The Tale of the Void Emperor

"Now he is known. He called himself Athan and said that he would be in this Vitality Spectrum Zone for the next few months. Now it remains to see what Maoshi Empire would do."

"Well, Mozarik Devil Alliance would probably aid Maoshi Empire as the Empire is a part of that alliance. With the combined strength of that alliance that has 6 Legendary powerhouses, it would be hard for that unknown person to survive."

The people talked and entered while those seven people had one person less and two middle-aged men had a helpless expression on their faces.

"King Bozok should have already got information about his son's death; we have also recorded everything."

"Uh...he is contacting me."

...

On the other hand, Athan had just entered the Vitality Spectrum Zone and was surprised at the atmosphere full of powerful vitality.

"Just breathing here is recovering my body's energy and speeding up the blood recovery," Athan muttered. Naturally, that was also because his body was too weak right now.

Athan's body was at most on par with people at Peel-stage right now.

The scenery was full of greenery with giant trees and floating green islands.

The sky was clear and sunny as powerful vitality permeated every inch of this place.

Those islands were vast. Each one was several hundred kilometers big. Powerful auras could be sensed in those islands, and people were either entering those islands or roaming further in groups.

'That dunce made me expend two more Abyssal Blood Crystal, but anyway, I should get my soul food supply with that,' Athan thought with a smile.

He would soon need souls to devour, so he decided to kill that person who dared to curse and threatened him and his close ones. Now that he told them his name and how he will be staying here, he would get souls to devour when they come here for him.

"Hmmm...the vitality is increasing as I go further," Athan muttered while flying and decided to fly further inside in this vast and lively place.

After flying for a while, he sensed a powerful vitality coming from an island and swooped towards it.

Many other people also went inside.

After entering, Athan directly flew towards the source of that powerful vitality that everyone could sense.

*BOOOOOOOOOM...*

Suddenly, several large dark orange fireballs with violet chains around them flew towards Athan and all other people around him.

Everyone hurriedly scattered while some were injured. All of them were in groups, so powerful ones protected weaker people in their groups. However, their gaze wavered and didn't continue forward.

"DAMN! The Blooming spot is occupied by those people from Kronel Deadsea Union."

"EVERYONE! Let's band together against them. We have more numbers, and if we fight together, we can win!"

"Sorry, but we are not staying here and risking our lives."

"Same here. We can't put our lives in strangers' hands if we decide to fight against them. Who knows when you will abandon us and run away?"

"They are just twelve people while we are more than thirty total!"

"Doesn't matter! They should have called their other members who are nearby as well. Look, they already planted formation around them. We are out."

...

Everyone returned except for Athan, who continued towards an open ground where a giant twenty-meter-tall flower was blooming.

Twelve devilish people consisting of men and women were standing guard inside a formation that surrounded a hundred meters around them.

Of those twelve people, two were at peak Epic stage; three were at Man-disaster stage, three were at Natural-disaster stage, while the other four had Cosmic-disaster auras.

Seeing Athan flying towards them without any concern, the twelve of them looked at each other and attacked together once again.

This time, they used their individual offensive abilities and bombarded Athan with different types of attacks like Plasmic Orb, Harrowing Chainfire, Soul Enchant Hunt, etc., as three of them released powerful soul attacks towards Athan as well.

However, no attacks could come close to ten meters of Athan. When they arrived at the ten-meter radius of Athan, they would disappear.

Athan was also testing the limits of his new powers by taking his opportunity.

The void field was still intact even after taking all those attacks, 'interesting.'

"Keep going," Athan said as he stopped and just floated at one hundred meters away from the group of people.

Hearing him, the twelve people adopted a somber expression on their faces and didn't do anything.

'What's going on?'

'Did anyone gauge his strength?'

'No. I can't sense anything.'

'DAMN! He should be a legendary powerhouse then. Why the fuck is he here? He should be going deeper where all other legendary powerhouses go.'

'He was obviously attracted to here, where other legendary powerhouses wouldn't get attracted. So...he shouldn't be legendary.'

'But our attacks are not working.'

'It must be a powerful artifact! Let's keep attacking and exhaust its energy.'

'Alright, but I have also called Senior Tarole here since she told us to call us if any trouble arises. The blooming flower behind us will help Epic powerhouses a lot to break through and make their body gene roots stronger, so we must get it.'

Athan frowned since they stopped the attack, but just as he was going to speak again, they released their attacks again, and he nodded in satisfaction.

After ten minutes, the void field was finally breached by the continuous attacks of those people, and some attacks hit Athan, destroying his body in a mesh.

Seeing that, those twelve people were dumbfounded.

"So he was actively courting death? What the hell! Didn't know people like that existed."

"Hahaha, made us nervous for a second."

"W-wait...look, everyone! He just fucking resurrected!"

Athan's body was indeed constructed into a new one by consuming his voidpulse.

Nodding his head, he thought, 'so the void field itself has passive one million points of Abyssal darkness energy in it. As for the time it takes to renew itself.'

Athan saw that the void field was connected to his soul as one of his core abilities, and after checking it, he estimated that it would take one hour for the void field to renew itself.

As for the capacity of abyssal darkness and voidpulse in his black and white orb, they had reached 2.4 million and 2 million points, respectively.

His soul had a lower capacity since it was still smaller in size. However, its quality was improved several times as the intensity of his soul energy had progressed by leaps and bounds once he came out of the cocoon.

After all, his understanding of AVOF had reached 55%, and the current abyssal darkness was just too powerful. Same with the voidpulse, as it was extremely flexible, and he could easily create anything he imagined with it with sufficient understanding of his own on that subject. Basically, he could bend reality by using voidpulse.

"Wait...his body aura is so weak! It's not even at Epic-level."

"Yeah! Why is such an ant-like him trying to do by facing us alone?"

"His artifact must have lost energy, but it should be intact. Since he has presented himself to us, then let's get it, hehehe."

When Athan resurrected, his body aura oozed out, which was sensed by those people.