The Tale of the Void Emperor

"Attack him..."

"What? Really?"

"We have to assess him because I can't feel anything from that being."

The five Chaos Paragon powerhouses decided to attack Athan as they released their devastating offensive order abilities.

On the other hand, Limbus and Reigen had just transformed for Athan and became his wings.

"M-master..."

Reigen and Limbus were scared, but Athan stretched his hand forward as a massive dark beastly mouth appeared with a black whirlpool in its mouth.

The blue sparks from his cloak glittered as all those devastating chaotic attacks were forcefully pulled towards the giant beastly mouth and... got devoured.

Athan flew towards them using Limbus and Reigen with cold, hungry eyes.

The five Chaos Paragons were scared shitless as they turned around and flew away with their full power.

Seeing them like that, Chaos Monarchs and Chaos Saints also started running.

However, after a second, one of the Chaos Paragon paused and shouted, "Wait, everyone!"

He turned around and saw that...Athan was flying really slow.

"W-what the heck? His flying speed is slow!"

"What's going on?"

"Screw it! Since he can't catch up, I'll just conjure a chaos portal and leave through it," one of the Chaos Saint powerhouses started conjuring chaos portal.

Many others also did the same as they conjured chaos portals and left through it.

"How strange...He possesses the power to negate our attacks completely, but his speed is slow," a Chaos Paragon powerhouse spoke.

"He is coming. Run!"

Seeing Athan getting closer again, Chaos Monarch powerhouses and Chaos Paragons started running. However, All Chaos saint powerhouses had left because Athan's speed was comparable to Chaos Saints.

After flying for a while, those powerhouses stopped again and observed Athan.

"What a strange being. However, I guess he can't do anything to us as long as we maintain some distance from him."

Others nodded.

...

On the other hand, Athan stopped chasing them as a frown appeared on his face.

"Sorry, master. We are not fast enough to chase them down."

The apologetic voices of Limbus and Reigen sounded in Athan's ear.

Athan shook his head and said calmly, "I'll find a way to increase my speed."

After saying that, Athan said to Efyeed, "Efyeed, can you open the portal to Linci's house?"

"Yes, master."

A portal opened beside Athan after two seconds before Athan entered inside.

The powerhouses saw Athan disappearing into the portal and wondered where he went.

One of the Chaos Paragons shouted and said, "start the investigation and find him! However, just find him and inform us. No more than that."

...

In the crow family's house...

Athan was sitting on a chair while Elena and Gaarshil were sitting in front of him.

"Athan...where are others? Where is Linci?" Elena asked as her lips trembled. She stretched a bit forceful smile and spoke, "knowing you, I'm sure they are safe."

Athan clenched his fist as his heart burned internally, but he calmed down and took a deep breath before saying, "I will bring everyone back...definitely bring everyone back."

"You two must stay alive until I come back with them and Linci," said Athan as he stood up and told Efyeed to open a portal before leaving.

"Athan...," Elena muttered as her eyes turned tearful. For a brief moment, she saw immense pain in Athan's eyes and knew that he was sad as much as them, if not more.

Gaarshil sighed as he hugged Elena.

...

Athan appeared in the chaotic atmosphere as he just told Efyeed to open the portal randomly at the furthest it could.

"Go inside, Limbus, and Reigen."

Reigen and Limbus went inside the void region while Athan stood there and took out a stream of voidpulse as it flowed around him.

He could float in the space and anything as long as he is inside the mystical field produced through the cloak behind it.

The lapis blue patterns and sparks in the cloak were related to Primo's Lapis Lagoon power, and that created a special space matrix field that belonged to Athan only.

That's why Athan could float. However, he couldn't speed up his movement as he still needed force.

However, he was now going to study this cloak carefully and create something that would allow me to fly fast through Reigen and Limbus's powers.

Athan closed his eyes as his soul sense scanned the cloak while he also controlled the Voidpulse to change its structure and create something from it.

...

Soon everyone found Athan's location, but no one went near him and just observed from afar.

"What is he doing?"

"Who knows? But I think we shouldn't provoke him further."

"We will not, but we can't say anything about those Paragons."

The five chaos paragon powerhouses just stood along with others and observed Athan.

"Should we attack him one more time for testing? Considering his speed, he shouldn't be able to negate our attacks. But...maybe he did that one time using some kind of artifact or one-time blessing power from a chaos phenomenon?"

"Let's observe him more first. I wonder what is he doing waving his hands like that."

Among the five Chaos Paragons, four of them were fully human-looking with only minor beastly features like horns and tails, while one Chaos Paragon was fully robotic and metallic as he was a Mechatronic being.

Athan couldn't be careless about any of them because they were of no threat to him.

His AVOF progressed had jumped to 20%, and nobody could do shit to him here.

However, he was hungry for more soul power as he was carving it immensely and wanted it from living beings.

...

Athan focused on creating a gear of sort for him that would give him fast flying ability akin to teleportation.

Doing that required time as days turned into weeks and weeks into months before two months passed by since Athan started working on it.

The paragons still observed Athan, and today, they decided to attack Athan again for testing.

Releasing devastating attacks towards closed-eyed Athan, they waited to see the result.

However, the same scene presented itself as the mouth devoured all of their attacks.

Athan didn't even bother opening his eyes as he only focused on working.

After ten more days, he finally finished as a dark pair of wings filled with lapis blue and white patterns attached to his back.

"Limbus and Reigen, superimpose onto my wings and channel your power in it. That's all you have to do."

"Roger, master."

After they superimposed on Athan's wing, Athan looked at the powerhouses tens of kilometers away from him and grinned coldly.

*snap....*

*ZOOOOOOOOOOOOM...*

He appeared right in front of the Mechatronic being and spoke with a smile, "your soul seems most powerful among everyone here."

*silence...*

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THIS TWIST?

They couldn't see that Athan was creating wings because they could not sense or see voidpulse or even the final product he created. If they knew that this mysterious being was creating wings, they wouldn't stay here to court their death.

This teleportation ability also consumed voidpulse, so he could only use it as long as he didn't deplete his abyssal darkness.

Currently, everyone was sweating bullets as they literally felt death upon them.

"Give your soul to me," Athan softly spoke as a beastly mouth suddenly manifested on top of him and devoured the Mechatronic being.

"RUN!!"

Athan devoured the entire being and turned it into voidpulse from nothingness except for the soul, which he refined into pure soul power before absorbing it.

"Not enough...," Athan spoke as faint blue sparks released from the wings before he disappeared and appeared in front of a running Chaos Paragon.