The Tale of the Void Emperor

Athan raised his eyebrows as he looked at the palace ceiling before asking, "can't I just forcefully go out of this palace by destroying its ceiling? It would be hard to go out by breaking walls since it's fifty square kilometers big, but it wouldn't be that tall, right?"

"Try it," Nina said with a smile, "You need to be at the very peak of Anarchy plane if you want to destroy the structure of this palace, and from what I see, you are nowhere close to that."

"How many Anarchy symbols can a peak Anarchy realm powerhouse invoke at highest power?" Athan asked.

"Fifty thousand," Nina said with a smile, "however, that's a maximum number of Anarchy symbols that an Anarchy Lorc can invoke. Only a supreme genius with a very powerful profound technique can do that. Otherwise, most peak Anarchy lords can invoke around forty thousand Anarchy symbols."

"Huh? So how many symbols of power do I need to destroy that ceiling and go out?" Athan asked with doubt, "fifty thousand or forty thousand."

"Forty-five thousand, to be precise," Nina said with a smile before she remembered something and spoke, "oh yeah, you must know that if you manage to invoke fifty thousand and one Anarchy symbol, then you can get a supreme blessing that can instantly help you resonate and awaken a Supremacy-rank Profound Talent. After that, you can upgrade your existing Anarchy-rank talent into Supremacy-rank as usual by training and comprehension."

"I see," Athan nodded before he internally thought, 'however, my situation is different since the entirety of my existence only identifies Abyssal Void of Fabrication, so there's no separate space for another power in my soul. In the first place, I don't need such a thing since whatever power I comprehend; I can easily produce it through voidpulse.'

Athan had done that with Primo's space matrix powers. He had understood a bit of Space Matrix power from his void cloak, which he had designed with his understanding of space matrix and AVOF when he was inside the cocoon. Afterward, he imbued this power in his wings and void frame's structure as well.

"Anyway, since I can use 20 ABC crystals' worth of energy in one attack, then let me see if I can break this ceiling," Athan said as he consumed 20 Abyssal Blood Crystals as their potent energy started coursing through his body.

"Well, you should hurry because a 5th person just entered the first floor, and so, the Lord of this Labyrinth will be awakened in 5 minutes."

The Anarchy symbols around Athan invoked crazily as they rapidly increased in number.

His Zontheos Prime was already activated, and he spent the entirety of 20 ABC worth of energy on the <Corporeal Execution> technique as he formed a palm and pushed it towards the ceiling.

The number of Anarchy symbols drastically increased as they directly jumped from 28,956 to 37,600 Anarchy symbols.

A giant fifty-meter palm projection directly hit the ceiling and cleanly created a shaped hole that looked like his palm.

His palm continued as it destroyed seven hundred meters of the thick ceiling before arriving outside in the sky and dissipating.

"Damn," Nina was dumbfounded, "you only invoked 37,600 symbols but still managed to create the path. Just what kind of power did you resonate with and got such a powerful Profound Talent?"

Athan smiled but didn't say anything as he spoke, "let's go out. No more time-wasting."

"Roger, Master!"

Primo, Taezin, and Pixilote followed Athan as they flew high and entered the palm-shaped hole.

The palm-shaped hole became a bit smaller near the end since Corporeal Execution's energy was consumed as well when it was destroying the ceiling.

As they traveled in this seven hundred meters palm-shaped hole that led out of the palace, the palm-shaped hole's size decreased from 50 meters wide to 40, 30, 20, 10, 5, finally, 2 meters large.

However, that 2 meters gap hole was enough for everyone to pass through.

After flying out of the palace, they were really startled to see this grand fifty-kilometer big palace.

But Athan didn't want to waste time as he consumed 10 ABC and activated Extremity Drifter. He then poured the entirety of 9 ABC worth of energy into his wings and powered them up to the maximum along with its already upgraded form when he activated Extremity Drifter.

"Come inside, Primo, Taezin, and Pixilote," Athan said, "you won't be able to catch up to my speed with your current suppressed strength."

"Ok, Master," Primo and others nodded as they entered Athan's void region.

Afterward, Athan looked at Nina and asked with a faint smile, "Which direction?"

Nina pointed her finger in a direction and opened her mouth to speak, but before she could utter a word, Athan zoomed away.

*Swooooooooooosh...*

He broke his previous maximum flying speed as he reached 5780 meters per second speed.

After fifty seconds, he saw sensed danger in the front where he saw a large lake and paused.

Nine caught up to him and stopped beside him as she said with a smile, "that lake is dangerous. Once you enter its border, you will be constantly attacked, but you will have to pass this lake if you want to reach the ascension platform."

"This is really going to burn a lot of my Abyssal Blood Crystals," Athan muttered with a wry smile as he consumed 16 Abyssal Blood Crystals and used all of their energy into forming his barrier technique, the <Void Sanctuary> around him.

Afterward, he zoomed towards the lake.

*Zoooooooooooooooom..*

He entered the lake's area in a second, and five water beams shot toward him at five times the greater speed than his current flying speed. They squarely hit his Void Sanctuary.

But Athan's Void Sanctuary successfully defended as he continued with his speed.

The lake was fifty kilometers long, so it would take him at least 8 seconds to pass it.

However, Athan was attacked each second by Beams, Tidal waves, Cresent slashes, Blasing orbs, etc. from the lake.

However, Athan continued consuming his Abyssal Crystals each second to maintain his Void Sanctuary barrier.

He kept the output of ABC energy at 15 as he consumed a lot of Abyssal Blood Crystals every second for 8 seconds to pass the lake area without any trouble.

"Damn, each of those attacks was scaled at 20,000 or more Anarchy symbols," Athan cursed under his breath with a grimace, "I had to consume a total of 64 Abyssal Crystals just to pass this."

Shaking his head, he looked at Nina and asked, "you said there's one more thing I need to pass before reaching the Ascension platform, right?"

"Yep, Forest of Darkness," Nina said with a smile, "unfortunately, you won't be able to fly in that area, and there's no other way except to pass that forest by BEING inside it because the Ascension platform is at the end of that forest and the jungle surrounds it."

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is that the ascension platform is at the very end of this floor. There's nothing except for a wall behind that platform, and its left and right sides are thick with jungle. There's only one side you can enter it, and it's this," Nina said as she pointed her finger in a direction, "go straight, cut through the jungle and enter the Ascension platform."

"There is no need for a test because reaching the Ascension platform of the 1st floor itself is a test."