The Tale of the Void Emperor

Jace and Athan entered another palace known as [ Newbie Event Palace ].

This palace was right behind [ Newbie Management Palace ]. But it was bigger and looked more like a castle.

Jace explained everything about this palace to Athan and also officially registered Athan's entry using the black crystal card. He then went back to his own place, leaving Athan in this lively palace.

Athan looked around in the palace with interest. One thing that stood out most was the giant floating light gray cloudly screen with golden names written on it.

[ Newbie Leaderboard ]

Rank-1:- Linci Crow.

Rank-2:- Ardusk Rech.

Rank-3:- Demon Gobi.

...

There were a total of hundred names on the leaderboard. All those recruited into Chaos Monolith Hills are considered as Newbie for five year period after entering. 

One can either graduate from being a new recruit ( newbie ) after five years or by breaking through to the Zen order base, becoming a Zen order elite. But well...One takes hundreds of years to break through to Zen order base from the Orderic Catastrophe phase, so doing it in five is impossible. 

As for the benefit of having a name on the newbie leaderboard: In these five years, They can get rewards each month based on their ranking on the newbie leaderboard. Naturally, They will first have to get their name on the leaderboard, which only has a hundred ranks. 

The rewards distributed each month are different too.

Jace told him that he would have first to finish all the events in this palace to get his name on the newbie leaderboard since their ranks are determined by their scores in the various newbie events.

Athan swept his gaze around the hall before moving towards the left side of the hall and entered through the large doors that had [ Slaughter In Space ] written on top of it.

After entering through the door, He found himself in a small hall. There were four gothic-style doors and eight tables in this small lobby where people sat while waiting for their turn.

Athan first looked for the thing that Jace told him about when entering the Event Lobbies.

' There it is. '

He looked around and saw a black monolith at the corner of the hall. After walking to the monolith, He put his black crystal card on the carved slot on the monolith that fits the size of the black crystal card.

The crystal card shined for a second before returning to normal, and Athan took back the crystal card.

He infused his soul sense into it and saw information with his soul sense inside the crystal card.

[ Name ]- Athan Void

[ Monolith Credits ] - 0

[ Rank ]- New Recruit

[ Storage Space ]- 100 cubic meters. ( Currently Empty )

[ Rewards Due ]- None.

<-List of Newbie Events->

[ Slaughter In Space ]:- 0 score. [ Queue No: 19 ]

' So that's how it works. Since I scanned my crystal card at this monolith, This event was added. It looks like the score I get from the various events will determine my rank on the newbie leaderboard...Given that I could score high, hehehe. ' Thought Athan as he smiled internally. Naturally, since he was here, He will aim for the top.

He then moved towards the only table in the lobby that has one person sitting at it.

The person was a beautiful girl with ink-black hair with icy blue luster. The most distinct part of her body was extremely cute-looking furry black fox ears and the small but thick and furry black fox tail that occasionally swings behind her as she read a book while sitting at the table.

Many males took occasional glances at this beauty. But Athan noticed that they also had a tinge of fear in their eyes when looking at her.

Naturally, Athan was not affected by her heavenly beauty and gorgeous appearance, which made her look cute due to those ears and the tail. He chose that table because only one person was sitting at it while other tables had multiple people sitting at them.

Seeing Athan moving towards that table, people started to whisper to each other.

" He's done for. It looks like he will also be embarrassed by her. "

" Indeed. But...That person is exuding a calm and cool aura despite that mask on his face. His outfit is so strange but looks damn cool. It matches the black dress worn by that cold beauty. "

" Hehe...Who cares about that. Let's just watch a good show for now. "

" I bet that he will give up in 2 minutes...cough...He might reach the 2-minute mark. "

" Bah...you are giving him too much credit. Nobody lasted for even a minute until now. Why? Do you think he is powerful enough to withstand that just because of his mystical appearance? "

" Err...Actually, you are right. He does feel a bit different. That's why I betting 2 minutes. "

...

Their whispers were small sounding, but one could naturally hear them, and it made it seem like they were mocking Athan and dare him to sit at the table.

Athan naturally heard their whispers and raised his eyebrows as he looked at the silent girl who was reading the book, ' Is she trouble? Hmm...Well, who cares. '

He didn't pause in the slightest and just pulled back the chair a bit and sat down at the table.

After sitting down, He noticed something inscribed on the table, ' It seems that this table is not simple. '

[ Foods & Drinks ]- Tap on the name to order it.

There was a menu which had names of food and drinks.

Athan looked at it with interest and tapped at one name [ Burning Blast Wine. ]- 10,000 low-grade chaos stones.

' I have never actually drunk myself. When I was on earth, I was minor and in the universe...I didn't pay attention to such things. But wine here should be fundamentally different. It should be brewed with some herbs, mystical plants, or such things with similar effects as alcohol, and...it might have additional effects considering its price. ' 

After Athan tapped on it, a slot beside the menu shined.

Looking at the shape, Athan judged that it asked for his crystal card, ' It looks like the chaos stones will directly deduct from the storage space of the card. '

He first added 10,000 low-grade chaos stones from his void region to the crystal card. Unlike other people who have to take out things from their storage ring outside and then let them store inside their other storage rings, He can do it directly using a simple method.

Here, He put the crystal card inside his void region and then added 10,000 low-grade chaos stones into the crystal card. After that, He took the crystal card out and put it on the slot.

Right after that, A glass of wine appeared on the table that was inscribed with a slightly similar pattern he saw on the monolith.

But before he could pick this glass of orange wine that was bubbling with small dark orange bubbles, He felt the atmosphere around him change. A biting and piercing cold seems to be coming towards him from the person sitting in front of him.

Athan narrowed his eyes and grinned as he picked up the glass of wine and leaned back on the chair before looking at the girl in front of him.

The surrounding people instantly reacted to this change.

" Hehe, It started. Let's see how long he lasts. "

" Indeed..."

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