The Tale of the Void Emperor

After an hour and a half, It was finally Athan's turn as he took out his crystal card pulsing with red sheen.

Opening his eyes, Athan stood up and saw Linci sitting at the table in front of him.

Linci's gaze went from the book to Athan and saw him gave her a slight nod as a greeting before he went towards the gothic door and entered the event.

' I wonder how does he look behind that mask? ' She wondered for a moment before returning her attention to the book.

...

On the other hand, After Athan entered through the door, He arrived at a jungle. 

He was currently in an open ground surrounded by various green, red and blue beautiful trees of different types.

A light green Genie exuding exuberant life force materialized from the grass on the ground as he smiled towards Athan, " My brothers told me about your appearance. Gagaga, I'll be looking forward to your performance throughout your stay here. Anyway, here's what you have to do in this event..."

...

The Green Genie explained to Athan everything about this event called Wilderness Connect.

Objectives:

->Find the hidden monoliths in this wilderness and scan them by putting his crystal cards in their slots.

Rules and Situation:

-> There are also vast amounts of traps spread throughout this wilderness, so Athan needs to move carefully while finding the hidden monoliths.

-> The current peaceful atmosphere will take a 180-degree turn, and it will get dangerous day by day with random monsters suddenly attacking Athan and destructive chaotic powers outbreaks.

-> There are also some tricky traps that if you fell into them ( like a tricky portal), you will directly finish the event earlier even though you could do more. This can lower their potential maximum score, so participants need to be very wary of traps.

-> Time given is a month, but according to Green Genie, none from the past thousands of years has lasted even twenty days and scanned more monoliths here to break the current All-time High score made by Tron Granger: 74,000. 

-> More importantly, Even though a month passes here, Only a day passes outside. So thirty days here are equal to one day outside.

" Alright. That's all, lad. Do your best and break the all-time high record, Gagagaga. " Green Genie vanished like a puff after laughing. But he was still observing Athan since this whole wilderness was connected to him. He was the wilderness, and wilderness was him. 

' Black and Blue praised you much. Now let's see if you still can break the all-time high record of this event. '

Athan swept his glance in all directions before sitting crossed-legged, ' Perfect chance to do some experiments. '

Inside his void region...

He first took a tiny amount of voidpulse and transformed it into a normal bee.

' A normal creature created purely from voidpulse. If I don't need to give it offensive power, then only Voidpulse is enough. Now, If I properly merge my soul energy in it...'

Athan's soul was currently in its true form as it appeared black with a white border and white organs that looked like patterns inside his soul.

He released a bit of his soul energy and infused it into the bee. After that, He released the bee outside and let it go in the north direction with his command.

With his soul energy infused into the bee, His soul sense could sense that bee and see what it sees. This is similar to what he did in the test when he hunted a group in the jungle using his voidlings.

Athan started to create more of such small bees, and with his current amount of voidpulse, He created three thousand small bees.

But he didn't stop here and released a Voidling-Python towards the trees. This python was a mix of Abyssal darkness and voidpulse since he wanted to devour some trees to get more voidpulses.

After getting more voidpulses, He continued to create bees and released them in the wilderness in search of monoliths.

Green Genie was already dumbfounded when Athan released thousands of bees, ' What the damn hell? Not bad, not bad at all. Gegege...But those bees won't survive the atmosphere of this place very soon and die. '

At this moment, Athan stood up as he observed something strange through one of his bees and focused there since he felt that there was a monolith hidden there.

He dashed towards the southwest direction for one kilometer. But after just two seconds while he was dashing, He suddenly lost his control and fell down.

*thud....*

'This...It's looks like the burden of observing thousands of things at the same time through my soul sense is more intense than I imagined. ' Athan felt wobbly, but he shook his head and sat down right on the stop to stabilize himself.

' Two birds with one stone. I'll also learn to master this way of consciousness splitting. ' Although he thought this with determination, The longer he observed places through the bees using his soul sense, the more wobbly-minded, confused, and annoyed he felt. 

After all, looking through thousands of windows at the same time and even observing the details outside was something so outrageous that if someone saw Athan doing that, They would curse out loud.

But Athan's soul quality was extremely high, even if it was not as powerful as a powerhouse of Zen order powerhouses.

He was determined to endure this new type of annoyance and adapt to this state.

When he felt somewhat stabilized, He started moving again towards the place where he suspected the monolith was hidden while also observing other places through thousands of bees.

Naturally, In the next second, He fell down once again and felt wobbly-minded, confused, exhausted, and such annoying feelings.

He should out to be immense pain too, but he ignored it.

Blue Genie was utterly dumbfounded at the actions of Athan, ' What the hell is going on? Why does he dashes for a second and then fall down before sitting crossed-legged? '

He didn't know that Athan was doing something very dangerous right now, which may even threaten his life.

If he knew that Athan was doing that ridiculous thing of observing approx six thousand places while even trying to pay attention to details through the bees, He would piss his cloudly pants.

One word to describe Athan's current actions, Madlad.

Several hours passed, but Athan didn't even manage to reach the first monolith. By now, Even he was aware of the risk he was taking, but his eyes were ignited with the fire of determination.

His brain was getting fried and boiled while his soul was in an even heavier burden, but...Athan felt from his deepest instinct that...He can do it.

' I CAN DO IT! '

At his moment, He started to feel the strange connection which he felt when he was in the cacoon.