The Tale of the Void Emperor

Athan and others enjoyed to the fullest in this luxurious Heaven's Tranquility. They visited all facilities one by one and stayed in each one for ten days.

In the end, they decided to stay in three facilities for the remaining days.

Night of Divine Twilight area.

Garden of Peaceful Heaven.

HyperSpace of Chaotic Sky.

The third one, HyperSpace of Chaotic Sky, was different since it overflowed their body with energy, and they needed to vent them by doing battles and honing their usage of order techniques.

In the end, they spent most days in there to train after everyone managed to comprehend ten zen order sets of essence, body, and soul each.

Everyone except Athan also invoked a soul catastrophe and made some progress in that as well.

...

It was finally time to leave as everyone enjoyed for three hundred days here, which equaled thirty days outside.

After coming out, Athan first delivered two thousand voidling-zoids to Dean Lenix via Golden Path Delivery service. Their fees were high, at five thousand high-grade chaos stones, but they were trustworthy, and their delivery was on point.

As you may have guessed, this Golden Path Delivery service was under Great Bridgade Palace.

...

Afterward, everyone hopped on the flying ship as Lady Fu steered it towards the Great Bridge Portal that was permanently opened and led to lower-Chaosverse from the Midgard continent zone.

"We will not arrive at Vainklad continent directly after going through the portal, and it will be a month-long journey so you can go into meditation meanwhile."

Inside the hall, Tiana and others were sitting and talking but Athan was not present there.

Instead, Athan was at the central control room of the flying ship with Lady Fu.

"Athan, what did you want to talk about?" Lady asked as she and Athan sat across a table with two cups on it.

Athan took a sip from teacup before he smiled and said, "I told you that I have a solution to your problem, right?"

Lady Fu turned serious and nodded, "Yes. Once Dean Lenix is called back to upper-Chaosverse, I will lose the protection and be chased down by my enemies. Actually, Dean Lenix told me that I will find my solution with you, and that's why he told me to act as your guardian in this journey."

Pausing there, she bit her lips and wryly smiled, "But I couldn't entirely believe that. I am also trying to find ways to break through so I can fight back to my enemies, and that Neo-Vortex flower was one such chance."

Athan was surprised at the mention of Dean Lenix here and thought, 'Hmmm, could it be that since he planned ahead to after he gets called back and sent Lady Fu to me? Hahaha, good. At least, after making a deal with Lady Fu, she will provide better protection than Dean Lenix, who can't always stay with me here.'

Athan laughed as he put the teacup down and said with a faint smile, "Alright. So here is your solution. You will protect me and others in my group from now on, and in turn, we will protect you from your enemies."

"W-what?" Lady Fu was dumbfounded and confused as hell, 'I protect you, and in turn, you will protect me? What the hell? If you require my protection, then how can you protect me?'

With a grim face filled with doubt, she asked, "Are you joking? Or by 'we,' you mean you have a powerful enough backing that can protect me? But if there's such a thing, then why do you need my protection? Ughh, I don't get this!"

Lady Fu rubbed her temples.

Athan smiled and stretched his hand forward, "Let's shake our hands, and you will understand."

Lady Fu looked doubtfully at Athan but still stretched her hand forward for a handshake.

As her hand locked with Athan's hand, she heard Athan's voice, "Don't panic even if you feel a slight threat to your hand, just bear with the pain for a moment. Got it?"

"What do you mean?" Lady Fu asked with doubt and confusion.

Athan wryly smiled and said, "I don't want you to kill me accidentally, so I am telling you in advance that you will feel pain and your hand will be destroyed. But I will fix it later, so don't worry. Okay?"

Lady Fu became nervous without any basis before she nodded, 'Huh? He is just an orderic catastrophe phase; how can he do anything to my hand? but why do I feel nervous?'

At this time, Athan released Netherly frost from the orb and told primo to control it such that it only covers her hand to her wrist.

'Only let her feel the power for a second and then remove the ice.'

*shuaaa...*

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa..." Lady Fu screamed as her hand froze with strange ice as she felt pain and disbelief. 

"T-this..is similar power that Linci released! But it is her berserk power that she was born with! how can you use it?" Lady Fu spoke as the ice faded away, but her hand was still dead due to Netherly frost, and she couldn't move it.

"A-and my hand," Lady Fu's lips trembled as she spoke, "Although I don't feel pain, how can I fix it? This strange power is unlike anything else, and no power here can cure my hand now. Y-you...why, Athan?!"

"Relax, I told you that I will fix it," Athan said as he gave Primo some voidpulse and said, 'Primo, you scanned her hand perfectly, right?'

'Yes, Master.' Primo nodded as he floated beside Lady Fu's hand, but Lady Fu couldn't see Primo right now.

Athan nodded and said, 'Since you scanned it, then re-create its structure and fix her hand using the voidpulse.'

He could also scan it and do it, but if he did that, then it would take a long time. After all, the body structure of someone at Evagon-realm is complicated, and it will take time for him to understand its structure. But Primo was a higher existence, and it was a piece of cake for Primo to understand the hand structure of Lady Fu.

At this time, Lady Fu was in disbelief as her hands slowly returned to normal, and in just five seconds, it was as good as before. 

It was as if that strange power did not destroy her hand in the first place!

Athan smiled seeing her shocked face as he still had yet to show one more one thing to complete the deal.

"Lady Fu, now can you please conjure your strongest defense around you?"