The Tale of the Void Emperor

"What?" Yokan was startled, "how could you not know how powerful you are? What stage of the path have you reached? What about the level of your side-genome power?"

Athan shook his head with a smile, "It's different. Anyway, lead me to the location you told me about previously."

"Damn, I am curious, but whatever. I guess we will find that if someone messes with us in our journey, which is bound to happen in this world, hahaha," Yokan laughed and floated as he unfurled his devilish wings.

"I don't see your wings, but you should be able to fly with some ability, right?" Yokan asked.

Athan nodded as he unfurled his unique wings from his back and floated in front of Yokan.

"Eh? What kind of wings are those?" Yokan was surprised, "they are blinking, but I also see blood vessels and veins in them when they appear every other second."

"They are called…void wings," Athan said before he fell into thought, 'my soul power, abyssal darkness, and voidpulse are too powerful right now compared to my body. The Abyssal Blood Crystals inside my Void Crux also upgraded along with my progress in soul and AVOF. Hmmm…I have absorbed knowledge, but I still have to gauge my power to use that knowledge and integrate it.'

"Which direction are we going in?" Athan asked Yokan.

"That…at the north-west," Yokan said as he pointed his hand in the north-west direction. The land around them was red, but plants and trees were green. The direction that Yokan pointed had shadows of giant mountains and trees.

"Go straight in that direction. Straight! Don't curve off even a little," Athan said, "fly for five thousand kilometers and wait for me,"

"Why?" Yokan asked with confusion.

"Just go; I want to test my flying speed," Athan said, "how long will it take you to go reach 5000 kilometers mark?"

"With my full speed and on top of an ability I use to increase my flying speed, It will take me thirty-two seconds, I think," Yokan answered with a thoughtful expression as he made some quick calculations.

"Then go," Athan said with a nod, "I will come after thirty-two seconds."

"Alright," Yokan said before he turned around and flew with a sonic boom.

Afterward, Athan made some preparation with his body as he was going to use his 1st void frame, Extremity Drifter. But this time, he didn't know how much power he could display since those Abyssal Blood Crystals were several folds more powerful than before.

After all, the jump was 25% to a whole 55% in the understanding of AVOF; the portion of AVOF origin in his soul had also increased since he didn't use it after reaching 20% understanding in AVOF years ago. He wanted to receive it, but he didn't and decided to save it for a dire situation.

Because he knew…that once he activates that portion of AVOF origin and baptizes himself, he will become an invisible existence for a certain amount of time.

Thirty-two seconds soon passed, and Athan also consumed a single Abyssal Blood Crystal as its power infused in his entire being, and his body transformed after the gemstone on his forehead pulsed.

Athan's body convulsed as blood came out from his pores, and a frown appeared on his face, 'this body really needs upgrades. It can't even handle one Abyssal Blood Crystal's power now.'

Shaking his head, Athan held up the body forcefully.

But just as he was going to fly, he paused and turned to his left side. He looked at a tree several kilometers far away and spoke, "come out."

Three shadows came out from the underground under the tree after Athan spoke.

However, they only came out but didn't approach Athan.

"I don't sense any intention to kill, but you are obviously here for something," Athan said plainly and shook his head, "you are fortunate right now, but…"

Narrowing his eyes, Athan continued, "the result of our confrontation will only end in your pointless deaths because I won't be able to hold back, not in this state."

"So choose," Athan's deep voice reverberated in their ears, "turn around and leave or die a pointless death."

"You have three seconds."

After saying that, Athan turned around and faced the northwest direction, preparing to fly ahead with his newfound power in Extremity Drifter void frame.

The three shadows felt that death itself was talking to them. They couldn't sense any power from Athan, not a spec of aura released from his body but his appearance right now screamed anything but trouble to them.

They looked at each other as one second passed. Sweat appeared on their dark appearances as they looked at Athan's back in the next second.

"Turn around," one shadow spoke before the third second as he turned around. The other two shadows turned around at the same time.

On the other hand, once three seconds passed, Athan's blinking wings flapped one time, and he disappeared…with complete silence.

Not even a sonic boom resounded despite his fast speed because Athan lived in his own unique dimension…a field that always surrounded him. Nothing can go past that field, and Athan can make it such that everything can be contained in that field as well. So even though his speed was enough to affect the atmosphere and space, nothing happened because of that void field.

A second later, Athan passed by Yokan, who was floating 5000 kilometers away and continued.

"What the…?" Yokan was dumbfounded because he captured Athan's image with his eyes when he passed by him and was shocked at his speed.

"Damn…so he is really way more powerful than me," Yokan muttered, "but which stage? is he at man-disaster, natural-disaster, or cosmic-disaster stage?"

A second after Athan passed by Yokan, he returned and stood in front of Yokan with a bloodied body.

"What happened? Did someone attack you? Damn, so you invited trouble already?" Yokan spoke as he looked at Athan's appearance.

"No," Athan shook his head as his Void Crux's passive kicked in and healed his entire body in a second to its previous state. Athan also deactivated his void frame: Extremity Drifter and pointed his palm towards a thousand-kilometer tall mountain that was filled with disastrous atmosphere with no one living on it.

"What are you doing?" Yokan asked as he saw Athan pointed at the mountain.

Athan's body glowed for a bring moment with countless tendrils that gathered in his hand.

An orb started to form in front of his palm. The orb looked black with red and white patterns.

"Expelling leftover energy since my current body can't hold it," Athan said as the orb in front of his palm started to become bigger.

"Why I can't sense anything from the orb? It should at least release some aura, right?" Yokan asked with confusion.

"You will see soon," Athan said as the orb reached two meters radius size, and Athan controlled his void field such that the orb was outside of its range.

However, the orb still stayed stable and silent with Athan's control because all energy of Abyssal Blood Crystal was inside the orb.

The orb continued to get bigger and bigger as it reached a Five-hundred-meter radius gigantic orb.

"I still can't measure its power? Why can't I sense anything from this giant orb?" Yokan asked with doubt, "what's going on?"

The orb had a smooth, watery outer layer of black with white and red patterns on it. But inside, the orb was filled with a gaseous substance that was a mix of abyssal darkness, soul energy, and his physical body's blood energy through voidpulse.

That was the source of potent energy that Athan could produce through his new body's process of Void Crux and Void Empowerment Veins by consuming abyssal darkness, voidpulse, physical energy, and soul energy and storing it in the form of Abyssal Blood Crystals inside his Void Crux.

After the orb reached that gigantic five hundred meters big, It started to shrink.

Athan continued to shrink it before it reached the size of a basketball and finally…released it.

The orb didn't travel at a fast speed but at a slow speed of hundred meters per second.

"This is such a slow attack….anyone can dodge, hahaha," Yokan laughed seeing the orb slowly traveling towards the disastrous mountain that was a thousand kilometers tall.

Athan shook his head with a wry smile, "It's not an ability or a technique attack. I am just expelling the energy. That big mountain can't dodge it anyway."

Indeed, the orb didn't have a complex energy system to make certain applications like his void frames. The void frame: Extremity Drifter transformed Athan's body and wings such that he could use that energy to make every fiber of his body reach the extreme speed possible by him.

It was like how fans, refrigerators, television, radio, air conditioners, and heaters have different uses, but their energy source is one thing, electricity.

"The orb finally reached the mountain and came into contact with it.. Let's see what it does," Yokan said with a curious expression.