The Tale of the Void Emperor

Illias had a grim face, and he wanted to know why the fuck all of their opponents had such a powerful soul.

He saw incoming Sen as she started attacking with all of her strength. 

As expected by him, the first attack was a soul order technique. But Illias was ready for it and defended against the attack while also waving his hand as three demonic gates appeared with black and dark green patterns in front of him.

The gate acted as defense and offense both as they released strange demonic entities like three-headed lions, chimera, etc., as they flew towards Sen and attacked her while also blocking her incoming devastating attacks.

'Her soul power is not as strong as the previous person. Hmm...It looks like I can play with her for a longer time and gradually discover the mystery. But...' Illias narrowed his cold eyes, 'But not without inflicting some pain. Let's hope she doesn't give up too early.'

Sen was playing her Zither as she released her order techniques powered by the wisps of her essence innate physique,  Enmato Crusade of Burning Wisps.

*Boom..boom..boom..*

*Screeeeee...*

The gate continuously released demonic entities while Sen continued to destroy them with her attacks.

'My soul attack...he is completely defending against it...'Sen thought with a frown as beads of sweat appeared on her face.

The intensity of Illias' attacks was increasing.

Suddenly, Illias waved his hands and clapped as the three gates shined and released green and black burning slashes at the same time.

The slashes were wide, fast, and controlled by Illias, so there was no chance of Sen dodging the attack as Illias would control it and hit Sen if she dodged.

However, she sensed another danger from the side and hurriedly tried to put the defense at both places.

*Shuaaa...*

A giant burning dark orange wall with red patterns appeared in front of Sen to defend against the slashes from the gate while she hurridly slapped the strings of her zither as two burning slashes appeared to her to defend against Bladeus' attack.

*Criiiiii...*

Bladeus broke through her slash before cutting off Sen's left leg.

"Aaaaaaaa....urghh."

Sen's scream stopped halfway as she gritted her teeth and held back, 'Athan doesn't even blink his eyes when he suffers gravest of injuries!'

Sen's eyes steeled even though tears appeared in them, and she endured, 'I have to endure and show Athan that...I am worthy of him...that I will not hold him back.'

At this time, Sen's Titan and Blitzzer voidlings finally broke away from the web trap of Illias's Blitzzers.

Titan appeared beside Sen as it provided defense while her Blitzzer tried to obstruct Illias's Blitzzer.

However, her voidlings were clearly weaker than Illias's voidlings.

Illias was at the 3rd order of Zen order grandmaster, the most powerful opponent in this trial, and ranked 7 in the Supreme genius leaderboard.

While casually attacking Sen, Illias was checking out her soul power.

'Strange...there is something very strange about this soul energy. Hmmm...this aura, it seems it's out of this Chaosverse, and it's so deep within in the soul energy...root? That Athan is also quite strange as he possesses power far beyond his apparent strength.'

While thinking, he glanced at the struggling Sen and raised his eyes, 'Quite determined, aren't you? Well, that's good for me since I can let you suffer more that way.'

Waving his hand, he muttered something as a fourth gate appeared that was bigger than the other three gates.

It was burning with even intense dark green and black flames along with purple sparks. 

*Ribiiit.....*

A sound released from the gate before a flash of light, so blindingly fast that Sen could barely see it right when it hit the wall in front of her and broke it quickly before hitting squarely in her abdomen.

A giant ten meters tall demonic frog came out from the gate with two burning horns on its head. Its skin was a mixture of black and dark green with eccentric patterns.

Its mouth was open as its tongue slowly rolled back into its mouth while Sen flew back, spitting trails of blood.

Tiana and others became worried as Athan frowned and said, "She should give up. The difference in their strength is obvious."

The observing Evagon-realm frowned as they looked at Illias.

Illias indifferently spoke as he sensed their gazes, "Don't worry, I will not kill her."

Sen crashed onto the ground with blood covering her, pain coursed through her body while tears threatened to fall from her eyes, but...she didn't want to give up.

"Sen, you've done enough." Tiana did a sound transmission to her, telling her to give up indirectly.

'I will not! This is my chance to prove myself! I want to stay with Athan forever, and for that, I HAVE TO PROVE THAT I AM WORTHY OF STAYING BY HIS SIDE.'

Her desire, her wish, was to let Athan see her in the same gaze as he sees Tiana and Avelia. But, Athan looked far out of her reach, which caused her to be afraid of telling her feelings to him. 

Athan was a vast, unending ocean in her eyes, and she wanted to be part of that endless ocean, drift in that, and go wherever he went.

She didn't know when she started having this feeling for him, maybe when he beat her at that time? But she was hopelessly attracted to him after seeing his eccentric personality, how strong, and how mysterious he was. In the end, after staying around him for so many years, she couldn't imagine herself apart from him. Her desire increased as she wanted his attention and wanted him to see her not as a friend but a part of him that he can not separate like Tiana and Avelia.

The love in Athan's eyes for Tiana and Avelia...she wanted to see that same love in his eyes for her.

Sen stood up as she ate some pills that Athan distributed to everyone. Her injuries recovered as she once again stood up with eyes burning with resolve, 'He is not planning to finish me off that easily, huh? Then I will wait for my chance.'

Sen called her cloud of chaos as she once again sat on it and picked up her zither as she started attacking Illias.

Illias indifferently nullified all of her attacks before speaking, "Why don't you use your soul attack?"

After saying that, he waved his hand as the frog opened its mouth, and its tongue once again shot forward at blinding speed.