The Tale of the Void Emperor

On the way to the Tranquility region, Sen, Shiromi, Tealery, Arcued, and Theo heard about everything that happened while they were inside purgatory and were shocked beyond belief.

Athan gave each one of them a set of voidling-zoids and told them to get some rest before they arrived at the Tranquility region.

After all, three years inside purgatory without proper rest is bound to be very exhaustive even though they broke through to the soul order phase.

...

After ten days of traveling, they finally arrived at the Tranquility region.

Lady Fu's voice suddenly echoed in the hall where Athan and others were staying, "I am going to make the ship transparent. You can look at the east side to see a magnificent sight as It's the most luxurious area in the entire Midgard continent."

Athan and others saw the ship entirely disappear as it became fully transparent.

They then looked in the east direction and saw three magnificent palaces on top of high ground that was several levels up the rest of the surface as it went up in wavy form.

"You can only see illusion from outside as three palaces are just the outer facade of the real thing. But, it's still magnificent, right?"

Sen and others nodded with their mouths agape as those three's design and the atmosphere around it look absolutely heavenly.

The three palaces were on the high ground with colorful clouds and streams of dreamy blue water circulating around with clouds and beautiful birds. The streaming water also had beautiful fishes swimming inside.

They also saw five-six luxurious ships around them as they all headed in the same direction as them, towards a giant exquisite gate.

Athan could see a large and powerful barrier covering the whole area of three palaces and two miles around it, with only the gate acting as the entrance.

"What is this place called?" Tealery asked with curiosity.

"Heaven's Tranquility. The most expensive area in the whole Midgard continent, and you need a minimum of 25,000 high-grade chaos stones per head to enjoy some benefits here for a month...just for a month." Lady Fu's voice echoed.

Hearing that, Sen and others were shocked, speechless.

25,000 HIGH-GRADE chaos stones. Don't say that it's not much just because Athan earned 1 million of them. One had to remember that Coddys, a Zen order Grandmaster, spent 25,000 high-grade chaos stones to stay one year under Efyeed.

And that was the lowest amount per head to enjoy the benefits in this place.

"T-this...why it's so expensive? What's so special about it?" Sen spoke with a dumbfounded expression.

"It's very special. You will know about it when we enter inside."

...

After a few minutes, the ship was parked outside along with other ships before Athan and others came out with Lady Fu.

Several other people in luxurious clothes also flew towards the giant gates.

As Athan and others flew towards it, Lady Fu reminded Athan, "Athan, The people in this place are the most powerful people and also...most influential in this Midgard continent, but that's not all."

"Oh? Dean didn't tell me much about it since he said that you tell me more about this place," Athan said as he looked in the front where people were entering through special doors after paying the entry fee.

"I will tell you more once you see the real scenery behind this giant gate."

"Athan, I am getting nervous and excited, hehehe," Sen said as she looked in the front.

The guards were giving entry to one group each time, and it didn't take long for Athan's group to turn since there were only two groups in front of them.

Naturally, there were three groups of five-five-six people behind Athan's group as well.

Actually, the other people in those groups were sneering and looked at Athan's group with disdain because their clothes were not fancy and they looked poor, except Athan's, who looked the most mysterious with his void robe.

The five guards, two on left, two on the right, and one in front of them, stopped the group as they exuded their auras at Evagon-stage, causing Athan to raise his eyebrows in surprise, but after thinking for a moment, it made sense.

"Hahaha, Lady Fu. It's strange to see you bringing a bunch of chaos warriors ants here. As far as I am aware, you are single without any family and stay alone at Chaos Monolith Hills."

Sen and others heard a loud laughing from behind them and saw a middle-aged man coming with a man and woman who looked to be in their twenties according to their appearance.

All three of them had the same body features with two red curving horns and a third vertical, closed eye on their forehead.

Lady Fu looked at the middle-aged man with indifference and said, "It's none of your business who I bring here."

"As cold as always towards me...sigh. But my offer still-"

On the other hand, Athan didn't pay attention to them in the first place and paid 10,000 high-grade chaos stones to the guard as entry fees.

