was once again in a pinch and used his genome skill to kill his opponent because he miscalculated.

" Dammnit, Why am I so stupid? " Mike cursed, looking at the corpse in front of him. The corpse was of a human male.

" Everyone is enemy here, regardless of their race. " Mike's eyes turned cold because if he didn't have his genome power, then he would have died due to the sneak attack of this man.

Mike was surprised when he found a fellow human; Nonetheless, Mike still attacked him, but the man who called himself Enix raised his hands and said that fellow humans shouldn't fight and Mike believed him since Enix didn't show any hostility towards him, and Enix also proposed to go together.

But Mike refused to travel together even just for ten minutes. Seeing this, Enix showed regretful expression before saying with a smile, " Alright then, good luck and hope you can pass this trial by killing 18 people. "

He then told Mike that they would go separate ways, and Mike also didn't feel like killing a fellow human who didn't show hostility towards him.

But that's when shit hit the fan as after Enix and Mike crossed paths and went their separate ways; Mike received a super fast sneak attack that was aimed at his heart.

Though Mike was quick to activate his genome art: Bahamut's rage, which created a field around him and erased that power.

Afterward, Mike pinpointed Enix and used his genome skill, which hit him even though the man was far away due to the genome skill's target lock attribute. Mike then dashed towards the man and killed him.

...

Athan and Qerin killed their opponent fast, but they didn't encounter a second enemy.

After the ten minutes were up and their position changed, everyone received their rewards, and Athan also used his soul technique to sense them with the intention to bring them back.

But he frowned as a worried expression appeared on his face, " I can only faintly sense Qerin and Avelia. It looks like they were teleported a bit far, and I can't take them back into the special space. Sigh...I hope they haven't used their genome skill and still have some genome power left. "

He took Tiana and Mike inside the special space and informed them about Avelia and Qerin's situation.

" Bro....." Mike looked worriedly at Athan.

" Don't worry, I am going out and will constantly sense them. " Athan told Mike and reassured him.

Tiana also nodded towards Athan before turning to Mike and said, " Both Avelia and Qerin are not weak. You have to trust them. "

Mike wiped his sweat and said, " Yeah, Qerin is definitely very powerful. At least more powerful than me, same with sister Avelia. "

Athan and Tiana went out while Mike stayed behind since he needed to fill up his genome power.

...

Avelia was safe currently, but Qerin encountered an opponent right after teleporting to a different place.

Her opponent was equally strong as they threw attacks towards each other, blocked each other's attacks, and dodged constantly.

The Terred race being in front of her had four more tentacles on her back, and she was also flying with the use of two spinning wheel-like things at her waist.

Qerin frowned as she didn't manage to hit her opponent even once.

' Her movement pattern and that ability are really tricky. '

She blocked the attack that came at her and dashed to the other side before directly using her genome skill.

[ Sheen of Doom ]

A blinding flash of white entered the terred race woman as her senses were jumbled, and she lost control of her movement.

Qerin took this chance as she stretched both of her hands forward in a triangular motion before releasing an attack that was a mixture of her domain's pure offensive power.

A triangular beam released as it hit the terred woman who was helpless to do anything, and everything on top of her waist turned into nothing.

Chapter 154 - Core Refinement, Powered Up.

*Boom...*

Currently, Avelia was fighting against a woman of the human race.

Just now, she was blasted back by a spiraling shockwave that Reviny released.

*cough*

Wiping away the blood from the corner of her mouth, Avelia grinned and said, " That hurts bitch. "

Reviny sneered and said, " Of course. It's supposed to hurt you. So? Are you ready to tell me or not?

Avelia stood up and laughed before saying, " It's indeed because of us that this trial adjusted and capped everyone's power. You could naturally see this since you sensed that I was not at the peak-profound domain plane. But Just because you are a core member of Union Cluster and whatever your father is...I don't give a single hoot about that. "

" So you indeed know me. " Reviny spoke with a surprise. Her father was actually just a level below peak-plane, and she was also a core member of the Union cluster because of her father.

" Yeah, I know you. But I am not planning to let you live, hehe. " Avelia grinned as she used her geno art, and four silver wriggling sticks appeared behind her. ' only a bit more than a minute is left. After that, we'll be teleported. Guess I'll finish this fast. "

Hearing what Avelia said, Reviny laughed as if she heard a joke, " You? and kill me? stop dreaming, little las-"

Halfway through, Her expression changed as a dark silver light shoot towards her, and she couldn't even dodge it since it was just too fast.

Avelia used [ disruptive ray ] before directly space jumping behind her.

Reviny was shocked and tried to her a defensive ability, but her energies were chaotic, and she couldn't control them.

" Hehe, Bye-bye. I'll give you a swift end. "

Avelia pointed her palm towards the heart of Reviny and released a golden beam with a dark and silver hue as it made a hole in Reviny's chest.

Avelia dusted and cleaned herself with water and wind.

" The genome skill is indeed powerful. The only downside is that we need to train for a bit over a month to fill up the genome power around the genome tree. "

After a minute, She was teleported to a different place and received a fruit as a reward.

...

At another place, Athan used his soul technique and smiled when he felt the proper connection with Avelia, Tiana, and Qerin.

He then took them inside the special space before he also entered.

Mike wasn't training but waiting since he knew that Athan could once again try to bring them back after ten minutes, and he was truly glad when he saw Qerin appearing with others and sighed relief.

" Let's re-fill our genome power, and then we will progress towards the 3rd stage of Profound Domain Plane. "

Tiana and others nodded and ate the fruits, which strengthened their souls as their soul body became the size of 18 meters.

Athan also ate the fruit, and his soul body became 20 meters, and he was ready to use the soul quirk, but he waited as he wanted to reach peak profound-domain first.

They went towards another side behind the mountain range and ten meters apart from each other before they started to strengthen their bodies.

They activated their domain and produced the conceptual energies as they started to strengthen their bodies both internally and externally.

But a surprising thing happened. Their bodies indeed strengthened, but it wasn't as much as they expected since their bodies already had a solid foundation due to the refining done by the crystals inside their energy realm that they received from the Ark.

They were done strengthening their body in just two days, but they didn't stop and continued their progress as they started the 4th stage of the profound domain plane, Core refinement.

...

Days passed as they refined their domain cores to make their unique domains more powerful.

The first refinement was finished after forty-five days.

They didn't lack energy here, so they did it slowly and gradually.

The second core refinement took them thirty days.

The third core refinement took them twenty days.

The fourth core refinement took them fifteen days.

And the last core refinement took them ten days.

...

" Haha, our domain strength and its abilities are enhanced and now can be considered the same level as those old peoples out there. this time, I will try to fight without using my genome power first. ", said Mike with a grin.

Athan also nodded a smile, " Yep, your domains will not be suppressed like before, and you can fully release your abilities and power. but don't be careless as you will still have to fight them carefully and not make a mistake; a single mistake can be fatal and life-threatening. "

" We have gained much experience by fighting against those people. There were some dire situations, but our genome power helped us in them. "

Hearing Tiana, others nodded and were in awe of genome power.

Athan said with a smile, " Let's fight some more rounds and get your soul body to 20 meters so that we can use [ Soul Birth ]. we can do two things with two souls simultaneously, so we'll let our second soul practice the genome technique as per our plan. "

Qerin said with a chuckle, " Then send us out, brother Athan. We can hardly wait to fight to our heart's content with others."

" Alright then. This time, we will gather after two rounds. "

...

Athan took others out, but they disappeared in an instance as always. He then expanded his domain and spread small dark brown sparrows everywhere.

[ Detection sparrows ]

He created this ability from his personal domain's mixed power. These sparrows each had a sensing barrier of twenty square meters, and if someone or some kind of energy enters within the five-meter range, Then Athan will sense it if the sparrow he released is within ten kilometers around him. The sparrows also turned invisible to the naked eyes.

He released hundreds of sparrows in different directions and used another ability.

[ Linked Detection Barrier ]

The sparrows resonanced and connected before a detection barrier formed with Athan as the center.

The sparrows will fly in this pattern with Athan as the center and keep the chain detection barrier. Athan will sense anyone who enters this barrier, and If someone detected his sparrows and hit them, Then obviously Athan will sense that.

He moved for a minute and instantly sensed someone entering his chain detection barrier.

The opponent also seemed to have found this barrier as he or she destroyed the chain detection barrier.

But Athan grinned and spoke, " hehe, It's too late. "

Chapter 155 - Powerful

Athan flew with a sonic boom in the opponent's direction with chakrams in his hands.

When Athan saw the opponent, he was surprised that he had already put up some defenses around him.

