Chapter 507 - Coddys's Deal-1
Several days passed as Athan, Tiana, and Avelia spent their times together being lovey-dovey inside the high-grade chaos phenom dimension.
Naturally, they also trained and hunted the chaos beasts to progress the power of their innate physiques.
Athan had many Kuriazak fruits, but he was not in a hurry after finding out that Shiromi, Sen, Tealery, Arcued, and Theo went to Purgatory hill. After all, they still need two years to come out, so even if he went and broke through before achieving 100,000 SBT, he wouldn't be able to register his hill faction and start the trials due to lack of members.
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Inside Great Bridgade Palace's Zen Master regional zone.
"Coddys, are you sure you want to return to Chaos Monolith Hill? Why don't you acquire an innate physique by training?"
At this time, Coddys and his friends were sitting in the hall of Coddys' abode that was the size of a small mansion..
Hearing his friend, Coddys waved his hand and spoke plainly, "It's fine. I want to get an innate physique from the chaos enlightenment tree simply because the physique I will get through it already has the potential comparable to the physique gained in upper-Chaosverse.
"But if I try to acquire the innate physique through training here, I will have to find a way to upgrade its potential after going to upper-Chaosverse."
"That's logical, but you know what happened recently..."Jamz spoke as he revealed hesitation and worry.
Coddys steeled his face and said, "It doesn't matter. I know nothing about that matter, and you all shouldn't bring it up ever again. I am simply going there for the deal I made with Athan."
Pausing there, he sighed and rubbed his temple, "I just hope he didn't increase his price."
Franel weakly smiled while shaking his head and said, "But who would have thought that he would become this famous in just a year? His feats are really monstrous."
A person in the hall snorted; she was a beautiful lady clad in the white dress, "Humph, I heard that he was standing under chaos enlightenment tree the whole time? You should know that the tree has an empowering effect such that it can boost our comprehension ability. With such advantage, I can also progress fast."
"Yes, of course. You are right, sister Ker," Coddys spoke with a fawning smile.
Ker Lushblade. She is the current 9th rank in the Supreme genius leaderboard and was the sole Zen order grandmaster present in this hall.
The top ten on the Supreme genius leaderboard are all Zen order Grandmasters. The age requirement to maintain a place in the Supreme genius leaderboard is nine hundred ninety-nine years. Once a person's age becomes one thousand years, that person's name will be removed from the leaderboard, and that person will lose the entitled benefits as well.
Some Zen order grandmasters stayed in 11th or later ranks but not for long as they would soon surpass the age limit. So from 11th rank and later, almost all of them were Zen order masters.
"Coddys, I will come along with you and see how talented that Athan is," After saying that, She stood up and left the hall.
Seeing her like that, everyone in the hall smiled helplessly.
Coddys shook her head and said, "Well, can't blame her for that since she was lauded as the best genius in the path of Runic Artist until the news about Athan spread."
"Then what about Ultiora from Boundless Pavilion? He and sister Ker were both lauded as the best geniuses under thousand years in the path of Runic Artist since both of them tied in the battle of Runic Arts."
"Yeah, He is even more arrogant than Ker, so he will surely go to Athan."
"Anyway, when are you planning to leave, Coddys?"
Coddys thought for a moment and said, "I'll leave after ten days."
...
Ten days passed in a blink of an eye as Coddys and Ker left the Great Bridgade Palace and arrived at Chaos Monolith Hills.
But Ker had a dissatisfied expression with a frown on her face as she and Coddys stood outside of the barrier field around Efyeed.
At this time, Coddys returned from the deep part of the Chaos Monolith Hills and stood beside Ker with a helpless smile, "Sister Ker, He seems to be inside a high-grade chaos phenom dimension and will come out after eight days."
Ker snorted before saying, "Then let's go and meet some of my friends here to see how much they improved."
"Alright. There's no use standing here waiting anywhere," Coddys said with a nod as both he and Ker flew deeper into the Chaos Monolith Hills.
...
But at this time, nobody sensed a small mystical portal in the sky as a handsome man with light purple hair and two demonic horns on his head came out from the portal.
"Father-in-law, rest assured that I will definitely convince her, hehehe." The man chuckled with a gleam in his eyes as he took out a palm-sized crystal covered in a dark blue aura.
Muttering that, He flew in the direction of Chaos Monolith Hills.
After a few days of traveling, he arrived at the Chaos Monolith Hills and met with Hill Master Keldris.
At this time, Hill Master Keldris and Rofelto were talking with each other while laughing.
" How are your father and mother doing, Rofelto? They helped me a lot in upper-Chaosverse." Hill Master Keldris spoke with a hearty laugh.
Rofelto respectfully smiled as he said, "They are doing great. Anyway, let's get to the main topic now. I am here for Linci as her father has sent me here."
"Linci?" Hill Master Keldris was surprised, "But I heard that their family...practically threw her here because they couldn't deal with her unstable powers?"
Rofelto grinned and nodded, "That's true. But...hehe, my father had a fortuitous encounter when he and some of his other friends went to explore a cataclysmal chaos land. He found a strange object that had a similar aura to the one he felt from Linci's unstable powers and decided to use it to help Crow Clan."
"Oh?" Hill Master Keldris was startled and soon understood the gist of their plan, 'So they want some influence by using Crow clan? Hmmm...could it be that he asked for Linci's hand in marriage?'
"My father has tested the effect of that object on Linci's mother and there was indeed an effect as a bit of power inside her was absorbed by the object," Rofelto smiled widely.
"So? Your father must have set some conditions in exchange for helping Linci control her powers and cure her mother, right?" Hill Master Keldris asked with a small grin.
[A/N: wait for the twist. That's all I will say. ]
Chapter 508 - Linci's Past
"We have put our conditions, yeah. One of them is the hand in marriage of Linci, and I am here for that." Rofelto spoke with a grin as he took out the palm-sized stone, " With this, her powers won't hurt me even if they flare up."
Rofelto licked his lips as he remembered the cold beauty Linci and her heavenly figure, "Such heaven toppling beauty and no one could touch her before...isn't that very sad? hehehe. But now I can do that."
Hill master Keldris looked at the stone with interest before he said with a smile, "By the way, you won't believe it, but there's a person here who can resist Linci's berserk power and...can even use it."
."What!-"Rofelto stood up with shock, but a second later, he shook his head with a smile, "Hahaha, stop joking, uncle Keldris."
He was sure that Hill master Keldris was just joking. After all, something like that happening is impossible.
But Hill master Keldris shook his head and said, "I am telling the truth. Anyway, you will know about it when you meet Linci." He knew that his words would be taken as a joke, and that's why he didn't insist on that topic.
Rofelto was silent for a few seconds before asked, "Where is Linci right now?"
"Wait, I'll ask about her location."
...
After half an hour, Rofelto left the hill palace of Keldris to meet Linci.
Although the stone worked on Linci's mother, Rofelto and his father also wanted to check its effect on the original power in Linci.
After a while, he arrived at Newcomer's hill abode and went to Arena hill.
Right after arriving there, He found out that everyone was talking about Linci.
"It looks like she is enjoying the battle..."
"Yeah, I wonder why that berserk power of her is not flaring up?"
"Who knows? But I bet it is likely related to that Terror devil Athan. That person is a total mystery."
Actually, nobody could see the orb floating beside Linci that was absorbing her Netherly frost.
Rofelto heard all of this and walked forward as he saw Linci fighting against someone inside the stadium.
The people were still talking about her as they saw her fighting like this for the first time.
"Who would've thought that she could fight this well against zen order elite despite being in orderic catastrophe without using her berserk power."
"Indeed, her cloud of chaos seems even faster than that of that senior, and she is not even giving the slightest chance for him to attack."
"Her battle senses are really good, not to mention those mastered techniques."
At this moment, Linci was genuinely enjoying the fighting. She had an excited expression and was attacking non-stop as if venting all of the pent-up emotions.
After all, she was alone most of the time, and with nothing to do alone, she would always train by herself. Unfortunately, she never had the chance to show the result of her many years of training until now because every time someone attacked her, the Netherly frost would flare up to attack the attacker.
Rofelto frowned and was confused, 'What's going on? Why her berserk power isn't flaring up? Don't tell me she managed to control it?'
He waited for a few minutes as the fight was finally over and then transmitted his voice towards Linci.
Linci was surprised and looked at Rofelto with a surprised expression, 'Rofelto? Why is he here?'
Linci's Crow family and Rofelto's Lenjas family were both affiliated with the main Chaos Monolith Hills organization in upper-Chaosverse, so they were aquatinted with each other.
Linci flew towards him and spoke indifferently as her expression returned to the one that was always on her face until she met Athan, ice cold.
Rofelto smiled and said, "I have a piece of good news. My family found the cure for your mother." Just like other people, He also couldn't see the orb floating beside Linci and that's why everyone was wondering about her berserk powers not flaring up.
Hearing that, Linci was stunned for a moment before she resumed her ice-cold posture. If Rofelto had arrived here before Linci met Athan, then Linci would have been overjoyed, in disbelief, and in shock for a long time, but she had already found the solution to her problems.
After speaking, Rofelto took out the dark blue stone and said with a smile, "You see this stone? It is capable of absorbing your berserk power. We have already tried it by bringing it near your mother, and it worked!"
"What!..."Linci was truly surprised now, and it was a pleasant surprise as she asked, "W-wait...so my mother is fine now? Really?"
Seeing Linci revealing a happy expression, Rofelto felt awkward and shook his head, "Umm, no...not yet. In the condition of helping you and your mother with this stone, My father has put some conditions with your family. One condition is your hand in marriage since I can stay near you, unlike other people."
Hearing that, Linci was startled before her expression slowly turned cold, but she understood that this is how it worked. No one would give benefits and help other people without taking or asking anything in return.
She understood that people like Athan were the exception to this rule as they were rulers of their own will and had a free spirit. Athan selflessly expressed to help her while those bastard son and father were exhorting her family.
She was sure they should have asked for a heavy price in exchange for using that stone for her and her mother.
But she was also glad about one thing, 'So father...still loves the mother. If he didn't, then he wouldn't have accepted their conditions, and this bastard Rofelto wouldn't have arrived here.'
