The Tale of the Void Emperor

*Shrooooooooooo...*

*poooofffff...*

" Hey, Athan! Are you really not feeling anything getting hit by those? "

Athan just blocked her attack using Spiral cave of no entry. He used two spiral holes to reduce the attack of her order attacks before letting them hit him.

But He had also transformed himself into the Chaotic Body- Aegis Starwood. In this form, His body looked like a crystalized emerald body structure with silver patterns.

Her reduced attack did make cracks on his body, but they recovered quickly too.

None of them got the upper hand over another yet. Shiromi's order techniques executions were perfect, precise, and powerful, but Athan was never seriously injured because of the various abilities that made him tough: His natural body healing factor, Aegis Starwood self-recover, and its healing property. On top of that, He reduced her attacks by using the Spiraling Cave of no Entry order technique.

Of course, Athan didn't use his abyssal darkness and competed purely using his order techniques and, of course, his chaotic body.

Naturally, Athan never managed to put a scratch on Shiromi in their fights. She would either completely block his attacks or dodge them with her flying order technique.

Accumulation-wise, Athan had yet to master as many order techniques as Shiromi. He had just arrived here for a few years, so he had less time to gather a vast collection of order techniques to make him truly versatile.

' Maybe I'll try my new chaotic power. '

Athan waved his hands as he released Sumireas Slash towards Shiromi.

This Sumireas Slash looked dreamy blue with glittering black sparks all over it. This time, He had infused the nature of Force of Glittering River in this Sumireas Slash.

This Sumiras slash was still a lot weaker than the Sumireas slash he releases using lightning dust. After all, He only infused this Sumireas Slash with the Force of Glittering river with chaos essence as medium and not chaos force. For him to transform chaos force into the Force of Glittering river, He needs its chaos trait. 

Shiromi saw that Athan used a new kind of chaotic power on his Sumireas Slash this time and got interested.

Instead of dodging, She used her defensive order technique to block it, ' Geo-Nullmination.'

A shining light brown crystalized triangle shield appeared in front of her.  It looked like rock slid with grey metal patterns on it. Additionally, The corners of this triangle shield were extended slightly, with their ends curving forward.

The Sumireas slash-Force of Glittering River hit this shield, and a blast occurred. 

*Boooooooom...*

The shield had some cracks and black spots due to the blast of Sumireas slash.

Shiromi sensed the attack and spoke in a surprised voice, " Which chaotic power is this? "

" The scroll's name was Force of Glittering River. "

Athan also wanted to check the effects of Force of Glittering River chaotic power with his eyes, so he also focused on the aftermath after answering.

Shiromi nodded with a smile, " Not a bad one. One of its properties seems interesting. Those black spots on my shield are actually trying to melt down the structure, thus weakening the defense. Also, It feels very heavy. Hmmm...I guess you can use this chaotic power with both defensive and attacking order techniques, right? "

" Yeah. The scroll's introduction mentioned that this chaotic power could be used both defensively and offensively. "

Athan stretched his hand and opened his palm. He took some chaos essence and transformed it into the Force of Glittering River as it appeared on his palm.

Its appearance looked like a flowing river with glittering dark sparks in them.

Shiromi smiled before nodding and commented, " It's good. I feel like it's a potent chaotic power with a unique property. But, since you have just grasped its initial order, you have yet to see its true power. Anyway, You will discover it later and..."

Pausing there, She looked around and saw ten or so people as they talked to each other, " I think we should stop our spar now. " 

Athan also nodded as they left once again in search of a place with wild chaotic power.

After they left, the people who gathered were still discussing.

" That was Mrs. Shiromi, but who was the guy? Until the end, I thought he was some kind of another lifeform besides a human, but when he turned into a human, I was really shocked. "

" True. His body gave off similar power to the nature of the defensive order technique he used. How strange. "

" Yeah. I wonder, what was that about? "

...

While flying, Shiromi chuckled and said, " Honestly, The fight was getting dull. You only used three order techniques, and it was getting repetitive and boring. Your defensive capabilities are monstrous, but you need to work on maneuverability and unique offense attacks. 

