The Tale of the Void Emperor

Athan, Tealery, and Arcued were watching the large-scale battle happening at the stronghold while hiding in the bushes.

" This stronghold is quite different than the one I destroyed. " Athan spoke while looking at the stronghold.

This stronghold had monsters like orcs, minotaurs with melee weapons, and long-ranged weapons like bows and spears. Their weapons were imbued with random chaotic powers that appeared deadly.

" Damn! If I got hit by them without defense, then I would be dead in a second. " Arcued muttered while wiping the sweat.

Tealery also nodded in agreement with Arcued as a severe expression formed on her face.

Athan thought for a moment before his lips curled into a grin, " You two. Attack those monsters however you want and take care of yourself. This is your test. Attack and Survive. If you're going to pass this test, then show me your resolve. "

Tealery and Arcued gulped, but they didn't want to give up. After coming this far and training hard for the last five years, They definitely wanted to join the Ancient Power, Chaos Monolith Hills.

Especially Arcued, who readily turned determined, ' If I want to see Athan in his glory, I will have to follow him. I can't be left behind. '

Tealery also turned determined, but she caught onto something and asked, " What about you, Athan? From the way you spoke, It seems that you are not coming with us? "

" Correct. Now go. Now that we have met, we can confirm our location through the contact card. " After saying this, Athan stood up and moved towards the stronghold with the giant chakrams in his hands.

He infused order force into them as the chakram lit up in dreadful orange flame, but Athan also added a layer of black aura after consuming twenty percent of his abyssal darkness.

This current 20% of his abyssal darkness was like 80% of his abyssal darkness before coming out of his cacoon.

He also activated the chaos matrix as he put all three chaotic powers into the Void Pyramid.

He also brought his stash of chaos stones on top of the chaos curtain where his umbrella storage was situated in his void region.

Now he wouldn't run out of chaos force as long as he has chaos stones. And the number of chaos stones he has is 1,143,000.

' No need to consume order force for defensive technique unless absolutely necessary. My Chaos body-Aegis Starwood can defend against attacks, and I will make my body layer thicker by consuming more chaos force. Let's see how my current stash of chaos stones last hehehe. '

Athan activated his body chaos trait, The Giant, with a deviant grin on his face and became a twelve-meter tall giant. After that, His body turned dreamy emerald green with the silver pattern as he turned his body into Chaos Body-Aegis Starwood.

With two chakrams in his hand that actually appeared normal-sized now that he became a giant, He dashed forward before throwing his chakrams.

*Zoooooooooom..*

The chakram tore through the air as they hit the orc who was attacking a person, and result...

The orc separated into four pieces before dying instantly.

+250 points

This was the power of his chakram's chaotic power + abyssal darkness.

"Tha-"

The person turned around to thank his savior but saw a giant standing right behind him and catching the chakram that returned to him.

He gulped seeing this emerald giant with silver patterns and wondered what race was this? At least, He had never seen a race with a body like this.

" T-thank you, br...err...Mister? "

Athan grinned and kicked him as the person flew in the middle of the battlefield. 

The poor man didn't know why he got kicked, but he became busy defending himself while cursing Athan in his mind.

Athan easily attracted the attention of monsters as two monsters attacked him, but Athan let their weapon hit him to check his defense.

Of course, He activated his Jadeite Skelendrom-Thorn mail body chaos trait and formed another layer of Aegis Starwood over it by consuming chaos force.

The two orcs roared with red eyes as their giant halberd hit Athan's back and shoulder.

*Crackk.....*

*Craccckkkk....*

Cracks appeared on his shoulder and back, but they started to recover due to the two properties of Aegis Starwood: Self-Recovery and Healing.

On top of that, His body's natural healing factor also kicked in, which helped in the recovery of cracks.

Athan smiled at the two orcs, who were stunned despite their mad red eyes because their attacks failed to create the impact they expected.

Athan grabbed one orc by his wrist and tried to throw it, but...

' Urg...It looks like my physical strength is still lacking. Whatever...I can just slice them with my chakrams. '

Before the orcs could attack again, Athan activated the Weapon order technique for the first time to kill the orcs speedily.

" Shadow Shredding of Hell "

Several shadows of the same chakrams appeared as Athan waved his chakrams towards the two orcs. 

*Roarrrrrrrr....*

Unfortunately, The weapon order technique didn't wound the orcs that much as they only created superficial wounds at best.

At this time, The orcs attacked Athan again, and their speed was fast, so Athan didn't dodge and took their attacks head-on once again.

But right after that, He threw his chakrams towards the necks of the orcs and beheaded both of them.

+400 points

*Swoooooosh...*

" Dang. That was good. " Athan looked in his chest, and a spear pierced through him behind his back.

Turned around, He saw an ape-like monster on top of the stronghold's watchtower looking at him with red eyes and ready to throw another spear.

" No, you won't, monkey. "

Athan grinned and jumped up before accelerating with Lightning Dust releasing from the soles of his feet.

Naturally, He just wanted to get into the fifty-meters range so that he can use his order technique.

" Point Zero Bombardment-twenty points. "

*BOOOOOM...**BOOOOOM...**BOOOOOM...**BOOOOOM...**BOOOOOM...**BOOOOOM...**BOOOOOM...*....

+300 points

After that, He floated in the air and slowly descended after removing the spear from his chest.

From what he observed while he was in the air, There were nineteen participants and thirty-one monsters fighting on the ground. While in the sky, There were four beasts, and they were engaged in combat with four people who had flying order techniques. There were also three beasts on the watchtowers of the stronghold that threw spears and arrows.

" It looks like the fight just started since there are only eight corpses of monsters, including the ones I killed. "

Arcued and Tealery were at the periphery and were fighting two monsters.

Athan couldn't remain idle as there were more monsters than the participants, and due to his big size, He was targetted again.

With a grin, He coated the spear with a slight aura of abyssal darkness and threw it towards...a person who had a goat head and a muscular body that was engaged in combat with a monster.

He ignored the person he attacked after that that as the monsters engaged him.

He barely dodged one monster's attack while took a hit of another. But after that, He shredded them with his chakrams but saw that only a faint aura of abyssal darkness remained.

+500

" So far, I killed five monsters with the chakrams. Now from the remaining aura of the abyssal darkness, I can kill three more. So that means with 20% of my abyssal darkness, I can kill eight monsters. Hmmm...That's bad. I expected to kill more with 20%, but their thick and powerful body is consuming more abyssal darkness. "

Athan muttered as he prepared to kill more monsters while also working on his idea.