The Tale of the Void Emperor

After making their decision, everyone returned to Lily and entered inside the ark space.

Lily was surprised to see that everyone had just directly entered into slumber for training inside the Ark space. She could sense their unstable soul flowing with Athan's power and guessed that Athan must have given them more enhancement.

Athan didn't go train directly but sat across the table in front of Lily and huarin before telling them about Lucky and others' decisions.

Lily turned silent because this was a bit sudden.

"So they will be gone, huh…." Lily muttered before she smiled wryly, "it will kind of feel strange without their presence around me. After all, they are a lively bunch."

"So, how long it will before we can see them again?"

Athan shook his head and said with an uncertain expression, "I am not sure. However, I am going to progress as fast as I can to master my power and get access to that realm."

"But since you are the master of that realm, as you said, can't you go there right now?" Lily asked with doubt.

"I can't because…I am already there in a way," Athan said with a wry smile, "I don't know much about all of this because this power is likely of the very high realm. However, I speculated that that realm will eventually infuse into my existence."

"What? Infuse into your existence? What do you mean?" Lily asked.

"There is this void region I have. It's a mystical space connected to my soul, so it's essentially inside me. I think that eventually, that void region will replace by the Abyssal Void of Fabrication realm," Athan said with a thoughtful expression, "since It upgraded previously, I felt that. I felt that as I progress, the realm dimension of AVOF will be connected to my soul and combine with the void region."

"I see…," Lily nodded as she understood what Athan was trying to say.

"Well, then let's do our best from now on," said Lily before she smiled with a hint of red on her cheeks, "I will accompany you to the end this time."

'To the very end….'

"Then I will also complete my training and reach the peak of Chaos Supreme as soon as possible," Huarin said as she stood up and flew away into one of the mountains that had a house built on it.

"I also go back to the training. I will be finished before we depart," Athan said as he also stood up and left.

'Oof, It looks like I will be bored for the next seven years,' Lily put her head on the table and sighed lazily while thinking.

Looking at Athan's back, Lily showed longing in her eyes, 'Athan…I want to get more close to you, but your mind is occupied by your wives and companions.'

Shaking her head, Lily thought with determination, 'Lily, you have to take the first step in this case. Mhmm, mhmm…I am sure Athan will make my place in his heart.'

Alas, Athan actually already had space of Lily in his heart. How could he not, after seeing what Lily went through? In his first life, he was inexperienced and stupid, but now he knows…he can feel that Lily truly cares about him, and this budding affection wouldn't take much to turn into love.

However, Athan's mind was currently focused on his goal, and he was not going to rest until he reached there.

…

On the other hand, Lily just decided to roam the Chaosverse to know more about it from the core since she had nothing else to do.

Time passed as days turned into months and months into years…

Lucky and others also were called to the AVOF realm and Athan granted them permission as well.

Athan spent all of his time training and perfecting his other two void frames. Afterward, he also developed a better way to make his soul grow stronger.

After that, he finally started working on his Void Arts.

The Void Arts were like techniques that utilized his three void frame's powers and his soul power to the extreme.

He racked his brains all the time and did a lot of experiments.After all the years, he managed to develop four void arts perfectly. He also enhanced his Gaze of Void and made it truly powerful.

He also gathered 500 Abyssal Blood Crystals after all these years, and it seems that 500 was the limit that his Void Crux could handle right now. After all, each Abyssal Blood Crystal contained an extremely potent power.

However, it was finally time to leave as Lily arrived there to inform him about the departure.

Leaving the ark space, Athan saw that all Orchos Celestials and Candidates were gathered.

Dreevindo saw Athan and teleported beside him.

"Hahaha, Athan. It's been a long time," Dreevindo said with a laugh and patted Athan's shoulder. However, when he patted Athan's shoulder, a strange expression appeared on his face, "yo…your body feels kind of strange."

"When are we leaving?" Athan asked plainly.

"Soon soon, A wide light will descend from the sky, from outside of the Chaosverse. The light will then reveal stairs, and you all have to climb that," Dreevindo said with a grin.

Athan raised his brows and asked, "stairs? Are we going to the fight for that competition or whatever directly?"

"Nope," Dreevindo shook his head before he remembered something and facepalmed himself, "I forgot that since you were away all this time, you don't know about the full details."

Lily wryly smiled and said, "I didn't want to disturb your training until the end as you said so…Anyway, let me tell you about it."

"No need, here take this orb and put your soul sense inside. You will get all the information," Dreevindo said as he conjured a white glowing orb in front of Athan.

Athan nodded as he put his soul sense inside and got all the information about the candidate and all things.

After a few seconds, Athan looked at Dreevindo and asked, "who is your other candidate besides me?"

"Ultior, come here," Dreevindo said.

Suddenly, a person with fifty-centimeter-long straight horizontal ears teleported beside Dreevindo.

"Hello, Void Emperor. Let's do our best together," Ultior said with a grin.

"Humph, just don't hold him back," Dreevindo snorted, "you also know that nobody is a match for Athan, hahaha. It's my win for sure."

Other Orchos Celestials rolled their eyes, but they couldn't do anything about it.

However, a gleam passed through Athan's eyes as he made some plans after finding out what they had in store once they went to Orchos Firmament.