After not being able to find the cure for his first wife, his beloved life partner, who stayed with him for more than half of his life, Carashen Crow had lost his hope. He had already cast aside Linci when she was a baby because she was the cause of his wife's condition. Everyone believed her to be cursed, and Carashen didn't spend any time with Linci and even bothered to know her situation and feelings because he was always busy finding a cure for his wife. With many years passing like that, he had practically abandon Linci.
That's how Linci was isolated since she was a baby. The servants would just roughly take care of Linci until she was able to walk. They would just stay two meters away from her and use long-range means gently in fear of being attacked by her powers.
Linci took deep breaths as she shook her head and cleared away her past memories before she coldly looked at Rofelto and the stone in his hand, 'That stone can absorb my power? Humph. I want to see that!'
Thinking of that, Linci deactivated the orb given to Primo by completely removing a part of her soul sense from the orb and thought about attacking Rofelto.
Although she can't control her power, it still reacts with her genius emotional thoughts.
So when she became angry and thought of attacking, the Netherly frost flared from her body before going towards the nearest person to her, Rofelto.
Chapter 509 - Sh...hit The Fan For Rofelto.
Rofelto sensed a threat and was surprised to feel biting cold, but he smirked as he saw the stone glowing and absorbing Linci's berserk power.
"Hahaha, I told you it will work. See? Isn't it magical?" Rofelto laughed as he said, but suddenly, he remembered something and asked with doubt, "Oh yeah, by the way, why didn't your berserk power didn't flare up when fighting in Arena?"
But on the other hand, Linci was getting angrier, 'WHY!? Why my father didn't find this stone earlier? IF THERE WAS SUCH THING, WHY WASN'T IT FOUND FOR SO MANY YEARS?'
Her powers reached maximum potency in a few seconds because when she was fighting in the arena, it was releasing for more than twenty minutes already, but all of it was absorbed by the orb.
And now that she deactivated the orb and released her power with her emotional intentions, it only took a few seconds to reach back to its maximum potency as not much time had passed since her fight in the arena.
"Linci? Why are you angry?" Rofelto was confused seeing the angered expression and slightly red eyes of Linci.
*Crack...*
.Silence...
A half-second passed...
Rofelto sweated like a waterfall in that half-second as his eyes caught web cracks all over the stone in his hand.
'Shit!'
In the next half-second, He explored with all of his powers of Evagon order base as alarm bells started ringing in the enforcer's hill center.
But...
*Crackkkk..boom.*
The stone completely shattered as an intense Netherly frost released from the blast of the stone and froze Rofelto's body and soul to death.
Linci was stunned as she hurridly activated the orb, which instantly absorbed the Netherly frost before it could hurt other people several tens of meters away from them.
But after that, Linci's eyebrows creased into worry. She didn't want to kill Rofelto, but everything happened too suddenly.
'Sigh...It looks like I brought some trouble upon them,' Linci thought as she sighed, 'Although they can handle this little bit of trouble, I still should delay the news of his death. Hmmm...since he died here, his soul slip shouldn't have any reaction yet.'
Linci was not worrying about the Crow family because it was more powerful than the Lenjas family. Even though both family's leaders were equal strength, the Crow family had more influence and connections.
At this time, several enforcers, Dean Lenix, and some Hill masters also arrived.
One of the hill masters was Keldris, and he had an intense frown as he saw frozen body pieces of Rofelto.
Linci instantly recognized Keldris as she knew that he was affiliated with Lenjas family and transmitted her voice to Dean Lenix, "Dean Lenix, please restrain Hill master Keldris. I will explain the matter very soon."
Dean Lenix actually roughly understood the matter in a simple manner as he looked at the dead Rofelto.
'Linci killed Rofelto, and she wants to block the news.' Thinking of that, Dean Lenix looked at Hill master Keldris and smiled, "Keldris, why don't you come with me? I have some important matter to discuss with you."
Hearing that, Keldri smiled weakly as he also understood his position and nodded, 'Sigh...didn't expect Rofelto to die. Hmm...so that stone didn't work in the end?'
The other Hill masters knew that this situation was related to the upper-Chaosverse and didn't want to meddle in it.
"Everyone, there's no more danger, so return back to what you were doing." Dean Lenix said as he looked at everyone.
After everyone left, Linci also flew deeper into the cloudly land after receiving a call from Dean Lenix.
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In Deal Lenix's exquisite palace's back hall...
Dean Lenix, Hill master Keldris, and Linci, who just arrived here, sat down on an empty couch.
"Keldris, I will not make things difficult for you since we are all from Chaos Monolith Hills. Just...don't give this news to Lenjas family yet." Dean Lenix calmly spoke as he took a sip from the teacup.
Hill master Keldris sighed as he also took a sip from the teacup and said, "I have no other choice anyway, right Dean?"
Dean Lenix faintly smiled and said, "You also know that I am a bit closer to Crow family than Lenjas family. So if you disagree, then I will just have to restrain you for some years."
Keldris was surprised and said with doubt, "So you are saying that I can relay the news after some years?"
"Yep. Lenjas family will catch onto this sooner or later, but for some years, I will have you take an oath to keep silent about this matter."
Keldris weakly smiled and nodded, "Fine."
Afterward, he took the oath not to tell this matter Lenjas family until Dean Lenix allowed him to do it.
"So that stone didn't work in the end?" Lenjas looked at Linci as he said with doubt, "But from how confident and sure Rofelto sounded, the stone should have worked as he said that they also tested it on your mother."
Hearing that, Linci answered with indifference, "It worked but not for long. It had its capacity, and after a few seconds of absorbing my power, the stone broke apart, which resulted in the death of Rofelto."
"A few seconds? But doesn't it take some time for your power to reach higher in potency?" Dean Lenix asked with surprise.
Linci smiled as she looked at Dean Lenix and said, "I've been fighting in the arena against someone, but my power was not flaring up towards that person. Hehe, Athan found a solution to my problem, and now as long as I want, I can keep my power under my tab."
Hearing that, both Dean Lenix and Keldris were surprised.
"Dean, why don't you attack? Just slightly attack with the intention of harming me." Linci said with a chuckle.
Hearing that, Dean Lenix and Keldris started sweating.
Dean Lenix shook his head with a weak smile, "Nah, I will pass. It's not like I don't believe you. Since Athan found the solution, I am sure it is hundred percent workable but still...forget it."
Keldris nodded, but he was surprised hearing the words of Dean, 'Athan? Why does he have so much faith in that brat? Although feats he has achieved are no less than a miracle but still...for Dean to have such high opinion Athan...hmmm, It looks like there's more to that kid than what other knowns.'
Everyone knew that Athan was capable of killing Zen order master and he was a Runic Artist genius but they didn't know about his other feats as only Dean Lenix, Head Zangrel and Athan's friends knew about them.
Chapter 510 - Coddys & Ker
[ A/N: I have added Avelia's official art in the AUX chapter: Official Arts of Characters. :) Do check it out. ]
Days passed as Athan, Avelia, and Tiana finally left the CPD and returned to Efyeed.
Since Athan was kind of famous now, those who wanted news on him readily found it that he left the CPD.
Inside Firefan Hill faction's main palace...
Coddys, Ker, and the leader of the Firefan Hill faction were sitting with some other members of the faction.
Coddys suddenly moved and took out a contact card before talking with a person.
.After a few seconds, He put the card away and turned to Ker as he stood up, "Sister Ker, let's go. That Athan has returned."
Ker nodded and stood up as she looked at the beautiful red-haired lady who had a slim but perfect body with gorgeous assets and said with a smile, "Liera, then we will meet later."
Leira, the Firefan hill faction leader, smiled as she also stood up and nodded, "Sure thing. If you want to win against me next time, then you better not slack, hehe.
Ker snorted with a smile and said, "I will definitely win next time."
Afterward, both Ker and Coddys left the Firefan hill faction and flew towards Newcomer's Abode.
After reading there, They saw Athan, Tiana, Linci, Avelia, and four Nimpere brothers standing under Efyeed.
"Haha, since I have returned, then I'll make food again," Avelia said as she took out the ingredients and tools from her storage ring. While in CPD, she had gathered a lot of ingredients, and she also found some high-grade ingredients like Venfrost plant, Sealoz sticks, etc.
Athan nodded as he said, "Sure, you all wait here for a moment while I go and meet some guests."
After saying that, He flew out from the barrier field and moved towards Coddys and Ker before lazily speaking, "What do you want? Just so you know, I am very busy, so you only have 1 minute to say whatever you want."
'So arrogant? What the hell...' Ker felt speechless at Athan's attitude, and she knew that he wasn't busy or anything since he was going to have some food to eat.
She felt that fame made Athan arrogant and disapproved of him, "A measly orderic catastrophe, and you are this arrogant? Boy, just because you got some fame doesn't mean you can do anything."
Athan was stunned because he didn't think that he was arrogant. After all...this is how he behaves against everyone except for his friends and family.
He looked at Ker and grinned, "Well, I can do anything I want and...whatever you are here for, you can forget about it."
After saying that, he turned to Coddys and said, "What about you?"
On the other hand, Coddys wryly smiled and shook his head. He knew that Athan behaved this way before he got famous as well.
Hearing the question, Coddys took out a pouch and handed him over to Athan, "I want to meditate under this chaos enlightenment tree for a year, and here's the price you asked for. This pouch contains twenty-five thousand high-grade chaos stones."
Athan took the pouch before speaking with a smile, "Good. But wait here until we finish eating. After that, I will let you enter inside."
After saying that, Athan turned around to leave.
Coddys frowned but seeing that Athan had already taken the pouch, he could only sigh internally and nod.
"Stop!" Ker said loudly as she displayed an angry expression.
Athan turned around and looked at her before saying with a frown, "Stop shouting here. It might disturb my wife who is cooking. Go away."
"Fuck you!" Ker exploded as she cursed and blocked Athan's path.
Coddys facepalmed as he knew that she would explode soon and start with her flagship curse words with her personality.
Athan was stunned as he turned around once again and saw Ker standing in front of him.
But he shook his head with a grin, "Fuck me? Hehe, you are not worthy for that."
"What?!..."Ker was stunned for a moment before she realized what Athan meant by his words and her face red with both anger and embarrassment, "Y-you..."
