The Tale of the Void Emperor

" The Chaos Monolith Hill is a big organization, but...It is situated in the sky up there. " Jiya spoke with a smile as she pointed her finger at the sky.

The winners looked in the sky while narrowing their eyes, but they couldn't see anything.

" The scrolls contain a unique flying order technique that is upgradable. The current version in your hand is the common version. What you have to do is to learn the flying order technique and fly up there. " 

The man spoke as he summoned a golden cloud with red sparks in front of him before jumping on it.

Jiya smiled and also summoned a cloud and jumped on it, but her cloud was light green with white sparks in it.

" But can't we use our own flying technique to reach there? "

One of the winners questioned.

But Jiya and Viker shook their heads. Viker grinned as he flew up while riding on the cloud, " You can't. You are free to try, but you won't be able to reach the Chaos Monolith Hills with your own flying methods. Though my personal suggestion is that you shouldn't waste time doing that. "

Jiya nodded as she also spoke with a smile, " He is right. The faster you learn the order technique in the scroll and reach up there, the better it will be for you. As they say, Early birds get the better worms while the latecomers get the rotten ones. So good luck and hurry up. "

Both of them then flew up in the sky while riding on their respective clouds, leaving the winners dumbfounded.

" Let's not waste any time and start training. " Athan stated before he began to walk.

Shiromi, Sen, Tealery, Arcued, and Theo followed him as they walked near a giant tree and sat down below it.

They opened their scrolls and used their soul sense in it to start comprehending and grasping the sets of the order of the technique.

Other winners also didn't waste any time and started training. But some wanted to test their luck and flew in the sky using their own flying order techniques.

But they were bound to be disappointed and filled with regret later.

Others didn't try to fly up using their current flying techniques because of the way those two spoke confidently; It was pretty clear that they wouldn't be able to reach their destination using their own flying technique.

It was not about their flying order techniques being weaker than it, but this place appeared unique, especially sky that was as clear as an ordinary sky filled with normal clouds.

It was general knowledge that the skies of each region in Chaosverse are mystical and filled with strange chaos phenomenons.

But the sky here was normal, which was strange. So it was likely that there were some restrictions in the sky, and one would need to use the so-called unique flying order technique given to them to reach the destination far away in the sky. 

Many people figured it out, so they didn't waste their time trying out their luck and started training.

They opened the scroll and saw that the technique was the real deal with as much complexity as 5-star order techniques, so there was really no need to fool the winners about this simple test.

They did throw a bait that those who reach early up there will get better benefits, so some wanted to try reaching there using their own flying techniques, but...well, One can only as that they took the bait.

Athan saw that the name of this technique was described as Cloud of Chaos.

He then started comprehending the order of this technique after reading its introduction.

To use this technique, one just needed to comprehend the order in the scroll and learn to use the sets of order forces inscribed in the scroll. There weren't any sub-levels of mastery in the techniques: Just one order and its sets of order forces. It looked similar to Four Stances of Destructions, but That scroll had four orders inscribed in it for the four stances, while there is only one order in this scroll of Cloud of Chaos.

But The duo mentioned that this technique is upgradable, so there will be subsequent scrolls with additional order and sets of order forces that upgrade the technique in some unique way. 

...

" How long do you think they will take to master the technique and reach up there? " Jiya asked while riding the cloud as she and Viker continued to move up in the sky.

" Same as usual. Fifteen to twenty days. I don't think there will be another monstrous genius like the one we saw in the previous batch. He managed to master the technique in just nine days. " Viker stated with a bored face. 

Jiya shook her head with a smile seeing Viker like that, " It looks like you've been really bored while staying down there. Anyway, We'll be getting our reward after going up there and take up some not so dangerous tasks to relieve our boredom. "

" Sigh...Let's hope there are easy ones in the first place. Last time I almost died due to a group task taken up by our faction leader. This time, we will take a duo task. " Viker sighed.

" Alright, Honey. "

...

Two hours passed since Athan and others started comprehending the order technique.

But Athan suddenly opened his eyes and frowned.

' Those annoying catastrophes. Isn't there a way to pass them all at once and be done with my initial phase?...' 

Athan stood up while complaining internally and moved far away from the group.

Inside his void region, The Catastrophe codex was bubbling with a bright orange aura with dark blue sparks.

Outside...chaotic mist gathered on top of Athan before countless small orange bee-like creatures with dark blue patterns on them appeared from the mist and started attacking Athan.

Athan had an indifferent expression on his face as he just covered himself with abyssal darkness since he wanted to be done with this early.

The bee-like chaotic turned poof as soon as they touched the abyssal darkness around his body.

This went on for fifteen minutes before the mist finally cleared up after releasing bright orange energy with dark blue sparks.

This mystical energy went towards his Orderic Codex and entered inside the bean before the vine made slight progression.

Now the whole lower body till waist of a humanoid body was visible on top of the tiny bean.

After he was done, Athan went back to the group before continuing his training.