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Sovereign of The Abyss Chapter 22
Miko jumped into the arena, dust rising around his feet as he landed. The crowd's roar faded to a low hum of anticipation. "You sure about this?" Akiya called from above. "Not really," Miko grinned. "That's what makes it fun." The Cat stood motionless, their white mask catching the dim light. Up close, Miko could see frost patterns on their clothes, remnants of previous fights. "The boy who walked out of the Abyss," the Cat's voice carried across the arena. "Show me if you deserved to survive." The fight started without warning. The Cat moved first, the air around them crystallizing. Shards of ice shot toward Miko like glass daggers. Miko dodged, but the Cat was already moving, the ground freezing beneath their feet as they flanked him with surprising speed. Another burst of ice forced him back. "Cold welcome," Miko said, studying his opponent's movements. "Let's see how your fire holds against true ice." He launched his own attack, flames mixing with ash in a gray-orange burs
Sovereign of The Abyss Chapter 23
Just as Miko prepared to unleash his fiery palm technique, the Cat did something unexpected. They reached behind their back and drew a sword. Ice immediately coated the blade, spreading from hilt to tip."What's wrong?" the Cat asked, noticing Miko's hesitation. "Thought we were done?""A sword?" someone in the crowd shouted. "The Cat's never used a sword before!"The blade moved in a silver arc. Miko barely managed to accelerate away from the first strike, feeling ice crystals graze his cheek as he dodged."That's not fair!" Akiya yelled from above."There are no rules here," Jin reminded her, watching intently. "That's the point."The Cat's swordplay was different from their magic - faster, more precise. Each swing left trails of ice in the air, forcing Miko to use his acceleration technique constantly."Running low on mana?" the Cat asked, pressing forward. "Your speed's dropping."They were right. Miko's legs felt heavy, the constant acceleration taking its toll. But he couldn't s
Sovereign of The Abyss Chapter 24
The staff room was unusually quiet. Morning light filtered through tall windows, illuminating the faces of assembled professors as they waited for the Principal to speak. His expression was grave as he studied the papers before him."Our barrier was breached," he said finally. "The Academy's protection array - a shield that would take two sword grandmasters and two 8th circle mages working together to crack - was bypassed by nobodies in minutes."Professor Vale shifted uncomfortably. "Surely you're not suggesting—""A traitor?" The Principal's eyes swept the room. "That's exactly what I'm suggesting."Whispers broke out among the staff. Mrs. Rose remained silent, watching the exchange with sharp eyes."And now," the Principal continued, "we face another challenge. It's time for the capital games. The Anti-Abyssal Unit trials approach.""Ah yes," Professor Vale straightened. "About that. I move that we send Clan Zenith to represent the academy. They have the experience, the lineage—""
Sovereign of The Abyss Chapter 25
The training dummy burst into flames as Akiya's fireball connected, leaving scorch marks across its surface."Ha! Third one today!" She pumped her fist in the air. "Did you see that, Miko? Perfect form!""Could you celebrate a little quieter?" Liam grumbled from his corner, arm draped over his eyes. "Some of us are trying to rest.""You mean slack off," Anna said softly, not breaking her concentration on her barrier practice. A faint blue shield shimmered in front of her."I prefer to call it energy conservation," Liam yawned. "Very important for mages.""Is that what they're calling laziness these days?" Miko asked, working on his own forms.A knock at the door made them all turn. Mrs. Rose stood in the doorway, watching them with an amused expression. She looked different today - more serious than her usual warm demeanor."Good morning, Clan Dusk." Her eyes swept over the room, taking in the burning dummy, Liam's relaxed pose, and Anna's barrier work. "Mind if I borrow your leader f
Sovereign of The Abyss Chapter 26
The magic tower stood apart from the rest of the academy, its pale stone walls stretching toward the clouds. Miko stared up at it, wondering how many students actually bothered to come here.The entrance hall was empty except for a bored-looking clerk who barely glanced up from his book."Science section's on the third floor," he mumbled. "Try not to break anything."The stairs wound upward in a tight spiral. Each floor he passed had different magical formulas floating in the air, glowing softly in the dim light. The third floor was darker than the others, lit only by the glow of magical diagrams."Hello?" Miko called out.No answer. Just rows of dusty books and floating diagrams. He was about to leave when he heard scratching sounds coming from behind a bookshelf.A girl sat cross-legged on the floor, surrounded by open books and floating circles of light. Her dark hair was tied back messily, and she was muttering to herself as she scribbled in a notebook.mn"Wrong... that's wrong to
Sovereign of The Abyss Chapter 27
"Focus on the flow," Sara said, sitting cross-legged across from Miko in the tower's study room. "Magic isn't just power - it's a current running through you."Three days had passed since their first meeting. Books and diagrams surrounded them, some floating, others scattered across the floor."I am focusing," Miko muttered, eyes closed."No, you're trying to force it. Magic circles aren't formed through strength." She adjusted her position. "Think of it like your ash element. How does that feel when it flows?"Miko concentrated on the familiar sensation. "Like smoke curling through air.""Good. Now imagine that flow taking shape. Not just dispersing, but following a pattern."He'd been skeptical at first about meditation, but Sara's excitement about every tiny discovery made it hard not to get invested. Yesterday, she'd practically jumped with joy when he described how his magic felt different from standard fire users."Your acceleration technique," she said suddenly. "Show me again
Sovereign of The Abyss Chapter 28
Sara paced the tower room, her notes scattered across three different tables. Morning light streamed through the high windows, catching dust motes in its beams."Try it again," she said, pencil poised over her notebook. "But this time, focus on the outer edge of the circle."Miko closed his eyes, letting his magic flow naturally. The circle appeared around him, stronger than yesterday, its edges rippling like smoke in wind."Now the acceleration technique."He vanished. The books on the nearest table fluttered as he reappeared across the room."Sweet mother of magic..." Sara's pencil dropped. "That was... you just... the speed...""Was it faster?""Faster? Miko, you moved so fast I couldn't track the displacement pattern!" She scrambled to pick up her pencil. "Your circle isn't just channeling the magic more efficiently - it's actively adapting to each technique!"She rushed to one of her diagrams. "Normal circles are static. They help channel magic but the pattern stays fixed. Yours.