' You made a mistake to put a defense in front of me. ' Thinking of this, Athan threw one of his chakrams towards the several barriers the opponent had conjured around him and threw his second chakram at the right side of the opponent in the curve. If this second chakram flew in that direction, it would hit the barrier from the right side as it curves through its course.

If one noticed, They could see a faint purple hue at the edges of the first chakram as Athan had used a slight purple aura to that chakram.

That chakram hit the barrier, and with the combining strength of the powerful conceptualize powers around the chakram and purple aura, which broke the barrier easily.

Seeing this, Athan exchanged his place with the first chakram and appeared right in front of the broken barrier.

He finally saw the opponent who was of terred race.

The terred race man was actually gathering powers inside the barrier, and just when Athan appeared in front of him, He released them as a mass of destructive energy like a dragon's wide breath shot towards Athan.

But even though Athan was only five meters away from the terred race member and he would be hit in one second by the attack, He just grinned, " Too bad you missed. "

The terred member was dumbfound hearing what Athan said as he thought that he met a mental human, but facts proved him wrong.

He saw Athan disappeared in front of him as his attack missed.

The second chakram Athan threw was only a single second away from hitting the right side defense of the terred race.

Just when the second chakram was going to hit, Athan exchanged its position with the first chakram that was still laced with purple aura and destructive conceptualized mixed energies.

The terred race member was terrified as his right side defense suddenly broke, and Athan appeared at that place by exchanging his position with the chakram. After that, Athan pointed his five fingers of both hands towards the terred race man as multiple colored lasers were released.

The terred race man hurriedly put up defenses, more towards his vital spots.

The lasers hit them and put up a few holes in him, but he was still living due to him focusing on his vital spots.

With blood coming out of his mouth, He asked, " Y-you, How did dodge my attack? I even disturbed the surrounding space and used my domain so that you can't use space jumps or teleports. But...how did you still teleport? "

Athan was going to attack once again but stopped when he saw his opponent started speaking. He then smiled and said, " The surrounding space here is indeed disturbed, so it's tough to use space jumps or teleportation. "

The terred race man nodded and said with a confused expression, " Then how did you...? "

" It's tough but not impossible. My ability allows me to exchange position with the objects marked by my ability beforehand and as long as it's within my range. The range is 500 meters. Once I initiate the process, my space energy will consume and make the 500-meter zone into an absolute space zone, nullifying your space disturbance easily and allowing me to teleport to the objects marked by my ability or exchange position with them. "

The terred race man was bewildered and said, " But that will consume so much of your space ener-."

Athan interrupted him and said with a grin, " The only thing I don't lack is energies. Anyway, you look like a curious type, and now that you have watered your curiosity, we should finish this. "

Saying this, Athan snapped his finger as he used one of the offensive abilities of Skylord, which became even more powerful after he formed his domain core.

The snapping of his finger released a formless shock wave that had offensive intents, and conceptualized energy mixed it in as it invaded the brain of the terred race member.

" Aaaaaaaaaaaa..." The terred race man was hurt internally in his brain and tried to recover.

Athan didn't miss this chance as he punched towards the man's head before a purple aura projectile in a punching form released and obliterated half of his body.

He then formed [ Linked Detection Barrier ] and started moving once again.

...

At different places, Tiana and others were also fighting.

Tiana was currently facing a crysax race being, and she was unusually offensive this time.

*Booom*

She was using minimal powers but still hitting properly. Many small whirling threads were circling Tiana. The threads had different colors and were in groups. Dark brown threads in one group, violet color threads in one group, and golden threads with a green hue in one group.

[ Myriad Whirling Threads ]

She created these threads with extremely condensed and solid power of her domain and conceptualized energy.

When the opponent attacks her, she controlled dark brown and golden-green threads to break down those attacks and scatter them.

She then controlled the violet-colored threads and shot them towards her opponent.

The thread traveled in lightning-fast speed, and Tiana was also preparing an attack on both of her hands.

[ Drive Splittings ]

On both of her hands appeared destructive orbs with violet lighting and plasma, which had some resonance with the violet threads as they shot forward towards the threads near the opponent at an even faster speed.

The crysax race man barely put up the defenses, but they proved useless against the violet threads and the Drive Splitting, which combined with the threads.

When both of them combined, The threads scattered, and each one became a bit bigger with destructive energies as they hit the crysax race man.

" Arghhhhhhhhh..."

Seeing her attack was successful, Tiana didn't waste time and flew towards him as a bright white light release behind her back which propelled her through space and killed the crysax race being with another attack that looked like a red spinning whirlwind that destroyed the upper half of the crysax race man.

[ Whirling Crimson ]

Chapter 156 - Second Soul, Primal Energy

After refining their domain cores to the limit, everyone could take on opponents without using their genome power. Still, They used their genome power at the right time to kill their opponents. They became less dependent on it and started using it more wisely as they successfully killed their opponents.

After they received the rewards twice, Athan recalled everyone to the special space.

" Now that everyone's soul body has become 20 meters big, We can use our soul quirk, [ Soul Birth ]. ", Mike spoke in an excited voice.

Athan and others smiled as after their new soul is birthed; They could continue their progress in the genome tree.

Everyone sat down and used [ Soul Birth ].

This was a quirk, so they don't need to do anything in this. It is like an innate thing. They have to activate this, and it will do its work.

...

Inside Athan's soul realm.

Like others, His soul was also shrinking rapidly as the pure soul power condensed and turned into a round shape.

His twenty-two-meter soul body shrank to just seven meters after the process was done, and there was another soul body that was one meter tall.

Soul quirk, [ Soul Birth ] reduced everyone's soul body by fifteen meters, and it only birthed a one-meter soul body, but this is how it works because this was a birth of a new soul that could grow alongside their first soul.

After Athan was finished, He commended his second soul to fill up the genome tree by practicing. He then asked others, " Is everyone finished? Did anyone encounter any problem?"

Avelia said with a grin, " Yep, I just finished, and I have already commanded my second soul to fill up the genome tree. "

Others also did the same, and nobody encountered any problem.

Previously, They had to practice their genome technique through their genesis avatar or main soul; both of them required their full attention. But now, with the second soul, They could command it to practice it while they try to sense the primal barrier and break it.

Thus, They didn't waste any time and started training.

Athan also closed his eyes as he tried to sense the primal barrier.

...

" Cough, It's been a month, and I am unable to sense the barrier. Is it just I, or are you also not able to? " Mike opened his eyes and asked.

Others also opened their eyes as they nodded with wry expressions.

Avelia thought for a moment and said, " I think we need to fight more. To sense the barrier, We need to use our profound domain more. The primal barrier will bring us a whole new level of energy, and it can only be sensed after we have our domain core. Do you know why? "

Qerin nodded and said, " Primal energy is the source of all energies, and after we have accessed the primal energy, All of our other elemental energies will be no more, and instead, We will only have one type of energy which is Primal energy. Since it is the source energy of all elemental energies, The barrier that blocks us from getting it can only be sensed after reaching the closest to the primal energy.

And the closest to that is the energy contained in our core domain which we created after mixing all kinds of energies. So as long as we continue using our profound domain, We will eventually sense the Primal barrier. "

Hearing what Qerin said, Athan, Tiana, and Mike nodded as they had not much knowledge about it.

Mike thought of something and spoke with astonishment, " But I think that the energy of our genome power is unique from the so-called primal energy. It's like it's from an entirely different world. "

Qerin nodded and said with a smile and spoke in awe, " Indeed. There are unique dimensions and a new world connected to all Legendary sectors from what I know. These places have unique energies with mysterious properties that do not come under primal energy. "

Hearing this, Mike looked at her as if he was in doubt but didn't say anything.

On the other hand, Avelia smiled and said, " Yep. After our human race can open the hidden passage on our legendary sector, We can also venture outside filled with fortunes. The greater five races have access to this new world, and that's why they are the most powerful among other races. "

At this time, Athan said with a thoughtful expression, " So...After we get access to primal energy. The various elemental energies will disappear, but I guess that we can still use the elemental energies because of the elemental intents we have comprehended, right? "

Avelia nodded and said with a smile, " Yep. After we get primal energy, You have to rely on your master intents. For instance, You take a small amount of primal energy, and as long as you will, You can turn that into Fire energy since you have comprehended fire intent to master level. All our powers like domain and spells will work as usual since we have comprehended elemental intents at the master level. The only difference being that they will become even more powerful since Primal energy is stronger than origin energy. "

After talking for a while, Everyone went out as they decided to fight two more rounds in the trial before trying to sense the Primal barrier once again.

...

After fighting two rounds which consist of twenty minutes and two enemies, Athan once again recalled everyone back.

Actually, Avelia was slight injured in her fight, but she was healed soon because of the white gold energy.