The entry fee was 1000 high-grade chaos stones per head.

After paying the fees, The guards activated the portal door, and Athan spoke without looking back, "Don't waste time on nobodies. Let's go inside."

Hearing this, Arcued snorted without looking back and followed Athan before Sen and others also turned back and walked into the door.

Lady Fu also turned around and left.

"Nobodies?" The young man muttered before he chuckled, "What a funny little guy, calling us nobodies."

"Frog in the well." The girl spoke without any emotion in her voice.

...

On the other hand, after Athan and others went inside, they saw a completely different and more magnificent sight in front of them.

"Waaaaaaaa...Holy shet. What is that?" Arcued spoke as pointed in the sky.

In front of them were literally staircases of stars that led to three palaces. These three palaces looked similar to the three palaces outside, but their size was on a completely different level, and they looked more magnificent.

But the most interesting thing was a very tall and large whirlpool on top of the three palaces. This whirlpool that looked like a tornado but with similar width from top to bottom was cracking with colorful lightning, water, and wind along with golden sparks.

This whirlpool was stretched to who knows how long in the sky since it was very big and they couldn't see its end.

"That whirlpool is one of the permanent channels between midguard continent and upper-Chaosverse. In short, you can go to upper-Chaosverse by traveling through that whirlpool to the top," Lady Fu said with a smile.

Athan nodded before he gazed at the three magnificent palaces, and...that caused his heart to skip a beat.

Primo's ears twitched as it came out and stood on Athan's shoulder before looking at the three otherworldly palaces.

"Hehe, Master. What do you say? Are you going to act on your power's nature?" Primo said with a laugh as he grinned.

Athan faintly smiled and said, "That's given. Hehe, I am not going to hold myself back when the time comes."

"Nyahahaa, Yeah!" Primo laughed out loud.

Athan and others started walking on the stair in front of them that led the palaces.

"By the way, who was that trio, Lady Fu?" Tiana asked.

"The middle-aged man is the head of Borus Family; he is one of the most powerful people in the Midgard continent. The other two with him were his son and daughter."

"What about his wife?" Avelia asked.

Lady Fu shook her head, "Dead."

"Did you notice that this atmosphere is really...useless? I can't sense anything here." Theo said with a frown.

All around them was dark, with only glittering sparks like energy flowing. They were also walking on star-like stairs.

It was like...they were in space but not the space that a universe has. It seemed different and strange.

Hearing Theo, Lady Fu smiled and said, "Once we enter inside the palace, you will see a completely different world. The owner of this place is from upper-Chaosverse, and all things here are from upper-Chaosverse."

Athan nodded as he said with a grin, " After a month, you all will be able to progress rapidly training. Dean told me that this place is very expensive, but if you got wealth, then it's worth it."

"Hahaha, how much wealth a measly chaos warrior can have? An ant at orderic catastrophe, you sure talk big despite spending some else's wealth. Lady Fu, who are these bunch? Did you start doing babysitting or what?"

Athan and others looked at their left side and saw a group of five people, two men, two women, and an old man who looked to be in his sixties, walking on the other starry stairs towards the three palaces. The one who spoke was a woman who looked to be in her thirties with long emerald hair and an elegant dress covering her body except for the crevice of her twin peaks.

One of the men, who looked in the twenties appearance-wise, dropped his head after hearing the woman's remarks. His aura was that of Zen order Elite, and he was not here with his own money since he couldn't afford it.

Before Lady Fu could say anything, Athan looked at her spoke plainly, "Do you know how do I feel after suddenly hearing your voice that disturbed our conversation?"

The woman snorted and said, "How would I know? Idiot!"

Athan grinned and said, "It was like...I was peacefully talking with my friends in this tranquil environment, and suddenly...someone farted loudly, spreading a foul smell as it ruined the mood and everything. That's what I felt after hearing your voice."

Pfff...

"Hahahaha....."

"Bwahahahaah....."