The Tale of the Void Emperor

Reikent was in the organization when Athan informed him, so he quickly arrived at Athan's abode.

" Take out your token and infuse chaos essence in it. " Reikent directly spoke after appearing in front of Athan.

Athan nodded and did just that, and right after he infused chaos essence into the token, A small grey cloud portal appeared on top of the token from which Athan could see his current location.

Seeing this, Reikent nodded and said with a smile, " Done. Now that token has recorded the coordination of the place where you are standing. " 

Saying this, He took out a Token that was different than the Token that Athan had. Athan's Token had tree and vine patterns in brown color and one red leaf. 

On the other hand, Reikent's Token had Three blue leaves.

" This token is made from of this Youhan Tree, and its function only works when you are inside the Youhan Tree. As long as you are anywhere within this Youhan Tree, like in any other pocket space branch, then you can infuse chaos essence into the token, and it will open two chaos portals that will be connected. " Pausing here, Reikent grinned, " Let's go. It's better that I show you. "

Reikent then infused chaos essence into his token for a few seconds before a mass of grey energy released from the token that conjured a chaos portal in front of him.

Both Athan and Reikent went through the chaos portal and appeared at a hall that had a lot of furniture that looked like bookshelves. Athan roughly glanced at them and counted a total of five big shelves.

But after arriving here, Reikent directly said to Athan, " Now infuse chaos essence into your token. " Saying this, He did something, and the chaos portal that he conjured disappeared.

Athan nodded and started infusing chaos essence into his token. He infused it for one whole minute before a chaos portal opened in front of him.

Seeing this, Reikent nodded with a smile, " You should be able to guess where this portal leads to, right? "

" Yeah. I understand how it works. A similar portal must have appeared at the recorded coordination, which is the location of my abode. If I go through this portal, I will arrive at the location of my abode. "

" Alright. Since you understood that, then just like how you infused chaos essence inside the token, You can similarly take it back to make the chaos portal disappear. "

Athan nodded and did that as the chaos portal disappeared.

Seeing this, Reikent thought, ' Strange...At his abode, He took chaos essence from the atmosphere and infused it into the token to record the coordination, and he did the same when he infused chaos essence to conjure the chaos portal...But, When he took back the chaos essence, He returned it back to the atmosphere instead of storing it inside him like what a normal person would do. '

Thinking of this, Reikent asked Athan why he did that.

Hearing the question, Athan was stumped internally, but his expression outside didn't have any change as he replied with a wry smile, " It's my habit. I had a time when I couldn't store energy inside my body because my body's unique physique awakened. So before I found a way to keep energy inside my body in a form like a source core, I always used the energy present in the atmosphere. "

Reikent was surprised, " Ohh...That must have been a tough experience...Not being able to store energy inside your body and use it freely with better control and faster to use your ability. "

Athan nodded with a helpless smile, " Yep. It was terrible. "

" Hahaha. It's good that you found a way to store energy inside because you can't directly use chaos essence in the atmosphere to train further. Anyway, Let's first choose a good Order-method for you in this library. "

Reikent started walking deeper into the library while speaking, " This is a Low-Tier, 1-star Order Library. Here, You will find 1-star Order methods and techniques that you can practice by harnessing the chaos essence. "

Athan followed as he listened and asked, " What about Order kens or something that you talked about? You said there are three types of Order Ken: Body Order Ken, Essence Order Ken, and Soul Order Ken. I want to know more about them. "

Reikent didn't pause his movements as he answered Athan.

" Alright. But let's pick a 1-star Order method first. After choosing an Order method, I will explain everything as promised. "

Athan nodded as both of them arrived in front of a shelf. He saw that the shelves in this library didn't contain books but scrolls. They weren't arranged like books, but they looked like they were stuck to the shelves. Each shelf was big as every scroll was not completely rolled closed but slightly opened. The opened somewhat part revealed the name of the order techniques or methods and a simple introduction about it.

" I suggest you pick an essence order method for a starter as it will help you harness the chaos essence better and get better control of it as chaos essence is the fundamental energy to do everything here. " Saying this, Reikent pointed at the shelf in front of them, " This shelf contains essence order methods, and you can see their names and a small introductory part about them. "

Athan nodded as he looked at the many scrolls on the shelf with curiosity and...a bit of helplessness.

' Hmmm...What Reikent said previously is unsettling. If I can't use the chaos essence directly from the atmosphere to train further, Then how am I supposed to continue progress? '

" Pick a method of your liking, and after that, I will explain about it and the things about Order ken that you wanted to know. "

Athan nodded while looking at the shelf but internally, He sighed, ' I should pick a method and get information from Reikent first. I'll find a way to solve my problems after returning to the Abode. '

He then started looking at the name and the small introductory parts of the essence order method scrolls on the shelf.