" Let's try to sense the primal barrier once again. "

Tiana and others nodded as they sat down and once again started training.

Their second soul was continuously practicing the genome technique and filling up the branch. But they also found out that the practicing speed of the second soul was slightly slower than when they practice it themselves, which filled up the branch slowly.

Not that they mind since they could do two things simultaneously, and the speed might increase when the second soul gets strong.

The reward they received was once again the fruits that increased their soul strength.

Chapter 157 - Breaking Through? Unima Core.

Twenty days passed, and Athan was the first one to sense the primal barrier. Once he sensed this one time, Everything became clear to him.

' So I have to break this barrier using my profound domain's power. '

He stood up and flew a few kilometers away from others before using his domain core as his profound domain activated around him.

The primal barrier actually manifested inside his profound domain.

" Looks like It will not be that hard to break it once one has sensed the primal barrier. " Athan muttered as he used the powers of his profound domain to break the primal barrier.

*Kacha*

A breaking sound reverberated as a vast amount of primal energy poured out of nowhere inside his profound domain.

But another thing happened, which Athan didn't expect.

The unima core he got after he ate the unima fruit suddenly trembled and absorbed all of the primal energy inside his profound domain.

" What's going on? " Athan muttered as he felt the movement of unima core, and just then, he saw another shocking thing.

After absorbing the primal energy, the unima core started to fly around his energy realm and devoured all elemental crystals.

Athan was shocked but not worried.

He knew whatever that was happening only had benefits stored for him, so he just patiently waited.

After devouring all of the crystal, the unima core became bigger and turned golden brown colored with golden shine all over it.

The same colored energy was released from the unima core and started to refine his body internally.

His body was already powerful, but this energy further refined it.

Athan took a careful look at his internal, and he could clearly see the golden brown shining all over his organs and bones.

He also felt explosive strength overflowing inside his whole body. With a dumbfounded expression, He muttered, " Holy crap...Even I don't know how powerful my body is after this refining. "

To test this, He left the special space and appeared in the trial zone.

After he appeared here, He felt a huge suppression on himself out of nowhere as it tried to seal his strength and suppress his primal energy, but the unima core shined a bit, and the suppression disappeared.

" What was that? " Athan muttered and guessed, ' Could it be that since I am no longer in profound domain plane, The trial tried to seal my strength. But it seems like the trial failed to seal my strength due to the unima core. '

He was slightly shocked, but he let it go since he knew that whatever he got from the special space was not simple at all, even if it might be a bunch of fruits.

' Tiana and others can also have this unima core, but they need a 50-meter soul body for that. ' Thinking of this, Athan shook his head with a wry smile.

" That will take some time for them, Anyway. Let me find an enemy to test my body strength. "

After moving for a while, He detected someone with his new detection barrier.

With an excited expression, He flew towards the enemy.

When he used his new energy to boost his flying speed, Athan's speed increased several levels above his previous speed.

' Damn, I must be flying with 50 times the speed of sound. That's so freaking fast. ' Thought Athan with a grin as he flew towards the enemy.

His new detection barrier had a range of 100 kilometers, and it was even more hidden than the previous version as the enemy didn't notice that he entered Athan's detection barrier.

That enemy was a being of the grakil race.

Athan appeared there, and the member of the grakil race first created a barrier out of caution because he was slightly shocked that someone appeared in front of him just like that.

Athan laughed and said, " You don't need to put up the barrier. Just attack me however you like. " He was not being arrogant here because he could clearly feel that his current body strength was at a ridiculous level, and there was no way he would be injured by enemies who are at profound domain plane. He wouldn't have said this if the grakil race man in front of him had his full power, but everyone inside this trial still had their strength capped at peak-profound domain.

Goredon was dumbfounded when he heard what Athan said and thought, ' Is he an idiot? Or luring me into a trap? From how he appeared in front of me, It seems like he knew my position. But I couldn't sense him at all. '

He was having a bad feeling about this human and felt a clear threat from him.

Athan shook his head when he saw that instead of attacking him, The grakil race man created even more barrier around him.

He space jumped behind the grakil race man and instantly punched out with pure physical strength.

*BOOOM...*

The barriers shattered before Athan dashed forward and grabbed the neck of the grakil race man.

" Y-you..cough. "

Goredon was terrified as he clearly felt no foreign energy when he saw his barrier shattered, " Why is your strength not sealed? How is this possible? "

Athan released him and said with a plain face, " Just use your most powerful ability and attack me with it. "

After being released, Goredon didn't give a hoot about what Athan said and used his most powerful escaping ability.

*Zooom..*

Goredon started using his space power to do space jumps two times before he flew with his fastest speed as his green dragon-like wings became bigger and started shining, which increased his speed.

Athan sighed and shook his head as he spoke in a frustrated voice, " Damn man, I just want to check my body strength. "

He then formed four wings behind him using his newfound powers and his profound domain's ability as he flew with his fastest speed to date.

' 100 times the speed of sound. '

He caught with Goredon in six seconds, and without holding back, He coated his fist in dark red energy with his domain power and punched towards Goredon.

Goredon, who was running with full speed ahead, sensed the crisis of his life and shouted in a voice filled with unwillingness, " THIS IS UNFAIR. "

The energy blast of his punch obliterated his body.

Athan had heard Goredon's last words and spoke with a cold face, " Life with fairness is not called life. If there was fairness to everyone, I wouldn't be here. "

Chapter 158 - No More Reward? The Bloodpath

Athan didn't return, stayed to fight more and get rewards as he saw that Tiana and others were still training and haven't broken through yet.

After killing Goredon, He started moving again while using his detection barrier, but he didn't encounter another enemy in the ten minutes before the trial teleported him.

Just like this, He continued killing, and when he killed his fifteenth opponent, He received a voice in his head.

[ You have completed fifteen kills, From now on, you will receive better rewards at every kills. ]

" Better rewards? Well, I can't wait to see them. "

All he received until his fifteenth kill were the fruits that increase one's soul strength from 1 meter to a rarely 2 meters, so he wanted to see the better rewards.

The fruits they got randomly increased their soul strength. Sometimes, Their soul body increases by 1 meter, sometimes 1.5 meters, and sometimes 2 meters, and it depends on the fruit but never once it went past 2-meter increase, and they rarely got fruits which increased their soul body by 2 meters as mostly it was 1 to 1.5 meters.

After eating the fruits he got till his fifteenth kill, His soul body had already increased to 13 meters.

It's not been even a day as he was fighting every ten minutes.

' Let's farm for the so-called better rewards. ' Thinking of this, Athan continued moving.

After a while, He encountered a Requiroar race woman, but he didn't waste time and instantly killed her with one wave of his hand.

Everyone in this trial was basically ant to him now because his powers were not sealed, and he could use primal energy. But he had a doubt.

" Is this really primal energy? It feels different than the primal energy that appeared after I broke the primal barrier. " Athan muttered as he waved his hand, and the primal energy from the unima core appeared over his hands.

This energy was golden brown, while the primal energy he first got after he broke his primal barrier was darker.

He put this in the back of his mind for now and decided to compare this energy with other's primal energy when they breakthrough.

...

After seven minutes of traveling, he finally found an enemy and defeated him.

He then waited for the teleportation since there were only a few seconds left, and after that, he would get the so-called better reward.

After a few seconds, he was teleported to another place by the trial. The place where he appeared was filled with swamps and trees.

He first used his detection barrier before checking out the rewards.

" What the heck? It's still a fruit but a new kind of fruit which I didn't receive before. " murmuring this, He decided to try it out and just ate it.

After a while, He felt the familiar sensation of his soul getting stronger, but he was surprised to find that he easily passed the 2-meter mark and his soul finally stopped getting stronger after his soul body reached the size of 16.5 meters.

" Damn, That's 3.5 meters of increase. So this is what the trial meant by receiving better rewards. Great. " Athan grinned before thinking, ' I should stay in the trial as long as the trial allows me and get as many rewards as possible. This is the best place to get strong so far. '

...

After an hour, He killed seven enemies and received five fruits, one armor, and one pair of boots.

He decided to eat fruits in bulk, so he saved them and was preparing to eat them, but just then, he noticed that someone manifested the primal barrier and was preparing to break it inside the special space.

' Looks like Tiana will also breakthrough soon. '

Thinking of this, Athan ate the fruits first and then decided to enter the special space because, by the time he is done absorbing the fruit and strengthening his soul, Tiana will have successfully broken through.

After eating them, the process of his soul strengthening started, and his soul body increased all the way up to 33 meters.

" Hahaha. In no time, I will regain my 50-meter soul body. " Athan couldn't help but laugh after seeing the strengthening of his soul.

