The Tale of the Void Emperor

" Mike, watch out! " 

*BOOM...*

Mike hurriedly turned around as he saw two winged metallic beasts with sharp wings coming at him with supersonic speed.

' Looks like I'll have to expand some magic energy. ' Thinking of this, He used magic and Framework art both.

Steel Magic: Absolute Spiral Drill

Metaphysical Art: Blooming Carnelian.

Mike's both arms became giant with a dark red-ish orange substance over it that gave off a powerful aura. Right after that, Two Absolute Spiral drills were conjured in front of him that hit the two metallic birds with sharp and long beaks.

*Krrrrrrrrr BOOM....*

The Spiral drills hit the birds as they clashed for a short few seconds before the birds were destroyed.

After doing this, Mike decided to finish off the two more beasts that were coming to his side.

He wasn't using his domain constantly since it drained his primal and genesis energy, but since he already used his magic, He activated his rule domain after using the spiral drills.

*Zeeeeeeeep.*

Mike used his rule domain power as the spiral drills started to break apart.

The spiral drills were not entirely destroyed after killing the first two beasts, so they were still there.

" Extreme Metal: Pierce..."

The spiral drills broke into many mini metal shards that were spinning just like a drill as they shot towards the two beasts on his right side.

*kraaaaaaa....*

The spinning shards shredded both metallic beasts as they dissipated.

Mike saw that his gauge was filled to 23% and muttered, " This is gonna take some long ass time. "

The Rule power that Mike comprehended was Extreme Metal, and his Rule power had two extreme nature.

Extreme Metal: Pierce and Extreme Meta: Impasse.

This actually boosted his magic spells a lot, and his Rule domain gave him full control over metal energy, and both damage and toughness of his metal abilities increased inside his domain. That's why he could dismember the spiral drills and turn them into a smaller version of many drills to attack the metallic beasts.

After Mike finished off the two beasts with his Rule domain + magic power, He dashed towards his left, where his Altar spirits were fighting two metallic beasts. 

His Aegisron could take hits from the metallic beasts, so it acted as defense while Furious and Ravager attacked the metallic beasts while dodging.

Metaphysical Art: Erupting Blood Sun.

His legs produced two dark orange cannon-like things on his Achilles that would release a burst of dark orange energy and would propel him in the direction he wants at a fast speed. Those cannon-like things could change their direction so Mike could instantly change his burst movement anytime and in any direction, which let him dodge all kinds of attacks from the metallic beasts with ease.

He then also started the hit and run technique as he and his altar spirits defeated the metallic beasts.

He could hit hard with his Blooming Carnelia and could do burst movements with Erupting Blood Sun, so they successfully defeated the two metallic beasts after some time.

Qerin's Rule power was knowns as Harbinger Particles.

It was mainly an offensive Rule power. Her earth-related attacks could let her hit enemies at the molecular level and let her sense the structures of anything due to her Rule power and find the weakness. On top of this, She could also lower the enemies' defenses if she attacked them with her earth-related attacks that could destroy the structure of anything she faces at the molecular level.

After comprehending her domain, She gained a way to attack enemies with extreme damage. She could conjure cubes with earth, fire, and wind energy that could shoot particle beams that had the ability to disintegrate anything at the molecular level that it hits. With this, She was faring well against the metallic beasts with her Altar spirits who aided her.

Naturally, Her magic spells also became stronger after she comprehended her Rule power and Rule domain.

They fought for thirty minutes more in this hotspot before it died down and no more beasts spawned.

" I have only 15% of primal energy left. What about you? "

Qerin asked Mike after defeating the one last metallic beast.

" Haha, I have 18% of primal energy left. Anyway, since this hotspot died down, let's continue moving. We will gradually recover energies anyway, just like how when we didn't encounter a hotspot for two hours. I want to battle and hone myself more. " Mike spoke in an enthusiastic voice as he was really enjoying the battles here. He constantly found new ways to attack and use his Rule domain with his magic spells.

Qerin smiled, seeing Mike like this, and nodded, " Alright. Let's continue then. It will take us a total of three hours to completely recover both magic energy and primal energy. It's good that this place has more dense primal energy in the atmosphere than the previous layer. "

After they received rewards and fed menima crystals to their altar spirits, they started moving.

...

After Athan finished defeating all metallic beasts in the first hotspot he encountered, His level 1 battlefield gauge was filled to 51% in one go. After that, He encountered three more hotspots that were not as good as the first one, but that still filled his battlefield gauge to 67%

While moving and searching for another hotspot, he was surprised that neither Tiana and Avelia or Mike and Qerin notified him about going back to the special space.

But even if they didn't notify him, He will get them back when the duration of his technique near its end, Which was approx four hours from now on.

His soul technique's effectiveness also increased as his soul got stronger, and this time, He consumed 30% of his soul energy to use the soul technique on them, which would last fifteen hours.

After moving for an hour, Athan finally encountered another hotspot where many people were fighting the beasts in an area that was a hundred kilometer vast, but this was still not as good as the first hotspot he encountered.

Anyway, he would move in a forceful and domineering way to fill his gauge as quickly as possible.

He descended on the ground and used his magic spells and rule domain before snapping his finger.

*Shuaaaaaaaaa.....*

In the batch of twenty-twenty, An army of beasts and weapons started to conjure in his five hundred meter radius domain.

The people that were near Athan were shocked and panicked about seeing this.

" Go! " Athan gave the command as his army started to target the metallic beasts that here near him. 

If other people entered his domain filled with his army, he would also take away their metallic beasts.

A man of terred race who was a bit far from Athan just finished defeating the last two metallic beasts around him and looked at the commotion.

As soon as he saw Athan, He shouted, " Damn! Everyone, If you don't want to let your prey gets stolen, quickly defeat them and start fighting with haste. "

Hearing the shout of this terred race man, The people that were fighting metallic beasts asked him while fighting in a confused tone.

" What do you mean by that? "

" Why would our preys get stolen? "

The terred race man took a deep breath before speaking, " Because...That human race man is...Undead Horde King. "