Sovereign of The Abyss Chapter 29
"You've been disappearing a lot lately," Akiya said, lounging on the dorm's common room couch. "Secret training?""Something like that." Miko stretched, his muscles sore from hours of practice with Sara."Well, I'm bored." She sat up suddenly. "Let's go get some of those spiced dumplings from the lower ring.""The ones with enhancement magic mixed in the sauce?" Liam perked up from his usual corner."Those are illegal," Anna reminded them softly."Which is why they're so good." Akiya grinned. "Come on, Miko. You've been cooped up in that tower for days."Miko considered it. He had been pushing himself hard with the circle training..."Fine. But just for food."The lower ring was different at night. Magic lights flickered irregularly, creating shadows that seemed to move on their own. Street vendors called out their wares in hushed voices, offering everything from enhanced snacks to questionable potions."There!" Akiya pointed to a small cart wreathed in fragrant steam. "Old Man Chen's
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The silence after the ash shockwave was absolute. Trees that had groaned under the weight of mist now stood eerily still, leaves unmoving, the air cold with a kind of supernatural stillness.Akiya was the first to move."That light—" she began, already pushing through the trees. "That was Miko. I know it.""How do you know?" Liam asked, falling in beside her."Because I felt it," she said, eyes locked forward. "That pulse. It was him. I don’t know how, but it was him."The others hesitated only a second before following.Branches snapped beneath their boots. The forest was slowly returning to normal, but the air still held a heaviness—as if mourning something invisible that had passed. The path twisted, trees now parted in ways they hadn’t been before, and the ground showed signs of disruption: scorched patches, cracked stone, and a strange black residue that clung to roots and bark like soot.Then they saw him.Miko stood at the edge of a collapsed ridge, where the forest met a steep
Chapter 118
As he prepared to find a way back to the surface, Miko couldn't help wondering about the facility's original purpose. Who had built it? Why create weapons of such destructive potential? And most puzzling of all, why design them specifically for users with his exact elemental affinity—a combination so rare it had apparently vanished from the world until his own emergence?The questions would have to wait. His priority now was finding a way out of this underground vault and reuniting with his team. With the fog entity still active above, they were likely facing their own challenges, possibly in danger.Miko located what appeared to be a maintenance shaft in one corner of the facility, its ladder leading upward toward the surface. Before climbing, he took one last look at the activated lantern, its potential both fascinating and terrifying."I'll be back for you," he promised the device. "Once this mission is over."**While Miko explored the ancient facility below, the other groups cont
Chapter 117
Miko returned to the central chamber of the underground facility, still puzzling over the crumbling lanterns. The place was vast, stretching further than he'd managed to explore so far, but one section had caught his attention—a room that appeared to be an office or study, its walls lined with what might generously be called books, though they were unlike any he'd seen before."If I'm going to figure this place out, might as well start with the records," he decided, entering the study.The "books" were actually thin metal plates bound together with some kind of flexible alloy, their surfaces covered with the same symbols he'd seen throughout the facility. Most were incomprehensible to him, but some contained diagrams he could interpret—schematics for equipment, illustrations of elemental energy flows, and most interestingly, drawings of the lanterns he'd found."So these were important," he murmured, carefully turning the delicate metal pages of one volume.The diagrams showed the lan
Chapter 116
Miko didn't have time to scream as the ground collapsed beneath him. One moment he was standing in the fog-shrouded forest, the next he was plummeting through darkness, his stomach lurching from the sudden drop. His Ash element swirled around him instinctively, trying to slow his descent but finding nothing solid to grip.The fall lasted only seconds before he crashed through some kind of membrane—a sensation like breaking through thin ice—and then hit solid ground with bone-jarring force. He rolled automatically, distributing the impact as he'd been taught in Academy training."Ugh," he groaned, lying on his back and taking inventory of his body. Nothing seemed broken, though he'd definitely have bruises tomorrow. If there was a tomorrow.After a moment to catch his breath, Miko sat up and summoned his Ash element to provide illumination. The shadows gathered around his hand, creating a dim glow that pushed back the absolute darkness."What the hell...?" he muttered, looking around.
