The Tale of the Void Emperor

After moving for a while, Athan appeared in another hall that was a bit bigger than the previous one.

There was a giant statue of a lion in the middle of the hall. The lion statue was made up of dark orange and green color materials as it gave off a mysterious sheen.

As soon as Athen entered the hall, He felt a terrifying suppression on him that was familiar to him, ' Sealing my powers, huh? '

But he was not worried because...

*Kacha....*

That force of sealing couldn't seal his powers due to the unima core.

He looked at the scene in the hall carefully and was somewhat surprised what seeing what was happening.

There were a total of eight people in the hall. A big floating oval stone hovered in front of the Lion statue, and a man of the human race was floating in front of the oval stone.

Athan moved forward a few steps and heard a sound inside his head.

[ The one who deals the greatest damage to the oval stone will win the treasure. One more participant left. ]

The person floating in front of the oval stone seemed to have his power unsealed as he used his most powerful attack on the big oval stone.

Two swirling orbs of bright green and black conjured as they hit the oval stone.

*TING.....*

The oval stone wasn't scratched at all as it just shined for a few seconds.

Afterward, The man's powers were sealed again as he disappeared and appeared on the ground at his initial position.

Right after that, A woman of the Crysax race disappeared from where she was standing and appeared in front of the floating oval stone.

She also used her most powerful attack on the oval stone after her powers were unsealed.

" Athan..!! "

Athan looked in the direction of the voice that came from the pathway that was next to the pathway he came from and was pleasantly surprised.

"Hahaha. It looks like our luck is good. " Athan laughed as he saw Tiana coming towards him with a smile, ' Looks like nothing happened to her. Well, with the white gold energy we've gathered, I don't think anything can happen to her and Avelia as long as they were careful and avoided one-shot kill attacks from others. '

But a funny thing happened; just when Tiana was 5 meters away from Athan, He disappeared and appeared in front of the oval stone.

" Ehh..." Athan was dumbfounded for a moment, but he focused and just threw a punch at the oval stone.

*TING.....*

After he was done, Tiana disappeared from her place and appeared in front of the oval stone.

Athan sent a telepathic message to her, telling her to use her geno skill.

Tiana nodded as she used Symphoning gale. She could now control the output, so she only conjured a small Symphoning gale that consumed 5% of her geno energy.

But a shocking scene occurred; The oval stone that always shined after getting hit any attack didn't shine this time and instead started to wither.

By the time Symphoning gale ran out of power, half of the oval stone was gone while the other half was not white anymore but withered.

The people who were watching had their jaws dropped to the ground.

" Wh-what is that power? "

" Monster..."

They couldn't believe their eyes, and fear painted their faces.

The oval stone started to recover slowly as it got energy from somewhere.

Tiana then returned to the place where she was standing as everyone heard a voice that reverberated in the hall this time, instead of inside their heads.

[ The winner has been chosen. ]

Right after that, The Lion statue started to dissipate as it turned into a small ball that was a mix of bright orange and green before shooting towards Tiana.

The ball appeared inside Tiana's energy realm as she received the reward.

The other people in the hall didn't stay any longer and scattered after glancing at Tiana with a fearful expression.

Seeing this, Athan smiled as he felt that this was a truly awesome development.

" So? What did you receive? "

Athan asked Tiana, who opened her eyes with a smile and said with some excitement in her voice, " It looks like I received series magic like your Blood Magic. It's called Bane Magic of Star Flames, and it has four different Magic spells, but it seems that I can't use them right away. "

" You can't use it? Why? " Athan appeared confused and asked because he was able to use the magic he received right away after getting them.

Tiana smiled wryly and said, " I have to comprehend the magic from the ball that I received to use them. Each magic I comprehend will allow me to use it. "

Athan fell into thought hearing her, ' The difference between us is that I have unima core while she doesn't. The unima core allowed me to comprehend the magic I received directly, but it seems that the normal Primal core doesn't have such abilities. '

After reaching this conclusion, He told Tiana about it, which made her speechless.

" Let's go, Athan. I'm sure there are rewards in this castle that will allow me to increase my soul strength. Let's go, let's go. I don't want to fall behind you. "

Tiana grabbed Athan's hand as she led him towards one of the pathways.

As long as they are together, She believed that nobody could stop them.

...

At another place, Avelia encountered a tough situation right after she left the first hall.

" Cough...." She wiped away the blood from the corner of her mouth as her eyes burned with fighting spirit.

Her left leg was cut off from below the knee, but it was slowly being regenerated with gold energy.

She wiped the black blood that appeared at the corner of her mouth as she cracked a grin and said with a ferocious expression, " Now only you are left. "

The grakil race man was also injured as he was somewhat fearful of the ferocity displayed by Avelia in the chaotic fight that just occurred in the hall.

There were eight mangled corpses of different races in the blood-filled hall.

Avelia didn't wait for her ankle to heal as she shouted, " DIE!!! "

The four wriggling silver sticks orbited around her as she used her third disruptive ray towards the grakil race man and killed him as he lost control of his energies and couldn't use them anymore after being hit by her geno skill.

She had consumed seventy percent of her primal energy, which was slowly being filled, but her greatest loss was that she only had 15% of her geno energy left.

She had impressively used her geno art which didn't consume any more geno energy, just like Athan's horned crown, and fought the hard battle.

She could swear that today was the day she suffered the most painful injuries. She was wounded many times in this battle as she even lost her arm and leg sometimes, but that was the only way she could kill the opponent; By catching them off guard and using her geno art could which create chaos when they used their attacks on her.

She was maimed in the process many times because she had to take their attacks head-on to catch them off guard to use her geno art, but since she had lots of white gold energy, she didn't mind injuries to her non-vital parts of her body as she tried her best to avoid fatal attacks.

She had bathed in the blood in this battle and felt that she learned a lot as she almost met death many times.

" The reward better be worth the injuries and pain I suffered. " Avelia muttered as she moved towards the golden shining dreamy orb that was floating on top of a square platform in the middle of the hall.