He suddenly looked at his right side as he felt someone entering his detection barrier.

" Let's try the new attack method I thought of, Though it might only work on people who have lower power than me. "

The Crysax race man entered within Athan's detection barrier and didn't notice the barrier nor that someone was targeting him.

While he was moving, he suddenly noticed a small bird flying behind him, and out of caution, he destroyed that bird.

The bird exploded as some kind of energy spread onto the crysax race man, but he didn't notice it since it was fully invisible and camouflaged. He had no way of sensing this with his current strengthen.

At ninety-five kilometers away, Athan conjured a blood-red arrow that had a silver hue on it. The arrow started spinning before Athan snapped his finger, and the arrow disappeared.

[ Homing Slaughter ]

He perfectly pinpointed the location of his enemy and marked him by using the bird. That bird could be created anywhere within his detection barrier, As long as the enemy doesn't notice the barrier and destroy it.

After the bird exploded, the energy released from it marked the enemy.

The Arrow released by Athan was traveling between spaces towards the mark on the crysax race man.

The crysax race being was cautiously moving after his recent encounter with the bird, " What was that bird? Was it released by someone? But why can't I sense that person? " With a frown, he muttered.

But suddenly, his face changed as he felt the crisis, but it was too late as the arrow appeared at his life side suddenly and hit him.

*BOOOM..*

He couldn't do anything as he hit and exploded into pieces.

But after killing him, Athan received an unexpected message.

[ You have reached the limit of kill count rewards and will not receive any more rewards for killing someone. ]

[ You are also eligible for participating in the Bloodpath trial, where you can receive more grand rewards, but it's up to you whether you want to participate in it or not. ]

[ If you want to participate in that, Then you have to break the blood crystal. ]

After that, A blood crystal appeared inside Athan's genesis realm.

" The Bloodpath which gives more grand rewards? Hahaha, I definitely want to go there. " Athan laughed after he heard everything.

But first, he went to the special space as Tiana was done with her breakthrough.

Chapter 159 - Unique Primal Energy, Worried Mike

After entering the special space, Athan approached Tiana, who seems to be sensing the new changes.

Athan didn't say anything and just waited.

After a few minutes, Tiana opened her eye and smiled, seeing Athan, " I broke through. But there seems to be something strange inside my energy realm. "

" Hmm, Strange, you say? What happened? "Athan asked with a raised eyebrow. He knew his process was different from others because of unima core.

" After I broke the primal barrier, A vast amount of primal energy appeared and created and dark brown round core in the middle of my energy realm. After that, All of the energy of various elements are absorbed inside the primal core while the various elemental crystals are spinning around the primal core. " Tiana spoke to here before she released primal energy.

Her primal energy didn't look the same ass Athan's primal energy and looked dark brown.

" The strange thing is that...Wait, Let me put it into better words. " Saying this, Tiana turned the primal energy that was hovering over her hand into primal ice energy.

" You see, when I just turned my primal energy into primal ice energy with the use of my ice intent, The ice crystal in my energy realm suddenly rushed towards the primal core and tackled it. It's not bringing me any discomfort or any obstruction when I use my spells, but It's just strange that it would tackle the primal core. "

Hearing this, Athan was a bit dumbfounded, " It...tackled the primal core? "

Tiana nodded with a smile, " Yep. It tackled the primal core as if it wants to fight with it or enter inside it. "

Athan thought for a while but couldn't come up with anything since the whole crystal thing was related to the Ark.

" Ark...I wonder what it is? " Athan muttered and took out the Ark.

" Let's see if this can solve your problem. " Saying this, Athan activated the Ark with his soul energy and took it near Tiana.

But even after few minutes passed, Nothing happened.

Shaking his head, Athan said, " Looks like the only way to solve the tackling thing would be to get the unima core just like me. "

" Unima core? The one which you got after you ate the unima fruit? What did it do? " Tiana asked with a confused expression. She remembered how she took a bite from that fruit and felt a huge suppression over her entire existence before she fainted.

Athan nodded with a smile and took some of his primal energy out, " The unima core ate all of the initial primal energy I got after I broke the primal barrier before proceeding to devour all of the elemental crystal. After that, some energy was released from the unima core and refined my body to a whole new level. "

Tiana was surprised to see that Athan's primal energy was very different from her, " This energy feels more powerful. Let's do some simple tests. "

Athan nodded as they proceeded to do some tests.

Tiana and Athan created a shield of their primal energy before they clashed the shields against each other.

The result was that Tiana's primal energy shield completely shattered while Athan's primal energy shield didn't even have a scratch.

After that, Tiana conjured a spear of her primal energy and hit Athan's primal energy shield, but the result dumbfounded them.

Athan's primal energy shield remained without scratches while Tiana's spear got cracked and destroyed.

Tiana spoke with a speechless expression, " Well...The difference between your primal energy and my primal energy seems...very huge. "

Athan smiled wryly and said, " Yeah. I didn't expect that the difference would be this huge. "

At this time, Both of them look behind and saw Qerin opening her eyes and flying towards them.

" Looks like she also managed to sense the primal barrier. " Tiana said with a smile.

Qerin arrived there and said with a surprised expression, " Looks like you both managed to break through. " She then noticed Athan's prima shield and said with a doubt, " This...doesn't look like primal energy. "

Tiana told her how Athan got this unique energy and how it was more powerful than the usual primal energy. Qerin was shocked hearing all this.

Athan smiled and told them how his soul became thirty-three meters big after getting all the rewards in the trial and also told them about The Bloopath.

" I say you all should make your soul fifty meters big and eat unima fruit so that you all can also get unima core which will make you more powerful. "

Tiana and Qerin nodded.

At this moment, Avelia also arrived here as she sensed the primal barrier and both Qerin and she started their breakthrough after talking for some time.

Athan sent Tiana outside so that she could temper herself and get rewards. The trial couldn't seal his strength due to unima core, but it will be able to seal Tiana's strength.

He still told her to be careful. However, he would be partially paying attention to her from the special space, so if she is in fatal danger, He will pull her inside.

' But she will likely not fall into fatal danger since she has become sharper at combat after entering this trial. ' Athan thought after sending Tiana outside.

He then sat down near Mike and started to fill up his genome tree's second branch with both souls. From his estimation, It will still take around four-five months before he can fill it.

After Qerin and Avelia broke through, Athan sent them out to participate in the trial.

Mike, on the other hand, finally sensed the primal barrier after five hours.

" Haha, it Looks like I am the last one. " Mike laughed and spoke. His eyes and voice revealed some worries, which Athan noticed.

Mike grinned and started the breakthrough without wasting time, " I don't want to fall behind you all, hehe. "

Athan was a bit doubtful, ' Hmmm, He sounds like he is worried about something. Could it be related to Qerin? I also feel that her behavior slightly changed after she fainted. She mostly likely regained some or all of her memories. '

He wasn't sure about this, But this was not something he would meddle in. He trusted Qerin since she formed death soul contract, and he believed that Qerin would tell them about her situation when she is ready.

' But it looks like Mike guessed that she regained her memories and is worried about it. ' Athan thought while shaking his head with a wry smile.

Chapter 160 - New Powers-1

While Athan was practicing the genome technique, Tiana, Avelia, and others were fighting in the trial for rewards.

They would fight two or three battles, and after that, Athan would recall them inside the special space so they can fill up their genome power.

Since it takes them a month to fill up the genome power, It took them five months to get all of their rewards and reach the limit, just like Athan.

Everyone mostly received fruits, and just like Athan, They also got better rewards. After eating all of the fruits, Their souls were strengthened by a large margin.

Tiana's soul body became thirty meters big.

Avelia's soul body became thirty-one meters big.

Qerin's and Mike's soul body also became thirty meters big.

As of now, Everyone was training as they fully concentrated on filling up their branches.

By now, Athan was a few minutes short before he filled the second branch of his genome tree.

Inside his soul realm...

Just when he filled up the second branch of the genome tree, changes happened. A whirlpool appeared on top of the genome tree, and a vast amount of purple energy was released from it.

This purple energy was different from the one that Athan and others gathered to use their genome skill.

The energy released from the whirlpool encompassed the whole genome tree, and the pond of purple energy around the tree started to disappear.

Athan saw that the genome tree now looked like it was inside a purple bubble. He waited for a minute before the bubble burst, and purple energy rained down as a larger pond of genome energy formed around the tree.

At the same time, The purple horned crown that was always on top of his genesis avatar automatically flew up and hovered on top of the genome tree and right below the purple whirlpool.

Athan knew that something was happening, and he would soon know that, so he just waited.