Chapter 115
"There it is again," Akiya whispered, her flame briefly flaring brighter. "Did you see it?"Liam and Lyra followed her gaze into the swirling fog, where a faint ripple of movement had disturbed the otherwise uniform mist."Probably just air currents," Lyra replied, though her tone lacked conviction. She'd been saying similar things for the past hour as they wandered through the endless fog, but even her professional skepticism was wearing thin."No," Akiya insisted, taking a step closer to the disturbance. "It's reacting to us. Watch."She extended her free hand toward the fog, not quite touching it. The mist immediately withdrew from her approach, creating a small pocket of clear air around her fingers."See? It's avoiding direct contact. That's not how normal fog behaves."Liam moved beside her, cautiously extending his own hand. The fog retreated from him as well, though less dramatically."She's right," he said, looking back at Lyra. "This isn't just some corruption manifestation.
Chapter 114
Shadows swirled around Miko's fingers as he navigated through the impenetrable fog. Without his Ash element, he would have been completely blind in the shifting mists that erased all sense of direction."Come on," he muttered to himself, extending his awareness through the shadows. "Give me something to work with."His Ash element responded, spreading outward like tendrils searching for solid references in the chaotic environment.Most of what the shadows found was just more fog, but occasionally they detected something solid—massive tree trunks, root structures, the occasional corrupted vegetation. Not enough to create a map, but sufficient to avoid walking into obstacles."Akiya!" he called out, more from habit than expectation. "Liam! Anna!"His voice seemed to travel only a few meters before the fog swallowed it completely. The neural link remained silent except for occasional bursts of static that made him wince.Miko closed his eyes, focusing on his connection to the void. If no
Chapter 113
"What is that?" Liam asked, pointing at the strange haze that had appeared on the horizon as they continued their journey through the massive forest.The fog wasn't like anything they'd seen before in the Abyss. it shimmered with an oily iridescence, neither solid nor gas, spreading across their path like a living curtain.Elena stepped forward, her expression grave as she studied the phenomenon. "It's an illusion barrier," she said. "A defense mechanism that typically appears near the core. The Church has documented these, but few who enter ever return to report what they experienced.""What exactly does it do?" Anna asked, moving closer to examine the strange fog from a safer distance."It distorts reality," Elena explained. "Makes you see things that aren't there, hide things that are. Some say it can even separate groups by making each person experience a different version of reality."Gregor snorted dismissively. "Church superstition. It's just another corruption manifestation."
Chapter 112
Twilight cast long shadows through the massive forest as Miko and Akiya sat on the edge of a giant leaf, dangling their legs over a drop that would have been fatal back in the normal world. The rest of their small group, Liam and the two remaining junior cadets—had fallen into an exhausted sleep after their narrow escape from the bee hive.Gregor's team hadn't yet caught up, leaving the younger members to recover while watching for signs of more corrupted creatures."You think they'll find a safer path forward?" Akiya asked, gesturing vaguely toward the direction Gregor and his team had disappeared an hour earlier."I think 'safer' is relative in the Abyss," Miko replied, rotating his shoulder to work out the stiffness from their earlier flight. "But maybe one with fewer giant insects."Akiya snorted, then grew quiet, her gaze fixed on the bizarre landscape stretching below them. Massive fruits glowed with bioluminescence as darkness gathered, creating constellation-like patterns thro
Chapter 111
They sprinted upward, Akiya taking point with her fire element creating a protective barrier ahead of them. As they neared the battle, Miko could see Gregor unleashing torrents of flame against the swarming insects while Damien created earth barriers to protect the less combat-oriented team members. Anna crouched behind one such barrier, her healing element active around Darin, who appeared to have taken a stinger hit to his shoulder."Incoming friendlies!" Miko shouted to prevent friendly fire as they approached. "Eastern ascent!"Gregor spared them a split-second glance before returning his attention to the swarm. "About time! We need to clear an exit path!"The combined teams formed a defensive circle, elements blazing as they fought to create an opening through the angry swarm. Liam's wind cut swathes through the air, disrupting the bees' flight patterns enough to make them vulnerable to Gregor and Akiya's coordinated fire attacks."The opening!" Elena pointed to a gap in the hive