I suggest you master some 3-star, 4-star, and 5-star order techniques. Low star order techniques can be used often as they consume less order force to execute, and they also have their own uses in some situations. So it's better to master a few useful ones if you find them quickly since they are also easier to master than high-star order techniques. "

Athan nodded as he knew that she was right. His abyssal darkness was also just power, not technique. Just like how he sometimes coat his Sumireas slash and Skyline blows with Abyssal darkness to make them more powerful, He can do with this all other order technique to make better use of his Abyssal darkness. So mastering many order techniques was a must for him.

After traveling for an hour, Shiromi saw something and paused, " It looks like a chaotic power appeared there. Let's go. "

They saw a four-meter tall tree surrounded by dark green wisps.

" Hmmm...This won't be that useful since it's fairly weak. Anyway, we are just here to teach you how one properly trains and fills up their cores to saturation besides just sitting at one place and infusing chaos force inside your cores. So, let's start. "

Shiromi and Athan stood one meter away from the tree.

" First, Take out some of your order force and cover yourself with it. "

Athan did as she said. Shiromi also did that herself before she told Athan to go near the tree.

After they were near this chaotic power, Shiromi said, " Now rile up this chaotic power with your chaos force so that it attacks you. Once it strikes you, quickly use some defensive order technique to block it and then forcefully take it inside your Maelstrom of Chaos...Ahh wait, you had something like Chaos Grinder, right? Anyway, take this chaotic power using your order force towards your Chaos Grinder. "

Athan used chaos force to rile up the dark green wisps as they hurled towards him to attack him.

But instead of using the order technique to block it, as said by Shiromi, He transformed his body into Chaotic Body-Aegis Starwood.

Seeing this, Shiromi curled her lips into a smile, " Oh yeah, you can do this too. How convenient. "

Athan took this dark green wisp-like chaotic powers inside his chaos grinder after it hit his body. The Chaos Grinder quickly made quick work of those dark wisps chaotic power before they turned into chaos force. 

But Athan sensed that this chaos force was different than what he usually gets from griding chaos essence of the atmosphere.

At this time, He heard Shiromi's voice, " Once your Chaos Grinder purifies that chaotic power, It will turn into a wild chaos force. This wild chaos force has only one use since it was produced from a wild chaotic power, and that use is to increase the progression of your cores. 

Since your cores are also chaotic powers, they are filled faster if you infuse them with this unique chaos force. "

Athan was surprised, but it made sense after he thought about it. His usual chaos force is from the general chaos essence that is present everywhere, while this chaos force from a wild chaotic power is different.

-> Chaos essence(Stays same) + Chaos Grinder(This upgrades) = Chaos force (This gets stronger after Chaos Grinder upgrades.) He can use this chaos force and transform it into various chaotic powers if he has the chaos traits.

-> Wild chaotic power + Chaos Grinder = Wild chaos force. He can only use this chaos force to infuse it inside his cores to make progress.

Athan infused this wild chaos force inside his essence core and to check the progress.

But It wasn't as much as he expected as a slight frown appeared on his face. 

Seeing that, Shiromi explained, " This wild chaotic power is fairly weak, so you won't progress much. Although it's still a bit better than the usual chaos force but not enough, right? And I doubt we can find a better chaotic power for you in this chaos phenom dimension that is close to dying. "

" Well....then what do we do? " Athan wryly smiled and asked.

" You don't have to worry. Many temporary Chaos phenom dimensions appear every year, and Yone will inform us when one appears near our organization. We'll go in there and do the same thing.

Of course, we'll choose our target of wild chaotic power wisely. If you mess with something stronger than what you can handle, it can lead to serious trouble...like death. "

" I see...So, this is how one trains. It's filled with risk but worth it. "

Athan nodded as he understood the crux behind it.

" Yep. Now let's hope that a C-grade or B-grade chaos phenom dimension appears here so that we can train inside. If it's anything higher, it will be useless for us, and we'll have to travel and find one ourselves since I also need a final breaking point to break through to Orderic Catastrophe. "

Afterward, they left this chaos phenom dimension through the portal and returned to their base in the pocket space branch.