"What happened, Athan?" Tiana and Linci came out seeing the commotion.
Athan shook his head and said, "Nothing. I was just dealing with a crazy person."
Ker took some deep breaths to calm herself before she said in a cold voice, "Athan! I am here to have a battle of Runic Arts with you."
"Not interested," After dropping these two words, Athan directly flew inside the barrier field with Tiana and Linci.
"Sister Ker, calm down. I haven't known him for long, but he won't waste time on things from which he doesn't get anything. Since he said he is not interested in the fight, then you have to spark his interest regarding it so he will fight." Coddys hurridly said to Ker seeing her angry expression.
Ker stomped her foot in the air angrily before she nodded at coddys and said coldly, "I am leaving for now and will return when Ultiora arrives here."
Coddys could only nod wryly as he also descended and sat down inside one of the open-air pavilions on the hill while waiting for Athan and his gang to finish eating.
...
Avelia cooked a lot of food, and everyone ate and enjoyed the dishes for two hours as they laughed at the stories and jokes said by four Nimpere brothers.
After eating, Tiana, Avelia, and Linci decided to meditate in train while Nimpere brothers went to Newbie Event Palace.
Afterward, Athan called Coddys inside after creating a slight gap in the barrier field in the abyssal darkness barrier field.
"Sit there, inside that border. yes, there." Athan pointed at the other side of the Efyeed before telling Coddys to sit there.
Afterward, Athan said to Efyeed with a grin, "Efyeed, If he tries anything funny, kill him without hesitation. He is not from Chaos Monolith Hills anyway."
Hearing that, Coddys was stunned and speechless as he muttered, "At least, don't say that out loud. Obviously, I am not going to do anything funny since I am just here to get an innate physique."
Efyeed shook slightly as its thoughts passed to others without any symbols forming on its trunk, 'Yes, master. I shall kill him instantly if I feel any malicious intentions from him.'
'Sigh...you are making me nervous.' Coddys sighed and felt like crying, but no tears came out.
'Screw it. I am just going to focus on meditation.' Coddys thought as he closed his eyes without wasting further of his time.
Chapter 511 - Breakthrough?
Athan was surprised at Efyeed's ability to pass its thoughts without forming symbols, "What happened, Efyeed? You are able to pass your thoughts without forming symbols now?"
"Yes, Master. It is thanks to your unique soul energy. It has upgraded some of my basic abilities and improved my existence. I really want more of master's unique power, but I can only digest a small amount after some period of time."
"Oh?... How did it happen? Can you tell me in detail?" Athan asked with curiosity.
"Yes. The white power of soul energy stayed inside my body and slowly started to affect my basic qualities. It was like....it was slowly turning into some kind of power that could upgrade me. Finally, just a few days ago, all that white power transformed into a unique chaotic power that upgraded my abilities and improved my existence."
"Interesting...That is the fundamental property of voidpulse, but without anyone to turn it into something, the voidpulse inside adapted themselves according to Efyeed's structure to benefit him. Hmmm...This could be only possible due to my soul bond with Efyeed." Athan muttered as he reached a conclusion based on things he knows about voidpulse so far.
After thinking about it for a few moments, he smiled and asked Efyeed, "How much do you want?"
"Not much, just the same amount as the previous time. After all, I need a long time to digest it."
Athan nodded and waved his hand as he gave 40% of his void pulse to Efyeed.
"Efyeed, I think that the second time will not take you that long to digest, so once you are done finishing this amount of voidpulse, notify me, and I will give you more."
Efyeed shook and glowed slightly as the voidpulse entered inside it, "Thank you, I will notify master when the time comes."
Athan nodded with a smile before he flew out of the barrier field and went to a nearby empty hill.
He stood on the ground and stretched his body before muttering, "It's time to advance."
He looked at the huge amount of Kuriazak fruits inside his void region and took all of them out before he sat down crossed-legged.
There were a total of 391 Kuriazak fruits that Dean Lenix has sent him over the past period of more than a year.
The one fruit directly called a catastrophe since he had already spent more than a year without catastrophe, and he had already shortened the catastrophe timing by eating seven fruits last time.
So he needed to eat three fruits to call the next catastrophe, but since he spent more than a year without any catastrophe, The next catastrophe arrived right after he ate one fruit.
Athan closed his eyes as he was ready to defend against the catastrophe inside his void region.
Some chaotic clouds gathered above Athan while destructive, chaotic Talonflame birds came out from Catastroh Codex and started attacking his Orderic Codex, Chaos Curtain, and others.
But he was not worried as the solution was very simple.
Athan snorted and called a rain of abyssal darkness, which destroyed every catastrophic power coming out from Catastrophe Codex and easily survived this Essence order catastrophe.
After passing this catastrophe, the dark chaotic cloud above him released some strange force that Athan let enter inside his body since it would give a boost to his Orderic Codex, Order Eidos, and Chaos Curtain.
After all, those three things are the source of his power which grants him Order force and Chaos force.
Orderic codex decides the order force's recovery speed while order eidos produces the order force by using orderic codex, which is its base. If orderic codex upgrades, The recovery speed increases, and if order eidos upgrades, the potency of order force increases.
On the other hand, If chaos curtain upgrades, it will produce a more powerful chaos force from chaos essence passing through it.
Athan had also upgraded his Umbrella storages connected to chaos curtain and made them bigger so they could store more chaos essence.
After observing the changes, Athan continued to eat fruits because he didn't experience the supposed breakthrough in this tenth catastrophe.
He then continued to eat fruits, and after ten more fruits, He experienced another catastrophe and passed it easily as well.
Some time passed as Athan went through two more catastrophes by eating twenty more fruits.
Many people saw the commotion and were speechless when they saw so many Kuriazak fruits near Athan.
"What the hell? Isn't he afraid that he will die?"
"I remember he went through eight or night Essence order catastrophes before, and now he went through three more after I arrived here. That's very strange because It only took me eight Essence order catastrophes to breakthrough."
"Yeah, Although the number of catastrophes varies according to people, I haven't seen anybody going through more than twelve catastrophes in any phase of Orderic Catastrophe stage."
...
After some time...
Athan was frowning while eating the fruits, 'I already passed fifteen essence order catastrophes, smh, when this will end?'
It's not like he was getting more benefits and more upgrades because he was going through more catastrophes. In the end, the level of order force and chaos force that everyone has at the peak of the Essence order phase is the same.
That's why Athan didn't like it when he had to consume way more resources to bring catastrophes that brought him minor upgrades each time.
But with no other choice, he continued eating the fruits...
After a while, he passed through his twentieth catastrophe, which finally brought the change.
"He broke through! Holy shit, he went through so many catastrophes before finally breaking through."
"Sigh...This is the case with geniuses. But he turned out to be way more monstrous than other so-called geniuses. I guess the Chaosverse making things difficult for him is reasonable considering that he has the power to kill even Zen order masters despite being at the same stage as us."
"Hahaha, He is in such a different league that I don't even feel envy. All he has is my admiration and fear."
Hearing that, everyone nodded as they watched the dark chaotic cloud enveloping Athan in dreamy and white blue sparks nodded.
Chapter 512 - [Bonus ] Breakthrough, Power Spike, Close To The Goal.
Inside Athan's void region...
His order eidos was finally upgraded to satisfactory conditions as it shined.
The dreamy blue and white energy from the chaotic cloud outside enveloped Athan before entering inside him and started circulating around his order eidos.
While circulating, The order eidos was also releasing order force as it mixed with the stream of dreamy blue and white energy as they started to combine and slowly formed into an orb.
This orb is known as Orderic Orb, and its uses are massive as it boosts one's strength considerably.
'Finally formed my first Orderic Orb. Let's see how much my SBP increased. '
.Athan checked his SBP by activating the SBP token and using his powerful order technique.
[ Superficial Battle Power: 82530 Chaos Warrior.]
'It looks like I will reach 100,000 SBP before breaking through to Zen order elite, 'Thought Athan after he calculated the things he was going to do like training in Initial-Elite essence, body, and soul order method and learning new order techniques of all three types.
' But first, I should eat the remaining fruits and also see how many fruits I need to eat to call soul order catastrophes. Sigh...'
Surviving several soul order catastrophes will also boost his SBP since his soul will get some power-up with each soul order catastrophe he survives.
As such, Athan started eating more fruits. He ate ten fruits and waited, but the catastrophe didn't arrive as expected.
Seeing this, other people were surprised.
" Wait...is he planning to survive soul order catastrophe before learning soul order techniques? What the hell..."
"Maybe he doesn't know?..."
"Don't be stupid. He should know that soul order catastrophes are a tough nut to crack due to their mystical nature, and one needs soul order techniques to defend against them."
"Yeah, since he broke through from Essence order catastrophe phase, he should start learning soul order techniques...or is he really confident of surviving soul order catastrophe without soul order techniques?"
"Who knows? Maybe he has an innate soul physique with superior soul energy and is confident of passing the first few soul order catastrophes? But eventually, the catastrophes will get more dangerous, and he will have no choice but to learn soul order techniques to survive against them."
...
Athan continued to eat fruits, and when he ate the twentieth fruit, He finally sensed the coming of catastrophe.
'Twenty fruits? Great...,' Athan grimaced as he closed his eyes.
Chaotic aurora mass of energy loomed over Athan once again before his Catastrophe Codex bubbled with dark and dark green mystical force.
As the name suggests, a soul order catastrophe is a catastrophe that will attack his soul, and it also comes from catastrophe codex.
One can only defend against the mystical force of this catastrophe by using one's soul energy. If one tried to block or attack the soul order catastrophe with order force or chaos force, it wouldn't work as they would simply bypass the soul order catastrophe.
There is one exception, and that is to use soul order techniques. The soul order technique contains order force, chaos force, and soul energy. Still, since it's a technique that utilizes those powers in combination, they can be used to defend against the soul order catastrophes, which is the orthodox way to survive soul order catastrophes.
But Athan was confident in his soul energy. After all, his soul energy had the power of abyssal void of fabrication.
Normally, after people breakthrough from the Essence order catastrophe phase, they will start learning the soul order techniques because they need to use those techniques to defend against soul order catastrophes.