After twenty minutes, The whirlpool disappeared, but the crown didn't return to his genesis avatar. Instead, It went towards his main soul and wore itself on his soul's head.

At the same time, He received information.

[ Geno Skill: Apocalyptic Roar ]

[ Geno Frame: Purple Monarch ]

He was surprised that he received an entirely new thing along with a geno skill, and when he saw the information about the geno frame, He couldn't help but get excited.

He also found out that he could extract more purple energy from the whirlpool when he uses his genome technique, Purple Monarth of Deep Chasm.

The pond around the genome tree became even bigger, probably five to six times bigger, and the energy was clearly different from before.

' It feels more powerful than the previous one. Looks like I have to try the new powers I received and see what other changes happened after the second branch lit up. ' Thinking of this, Athan stood up and went outside. He didn't just get information about the new skill and geno frame, but he also got other information about his previous geno skill and geno art.

He first used chasm severing, but he could properly control it this time and didn't shoot the slash like before. Instead, He grabbed the chasm severing with his left hand. The dark purple slash didn't have solid and static form as it was constantly moving like a flame in his hand.

" This is long-range and short-range both. " Athan muttered as he swung the purple flaming slash in his left hand.

He could use chasm severing as a projectile attack for long distances and also as something to be used as melee. The most surprising thing was that his geno energy decreased by only 10% after using the chasm severing.

This skill was also more powerful than previously due to the change in his geno energy around the tree, as this version of purple energy was more powerful than the previous version.

Afterward, He manifested his geno art on his physical body as a purple horned crown appeared on his head. The real crown stayed on his main soul body.

He instantly felt the difference as his body became much more powerful, He was astonished by the strength he felt inside his body, Not just his body, but he felt that his entire existence was enhanced, " Holy shit...After my body was refined by the energy from unima core, It was already very powerful but this..." He was speechless.

A thin film of the purple aura also surrounded his body when the crown appeared on his head.

" I want to test my new strength but it seems I can't do it here. " Muttering this, Athan remembered the red crystal he got from the trial.

He took out the red crystal and pinched it between his thumb and finger as it shattered.

[ You will enter The Bloodpath trial in five seconds. ]

[ 5 ]

[ 4 ]

[ 3 ]

[ 2 ]

[ 1 ]

...

Right as the countdown hit zero, Athan felt a force pulling him, and he disappeared.

He looked around and found himself in an eerie place. The ground was blood red, and there were small and big rocks everywhere. He could see the sky as he seemed to be inside a cave. But this cave was wide and big.

Athan estimated that the wideness of this cave of probably around five kilometers, and there was only one path in front of him.

He looked back, but there was a deep gorge without an end that spanned across uncountable distance.

Suddenly, He sensed something and looked at his right side.

A being of Brazol race suddenly appeared and one of his hands was cut off. He overlooked Athan as right after he appeared here, He started cursing, " Damn damn damnnnn, Who are those little shits that entered the trial and messed it up by capping everyone strength? Fuck them..."

He was not just cursing as he took out a mangled flesh that looked like his hand and was curing it while cursing, " It's good that my power is unsealed inside the Bloodpath, If those ants appeared here, I would definitely eat them raw. "

Athan was silent as he clearly heard what that fat brazol race man was speaking, ' Looks like there are no restrictions in the Bloodpath. '

The brazol race member finally noticed Athan after his hand was cured and narrowed his eyes.

" You...could it be you are one of the little ants that entered the roumbra blood war? " He naturally assumed this since he didn't feel any rule powers from Athan.

Chapter 161 - New Powers-2

When Athan and others first arrived here, They were at the soul altar plane, and the difference between them and the ruler plane was huge since Origin energy can't even scratch them, Same with the profound domain plane. But their breakthrough to the Erudite palace plane vastly decreased the gap between the beings in this layer of dimension and them.

The stage that comes after the Erudite palace plane is the Ruler plane, and both use Primal energy. The Ruler plane existences additionally have rule powers, but Athan also has even more powerful means, Which are his genome powers and his unique primal energy due to unima core.

' I think, I can't fight with him with geno frame and even kill him. ' Athan thought about his recent gains from filling up the second branch and smiled.

He looked at Brazol race member and nodded with a grin, " I am indeed one of the little ants you mentioned. You want to eat me raw? come and eat me. "

The brazol race member was first dumbfounded, but then he frowned and thought, ' Why is this ant so eager to die? Wait...Could it be that he is pretending to be a pig, to eat the tiger? But even if he is not the little ant and a real human race powerhouse, I am not afraid. humph. '

" Your appearance is that of a brat of the human race but I could be wrong. Anyway, My name is Thorinn and How about this? Arriving at this step should be hard for both you and me so why don't I attack you and if you can successfully block it, I will let you go. " Thorinn spoke in a confident tone as if it was given that he was more powerful than Athan.

Athan's face turned weird as he spoke, " Looks like you have very high confidence in yourself. "

" Of course I have. humph. " Thorinn snorted with disdain apparent in his eyes.

Athan shook his head with a smile and said, " Well...Your previous state didn't exclude such a thing. You were pathetic with one of your hands cut off and were cursing. "

Thorinn's face turned dark as his body trembled. He gritted his teeth and spoke, " I was injured because my powers were sealed, and that human girl with dark and red hair used a kind of unique power to sever my arm yesterday. I barely escaped after I used a fatal ability and was recuperating myself. But to completely attach my hand I needed to use my full power. "

Athan was slightly surprised as he remembered that Tiana and others finished their last rounds yesterday, " So you already recieved your red crystal by that time? "

" Humph, Of course. I kept staying there because I wanted to meet the little ants that messed up the trial but didn't expect that the one i met had some unique powers. But i believe that i wouldn't be in that position if my strength was not sealed. "

Athan grinned and said, " Well...Since you are so confident, Why don't we do this? I will attack you one time...No I will just punch you one time. If you can withstand it then i will let you. "

Thorinn narrowed his eyes and sneered, " You...will let me go? Hahaha, That's the biggest joke I've heard. A human brat is telling me that he will let me go? Hahahaha. "

" Looks like you don't know the powers of The Great Five races. " Saying this, Thorinn roared as his body started to cover in dark bronze armor, and he also grew bigger.

His body was fully covered in dark brown armor with golden patterns as he excluded terrifying pressure.

" Rule of Immovable Mountain "

" Unyielding Amalgamet. HAAAA!! "

Two kinds of strange power were excluded from Thorinn's body as he appeared even more valiant, " If you can even push me back a single centimeter, then it's my loss. I THORINN STEAROOT, will become your servant for a year. "

Athan was speechless hearing that, But he didn't mind this development and spoke with a wry smile, " I am afraid i won't be able to move you. "

" Hahaha, Don't try to run away in front of me after all this. " Thorinn laughed. He then sneered and said, " You should try your ability, Who know you might succeed? Hahaha. "

Athan could feel terrifying power from Thorinn; He knew that this Thorinn guy was at the top of the food chain even in the Rular plane and will likely break through soon.

' But...' Athan shook his head with a smile and didn't waste any more time as he used his new power.

" Geno Frame: Purple Monarch...It's time. " Athan muttered as a dense purple aura appeared around him before a transformation happened.

A clock appeared behind him, and a shining purple armor with white lining patterns inscribed on it appeared over his body. His purple horned crown matched perfectly with his armor.

The armor also covered his legs and hands as Athan felt some emotions rising inside him. His state of being changed as when he looked at Thorinn, He felt like he was looking at an Ant.

He noticed that Geno Frame: Purple Monarch consumed 50% of his geno energy instantly, and each second in this form consumed a small amount of geno energy, " I better finish this fast. "

Thorinn was slightly surprised when he saw some fancy purple armor on Athan's body, but he brushed it off since he couldn't sense anything from the purple energy.

Athan knew that his purple energy seemed harmless to the opponent, which was a unique function of geno energy. Although some people could still sense something after seeing geno power, this Thorinn guy was clearly overconfident in his power after his strength was unsealed.

Athan looked at Thorinn and said with a grin, " Hehe hope I can push you at least one centimeter. "

Thorinn felt something wrong with Athan's statement since he felt that the human brat in front of him never once showed him a feeling of being afraid of him, but he brushed it off as some brat with over-confidence and boomed, " COME ON!! "

Athan raised his right fist as a dense purple aura with sparks appeared over it and dashed forward. He had decided to use all of his geno energy as he didn't want to hold back and take a risk.

*BOOOOOOM....*

The ground where he stood shattered, and everything behind him also obliterated from the pure shockwave, and even Athan was dumbfounded. However, he still focused in front as he punched Thorinn, whose eyes reflected terror at the last second of his life.

