The Tale of the Void Emperor

"Since you know what to do, then start working on it! And you four, let's go," Athan loudly said as he waved his hand and untrapped the four Chaos Sovereigns.

After hearing Athan's proposal, the Chaos Sovereigns were happy, and the five of them flew high up in the chaotic sky before entering the 2nd layer of Chaosverse.

On the other hand, the remaining people in the hall looked at each other with wry smiles.

"For such a simple thing, he called everyone here?"

"FOOL! That just shows that he is not kidding about it, and if anything happened to them, we would have fates worse than death."

"Indeed. Let's just help them progress and protect them, as per his instructions."

"He said he would return here in the future, so..."

"Yeah..."

...

After Athan entered the 2nd layer with those four Chaos Sovereigns, he went to Mist Illusion Palace, a 4th-grade organization with its leader.

"Sir, this is the recently Sovereign-grade warren dimension's entrance," said Milap, the leader of Mist Illusion Palace, as he pointed at a large gate with colorful patterns.

Athan nodded as he walked towards it while speaking, "after coming out, lead me to your enemy organizations."

"With pleasure, with pleasure," Milap said while nodding hurridly.

...

After Athan entered the dimension, he was greeted by Dreevindo and other Orchos Celestials.

"Athan...what happened?" Dreevindo asked with a serious expression.

Athan looked at Dreevindo and other Orchos Celestials before saying plainly. Still, his eyes burned fiercely with anger, "they were killed, and their souls are taken away by their killer. If I don't hurry up and reach the top, I won't be able to save them."

"Reach the top? What do you mean?" Yok asked with doubt.

"Since you so-called Orchos Celestial couldn't even see her or sense here coming here, then she is simply too powerful. I don't know where her 'top' is, but I am sure I will get the answer once I completely master my power and continue to get strong. And I need to do this as fast as I can," Athan spoke with a cold voice.

Looking at Dreevindo, he continued, "I will soon reach the top layer, so meet me there next time. I will become your candidate and enter the Orchos Firmament."

After saying that, he dashed forward and directly entered into a pond that contained chaotic, turbulent silver water with red sparks.

Right after Athan entered inside, his body started to break down and destroy.

"W-what the...why is he courting death? Even a Chaos Sovereign won't survive in that pond," Tartagoth spoke with a dumbfounded expression.

"Just watch. He is one hell of a mad existence," Dreevindo spoke with a smirk.

...

Athan resisted the chaotic pond with his abyssal void for a while to prevent his body from being destroyed. After that, he decomposed into a field of voidpulse and started limit-breaking his fundamental body structure and cells so they could absorb this powerful chaotic energy of the pond.

His soul was floating amidst this process, overlooking it and protecting his body.

His soul was completely unique right now and has fully turned into his power source. His soul energy could change into abyssal darkness but a more powerful version of it compared to what he uses from the Black orb, and he can also store voidpulse in his soul that he gains after devouring anything with abyssal darkness.

He had gained access to another portion of AVOF origin, and he was planning to use it after he ascended to Orchos Firmament.

"Dreevindo, this guy...what is that power that's fundamentally evolving his body and his body is also reacting to it? That's definitely something mystical," Kino'Vin asked with curiosity as her eyes glowed mystically, "I can't even see it properly despite using all of my power. I can only observe it slightly when his body limit breaks from its previous capacity."

"All those things aside, is he not feeling any pain?" Aby asked while sitting on Dreevindo's shoulder with an uncomfortable expression on her tiny face.

"I guess, no...," Dreevindo muttered.

He then turned to other Orchos Celestials and spoke, "anyway, since Athan's companions are no more, then you all have to find replacements."

"Let's hurry to the top layer and do that as soon as possible since it's quite important," Roserin said.

...

A year since Athan entered inside the vast Saint-grade Warren Dimension...

At this time, the four Chaos Sovereigns had met up at the Mist Illusion Palace and were discussing.

"When is he coming out? Don't tell me he died inside that dimension?"

"He wanted the strongest Saint-grade Warren-dimension, and we gave him that. I don't think he was not aware of its danger since he asked for it."

"Sigh, I just want him to come out fast and destroy those three organizations."

"He will do that. After all, he said that he will be quite hungry after coming out and would need soul food, hehehe."

"Tsk, we are really playing with fire, huh."

"Well, as long as he can kill them, we are fine."

...

"Master...shouldn't you take a bit of rest? Constantly doing this has put a toll on your soul," Efyeed said.

"It's fine. After coming out, I will eat more refined souls and make my soul stronger," Athan said as he continued with his extreme method of making his body stronger.

Days turned into months as six more months passed before Athan finally decided to come out.

Milap rushed there after Athan came out and bowed, "the preparations of your departure are done. Should we move there right away?"

"Mhmm," Athan nodded plainly.

...

After an hour, Athan arrived at the biggest Trading post on the 2nd layer of the Chaosverse by a flying ship.

After coming out, he started walking towards the most important building in this trading post without a care in the world.

The guards stopped him when he reached the entrance, but Athan just waved his hands and devoured the two Chaos Paragon guards with two abyssal darkness mouths.

...

"Sir, someone....someone just killed the outermost guards."