But Athan's soul energy was unique as it has the property of both abyssal darkness and voidpulse. It was essentially abyssal darkness and voidpulse but mixed together and would change form according to his will.
It's just, until now, the capacity of his soul energy was not that much to be used in the same manner as he uses his abyssal darkness and void pulse. At most, he could use his soul energy to execute his self-created soul illusion technique, Gaze of Void.
But now...it was finally time to start training his soul and strengthen it all ways.
With each soul catastrophe passing, his soul will upgrade. After all, his soul was just mutated; it didn't elevate to a higher existence when he was reborn.
His soul had several powerful qualities since the last upgrade, which was due to his actions of scattering his soul and regrouping it.
First, his soul became more powerful potency-wise. In the test, it was discovered that his soul strength was 16 soul points, where in general, people who just break through to the Orderic Catastrophe stage have 4-5 soul points, and even people with special soul physique doesn't have soul points greater than 10 points.
So after Athan went through that upgrade, It was clearly displayed in his SBP token as his SBP increased by twenty-two thousand. So that upgrade related to his soul was quite high, but it only reflected his soul strength and not soul capacity.
If his guess was correct, His soul points should be between 50 to 60. While the soul points of someone who breakthrough to Zen order Elite is at least 100.
Soul point correlates to one's soul strength, which is the potency of their soul energy. The people at orderic catastrophe can't see an increase in their soul points until they enter the soul order phase and pass through soul order catastrophes to make their souls more powerful in an all-around manner.
Second, Athan's soul was different as it was higher in quality than normal people with unique and powerful soul energy, and he also mastered the thousand splitting consciousness ability.
But the capacity of his soul energy was still the same as other people in orderic catastrophe. It was just slightly higher but not much.
However, since his soul strength was strong, and in addition to his unique soul energy, He could also affect people at Zen order Elite with his gaze of the void.
He had discovered that his Gaze of Void didn't have much effect on Zen order Master and above. So, after that discovery, he had decided to upgrade his Gaze of Void once he started training in the soul order method and learning some soul order techniques.
As the black and dark green force attacked his soul, Athan used his soul energy to obliterate them before they could reach his soul.
Once he passed through his first soul order catastrophe, The chaotic aurora mass of force outside released sparkling white force towards Athan, which he let enter inside his body.
The sparkling white force went towards his soul and started strengthening it in an all-round manner.
But the upgrade was minor as his soul strength and soul energy capacity didn't increase that much...which was complete bull shit to Athan. After all, for all other people, once they pass through their first soul order catastrophe, they get a massive boost as their soul becomes very powerful.
The reason behind that massive boost is so that they can start comprehending the higher level of order, Zen order. They can do that while training in Initial-Elite zen order essence methods.
Athan could only think of one reason as to why his soul boost was small. That reason was that...unlike other people, he already grasped zen order sets and mastered Initial zen order from the Miz-Lu Enchanted Kingdom essence order method.
'Sigh...It looks like I will have to pass many soul order catastrophes before I reach the trigger point of breakthrough,' Athan thought with a sigh as he continued eating fruits.
He felt that he would have to survive even more catastrophe than he survived in the Essence order phase.
...
Two hours passed as Athan finished eating all remaining Kuriazak fruits and went through sixteen soul order catastrophes...which successfully dumbfounded everyone in the chaos monolith hills.
Surviving sixteen consecutive soul order catastrophes...without learning any soul order technique.
It was an absurd notion to everyone, and it was like basically courting death.
But everyone saw that Athan indeed passed through sixteen catastrophes without frowning a single time and just left with a carefree expression after that.
...
Athan had a slightly excited expression because after passing through sixteen catastrophes, his SBP increased by six thousand when he tested by activating the SBP token and using a simple soul attack on the curtain.
'I'll quickly complete the first stage of Miz-Lu Enchanted Kingdom and form the chaotic mini world. I'll use the Orderic Orb as well, so after doing that, my battle power might just reach 100,000 SBP, and I will be able to establish the Hill faction.'
Without wasting any more time, Athan sat down under Efyeed and started training.
This time, he successfully managed to combine his order force with the unique force which he extracted from the scroll of Miz-Lu Enchanted Kingdom a long time ago when he comprehended the Initial zen order of this chaotic power from the scroll.
He waited for some time and found that both forces ultimately merged, unlike before when his order force simply disappeared.
Seeing that, Athan grinned, 'Now I can start creating the chaotic mini-world.'
The first step of training in the Zen order method was to create a mini-world that one experienced and comprehended from the scroll.
Athan had already experienced and comprehended that beautiful dark blue and lavender world from the scroll and grasped the Initial zen order as well, so he quickly started the process.
He used his soul sense on the sparkling mass of dark blue and lavender as he started controlling it to form the chaotic mini-world by using the zen order sets he comprehended of Miz-Lu Enchanted Kingdom chaotic power.
Chapter 513 - Void's Grotto.
Inside Athan's void region...
At one place, one could see a mystical globe of dark blue and lavender hue with the same color aura sparkling around it.
Athan's soul sense was currently inside that globe, and it was filled with dark blue and mystical lavender water.
He had completed the first stage of the Miz-Lu Enchanted Kingdom order method, and the moment he finished creating this world properly, he sensed a connection with a mysterious place.
He knew what this connection was as he would have to use it to make further progress in this initial-elite zen order method. But...he paused on that because right now, he wants to test this new chaotic power, Miz-Lu Enchanted Kingdom..
'Now, it's time to use it for the reason I selected this method,' thought Athan as he created some voidlings and put them inside the mini-chaotic world of Miz-Lu Enchanted Kingdom.
The ability of Miz-Lu Enchanted Kingdom chaotic power was purely supportive and horde-type. But this support was not given to the user but chaos beasts and the special lifeform born in the Miz-Lu Enchanted Kingdom.
Its mystical nature would increase the overall power of chaos beasts and the lifeform born in the Miz-Lu Enchanted Kingdom that Athan will have to work on using the connection he got.
But the main reason why he selected this order method was to use the nature of this chaotic power to enhance his voidlings.
Inside the Miz-Lu Enchanted Kingdom's chaotic mini world, Athan put five Breaker-Tiger voidlings with the nature of lightning dust power infused into them and started enhancing them.
His order force was being consumed as he used the power of Miz-Lu Enchanted Kingdom and enchanted his voidlings to make them more powerful.
The dark blue and lavender sparky water enveloped the voidlings before mystical patterns appeared on the body of five Breaker-Tiger voidlings.
Those patterns shined with a dark blue and lavender glow.
Afterward, Athan brought out those five voidings to test what changes appeared on them after he used Miz-Lu Enchanted Kingdom's power on them.
He went to an empty hill and started checking their new combat power.
*swoosh....*
First, The speed of these voidlings increased considerably as when Athan commanded them to run at full speed, the lavender patterns on their body shined and increased their movement speed considerably.
*Crackle...boom..*
Second, The attack moves got a double enhancement as when Athan commanded them to release a simple attack of lightning dust, its speed and attack power both increased.
When they released that simple bolt of lightning, both dark blue and lavender patterns on their body shined as the bolt of lightning was enhanced with dark blue and lavender sparks around it, which increased the speed of the lightning bolt, and its attack power as well.
'As for their defense...,' thought Athan as he lightly attacked them by consuming chaos force and releasing flew bolts of lightning dust on them.
Right before the attack hit them, The patterns on the Voidling's body shined as a sparky protective layer of dark blue and lavender appeared on it and completely blocked the lightning bolts.
'Nice...It's just as the introduction mentioned. This power gives basic all-around enhancement.'
Athan then started thinking about his plan, 'Hmmm...Now for my combat style plan to completely succeed, I need to perfect the production of Voidling-Zoids. But before that, I need to create blueprints of the types of voidlings and make Runic Wards so I can create voidlings rapidly through the Runic wards and then turn them into Zoids.'
He took out Dean Lenix's contact card before connecting the call and said, "Dean, for the next year, just save the Kuriazak fruits. After a year, I will come there to take them."
Dean Lenix--"What are you planning to do?"
Athan--"For one year, I am going to focus on my new Runic production. After all, It will become the source of my income in the future."
Dean Lenix--"Hahaha, great. I also want to see that thing."
Athan--"Sure, I am going to make it such that it will be relevant to all stages of people, hehe. That means that, even though the product is created by the measly me who is in Orderic Catastrophe, you will also be able to make use of it."
Dean Lenix--"Interesting, hahaha. Alright then, good luck."
Athan shook his head as he put the contact card away and muttered, "I don't need luck."
He then scattered the voidlings and returned to Efyeed as he sat down crossed-legged and started thinking about the types of voidlings.
...
After a day, Athan designed a voidling whose structure was geared towards Extreme speed and control.
The voidling looked like a manta ray but with extra two pairs of wings and several wiggly pipe spots on its body, which can be used to release whatever control-type power one wants to use.
Athan designed its body structure with countless small windpipes that the voidling itself can control. These small pipes will stretch open when the voidling is flying and decrease the atmosphere's resistance to increase its flying speed.
Its size is three meters long, and its wingspan is five meters long. The wings are designed very thin with a rapid flapping structure like that of a bee. And with a speed-supportive chaotic power, these two pairs of wings can display their top speed with these four thin wings structure with sharp edges on them to cut through the atmosphere to increase their flapping speed.
Athan named this voidling as Blitzzer.
Voidling-Blitzzer.
'Since I have created this voidling, then it's time to work on the runic ward,' thought Athan as he took out all of his voidpulse and even used his soul energy as he mixed those two things.
To create a Runic Ward, one needs valuable materials and resources to create an object and then carve runic patterns, symbols, and then runic arts on that object with desired effects. After the process, that object will be known as Runic Ward with a specific name related to its powers.
But what Athan wanted to create was something entirely unique, and he was just borrowing the concept of Runic Ward to make it easier.
Since he was going to create a Runic Ward in which he could produce voidlings, the best material would be his voidpulse and soul energy.
With absolute focus, he started controlling the voidpulses to create a structure that could produce voidlings and started using his Runic Brush to set up the working process properly.
According to his plan, This Runic Ward will work like this:
-->He can infuse various blueprints of voidlings in the runic ward and store its creation process in it. So that can he produce any type of voidling he wants quickly.