A purple nova burst out from his fist that...utterly, totally, entirely, and absolutely obliterated Thorinn as not even a piece of his flesh was left.

Chapter 162 - Apocalyptic Roar

" Huu...." Athan took a deep breath to calm himself.

" That was...a peak-level Ruler existence, Who used all of his means to defend himself and I..annihilated him? " With a grin, Athan roared, " HELL YEAH!! "

He was finally on par with the beings in this layer of dimension, despite being one plane lower than them.

He felt that if he didn't use all of his power and normally fought against Thorinn by wearing geno frame, Then he could still defeat him before he ran out of geno energy.

" My geno energy is completely drained now. I need to test how may days it takes to fill it fully. " Muttering this, He entered the special space and sat down with others before he started training.

The change in his practice of genome technique included a few things; First, The purple whirlpool increased in size. Second, The geno energy also changed as he didn't require his genesis energy to fill up the pond because the new geno energy was different and more powerful. Third, His speed of extracting geno energy from the whirlpool increased, but the pond's capacity also expanded, so he needs to check how much time it requires to fill up the whole pond.

' I should fill up the pond at least 50% before fighting in the Bloodpath since everyone's powers isn't sealed in that place. '

He then focused on absorbing the energy from the whirlpool.

Meanwhile, Tiana and others were filing up their second branches because only with the new powers that come with lighting up the second branch will they be able to survive in the Bloodpath.

...

After exact thirty days, He opened his eyes which contained excitement and thought, ' Now this is great. It only takes us a month to completely fill up the pond. But...'

He looked at the progress of the third branch and shook his with a wry smile.

After a whole month of his second soul filling up the third branch of the genome tree, It only filled up the tiny spot.

' Suppose that's 2-3% of the third branch filled, then I will need 40-50 months or 4 years to fill up the entire third branch. If only my second on it. ' Shaking his head, He decided that he would let the second soul work on it while he progresses in the Erudite Palace Plane.

But first, he wanted to explore the Bloodpath, So he left the special space.

...

The scenery was the same as yesterday, and There was only one way in this vast cave, so he started moving.

He wore the crown on his physical body to strengthen himself and flew forward.

There was nothing new in this vast path beside the blood-red ground and rocks. He increased his speed with his detection barrier and flew even faster.

After ten minutes, Athan was still flying, but his face suddenly changed as he muttered, " Crap..."

*BOOOM.....*

He felt a force from above him, but it was too late as he was hit by something solid and smacked to the ground.

*blergh...*

After spewing a mouthful of blood, He stood up and saw the thing that hit me.

*ROAR.....*

It was a wyvern that was grey in color with bright red patterns on its body and wings.

Athan was walloped, but he didn't suffer as much damage as he expected. There was some internal damage, but none of his bone broke. There was only a crack on one area of his spine bone where he was hit, and it was healed quickly by the white gold energy.

' Looks like my body is much more powerful than I expected...' Athan thought as he swiped away the blood around his mouth.

Although the wyvern was not as powerful as Thorinn, it was still a higher plane of existence than Athan. But after the wyvern hit him, He finally realized that his body that was refined by the energy released from unima core and after he wore the horned crown was much more powerful than he initially expected.

' I can at least confirm that I won't be instantly killed by peak-level Ruler plane beings from now on. ' Athan thought with agrin and flew up towards the wyvern.

The wyvern that was floating in the sky roared before several slashes shoot towards Athan from its wings.

Athan's perception was better, and he was also faster than before, so he easily dodged the attack.

The wyvern roared once again before some energy surrounding its wings as it charged towards Athan at a great speed.

The wyvern was covered in white energy with blood-red sparks that excluded threatening pressure, but Athan didn't move from his position; instead, he used his newly acquired genome skill: Apocalyptic Roar.

A faint purple giant shadow emerged from him. The shadow looked similar to Athan's soul body as it also had crowned horned on its head.

The purple giant shadow opened its mouth as a faint purple shockwave released, but there wasn't a loud roar as one would expect.

But The wyvern that was charging towards Athan felt a soul trembling roar reverberating inside its head and soul. The terrifying energy around it broke apart before its eyes turned lifeless and crashed down.

*Thud..*

" Huh?..." Athan was dumbfounded with his mouth wide open. He checked his energy pond and realized that Apocalyptic Roar consumed 50% of his geno energy.

After a few seconds, He shook his head and muttered, " This is a waste of geno energy. That wyvern would have died with two chasm severings or a maximum of three if it had any trump card. But this Apcolyptic Roar is really terrifying; It directly annihilates the internal system and soul of the opponent. "

They could try to defend themselves with genesis energy and soul energy, but the nature of his power could easily destroy their internal defense and destroy their soul.

" I can use this skill as a trump card. Although I doubt anyone can withstand this skill head-on in this layer. " Athan muttered and continued to flying.

Chapter 163 - Bloodmark, Terrifying Monster

Athan didn't remove the horned crown from his head since it didn't consume any of his geno energy after his second branch filled up.

After flying for an hour, He once again felt something. However, This time, He was ready. He used his domain instantly before creating hundreds of his clones, with each illusion clone using the same energy as a big hexagonal energy wall appeared on top of them.

*Dong...Crack..*

Athan saw that the one who was going to crash him this time was a giant horse with three heads with a single horn on their heads and four wings. It looked mostly brown with some peach color and had golden patterns over its body.

*Neighhhhh...*

The horse cried out before all three of its mouth opened as a sonic shockwave mixed with dark green energy released towards Athan.

The sonic shockwave with dark green energy destroyed the already cracked hexagonal wall along with all of the Athan's illusion clone instantly. But he was ready for the incoming attack as he used his empowered body and energy to space jump to the left side before shooting himself towards the horse.

The three-headed horse actually revealed a sneer when it saw Athan coming towards it. It knew that this human wasn't as powerful since it didn't sense any rule power from him.

The three-headed horse was ready to attack, but that's when it saw a chakram that appeared 5 meters across him.

Athan suddenly exchanged his position with the chakram and arrived at a 5-meter distance across the three-headed horse before he waved his right hand that released a chasm severing towards the three-headed horse.

It was too late for the three-headed horse to dodge, so it put up the defense, but its eyes widened in terror, seeing that his defense barrier failed even to stop the purple slash for a second as chasm severing cut off all three of its head.

" Phew..." Athan heaved a sigh after killing the three-headed horse. He could really feel the difference between Origin energy and Primal energy this time.

If he were still in the Profound domain plane, he wouldn't be able to move and use his origin energy in the presence and rule domain of this three-headed horse. The only way he could beat him would be to use his genome powers. But now that he broke through, He could somewhat fight head-on against this three-headed horse because of his unique primal energy. He could move and even barely defend against it.

But soon after killing the three-headed horse, Athan felt a pulling force as he disappeared and appeared at an entirely new place. His face changed as he saw several beings of different races in front of him, and he instantly entered the special space before observing them and started listening to what they were saying.

" We shouldn't fight with each other for now and kill that monster first. As for the rewards? We'll decide that when the time comes for it. " A booming voice reverberated from the grakil race man.

" Humph, Whatever. I am fine with any arrangements. " A crysax race woman snorted and said with a dangerous gleam appearing in her eyes.

There were a total of four beings, a grakil race man, a crysax race woman, a human man in his thirties, and a dision race man. The dision race man looked behind as if he sensed something, ' could it be that was my imagination? '

" We should fight together, but I want 25% of the total rewards. Otherwise, I won't co-operate with you. " Roden spoke; he had short blond hair and looked buffy.

The dision race man put the previous matter at the back of his mind and also nodded in agreement with Roden and said, " Same with me, I want 25% of the total reward. Otherwise, you can forget about co-operating. "

Qeinila, the crysax race woman, thought, ' Idiots, You can decide whatever here, but the final reward will still depend on everyone's ability. ' She openly agreed but thought differently.

They continued to talk for a while before they finally decided that everyone will have an equal share of whatever rewards they receive.

This area looked like a valley between two humongous mountains, and those four being soon left from Athan's area of sight.

" It seems like they couldn't defeat a monster individually and decided to co-operate. But what kind of monster is so powerful here? "

One thing he couldn't understand was that why did he appear at this place.

He didn't think much about it for now and decided to fill up the pond of geno energy to at least 70% before going out.

He still had 40% of his geno energy left, so he only needed to practice for nine days before he filled up his geno pond to 70% and went out.

Right after he went out, He received a voice inside his head.

[ You have passed the initial test of Bloodpath, and now you have entered the real zone of the Bloodpath trial. Defeat powerful monsters and find treasures. Fill up the Bloodmark to receive the supreme reward. ]

Athan felt a burning sensation on the back of his hand as a mark appeared. The mark looked like a red circle with a hexagon star inside it.

