The Tale of the Void Emperor

After ten days, Inside Athan's void region...

A light green round core was faintly shining with a metal grey hue.

It was the essence core of Aegis Starwood order ken.

He had comprehended the initial stage of the Aegis Starwood method and finally formed its essence core.

' Hmm...I still have eighty-eight percent of meta-aerodite power left. Let's see how much that can help me progress. '

He infused the meta-aerodite power from his order base to this essence core of Aegis Starwood order ken as it rapidly started to fill up towards saturation point.

While this was happening, Athan looked at the four-leaf clover inside his order base as its first leaf started to turn vivid rapidly.

After five minutes, His core of Aegis Starwood order ken saturated, and the first leaf of the clover fulled turned vivid.

Right after these changes, He felt that the producing speed of his order force increased from the faint four-leaf clover after its first leaf turned vivid. His order force capacity also increased due to reaching the Early-stage of Tier-2 order base.

' The whole seven stages of Tier-1 order base took eighteen percent of the meta-aerodite power while just the early stage of Tier-2 order took ten percent. It looks like It will be difficult to reach Peak-stage of the Tier-2 order base with the remaining meta-aerodite power. '

He then fell into thought to decide how to use the remaining meta-aerodite power.

After thinking for a few moments, He decided to pour everything into his essence core of Aegis Starwood.

Opening the scroll, He started to comprehend and grasp the order of the next stage of Aegis Starwood without consolidating his order base.

He decided to do the first consolidation after reaching the Middle-stage of the Tier-2 order base.

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Twenty days readily passed before he finally grasped the second stage order of Aegis Starwood.

This marked his three months stay in this place. And five months until the Penta regional tournament starts.

' Time to saturate the essence core...' Thinking of this, Athan saturated the essence core with meta-aerodite power.

But, this time, it consumed twenty percent of power to saturate the essence core and to turn the second leaf of four-leaf clover vivid.

He then started to consume order force because his order base had become unstable due to two rapid breakthroughs without consolidation.

A slight crack also appeared on the round transparent orb that was his order base.

Looking at it, Athan frowned, ' It seems like consolidation is a must process, or I will risk losing every progress I made until now and will have to start over from Tier-1 order base. '

That was unacceptable to him. He hurriedly started to consume his order force to consolidate the order base.

To consolidate his order base, He will have to consume his order force to patch up the cracks, make his order base robust, and use order techniques.

In short, He will have to consume the order force mainly, and using order techniques was the best way to do it.

Once he consumes all of his order force, He will have to stabilize the new order force produced by the four-leaf clover properly so that it can be properly stacked in his order base, unlike the unstable order force production that appeared after his breakthroughs and resulted in the cracks in his order base.

He will have to do this process one time to make his order base robust. This was called the consolidation process.

It took him two days to fully consolidate his order base before continuing with his training to comprehend and grasp the next stage order of the Aegis Starwood essence method.

Days passed as Athan entirely focused on his training without taking any breaks.

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In the Central underground palace...

" So? When do we depart? It will at least take fifteen days to reach there, even with your speedy transportation artifact. "

Ayurin and Valeria were dining on delicious-looking dishes in the hall while sitting on a small dining table near the pond.

Hearing the question of Ayurin, Valeria first took a bite from the barbecue stick and then answered, " There are still five months before the tournament starts. But just in case, We will depart after four months. "

Ayurin nodded, " The contestant doesn't know that tournament's date is very soon this time, right? "

" Nope. But they will know about it today. I have sent my staff to convey that message to them. Hopefully, This will pressure them, and they will put in more effort in the next five months to train. "

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While Athan was comprehending and grasping the third stage order of Aegis Starwood, The token that was hanging at his waist vibrated and disrupted his training.

Frowning a bit, He grabbed the token and heard injected some chaos force into it before he heard Mr.Devon's voice through it.

" Hello, Athan. This message is to inform you that the tournament's date is out and it will start after exactly four months and twenty days. This is very strange, but the tournament will begin early, and we will depart after three months and twenty days. Until then, I hope you do your best in training and become as strong as you can because this time's tournament will be very gruesome and dangerous but will also have extra rewards and a big opportunity. "

Shaking his head, He continued to focus on comprehending grasping the order once again.

He didn't need such a message because his goal was one and only: to become strong as fast as possible.

As for the tournament being gruesome and dangerous? That brought no worry or concern to him whatsoever.

If the rewards were higher along with a big opportunity, He would give all of his to get them because those things can make him stronger faster, Just like how the champion rewards of this competition increased his progress speed.

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To comprehend the third stage order of Aegis Starwood, Athan actually took two days less and finished grasping its order in just eighteen days.

Wasting no time, He consumed more of his meta-aerodite power to saturate his essence core of Aegis Starwood order ken and turned the third leaf of four-leaf clover vivid.

With the sudden additional chaos force producing in mass inside his order base due to this, His order base destabilized. He had also decided to consolidate his order base at each stage this time as he didn't want to take unnecessary risks.

But when he noticed the remaining meta-aerodite power, He shook his head with a wry expression, ' It looks like I won't be able to reach Peak-stage in Tier-2 order base. '

This time, He consumed thirty percent of total meta-aerodite power, and only twenty-two percent of meta-aerodite power remained, which was not at all enough to get him to the Peak-stage of the Tier-2 order base.

He first consolidated his order base, which took him only one day this time.

Previously He didn't consolidate his base even after two breakthroughs and that led to those cracks.

After consolidating his order base, He decided to stop his training in the Aegis Starwood essence method and took how the body order method, The Harmony of Giant.

' Hmmm...It would be best if I pour the remaining meta-aerodite power to progress in this body method. '

After thinking of this, He unfurled the scroll and started to comprehend and grasp its order.