-->The runic ward will have its structure created with voidpulse, and it will be connected to his Chaos Matrix, order eidos, chaos curtain, Netherly frost's orb, and black and white orbs to rapid access to those powers.
-->He will only need one thought to produce a voidling from the Runic Ward once the things mentioned in the previous two points are perfectly set up.
He wanted to make it with a very detailed and pinpoint structure such that his subconsciousness must be able to produce voidlings by sending out instructions to the Runic Ward. This is so that his main consciousness can focus on other things.
...
Several days passed as Athan focused on creating the runic ward, which he had already named even though it was not complete yet.
Runic Ward of Void's Grotto.
The name was suitable since the runic ward had the appearance of a cave.
The cave had many small passages, mystical white patterns of voidpulse, and even more golden patterns, which he carved using his Runic Brush.
Other than those, the cave also had a pipe-like structure that was white, but abyssal darkness flowed in it towards the center ground zone of the cave where the voidlings would be produced.
This place was filled with countless thin white threads made from voidpulse, and these threads were connected to another structure inside the cave. While those countless threads were connected to this structure, this structure was attached to chaos matrix, order eidos, chaos curtain, Netherly frost's orb, and black and white orbs with long threads of voidpulse.
...
Finally, a month has passed since Athan started creating the Runic Ward of Void's Grotto, and today, he finally finished it.
Athan grinned with excitement as he looked at his creation and hurridly infused the first blueprint inside this runic ward.
The blueprint looked like a white orb with golden patterns, but the orb had the creation process of Blitzzer stored in it.
First official blueprint of a voidling, Voidling-Blitzzer.
After infusing the blueprint, Athan looked at the four orbs connected to the Void's Grotto while they were displayed outside.
The four orbs are connected to the internal structure of the Void's Grotto, where voidlings are supposed to be created. First orb, Lightning dust. Second orb, Force of Glittering River. Third orb, Aegis Starwood. Fourth orb, Netherly frost.
Athan activated the first orb, and right after that, he felt a small amount of his order force, chaos force, voidpulse, and abyssal darkness being consumed.
After two seconds of that, Voidling-Blitzzer appeared from the Void's Grotto as it looked dangerously beautiful with its black and white body and those dreading four rapidly flapping wings. Its body had yellow-brown patterns, which represented chaotic power, lightning dust.
Looking at the Void Grotto, Athan nodded with a grin as he thought, 'The Void Grotto is completed, but it's not fully completed. I can make voidlings with it, but my aim is to create Voidlings-Zoids with it.
'Hehe, now I need to perfect my creation process of Voidlings-Zoids, so I add more things to Void's Grotto and improve its structure so that it can create Voidlings-Zoids as well.'
After thinking of that, Athan stood up and took out Runic Brush as he started creating Voidling-Zoid-Blitzzer.
He had created a breaker tiger voidling-zoid in his first attempt, but that creation was not perfect as it didn't meet his satisfactory requirements.
He also needs to practice to fully imbue this process of creating Voidlings-Zoids into Void's Grotto.
'It's going to take many months...But I am sure that the final result will be exciting,' Thought Athan as a gleam of excitement passed through his eyes.
He then closed his eyes and took out voidpulse and abyssal darkness in front of him before using his Runic Brush to start the process of creating Voidling-Zoid-Blitzzer.
Chapter 514 - Awesome!
Hours turned into days, and days turned into months...just like that, one year passed since Athan started his project of Void's grotto.
And in this one year, he had...completely mastered the way to form Voidling-Zoids.
"Athan, let me try them out in Arena. Hehe," Avelia spoke with a chuckle as she grinned.
"Good Idea!" Tiana and Avelia nodded.
."Hahaha, then let's go," Athan said with a laugh.
"Wait, big brother! Can we have some of the Voidling-Zoids as well? Hehe, we will publicize this product in the market, and once people know how useful and miraculous Voidling-Zoids are, sun-moon news will notice it very soon and come to you for more details regarding it," the eldest of Nimpere brothers said with a grin.
Athan faintly smiled and said, "I was going to give this task in the first place. Here, take one Voidling-Zoid of each type. This one is extreme speed and control type Voidling-Zoid known as Blitzzer. This one is structured for extreme melee offense from those blade-like hands..."
Athan presented four thumb-sized balls with black, white and, golden patterns around them and told them which balls were which type of voidling-Zoids.
Tiana and others also listened as they also didn't know much about these things in detail.
In this year, Athan created a total of four types of Voidling-Zoids and infused their blueprints in the upgraded Void's Grotto, which can now produce Voidling-Zoids as well.
Another thing was that in the process of perfecting the voidling-zoids, which are now very advanced than the first voidling-zoid he created, he became a 9-star Runic Artist. With that breakthrough, he managed to add a powerful function to the voidling-zoid.
The concept behind Voidling-Zoids is that they are without nature, and he will give/sell others empty-natured Voidling-Zoids.
Each Voidling he created has its unique body structure and is geared towards certain aspects.
First, Voidling-Zoid-Blitzzer: People who buy this voidling can infuse the thumb-sized ball with chaotic powers with the nature of speed and control before it transforms into the voidling from its ball form. With these two nature of chaotic powers inside it, they can use this voidling in the battle to control the enemies and impair them in their own ways according to their chaotic powers. They can infuse multiple nature of chaotic powers in each voidling-zoid.
But that's not all; after giving them the chaotic nature, they can infuse order techniques in them as well. Athan had a hard time coming up with the method to succeed in this, but he finally succeeded after trying many times once he broke through to 9-star Runic Artist.
However, there is a limit, and that limit is that each voidling-zoid can only be infused with one order technique. This was possible due to the four dimension runic symbols he managed to carve. And that feat means that he broke through to 9-star Runic Master, and his Runic brush was also upgraded.
Back to the main point, If Athan was to use voidling-zoid-Blitzzer in battle, he would infuse it with lightning dust and give it [ Arachnid's Demon Web ] order technique.
So in battle, Blitzzer speedily flies around while releasing Arachnid's demon web to impair enemies. It also won't be caught since its structure is geared towards extreme speed, and the nature of lightning dust will make it even faster. Naturally, It can also release normal attacks of the chaotic nature infused in it aside from using the order technique.
He can't give it the chaotic nature of the force of glittering river as well because it will decrease its flying speed. After all, one of the characteristics of that chaotic power has is that it's very heavy, and it exudes heaviness.
Second, Voidling-Zoid-Titan: This voidling is the biggest one, and it also consumes more of his voidpulse to create. It is five meters tall, and it looks like a golem with detachable floating limbs. There is only one specialty of this voidling, and it is an absolute defense. Its body structure will change form according to the user's will, so they can choose whatever type of defense they want—protection against penetrative power, defensive against blunt force, and guard against corrosion.
People can give this voidling-zoid one or more chaotic powers with the chaotic nature of defense and infuse a defensive order technique to defend the user or others during a battle when emergencies arise.
Third, Voidling-Zoid-Bladeus: This voidling is a melee voidling zoid that resembles a mantis, but it's more than that. Its body size is two meters tall, and Its body structure also has extreme speed but is in burst form. With many small holes in its body that it can open and close at will and two pairs of dragonfly-like wings, It can release a burst of chaotic power of speed nature from those holes and rush in a burst manner and with good maneuverability with those wings.
But that's not all; this voidling-zoid also has four razor-sharp blade-like hands and so the user can also infuse it with pure offensive nature of chaotic power, which will increase the power of those blades even more.
Add a pure offensive order technique suitable with this voidling-zoid, and it can become a nightmare to the enemy.
Fourth, Voidling-Zoid-Artilar: This is the second biggest voidling as it's three meters tall and two meters wide. This voidling's body structure is geared for pure offense and nothing else. Its speed is also very slow as it will stop its movement before firing from the four types of cannons from its body.
He had added much of his time in this voidling and added more runic arts that can increase the offensive aspect of any attack it releases. With those runic arts, this voidling can charge, condense, scatter, and superimpose the energy in its body before releasing it from four types of cannons on its body.
Add a powerful offensive order technique that is compatible with the structure of this voidling, and it can blast and shred enemies to death. Of course, its defense is weak, and movement is slow, so it's also easy to target, but people can use their defensive order techniques or Voidling-Titan to protect it.
The appearance of these voidlings resembles a turtle with four cannons on its shell. The process of energy manipulation using runic arts is done inside its complicated shell structure, which caused Athan a slight headache before he managed to complete it.
"That's all. You understood the use and functions of these Voidling-Zoids perfectly, right?" Athan asked after he finished explaining everything to four nimpere brothers.
At this moment, the Nimpere brothers, Tiana, Avelia, and Linci had their mouths agape as they looked at Athan with shock, disbelief, awe, and other such emotions.
"Athan....just how did manage to come up with these things?" Linci asked with awe and glittering eyes.
"Big brother!! You are awesome," the Nimpere brothers shouted with excited faces.
"I-i feel like kowtowing..."
"It's so awesome! Big brother, once you start selling these voidling-zoids, you will easily become and will gain influence."
At this time, the four Nimpere brothers felt that it was their family's nine generation's fortune that enabled them to befriend and join Athan's team.
Tiana and Avelia were also shocked before feeling happy and proud...'Hahaha, see? That's our powerful and genius hubby.'
Chapter 515 - Terrifying Voidlings.
*Boooooooomm..*
At this time, Avelia was fighting against Tiana in the arena.
Both of them had deployed voidling-zoids: Blitzzer, Titan, Bladeus, and Artilar.
The four voidlings of Tiana were attacking Avelia and vice-versa.
Both of them were sweating while dodging and defending the attack of voidlings while also attacking if they found a chance.
Although both of them had the same type and number of voidlings, their chaotic nature was different, and the order technique they infused inside them was also different.
Avelia's Artilar voidling was infused with rigid ice-type chaotic power that discharged electric shock upon contact, and it was attacking scatter cannon shots, giving much trouble to Tiana since even if the shot didn't hit her, it could freeze the atmosphere around her and slow her down.
.The Bladues was also attacking her with its fast speed, and Tiana actually had a hard time dodging it and always had to block its razor-sharp fast attack imbued with the demonic wind with corrosion property.
