The Tale of the Void Emperor

When Sirius disappeared from the hall, Athan also disappeared from outside.

He used his soul sense to find the Puppet Lord's trail from the puppet he devoured outside and broke the barrier before entering the mainland.

Seeing that, the Puppet Lord became angry as well and left the palace to meet Athan head-on, "you will regret messing with me!"

...

When Sirius arrived beside Dreevindo, he saw Athan disappearing and frowned.

Looking at Dreevindo, he asked, "what's going on? Is he your candidate?"

Dreevindo wryly smiled and nodded, "yeah. But he is...an enigma."

Sirius frowned as he looked in the direction of the mainland, "I can't see through him, which is strange. What kind of being is he? How did he appear here?"

"I don't know, but the power he wields is quite mysterious," Dreevindo spoke with a wry smile.

"Even more powerful than genome power? Flake has his genome tree filled to the limit of his existence. So, he should be able to put up some fight, I think," Sirius spoke with a pondering expression.

"He filled his Genome Tree's branch to 7th?" Dreevindo was surprised, but then he shook his head, "anyway, it's useless. He may be able to resist for a while, but...he can't escape death if Athan decided to kill him."

Hearing that, Sirius's expression turned dark as he looked at Dreevindo, "then stop him!"

"He won't listen to me, and we can't use our full powers here. Without using our full power, we can't do anything to Athan," Dreevindo spoke while shaking his head wryly.

"If Flake dies, then I will kill your candidate," Sirius spoke with a grim expression, "since he is your candidate, he will surely arrive at Orchos Firmament, right? I will kill him at that time."

After saying that, Sirius snorted and looked back at Athan and Puppet Lord Flake's battle.

...

"Your audacity ends here," Puppet Lord Flake snorted as he waved his hand as ten puppets covered in dark-purple flame appeared in front of him.

Athan paused and narrowed his eyes before speaking, "I've had a familiar vibe with this power. Hmmm, so it's indeed genome power."

"Hahaha, I have created grand order ability that can be enhanced with my genome power, Hell Blaze of Astaroth. Let's see how long you last," Puppet Lord Flake laughed and spoke as the puppets he summoned attacked Athan.

Five puppets conjured burning claws as they dashed towards Athan while the other five puppets opened their mouths and released a chaotic dark-purple flame breath.

Right after that, Puppet Lord Flake snapped his finger and muttered, "Spark of Veracity,"

A burning dark-purple star appeared on top of Athan.

Athan suddenly felt a powerful soul attack from the star on top of him, attempting to confuse his mind and soul.

However, Athan's expression didn't change as he used his abyssal darkness to devour everything.

"Genome power...It's as powerful as always," Athan muttered before he looked at the incoming attacks from the puppets and waved his hand.

A whirlpool of abyssal darkness appeared in front of him that sparked with lapis blue glows. It forcefully pulled the incoming attacks and the puppets dashing towards it and devoured them.

"This is just a start!" Puppet Lord Flake grunted before he waved his hands again and conjured five more puppets that were three meters tall and had a meter long dark-purple burning nails. They dashed towards Athan while screaming.

After that, Puppet Lord flake pointed both of his palms at Athan as his eyes glowed brightly with a dark purple flame, 'Eternus Blaze Cannon.'

*BOOOOOOOM....*

A destructive dark purple beam shot towards Athan, intending to obliterate him.

"It's the end," Athan spoke while shaking his head as his wings pulsed with power. The space around Athan flickered as he disappeared and appeared right behind Puppet Lord Flake, his hand already grabbing Flake's neck.

"Ho-"

Flake was shocked, and before he could speak more, a giant beastly mouth with white teeth materialized and devoured him.

Athan closed his eyes as a satisfied expression appeared on his face, "How powerful. It's more so since he practiced a genome power as well,"

After a minute, Athan opened his eyes as they gleamed with black and white. He felt that he should enter in meditating to purely understand the Abyssal Void of Fabrication after devouring one or two more Chaos Supreme like Puppet Lord Flake.

Suddenly, he saw a man with a black wolf-head appearing in front of several meters away.

"What?" Athan asked with a plain expression.

Sirius continued looking at Athan with a dark expression for five seconds before disappearing without saying anything.

"Weird fellow," Athan muttered before he took out a contact card.

"Weird fellow, my ass!" Dreevindo appeared beside Athan and said before sighing.

"Why did you have to kill a candidate?" Dreevindo asked, "Couldn't you just kill normal Chaos Supremes and have your fill with them?"

"I think I will devour two more of them before their soul power stops affecting my soul's growth," said Athan with a smile, "It's about quality, Dreevindo. I need high-quality souls to make my soul stronger. Otherwise, my soul power wouldn't have any origin growth to it."

"Just like my current physical body, which won't get strong anymore here since no chaotic power affects its growth anymore," Athan said, "To upgrade the origin of my soul, I need need to devour higher quality soul power."

"But you are sighing your death warrant! That Sirius will kill you once you go to the Orchos Firmament! Naturally, it will be after the competition, but still...sigh," Dreevindo said with a sigh.

"Hahaha, Dreevindo. You haven't tasted my abyssal darkness for a long time. After all, I used it on you when I only had 5% of its understanding," said Athan with a laugh before he narrowed his eyes, "do you want to see how powerful it is now?"

"Hmmm? Has it gotten stronger? I can't really make heads or tails about your power since even though I can see it, I can't sense it. It's like it doesn't exist, but that scary shit is there for sure," Dreevindo said with a wry smile.

"Here, taste it," Athan said as he waved his hand and released a fist-sized orb condensed with abyssal darkness towards Dreevindo.