' It didn't tell me how to fill up the mark, but it should be related to the monster those four beings talked about. ' Athan thought about it and started moving forward. He moved in the same direction as those four people.

After a while, He felt the shockwaves of energies and stopped.

' Looks like a battle is occurring in the front, and looks like there are many participants in this battle. ' Athan suppressed his energy and presence as he flew down and started moving towards the direction of the battle by foot.

After a while, He finally saw the battlefield as his face showed a slightly shocked expression.

A huge monster that had a deer's body, twelve horns, eight legs with sharp claws, and two giant wings that were two times the size of his body. This monster had countless wounds on its body, and one of its eye sockets was bloody with no eyeball; its other eye was bright red that displayed pure rage.

Its whole body was five hundred meters long and two hundred and fifty meters tall. The four being he saw nine days ago were injured to a certain degree, and there were additionally six beings of a different race in front of them. The six beings included two-man from the terred race, one blumbra race woman, one amarphy race woman, two human race members that consisted of a man and a woman.

A loud bellow released from the monster's mouth as terrifying shockwaves released towards the surrounding that brought heavy pressure to fall upon everyone as they stopped fighting.

Athan was also within the range of this suppression, but it was nullified shortly due to the faint purple aura that always protected his body when he wore the horned crown.

" Looks like this is a good chance...I'll deal the finishing blow to that monster at any cost, but... I'll have to make some plans."

Athen returned to the special space as the battle between those beings also resumed.

Chapter 164 - Kill Steal, Star Point Lights Up And A Strange Stone.

Athan watched the battle from inside as those beings rained dangerous attacks on each other while also defending and dodging.

They mainly attacked the giant abomination monster while sneakily attacking each other.

" Looks like the battle won't be over anytime soon. They are being too caution against each other. "

With ten people attacking, The monster was incapacitated shortly, but they didn't kill it.

One group had six people while another had four, and the group of four was also more injured.

But those six people in the group were also cautious against each other.

The grakil race being in the group of four suddenly attacked.

He attacked at two places. First, he released a giant flaming wind tornado with silver and dark blades flowing towards the group in the front and sneakily released a destructive beam from its mouth towards the monster to kill it. He then also dashed towards the monster.

But the dision race man was keeping watch and was prepared for any attack towards the monster, so when he saw this, He instantly created a power portal to block the laser and sent it towards the group of the six people.

Seeing these two beings making a move, Everyone didn't hold back and attacked those who were near them with the intention to kill.

' The last standing one will relieve the reward. ' This was the thought on everyone's mind.

Athan was speechless, but he could understand. Everyone had confidence in themselves, but he soon saw the grakil race being killed by dision race man and Roden, the human male, but both of them also started fighting with each other as right after the grakil race man died, Roden attacked the dision race man by throwing countless small shining balls with different colors and powers.

He scattered attacked them so that the dision race man couldn't defend it with his power portal and had to make the membrane of space barrier to block them.

Athan, who was watching this, muttered, " This became chaotic real fast, but it's a good news for me. "

This was the best time to attack, so he used geno frame: Purple Monarth and went out before directly dashing towards the almost dead monster with his full speed.

*ZOOOOOM...*

He had covered his whole body with extra purple energy as he charged forward. Some of them noticed Athan's charge, which looks like a purple missile. Still, they were too late to do anything since Athan was going at a speed that was a thousand times the speed of sound, but two people still managed to put up a defense In front of Athan as A dark brown wall, and a giant spiked square shield appeared in front of him.

The result was as expected. Those two defensive spells couldn't even decrease the speed of Athan and were destroyed instantly as Athan crashed into the monster and went through its body from front to back, Finally killing it.

The mark on Athan's hand also started to fill up as it became brighter and one point of the hexagon star also lit up.

After Athan went through the monster's body, He disappeared right after coming out from the other side as he entered the special space.

All those fighting with each other stopped with dark faces and dashed towards the monster before another crazy, chaotic fight started because after the monster died, It turned into a big cloud of smoke in a minute, and in its place appeared a square rock with eccentric patterns.

Everyone started using their full powers as eccentric rule powers, and powerful abilities clashed chaotically.

" STOP EVERYONE. WE DON'T NEED TO FIGHT ANYMORE. " A man from terred race bellowed. He was also the one with the least injuries on him.

Everyone stopped and looked at him with questioning looks, but he spoke with a calm and composed tone, " Take a look at this stone clearly and stop fighting like idiots. This stone contains some mystical things and we have to comprehend it to get it. There's no point in fighting anymore. "

The dision race man that was injured snorted and said, " But what if it disappears after one person successfully comprehend it and get the reward? "

Roden, who was a few tens of meters across him, sneered and said, " It depends on everyone's ability. Why? You don't have confidence in yourself ? "

" Humph of course I have, But why don't we continue and whoever is last one standing can enjoy the reward alone. " The dision race man spoke with an eerie grin.

The amarphy race woman suggested, " Why don't we vote? Those who are in agreement with everyone allowed to comprehend the stone will form a contract about not sneak attacking each other while studying the stone. "

Athan was stunned hearing this and muttered, " She didn't mention anything about those who are in disagreement. It's plain to see that most of the people wants to comprehend the stone together instead of pointlessly fighting which could cause them death...Could it be? " Athan understood her intention and smiled wryly while thinking, ' Now that's a cunning move. '

Indeed, The dision race man who spoke early asked with a dark face, " What about those who are in disagreement? "

The amarphy race women faked a surprised expression and said while palming her forehead, " Oh yeah those who are disagreement right? Well, They can either leave or be killed here. " She then swept her gaze and asked with a smile, " So among you are in agreement with my suggestion? "

Out of nine people, seven people moved towards her, While the dision race man and crysax race woman stayed back as their faces turned ugly. The crysax race women thought with irritation, ' Damn it, If only they continued fighting, I could have a better chance at having the treasure for myself. ' She had a trump and an item that could help her survive until the end, but if everyone ganged up on them, she can't survive even with the powerful item.

" What is your choice ?" The terred race man from before asked with a cold expression.

Since the dision race man and crysax race woman wanted to have a chance at this reward, They could only agree.

Chapter 165 - Magic?

Athan was also looking at the stone, and he felt something inside him the more he looked at the stone.

The one that was acting weirdly was precisely the unima core inside his energy realm.

" Looks like I'll have to ask if Mimi knows anything about this. Previously, I didn't ask her in detail since it was useless, but now I need to know what the deal is with unima core. "

Athan went to the other side behind the mountain range where Mimi was playing with other altar spirits.

He found her shortly as they both arrived inside the mainland before Athan asked her more details regarding the unima core.

" Unima core? yep yep, It is essential if you want to use powerful magic. "

Athan asked with confusion, " Magic? What do you mean by magic."

" Unima core is used to cast different magics. That's all Mimi knows. " Mimi said with a pout.

Athan smiled wryly and said, " Alright, I get it. You can go play now. "

Mimi went back to the vast playground while Athan looked at the strange stone, ' Looks like I'll have to go out myself and take a clear look at the strange stone. '

But he didn't directly go out because he was out of geno energy and started practicing the geno technique along with his second soul to recover his geno energy.

This time he didn't just fill 70% of his geno energy but filled the whole pond as when he checked time to time the outside situation, None of the being invoked even the slightest reaction from the stone.

He didn't use his geno frame, nor he wore the horned crown. His dragon scaled armor was absorbed by the unima core, so he just consumed some primal energy and used earth and metal intents to form armor on his body. His energy-flowing methods were useless since they could only be used until profound domain plane.

He went out like this and approached those beings. If he wore the purple horned crown or geno frame, They might suspect him to be the one who killed the monster and would definitely try to kill him.

The stone only had one side with eccentric blood red patterns while the other sides were normal, so all beings were standing at one side.

The place where Athan entered the special space was the exact opposite of that side. All of the beings also noticed Athan as The dision race man was the first one to speak with a frown, " Scram from here, We don't need any more people to comprehend the stone. "

He then looked at others and said, " You all also don't want additional competition, right? "

Athan stopped in his track, but that wasn't because of what the dision race man.

' What the hack...Why is my unima core trembling so violently? '

" Look, The blood patterns on the stone are shining! " The human race women suddenly shouted as everyone's attention drew towards the stone from Athan.

The unima core inside Athan's energy realm also started shining, and a shocking thing occurred.

The blood patterns started to separate from the stone as it formed into a small round ball with eccentric design inscribed on it and...dissipated.

" What's going on? Did someone comprehend the thing on the stone? " Amarphy race woman asked with confusion and frustration.

" Fuck it!! It's definitely related to that human. " The dision race man pointed at Athan and screamed.