Naturally, Avelia was also having a hard for similar reasons. Tiana's Artilar was releasing impact splash shots with an Umbra Drox Water chaotic power which had powerful impact damage and shattering effect.
Tiana's bladeus was imbued with Yomus Arkchis chaotic power, which had extreme speed and penetrative power. The blady hands and wings of her bladeus were surrounded by dark red bloody threads as its speed was fast, and its attack was precise and sharp.
Finally, the most " annoying " voidling-Blitzzer, both of them had imbued it with the same chaotic power they gave to bladeus, which was speed-related, and both of them had imbued it with the same speed control-type order technique known as Regna Vinsera.
It was an Initial-elite zen essence order technique. This technique conjures black and dark green demonic seeds that would shoot towards the target at a very high speed, and when they were close to the target, the seeds would bloom into a very sticky vine web before shooting towards the target. It also has an exhaustion effect.
Meanwhile, both of their Titan-voidlings were protecting their Artilar-voidlings.
In a sense, the voidlings were overwhelming both Tiana and Avelia.
After an hour of stalemate, both of them finally couldn't hold back and used their genome powers.
They used their Geno-frame and transformed before both of them attacked each other's voidlings first.
By now, many audiences had gathered since the news about this "unique" battle was spreading like wildfire.
Some new people arrived a few minutes ago and were shocked as they started asking.
"What are those creatures? They don't look like chaos beasts or chaotic spirits."
"How strange...those creatures have similar chaotic power inside them that is matching the chaotic power in their master's order techniques."
"WHAT! DID YOU SEE THAT? That beast just released an Initial-elite zen order technique, Whirstar Myriad Blades. What the hell is going on?"
Creatures being able to use order techniques? That was bonkers!
"Those two...They are very close to that devil Athan. And those strange creatures also slightly resemble the creatures he sometimes conjures."
"Yeah, but isn't it strange that other people can use it as well? What's going on?"
"Their battle capability is so high! It's like they are designed with a specific purpose in battle, and each one exceptionally."
"Indeed, those two voidlings...their speed is very high. If they were after me, I wouldn't be able to run away..."
"My speed is faster than them if I use my supportive-movement order technique, but the troublesome part is that...they can also use order techniques."
"Sigh...they are so powerful, it would make our risky adventure inside CPDs easier, and we could collect more resources, and they can also act as guards."
"With this battle, it's clear that others can use them, but...I wonder if he will be selling them?"
...
Meanwhile, Athan was not at the arena hill but at Dean Lenix's place.
They were at the open ground since Athan told Dean Lenix to go to such a place. But currently, the ground had massive damage done to it, and the place was filled with a chaotic atmosphere.
"T-this...Athan, this will likely shock the whole Midgard continent," Dean Lenix muttered as he looked at the four voidlings in front of him.
The aura exuded by these three voidlings was much more powerful than the voidlings that Tiana and Avelia deployed.
After all...Athan had made it such that people of all levels could use his voidling-zoids. That's why he made them null-natured.
"What's the last one? You said you created four." Dean Lenix at Athan with a grin. Despite his age, he was also slightly excited at the capabilities of these strange inventions of Athan.
Athan nodded as he threw a thumb-sized ball that had exuded sharpness to Dean Lenix, "This one specializes in extreme speed in burst manner and fast melee attacks."
Dean Lenix caught it and infused his soul energy before imbuing it with one of his Evagon-level chaotic power and an order technique.
After that, he threw the ball in the sky before it glowed and expanded before transforming into Voidling-Bladeus.
"Now, let's see how powerful this one is," Dean Lenix said with a grin as he commanded Bladeus-voidling to attack a mountain one kilometer away from them.
*swooooosh....Zoom...*
Athan's eyes went slightly wide, seeing that Bladeus literally disappeared and appeared a kilometer away, right in front of the mountain, before waving its blade at such a speed that he couldn't follow.
A million dark silver lights suddenly flashed before the whole mountain was shredded into tiny pieces.
"Ohh, I thought about using its bust with chaotic space power that had burst warp nature, and the result turned out to be way better than I expected," Dean Lenix spoke with a surprised expression.
He looked at Athan with shining eyes and laughed out loud, "Hahaha, I think you really created one hell of a thing. These creatures that can use order techniques and how we can infuse our own chaotic power in them makes them even more valuable than chaos beasts."
Athan wryly smiled and nodded while thinking, 'Damn! Evagon-stage people are actually very powerful. Phew, If I didn't have surprise element and Netherly frost, that Ruzald might have gotten away.'
But one thing Athan forgot to remind himself was that people like Dean Lenix and Head Zangrel were completely different beasts than other Evagon-level powerhouses here. They were at the very peak of Evagon-level and could easily kill other Evagon-level powerhouses here.
Chapter 516 - Publicity.
The Nimpere brothers were at the market, and they were also showing and telling everyone about Voidling-zoids to others.
"Haha, do you know that you can also use these creatures? They are known as voidlings," the eldest's brother spoke with a loud laugh.
"Yep, the creatures are known as voidlings while the entire product is called Voidling-Zoids. You saw that thumb-sized ball with mystical black, white and golden patterns, right? They are all empty-natured, and before transforming them, you can give them the chaotic power natures of your choices and also...infuse an order technique inside them."
One of the people raised his hand and asked, "But how? Can you show us one of them releasing an order technique?"
The second brother nodded with a grin as he commanded, Voidling-Titan to execute a defensive order technique since it wouldn't deal any damage in the market, and people can also confirm that these voidlings can execute order techniques.
"Before I activated this Titan-voidling, I infused Gorayan Dome order technique in it. As for how to do it? It's very simple; since you have mastered the order technique, then you can infuse the execution of that order technique and its set of order force inside the thumb-sized ball..
"When you infuse your soul energy in it, you will be able to feel two seconds in the thumb-sized ball; one of them is for you to add chaotic powers inside it while the other is used to store execute of your order technique."
The second brother pointed at the Titan-voidling, which had a defensive Hexa-type dome around with it dark grey and brown patterns, " As you can see, this voidling used Gorayan Dome order technique. I'm sure you can feel it very clearly."
The people around them nodded as they wore shocked and surprised expressions.
"How mysterious..."
At this time, the eldest brother clapped his hand to attract everyone's attention and said with a smile, "If you want to see their full capabilities, then follow us outside the market. We can show their full power in the nearby hill."
...
Approx three hundred people followed the Nimpere brothers.
After arriving outside, The nimpere brothers showed the full of voidlings and their battle capabilities in each aspect.
The result shocked and surprised the audience.
"Hey, you four brothers! Why are you shocked and surprised as well? Don't know about your own product?"
"Hahaha, they look silly."
"Umm...but handsome as well," One of the girls muttered.
Unfortunately, the four Nimpere brothers couldn't notice her. Sigh...how sad.
The Nimpere brothers coughed and smiled, "We only knew about their general details and didn't see their combat capabilities yet. "
"Yeah, but now that we saw, we are even more in awe of our Big brother who created them. Did you see how these four voidlings have their body structured to perfection that aid them in their extreme aspect?"
"The Bladeus is melee but has burst speed, supportive body structure, and powerful weapons. With suitable chaotic power, it will bring the nightmare to your enemies."
"Same with Blitzzer and other three voidlings. Each has their own aspect which they excel in and will be very useful in all situations."
At this time, The eldest brother coughed loudly and spoke, " Ahem, the best thing about these voidlings are that...powerhouses of all stages can use them! They will show the strength that is on par with their masters once they are activated by Zen order powerhouses and...even Evagon-stage powerhouses!"
Hearing that, The people were shocked and were in disbelief.
A Zen order master from the crowd stepped forward and said with a serious expression, "Do you have any more of those voidling-zoids? I need to confirm just the claim that you just made."
"Yeah, let him activate a voidling-zoid so we can see if its capability increases or not."
"Yep. It remains to see if they can house our chaotic power and make use of it like the four of yours did. After all, you four are just orderic catastrophes."
Many other zen order people also spoke up.
The Nimpere brothers looked at each other with weak smiles as they didn't have extra voidling-zoid.
The eldest brother shouted, "Wait a minute, I will ask my big brother about it. Because we don't have any more voidling-zoids with us."
"Yeah, just wait a minute."
The Zen order master nodded and said, "It's fine. You can take more than a minute. These things are very interesting, and even if only orderic catastrophe can use it, their value is still immense since they can be very helpful."
The fourth brother snorted and said, "Just wait because what we said is not false. All stages of powerhouses can use, and their strength increases depending on the person who activates it."
On the other hand, The eldest brother contacted Athan using a contact card.
--Athan, "What's the matter? Did something happen there?"
--Eldest, "No, big brother. But can you send us one or two voidling-zoids? Or tell me your location so I can come there to take them."
--Athan, "No need to come here. Tell me your location, and I will send them to you."
--Eldest, "We are standing right outside of the giant market on Trade & Market Hill center. In the west direction, you will be able to see a gathering of hundreds of people."
--Athan, "Got it. The zoids wil be there in a minute."
...
At this time, Dean Lenix and Athan were back at the palace and were sitting in front of each other on the couch with a table in between them.
"Who was it?" Dean Lenix asked with a doubt, "Did you already start its publicity in the market?"
Athan nodded as he waved his hand conjured an Eagle voidling giving it two-four voidling-zoids.
The eagle caught them in its talons before flying outside of the Hill palace.
With his thousand-splitting consciousness ability, he controlled the eagle to fly towards the market while talking with Dean.
Right now, He was paying attention to three things.
First, He was talking to Dean about the future prospect of these voidling-zoids.
Second, he was watching Arena hill through the mouse voidling that was standing on Linci's shoulder.
And third, the eagle flying towards the market.
It was like he was looking at three windows from his mind. Well, that was actually nothing considering that he can split his consciousness into six thousand, which means six thousand windows.
After the recent powerup of his soul through surviving soul order catastrophe, He felt that he could further split his consciousness but had to try it since he didn't need such capability right now.
What he needed was to increase the power of his consciousness to a new level.
He wants to increase it to a level where even his subconsciousness can start to do difficult tasks such as comprehending and understanding more complex things, not just watching the windows and reading the information, data, and scenery of those six thousand places simultaneously.
Well, that feat is also very impressive, but Athan wants to go even above that.
