The Tale of the Void Emperor

Inside the peace dimension, the cocoon started cracking before it dissolved entirely in a second, revealing Athan with his usual get-up. Naturally, the outfit he wore was destroyed as only his Void robe and Void mask remained, but he waved his hand as a patch of white covered his body before it turned into the same outfit he bought at the Zinger town.

"Nyahaha, master! You really succeeded in progressing your AVOF to 7%," Primo excitedly flew around before sitting on Athan's shoulder.

Athan nodded with a faint smile as not only did his understanding of AVOF reach 7%, but his Black orb and White orb also upgraded as he could now recovery his abyssal darkness faster and produce Voidpulse faster.

However, the main thing that changed was his soul, which was the source of his Abyssal Void of Fabrication. He also got an idea, and from that idea, he got an epiphany to create something with his voidpulse.

He had already named it but had yet to work on it. The new power he will be working to create has a simple name but...powerful uses.

"Primo, since I got that idea, then can you check if some changes started to happen in that mystical realm of AVOF where you were born?" Athan asked with slight curiosity. Previously, when he worked on creating voidlings, the mysterious realm of AVOF started producing powerful voidlings based on his subconscious thoughts, so it might do the same this time.

Primo closed his eyes for a few moments before saying while shaking his head, "Nyope, nothing has started yet. But I can feel that something is happening with the realm. However, it's minor."

"Maybe it's because the master has yet to start creating it? Anyway, what is it?" Primo asked curiously.

"I named it Esoteric Void Glyph," Athan said with a grin, "I only have the general gist of it for now, so I will start working on it later. Basically, I need to create the same path as Runic Artist, but I am going to use voidpulse as the main application to create what I have in mind, the esoteric void glyphs. I have imagined their use to be quite useful, so I'll see how it goes in the future."

"Master wil definitely succeed!" Primo shouted.

...

Afterward,  Athan arrived outside and called Linci using the contact card.

Linci--, "Athan! Did you finish your training session?"

Athan--, "Yep, just came outside from that peace dimension."

Linci--, "Okay, you wait there, I am coming."

"Nyaa, Linci sounds very different. Even I could feel how happy and cheerful she sounded," Primo said while sitting on Athan's shoulder.

Athan nodded with a smile as he also felt happy for her, "her mother was her entire world since she was small. So naturally, she should be very happy right now."

After ten seconds, Linci arrived there and told Athan to meet with her mother as she and Athan went to the dining hall.

Linci said that they would talk while eating her mother's delicious dishes.

After a while, Athan, Linci, and Elena could be seen sitting at the medium-sized dining table while eating.

"Thank you, Athan, for helping my daughter and saving me," Elena official thanked Athan with a gentle smile, "without you, I wouldn't have reunited with my daughter."

"It's fine, hahaha. I felt like wanting to help Linci, and so I did. Anyway, this little guy did everything, not me," Athan said with a beaming smile as he pointed at his shoulder.

Hearing that, Primo flew away from Athan's shoulder before going in front of Elena.

Linci could see Primo, but Elena couldn't, so she was confused, "who?"

"Nyahaha, it was me, Primo!"

Elena was shocked as she saw a cat appearing right in front of her and almost attacked instinctively.

'W-what? How come I couldn't sense this cat? Wait, this cat...,' Elena got even more shocked when she found how unfathomable this little cat was.

Seeing the mischievous Primo, Athan coughed and helplessly smiled while Linci chuckled.

Primo flew around Elena while speaking, "Nyahaha, even though I helped, but I did it because my master said so."

Elena was a bit doubtful as she looked at Athan and asked, "you are this...being's master?"

Athan nodded with a faint smile before saying wryly, "It's a bit mischievous."

Elena nodded as she saw Primo flying towards Linci and sitting on her shoulder now as both of them talked.

"Athan, Linci told me that you weren't born in upper-chaosverse but still managed to arrive here with that strength. Something like this hasn't happened before," Elena said to Athan with a smile, but that was just external talk because while she was speaking that, she also telepathically said to Athan using her soul sense, 'Athan, I would like to talk to you regarding Linci.'

Athan was a bit surprised but went along with her before asking, 'what is it?'

'You and your friends are her family now. She is very attached to you and told me that she and I would stay with you once you all come to the upper-chaosverse. I also agreed with her because I couldn't say no,' Elena said.

'Well, of course. Nobody in her position would want to stay in this house,' Athan said as he nodded internally.

'Right. But, Gaarshil very much regrets his actions now, and even though I am still angry with him, I want him to repent and make up to Linci. He also wants to do that, and for that, I hope you can convince Linci to stay here. Give us enough time until you all come to upper-chaosverse. Until then, I want to try making my family whole if possible,' Elena said in an almost pleading tone. She knew that only Athan could convince Linci.

Elena loved her daughter, and even though she was angry with her husband, she...also loved him. Gaarshil and Elena loved each other strongly, and that strong of Gaarshil towards Elena was also the reason for his past mistakes.

So Elena wanted Linci to understand what a father figure is and also wanted Gaarshil to become and act like a parent towards his daughter, which he also wanted.