The Tale of the Void Emperor

"Well, let's grab Shubargu and take treasures from him before this whole dimension completely collapse," Athan said as he hurridly detected Shubargu's location through the voidlings around him and conjured his cloud of chaos before speeding away in a direction.

...

Shubargu was shocked at the destruction around him as well, 'what the hell is going on? Why is everything collapsing?'

*swooooooooooosh....*

"Yo, how many treasures have you collected?"

Shubargu saw Athan standing on a golden-red cloud and smiled weakly, "this dimension is collapsing, and you are worried about the resources? How do we get out?"

"Don't overreact and hand over the resources," Athan said carefreely as if the destruction in the surroundings didn't concern him.

Shubargu sighed and took out a storage ring before giving it to Athan.

Athan emptied the storage ring in his void region before returning it to Shubargu, "hop on the cloud, we are getting out. The exit is far, but my cloud is very fast."

"You'll take me there?" Shubargu was stunned but became happy as well. He hurriedly jumped on the large cloud.

*swooooooooooooooosh...*

Athan sped up towards the exit, and on the way, a loud voice reverberated everywhere, telling everyone to leave.

However, there was no need for that voice's reminder because everyone was rushing towards the exit after seeing the destruction around them.

Shubargu was praying internally not to get discovered that Athan had more than 1000 resource treasures. However, he sighed a huge relief when no alarms rang after passing through the portal gate.

After coming out, Athan looked at Shubargu and gave him ten voidling-zoids, "this is your reward for the work you've done. You already know how to use them."

After saying that, Athan let Shubargu leave while he contacted Tiana using the contact card.

However, a frown surfaced on his face when Tiana didn't pick up the call.

'What's going on?' amidst doubt and confusion, Athan contacted Avelia but failed. He then contacted everyone one by one, but none of them picked up the call.

After failing all contacts, Athan's face became extremely dark, 'something is wrong...'

"Master, they...I can't find them," Primo said with a sad expression. But suddenly, his expression lit up, "wait, since master's got qualitative transformation after getting 10% understanding of AVOF, your void region can hold 20% of my strength."

"20%?" Athan was shocked, "that's a big difference. Hmmm, but it's understandable. My void region finally transformed into a more solid dimension with a proper structure. Now it's a light grey space, but previously it was black."

"Yep, so I can bring 20% of my strength and still stay inside your void region without damaging it," Primo repeatedly nodded with excitement, "and my lapis lagoon is a mystical power of connection, cause, effect, and space matrix so I should be able to find out everyone with 20% of my power."

"Alright, how long will it take you to bring more of your power in your current avatar?" Athan asked.

Primo didn't answer but closed its eyes for two seconds and opened it again before smiling with its cat face, "done."

Athan also trembled a bit because he felt a slight pressure in his void region right when Primo opened his eyes. However, this pressure disappeared almost instantly, 'It should be because of the brief connection that Primo might have made with his original self.'

"Good, now start searching," Athan said to Primo with a solemn expression. If anyone dared to harm them, then even he didn't know what he would do.

"Stop, stop, stop! Geez, chill, relax, calm down. Your companions are safe and sound. Yo cat, no need to blow this up."

Dreevindo suddenly arrived and said while wiping the sweat from his face.

"Where are they?" Athan asked with a dark expression on his face.

"Eh, relax. They are currently in a test designed by another Orchos Celestial. You don't have to worry since we are not allowe- Ahem. Anyway, you don't need to worry. Even though they are taken for a test, they will come out after a month, with all of them probably reaching chaos king-realm.

"Chaos king realm in a month?" Athan was startled.

"Why are you shocked? You can do that as well. It's not that hard since you bunch have high comprehension. You just need to enhance your evagon-domains to the max, which is just a matter of having resources.

"Once your evagon-domain hits the limit of enhancement, you need to comprehend the order marks that will allow you to combine all mini-chaotic worlds into one, along with your evagon-domains, and turn them into a chaotic kingdom, thus entering chaos king realm. After that, your real journey will start.

"You already have a bunch of resources, while your companions won't have a shortage of any resources in that test. The difficult part is comprehending and grasping the chaos marks that will allow you to build the chaos kingdom. And since you bunch got high comprehension ability, it's easy-peasy lemon squeezy for you all," Dreevindo spoke with a grin.

"I want to see them first," Athan spoke with a frown.

"Fine, you can see them. Here you go," said Dreevindo as he waved him and showed a hologram live feed of Tiana, Avelia, Sen, Shiromi, Drizzly, and all others, including Dean Lenix and Head Zangrel. All of them were on different small islands and sat in meditation.

"They are currently inside an illusion created by Yok, who is an Orchos Celestial like me. This is the first part of the test. Anyway, the entire test will finish after a month, so no worries," Dreevindo said with a smile as he waved his hand to make the mystical hologram disappear.

After Dreevindo finished speaking, Primo disappeared from his sight, "where did the cat go?"

However, after two seconds, he saw the cat appearing on Athan's shoulder and started licking its claws, "Nyaa! No worries, master. Nothing will happen to them as long as this Primo is alive."

'What did this cat do? I couldn't sense anything. Geez, I knew something was wrong when I arrived here. This cat is clearly way stronger than twenty days ago. This kid...He seems to have changed as well after coming out of that strange cocoon. Just who....or what is he?'