...
On the other hand, Athan found the location by watching through eagle's eyes and went towards the Nimpere brothers.
The Nimpere brothers immediately recognized the eagle which gave them four voidling-zoids before floating on top of them so Athan could observe the situation here as well.
"Here, take it and prove everyone that these voidling-zoids are miraculous and every level of powerhouse can use it since they displayed the combat ability according to powers infused in them." the eldest brother spoke with a smirk before giving a Bladeus-voidling-zoid to the man at zen order master level.
The man didn't say anything as he just took the voidling-zoid and infused his soul energy in it before he sensed the two mystical sections.
'I see...This indeed makes it easier.' Thought the man as he was shocked and impressed internally, 'Just who created something like this?'
He then infused two types of chaotic power in the ball and infused an order technique as well before activating it with his command from soul sense.
Everyone looked on with focus and the man commanded it to fly at its fastest speed and attack the ground with its order technique.
*Swoooooosh....*
*Creeeeakkk...Boom...*
...Silence...
Everyone became silent in shock because it was as clear as day that this Bladeus-voidling was on a whole different level than the Bladeus-voidling activated by the Nimpere brothers.
"T-that...It also used Master-zen order technique."
"HOLY SHIT! how much does this cost? I am willing to buy it!"
"Me too, me too! I want one set consisting of each of those four types of voidling-zoids."
Chapter 517 - Shikas, Selling Method.
It's been three days since Athan told the Nimpere brothers to showcase the voidling-zoids, and today, its name reached the Sun-moon news organization as they sent a representative to meet Athan and to know more about his unique invention.
At this time, the Public was gathered at Newcomer's abode, right outside of the Efyeed and the barrier field around it.
"Hahaha, nice to finally to you, Athan. You can simply call me Shikas," Shikas said as he sat down on a soft couch under Efyeed.
Under Efyeed, there were four couches and a table in the middle at one of its sides. Athan, Tiana, Avelia, Linci, Dean Lenix, and the recently arrived Shikas sat on the couches.
"Let's come to the point without wasting time. I am here to interview you and to know more about voidling-zoids. After all, you have truly made something ground-breaking," Shikas said with a laugh.
He then took out a scroll and put it on the table before saying with a smile, "We already know some things about the voidling-zoids since the display you put a few days ago at the market was spread as some people recorded it with reflection stones.. But still, we want to hear about the full capabilities of those voidling-zoids so we can note them down."
Athan nodded before he told them each point about voidling-zoids on how to use them and what capabilities they have.
Shikas noted everything down as he nodded, and after Athan finished explaining everything, Shikas sighed in amazement, "How is something like this possible to create? It's clear that you have used your capabilities as Runic Artist to create them. But...this is unlike anything we've seen before."
Athan just faintly smiled.
"Do you think other Runic artists can study and create them?" Shikas asked with a curious expression.
Athan's mouth formed a small arc as he spoke serenely, "They can try."
Shikas wryly smiled and nodded before he asked another question, "One of the main questions is how are you going to sell voidling-zoids? The value of these things is vastly different in different people's hands.
"After all, if used by zen order elite, these voidlings-zoids displays battle power comparable to 7-star chaos beasts but more powerful in their respective aspects and compatible with the user. But.."-Shikas grinned as he took a sip from the teacup-," But if used by Zen order Grandmaster, then they will display power comparable to 9-star chaos beasts but more powerful."
Shaking his head, Shikas continued, "With such difference in values, have you thought about how will you set their price?"
Athan grinned as he crossed his arm and leaned back on the couch before saying, "I have thought about how to sell them. You might as well write it down so that people can know the requirement to buy them and their price. Dean Lenix, can you please elaborate on that?"
"Oh?...," Shikas was surprised before he looked at Dean Lenix.
Dean Lenix nodded at Athan with a smile as they have thought of this selling method together. He then turned to Shikas and started telling him about the requirement and price to buy these voidling-zoids.
After hearing everything, Shikas was dumbfounded for a moment before he laughed out loud, "Hahaha, This is indeed a very strange way to sell things, but it's very suitable for this product."
The selling method of Voidling-Zoids had certain requirements and different prices according to the buyer.
1--> They can only buy it at Void Pavilion. This void pavilion is a new building that will be constructed beside Efyeed after a few days. Athan will also expand the barrier, and Dean Lenix will also put a solid formation around it such that without Athan and other members' permission, nobody can go inside.
2-->The prices of voidling-zoids will be different for people at different levels of strength.
People in Orderic Catastrophe can buy one voidling-zoid for 500 medium-grade chaos stones.
Those at Zen order Elite can buy one voidling-zoid for 500 high-grade chaos stones, while those at Zen order Master and Grandmaster can buy one for 1,000 & 1,500 high-grade chaos stones, respectively.
As for those at the Evagon stage, they need to pay 5,000 high-grade chaos stones to buy one voidling-zoid.
3--> People who come to buy voidling-zoids will have to soul bind them before taking them out from the void pavilion. This way, people of the higher stage can't take advantage of asking lower-stage people to buy for them at a lower price.
4--> The price to enter inside void pavilion will be 124 low-grade chaos stones.
...
"When will you start selling? Is there any limitation on the amount you will sell? Also, why the entrance fee? Although everyone will pay it since it's cheap, but is there any reason behind that?"
Athan smiled faintly and said, "There is a reason behind putting up that entrance fee, but that's a secret. The selling will start after a month and a half.
"There will be three thousand voidling-zoids on sale that day, and"-Athan took a sip from teacup-" They will be sold per set. One set will contain each type of one voidling-zoid.
"And after that, I will sell five hundred sets of voidling-zoids every month, meaning two thousand of them per month."
Hearing that, Shikas was dumbfounded, "So many? Will you be spending all of your time creating them?"
"Hahaha, of course not," Athan shook his head with a grin, "I have my own ways of creating them. You see, I have a slightly better multi-tasking ability, so I can train while creating the voidling-zoids."
Hearing that, Everyone became speechless. Dean also didn't know about the amount of voidling-zoids Athan wil be selling since they only thought of the selling method and not the amount. So he was also dumbfounded when he heard about Athan's remark of doing two tough things at the same time and the number of voidling-zoid's production each month.
Even Coddys, who was sitting at the other side of Efyeed had woken up from his meditation due to this commotion, was speechless while listening to Athan's boast.
Creating a work of Runic Artist that requires focus and concentration while training at the same time? Who are you kidding!!!?
"Hahaha, surely you are joking," Shikas asked before laughing.
Chapter 518 - Ultiora & Ker
"Humph, Master doesn't joke around. You foolish people, you don't know slightest of his capabilities, Shaaaa...! what an ignorant bunch," Primo came here as he took a break from training Skymare Tingale and snorted in disdain before hissing!
Hearing Primo, Dean Lenix shook his head and smiled while Shikas was startled since he didn't even notice Primo until now and was shocked because this strange cat suddenly appeared on Athan's shoulder...How was that possible?
"Don't mind him," Athan said with a wry smile.
...
.Athan could produce four voidling-zoids per hour with his recovery speed of abyssal darkness.
Every hour, half of the recovered abyssal darkness is used to devour low-grade chaos stone to produce voidpulse, while the other half is used in the production of voidling-zoids along with voidpulse.
So in a sense, Athan could produce 2,880 voidling-zoids per month. But he limited them to 2000 voidling-zoids per month. After all, he will be using his abyssal darkness and voidpulses for other things as well.
He will increase production in the future since he had plans to make more types of voidling-zoids. But that won't happen anytime soon since he wants to focus on getting stronger.
...
After asking about a few more things, Shikas bid farewell to the Athan and the group as he went outside.
Looking at the huge public, and smiled and said as his voice reverberated everywhere, "Tomorrow, you all will be able to get the full news about Runic Maestro Athan's miraculous invention, Voidling-Zoids!"
Everyone cheered as they couldn't wait to get their hands on them.
"Humph! What Runic Maestro? Since when did you people start giving titles to upstarts? What's more, the title is 'Maestro'! Heh, this is equivalent to Master and that Athan has yet to become a 10-star Runic artist as far as I'm aware."
Suddenly, two people could be seen flying descending from the sky.
Every person recognized them since they were famous geniuses from Supreme Genius Leaderboard. Additionally, both of them were lauded as the most talented in the Runic Artist path before Athan rose to fame as a miraculous Runic Artist.
One of them was Ker Lushblade, A beauty of fierce temperament. She is from one of the prominent clans here, a 9th rank genius in Supreme Genius Leaderboard, and a core talent in Great Bridgade Palace.
The other one is even more impressive than her. Ultiora Laxis, a man at the 4th rank in Supreme Genius Leaderboard, and core talent from Boundless Pavilion.
Even though the battle between Ker and him regarding Runic Arts was a tie, he came out superior in it. He had a composed and calm demeanor, while Ker had difficulty keeping up with him during the whole battle.
The one who spoke just now was Ultiora as he wore a cold and indifferent expression on his face. He had short umbrella-like light brown hair and two white horns with brown patterns on his head, and a devilish white tail with the same patterns as his horn.
Shikas looked at them while raising his eyebrows and said with a grin, "Kid, As far as I am aware and my judgment, you are inferior to Athan."
Everyone sucked in a breath of cold air hearing that, but Shikas nonchalantly flew up and turned around before bowing towards Dean Lenix, "Dean Lenix, we'll meet again later."-He then looked at Athan before speaking with a beaming smile, "I am waiting to hear some more impressive feats from you, Hahaha."
Ultiora's eyes showed anger hearing that comment from Shikas about him being inferior.
On the other hand, After saying his piece, Shikas intended to leave, but just then, Ultiora called him out.
" Senior Shikas, why don't you stay here for some more time since-"
"No need," Shikas turned around with a smile on his face, "I know what you are here for, but I am not interested in the result since I know who will win. Hahaha, I will prepare about it and post it in tomorrow's news scroll as well."
Everyone also guessed why Ultiora and Ker were here, but they became speechless after hearing Shikas's opinion and confidence in Athan.
Dean Lenix shook his head with a wry smile, but he didn't disagree with Shikas.
On the other hand, Ultiora clenched his fist tightly as he had never been insulted like this. It just felt bad to him that Shikas completely denied his chance at winning against Athan without seeing their battle.