Athan was dumbfounded as he coughed and said with a smile, " I didn't do anything. As you can see that I just arrived here. "

The dision race man sneered and said, " Exactly! You appeared, and this happened, so it can only be you. "

Athan frowned as he looked at him but then again, He wasn't afraid of them, so he said while curling his lips upward, " Yep, That was me. What are you doing to do about it? "

" Rule of Space Storm, Condense. "

The dision man suddenly shouted as terrifying energy emerged around him before taking the form of countless two-meter horizontal but thin storms as they shot towards Athan.

These thin storms look very weird, but Athan could feel extremely potent power from them. No doubt that even if he used all of his primal energy to block, He wouldn't be able to block them even if he had unlimited primal energy because the speed at which these small thin storms ould destroy his defense would be faster than his output of primal energy.

But he didn't need to block them as he instantly used the geno frame: purple monarch.

A majestic purple armor appeared on him, increasing his powers to unknown heights as he zoomed forward.

Cutting through the storm easily, He directly used Apocalyptic Roar.

A soul-shattering roar rang out from the purple shadow that appeared over Athan.

The five people who were directly in the range of Apocalyptic roar instantly died along with the dision race man, and those who were not in the range had their face drained of whatever color of blood that ran through their body and collapsed onto the ground since their souls were also injured.

After using Apocalyptic Roar, Athan didn't linger anymore and entered the special space since he ran out of the geno energy.

Although Athan had guessed that this Apocalyptic Roar was an area of attack skill, He was still a bit shocked when he managed to kill five people with it.

He then ignored the outside situation since the four people who survived could recover as they would definitely have some rewards like soul fruits to heal their damaged souls.

After entering inside, He mainly focused on what was orbiting around the unima core and the power he received.

That thing was none other than the small red ball with an eccentric design.

He went to Mimi and said, " You have seen the magic that you talked about, right? Can you tell me if this is the same thing? "

Athan then muttered, " Blood Magic: Slaughter Covenant. "

A ruthless aura appeared around him as blood patterns emerged from his whole body; Athan felt a strange power permitting inside his body, and at the same time, he could feel the energy from his union core consuming as it entered the red ball that was orbiting around the union core when he used this ability.

He controlled that power and coated his right fist into a blood-red gauntlet before asking Mimi, " Is this the magic you were talking about? "

Mimi nodded slowly and said, " Hmm....this is indeed the magic I was talking about, but it's very weak. The magic used by dad and mom felt way more powerful. "

Athan was dumbfounded because although he felt that this so-called magic was not as powerful as his genome powers, It still felt stronger than his domain power.

Chapter 166 - Blood Magic Series-1

Athan was currently testing the Blood Magic: Slaughter Covenant. He could feel that there was more to this power than he could currently see.

Whenever he used this so-called magic, he could feel a new kind of force, and it was extremely similar to the rule power used by people of the Ruler plane.

The blood patterns that appeared all over his body increased his physical strength even more. If he used this magic power in tandem with the normal enhancement brought upon by the horned crown, He felt that he could clash against the peak-Ruler level plane beings.

Of course, If they used powerful and deadly spells, Even he would be injured but not as much as before, and he could definitely survive those attacks if he defends himself with his domain powers.

Athan called Skylord from the playground and told It to attack him.

"Roar?..." Skylord revealed a confused expression and confirmed, " I attack you, master? "

" Yep. Use your most powerful attack on me. " Athan nodded with a smile. Skylord confirmed with him because he didn't use any domain power nor put up any defensive abilities.

" Okay, Master. I will use my most powerful attack that contains all of my offensive means. " Skylord nodded and enlarged its body.

The small and cute dragon became a majestic four-winged dragon as it opened its mouth, and a dark rod with silver string materialized before four different colored energies gathered around it in whirling motion that contained offensive powers like Slash, Wither, Shatter, mireser, poison, lightning, dust, plasma, etc.

" Come on! " Athan shouted, and Skylord released the attack.

Athan blocked the attack with both hands covered with blood gauntlets that he invoked with Blood Magic: Slaughter Covenant.

The blood ball that was orbiting around his unima core shined as Athan's primal energy consumed after he used even more Blood Magic to strengthen his gauntlets.

Skylord's powerful attack clashed with Athan's two hands.

*BOOOOM....*

The clash pushed Athan back, but the attack didn't manage to break the gauntlet. Athan checked and saw a faint crack on the gauntlet, but that's all.

In this clash, He purely used Blood Magic: Slaughter Covenant and his physical body that wasn't enhanced by the horned crown.

After Athan broke through the primal barrier, His altar spirits also became stronger because they were also baptized by primal energy, which changed their conceptualized energy into primal conceptualize energies.

But Athan's unique primal energy from unima core was exclusive to him as his altar spirits can't use it.

Athan continues to test the Blood magic: Slaughter covenant and found that this was purely offensive magic.

After breaking DeathKnight's and Lucent's defensive abilities easily, He asked the strongest defensive altar spirit: Mike's altar spirit named Aegisron.

This altar spirit looked like a thick tree, but instead of normal branches, It had solid big shields with the shape of Lily flowers. The flowers were made up of diamond, Earth, Metal, and other defensive primal energies along with defensive mystic powers such as toughen, converge, heavy, mend, flourish, etc.

It could project the same flower shields that could superimpose onto each other and joint together, which forms extremely tough shields. The spirit could also defend itself greatly by utilizing its own body.

Lucent tiger could also make illusions of its own self and fight individually, but they can't support Athan too much since enemies were on Ruler plane.

People on the Ruler plane also don't take their altar spirits out and instead fight individually since they could use their altar spirit's power as long as they are inside their soul realm. But The next plane after the ruler plane increases the importance of altar spirit more in a different way.

When Athan clashed against Aegisron, He indeed felt obstruction, but it wasn't much because the special attribute of this blood magic broke its defense.

When he felt the slight obstruction, He could feel the blood-red patterns showing its magic as he suddenly felt even more strength inside his hands and gauntlets with his blood boiling like never before as the defense of Aegisron broke apart. This magic brought pure, raw physical strength to him when he used it.

After checking all the things about Blood Magic: Slaughter covenant, Athan started to recover his geno energy.

...

After thirty days, He opened his eyes and decided to go out once again.

After leaving the giant valley between the two mountains, He moved for a few hours and arrived at the humid area with lots of giant trees and water bodies.

He continued to move, and after ten minutes, he felt the ground trembling constantly and several fissures formed on the ground.

Athan flew even higher and reduced his presence before hiding inside a cloud that he formed and observed.

*Crack...crack...crack...*

The ground created even more fissures before it shattered and formed a giant hole.

*Einnnnnnnnnn.....*

A strange cried echoed from the hole, which even brought headache to Athan, and a revolving slim white laser shot out from the hole straight towards the place where Athan was hiding.

Athan saw it coming, and with a thought, He retreated inside the special space because he didn't have time to create a solid defensive measure in that situation.

Athan observed the hole from special space and muttered, " What the heck was that? "

The ground trembled once again as he saw several white legs with sharp furs around the borders of the hole. These twelve legs had blood-red patterns on them.

Athan was clearly shocked because this giant hole alone was bigger than the previous abomination monster.

*Einnnnnnnnnn.....*

Athan finally saw the monster climbing out; it had twenty-four blood-red eyes and looked like a spider, but Its body had a huge dark brown shell and on top of the shell were shining silver spikes with blood-red patterns on them.

Athan knew that if any beings were passing by or some beings with good detection abilities, then they would be attracted here because the strange cries of his damn monster were too loud. He could swear that this was the loudest scream he had ever heard.

But he also saw this as a chance as he thought with his eyes shining, ' I should try to attack it with my full power and geno frame. If I can kill it, then I can fill more of my blood mark and get the reward without any hassle. '

He didn't waste time anymore and directly wore the geno frame before charging towards the giant spider-shelled monster.

The monster sensed Athan directly as its twenty-four blood-red eyes shined before a bright blood red web shot out from its eyes. This web was meant as offensive instead of trapping because Athan could feel the sharp and destructive power from the giant web.

But he didn't care as he could only see this giant shelled spider as an Ant that he could crush easily...with his geno power.

Athan went straight towards the head of the giant spider, breaking apart any obstruction coming his way.

*Splatt..*

*Einnn...Einnnnnnn.....*

Athan crashed into the monster's head, successfully creating a hole that was five times bigger than his body as the giant monster entered the rampage due to the damage it suffered. The silver spikes with blood-red patterns started to shine, but it was of no use because after Athan entered inside its head, he stopped his charge and released a purple supernova from his body and destroyed the whole head of the monster.