He closed his eyes for a moment before his demeanor changed as he coldly smiled, 'Senior Shikas, I am afraid you will be disappointed once you hear about today's result later.'
Ker was also silent, which was unlike her, but she also smirked since she knew that...Ultiora was no longer 9-star Runic Artist.
When she arrived here a bit more than a year ago, she thought that Ultiora would also arrive soon but getting no news of his arrival after a few months, she contacted some people in Boundless Pavilion and found out that Ultiora was working towards becoming a 10-star runic artist as he had a fortuitous encounter.
And just ten days ago, he had successfully broken through and became a Master Runic Artist.
Athan also came out, and seeing Ker, he frowned and waved his hand as if shooing them away, "Don't tell me you brought this goat here for the same thing as well? I already told you that I am not interested in the battle of runic arts or whatever."
Pff....!
Hearing Athan, many people laughed silently, and there were also some who couldn't hold back.
Ultiora's face turned dark while Ker also clenched her teeth. It just boils her mind whenever she sees this puny Orderic Catastrophe ant showing such attitude.
Athan called him a goat because Ultiora's horns were strikingly similar to a goat's horns.
"Athan! Instead of running your mouth, why don't you face me in battle?" Ultiora spoke with suppressed anger.
Athan laughed out loud and shook his head, "Why are you angry? Because I called you goat?"-Athan looked at him as he smiled with narrow eyes, "Do you know the other meaning of goat? It's actually a short form of Greatest of All Time."
Hearing that, everyone was dumbfounded.
Ultiora was also confused as to why Athan suddenly praised him.
Other people also had similar thoughts until the next sentence said by Athan.
"Oh, but you are not that goat, okay? Far from it. To me, you are literally a goat I can slaughter any time. As for why I don't want to battle with you? the simple reason being that you're not worthy enough to waste my time on."
After saying that, Athan turned around and left as he now wanted to train in the Initial-elite soul order method while his Void Grotto produces voidling-zoids.
Seeing Athan really leaving like that, everybody felt disappointed since they wanted to see the runic artist battle between Athan and Ultiora.
...While Ultiora and Ker wanted to pull out their hair in frustration.
"Why is he not accepting the challenge? Humph, I think that he is simply scared. Ultiora, we will tell the Sun-Moon organization to post the news that Athan is scared to fight and didn't accept our challenge. His arrogant attitude and bull shit about not worthy of his time is just a facade to mask his fear of losing."
Ker didn't speak in a small voice so everyone could hear it and although many people started to feel doubt, those doubts vanished the moment that thought about the miraculous voidling-zoids.
Dean Lenix flew towards them with a smile and said, "Ker, Ultiora. Maybe you didn't understand the message in his words. If you want to battle with him, then make it worthwhile for him."
"Worthwhile? Humph, if he wins, then he will get the title of the most talented Runic Artist and will also receive a huge following and admirers. He can also earn more wealth." Ultiora snapped as he said with a grimace.
Ker also nodded as she gritted her teeth, "He is simply scared to lose. That's all."
Dean Lenix shook his head and sighed, "You are...sigh. Those things may be important to you, but the value of those things you mentioned is nothing in his eyes. He is not interested in fame or following. Also...," Dean smiled at Ultiora before saying," You are forgetting that you are no longer the most talented."
Suddenly, Ultiora's aura spread out as he took out a golden brush and draw a multi-dimension Runic symbol that resembled a lotus.
Looking at Dean Lenix, He smirked, "I am just seven hundred and four years old and already became Master Runic Artist. I wonder once this news spread, will Athan still retain his title."
Dean Lenix was speechless before he shook his head and said, "Good for you. But Athan won't pay attention to such things. Whether you become Master Runic Artist or Grandmaster Runic Arist is of no concern to him nor does he care about him lauded as most talented or not."
After saying that, Dean Lenix smiled and said, "If you want Athan to battle you, then put some valuable things in line. Something that can attract his attention."
"What are such things? Can you please tell us?" Ker asked with a frown.
Dean Lenix shook his head and grinned, "I don't know what kind of thing can attract his attention. Find it out yourself if you want to battle him."
After saying that, He left.
Other people also scattered since the show was over. Now they were waiting for tomorrow's Sun-Moon news scroll to be distributed across the whole Midguard continent.
Chapter 519 - [ Soul Miller Raiser ]
Several days passed as the news about voidling-zoids also spread everywhere through Sun-Moon news scrolls.
Dean Lenix also constructed the Void Pavilion beside Efyeed and put up a big formation around the whole area.
Inside the big formation, Athan formed a field barrier of abyssal darkness.
"Take this. If you take out this token, this field barrier will react to it and open a small gap for you to pass through," Athan said as he gave everyone a token that looked like a white bubble but with black stone inside it.
The Nimpere brothers, Tiana, Avelia, and Linci, nodded as they took the tokens.
"Sen and others should be coming out soon too. Hehe, they will be surprised with the changes and your voidling-zoids," Linci said with a chuckle.
Athan nodded and smiled, "And our five-year period will also end.. Once it's over, we'll go to my first home in this Chaosverse."
"Youhan Tree, right?" Tiana gently smiled as she said, "I also want to meet them."
Avelia also nodded, sharing the same sentiment as Tiana.
Tiana and Avelia knew that they helped and took care of Athan. They wanted to meet those people who considered Athan as part of their family.
After all, despite not being their fault, they still felt sad and guilty about forgetting Athan and imagining how he lived.
...
After talking about some things, everyone started training and practicing.
Athan sat down crossed-legged as he started forming the initial stage of [ Soul Miller Raiser ] soul order method.
The most brutal elite soul order method. Athan had read warnings and facts that came with this scroll, but he still decided to buy it because...those meant nothing to him.
He had already suffered the pain of scattering his soul, and so far, he didn't encounter pain that surpassed that hellish moment that seemed to last for eternity.
Compared to that, this [ Soul Miller Raiser ] was a baby. As he had already comprehended the initial stage of the method, He just had to use his order force, soul energy, and chaos force to form the Soul Miller according to the order sets he comprehended and grasped.
While he was forming soul miller, the void grotto was doing its work to produce Voidling-zoids.
There was a mountain of low-grade chaos stones near Void grotto, and his abyssal darkness would consume those stones constantly while recovering and producing voidpulse with the instructions of his subconsciousness.
...
A day passed before Athan finally formed the Soul Miller with white blades with golden patterns.
Without wasting time, He started training his soul, 'Hmm, I'll just set Millar upon the soul. That way, my soul will constantly be training without me needing to do anything.'
If someone saw the way in which Athan used the terrifying Soul Miller to train his soul, they would not be dumbfounded but straight out lose their shit and wet their pants.
The way Soul Millar worked was to scrap the soul with its blades, but during that scrapping, it would enchant the soul with Soul Miller's properties.
The effect of that Enchantment was to unbind the soul from some of its shackles to let Chaosverse feel that the soul had "almost" died.
With that "almost" dead state created by Soul Miller, the soul would deeply connect to the Chaosverse because all souls that die are returned to Chaosverse.
And once that connection happens, The soul would start to receive pure soul empowerment and strengthening from the Chaosverse.
As such, this method was considered the fastest method to strengthen the soul until one reaches Zen order Master.
But...the consequences were terrifying. First, the scrapping of the blade would inflict immense pain to the soul, and the person would constantly be in pain. Additionally, the "almost" dead state of the soul would overwhelm the person.
With that "almost" dead state, they would constantly feel that they are going die and feel illusionist death pull from the Chaosverse. If they can't overcome the death in their mind, they will die for real with that hellish pain and the overwhelming pressure from the connection with Chaosverse as the Chaosverse will really pull their soul.
But what Athan did was that...he put the Soul Miller on his soul to let it constantly get scrapped and receive soul empowerment and strengthening.
As his soul started to scrap, Athan felt a mysterious connection. It was threatening, overwhelming, and...scary.
Athan saw a dreamy but chaotic cloud forming on top of his soul inside his void region.
He knew that it was the illusion created by the side-effect of using Soul Miller.
But he boldly arrived in front of the cloud with a grin on his face and a gleam in his eyes.
"Get.The.Fuck.Out," Athan said as he punched the dreamy and chaotic cloud.
The cloud disappeared since it was just an illusion, and he had to overcome it despite it exuding an overwhelming threat of death and a terrifying pull on his soul.
As for the pain that was constantly occurring due to the Soul Miller scrapping his soul? That didn't even bother him.
If there were someone else besides Athan, that person wouldn't even be able to see that illusionist cloud since their soul sense and consciousness would be too focused on the hellish pain occurring to their soul. As such, while feeling the overwhelming threat of death and pulling along with pain, they would die for real once they gave in and lost their will. Once that happens, Their "almost" dead state would be considered a "complete" dead state, and Chaosverse will really pull their soul.
As Athan looked at the Soul Miller scrapping his soul, he muttered, "The person who created this method must have felt death or should have died before coming back to life."
After a minute, He frowned slightly, 'What was that? Hmmm, That order set, it seems its working perfectly to strengthen my soul, but there's more to it.'
After thinking for a moment, Athan put it in the back of his mind since he felt no threat from it and finally decided to use his Orderic Orb and increase his strength.
'After this, my SBP should reach or even cross 100,000.' Thought Athan as he looked at the Orderic Orb and controlled it before bringing it towards the chaotic mini-world of Miz-Lu Enchanted Kingdom.
...
Somewhere in the upper-Chaosverse, A giant castle was floating in the dark sky that was filled with bright crystal-like stones that were glowing in different colors.
Inside the castle's main palace, an old man with a white beard was sleeping on his throne.
There were other people inside the main palace as well, and they were looking at several screens that displayed many people of different and mixed body features but generally humanoid, fighting against dark beasts with golden patterns on them.
Suddenly, The old man opened his eyes, 'Another one? But this one seems different. I can't sense the fear or terror and this person even...hoho, Interesting...It looks like this one will succeed in my Soul Miller Series.'
At this time, A person arrived in front of the old man and said respectfully, "Saint Tarrangan, we found their hive."
Saint Tarrangan nodded as his lazy voice reverberated, "Send me the location."
After saying that, He disappeared from this throne.