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Sovereign of The Abyss Chapter 34
Miko approached the Blanché guild's hideout. Anna's research had pinpointed this warehouse in the industrial district.The first guard didn't even see him coming. One touch fireball technique – and they dropped silently."Too easy," Miko muttered.Inside, more guards patrolled dimly lit corridors. His circles adapted, one maintaining stealth while the other powered his techniques. Each encounter ended the same way – quick, quiet, efficient."Someone's here!"Finally, an alarm. About time."It's the ash user!""Call reinforcements!""Where's the boss?"Miko moved through them like smoke. These weren't fighters – just thugs with basic magic. His new double circles made them look like they were moving in slow motion."This can't be right," he said, dropping another guard. "Where's the real resistance?""Gone."The voice came from a fallen guard, barely conscious. Blood trickled from his mouth."What do you mean, gone?""Main branch... left for capital..." The guard coughed. "We're just..
Sovereign of The Abyss Chapter 35
"This is definitely illegal," Anna said, watching Akiya bite into a glowing blue dumpling that made her float six inches off the ground."Only in Lunaris," Akiya grinned, drifting higher. "Capital rules are different. Right, vendor guy?"The old man running the food stall nodded. "Enhancement magic is legal here, long as you got a permit. Try the red ones – they make your voice echo!"They'd been exploring for hours. The capital was a maze of districts, each one specializing in different magical arts. Street performers used combat magic openly, knights patrolled on vehicles that seemed to defy physics, and every shop window displayed items that would have been instantly confiscated back home."Look at this," Liam called from a nearby store. "Training weapons with built-in mana circulation. No wonder capital students are stronger.""Everything's stronger here," Miko noted, watching a knight casually use fourth-circle magic to help a lost child find their parents."Speaking of stronger.
Sovereign of The Abyss Chapter 36
"How about a quick spar?" Drake's enhancement ring glowed softly. "Educational purposes only, of course.""We should really just—" Anna started."Sure," Miko cut her off. "Educational."Drake moved into the nearest practice area, his movements deliberately casual. "Don't worry, I'll keep it simple. Wouldn't want to overwhelm a second circle—"Fire erupted. Not wild or uncontrolled, but precise. Perfect. Flames curved through the air in patterns that shouldn't have been possible at second circle.Drake's enhancement ring flared as he dodged. "What the—"More fire came. Each burst was hotter than the last. No wasted energy, no flashy displays. Just pure, controlled power that made Drake's enhanced speed look sluggish."Impossible," someone whispered. "Those patterns...""That's not second circle technique," Drake's eyes narrowed. "Those movements...""Oh?" Miko's voice was quiet. "Thought you were teaching me about capital standards?"Drake's casual demeanor cracked. Metal rippled brief
Sovereign of The Abyss Chapter 37
The next day was the D-day, the massive stadium trembled with anticipation. Twelve teams stood in perfect formation, their uniforms a vibrant display of colors representing magical academies from across the nation. Miko, positioned at the tenth spot, felt the weight of expectation pressing against his shoulders like an invisible cloak."Team Ten, forward!" The official's clipboard rattled with each movement.Drake from Team Three leaned towards Rin, his voice a low, mocking whisper. "Look at that kid. He looks like he wandered into the wRing competition."Rin's muscular frame shook with quiet laughter. "Definitely seems out of his league."Miko remained perfectly still, his eyes locked on the intricate track ahead. Mechanical dummies shifted into position, creating a labyrinth of potential magical destruction. This wasn't just a race—it was a crucible that would forge legends or break spirits.The head referee's magical amplification system crackled to life. "Contestants! You will na
Sovereign of The Abyss Chapter 38
The celebration for Team Ten was thunderous. Teammates rushed toward Miko, their voices a cacophony of excitement and disbelief."That was incredible!" Elena, the emerald-haired teammate, grabbed Miko's shoulders. "How did you even do that body swap?"Miko simply smiled, a cryptic expression that revealed nothing and everything simultaneously.In a quiet corner of the arena, Aria stood apart from the jubilation. Her ice-blue eyes tracked Miko's every movement."Who is he?" she muttered to her nearby teammate.The teammate, a lanky girl with braided hair, shrugged. "I'll check the team registrations. Something about him doesn't add up."The judges' booth was a different scene entirely. Hushed conversations and pointed fingers suggested Miko had become more than just a competitor—he was now a subject of intense scrutiny."A second-circle mage shouldn't be able to perform at this level," a senior judge commented, reviewing magical sensor data.Another leaned in, adjusting her glasses. "F
Sovereign of The Abyss Chapter 39
A small rest period descended upon the National Games arena. The magical tension that had defined Miko's earlier performance still lingered, like a persistent echo of raw potential.Aria's teammate approached her, a digital tablet clutched in her hand. The screen flickered with various documents and data streams. Around them, the massive arena hummed with speculation and barely contained excitement."I've found something," she said, her voice low and urgent, cutting through the background noise of competing teams and magical analysts.Aria turned, her ice-blue eyes sharp with anticipation. "About Miko?"The teammate nodded, her fingers swiping through digital files with practiced precision. "His name is Miko. He's from a city called Lunaris." She paused, zooming in on a nearly blank digital profile. "That's all that shows up in the team information.""That's it?" Aria's frustration erupted, her voice a controlled whisper that nonetheless carried an edge of ice-cold anger. "Just a name
Sovereign of The Abyss Chapter 40
The forest fell silent. Miko and Aria faced each Miko's calm was absolute. Where others might have tensed, might have prepared for an immediate magical assault, he stood with an almost meditative stillness that defied everything Aria understood about magical combat. Her ice magic crackled around her, intricate crystal patterns forming and dissolving with each subtle movement of her fingers.The crowd watching through magical projections leaned forward. Competitors in other segments of the arena paused, their own challenges momentarily forgotten. Coaches exchanged rapid whispers. Magical analysts worked their interfaces with furious intensity.Miko's response was a controlled calm. "Circle rankings are just the beginning of understanding."Aria's frustration erupted like a breaking glacier. "Just the beginning?" Her ice magic intensified, the temperature around them plummeting so rapidly that holographic trees began to frost over, their digital edges becoming brittle and sharp. "I'm
Sovereign of The Abyss Chapter 41
Blood dripped from Miko's eyes and mouth as he collapsed to the forest floor. The void ash technique—a desperate move that had literally reduced Aria's fifth-circle ice magic to dust—had extracted a brutal toll on his body. Where her perfect ice formations had stood seconds before, only glittering particles remained, drifting through the air like diamond dust.The silence that followed was absolute."Double elements..." The whisper started somewhere in the judges' booth and spread like wildfire. "He has double elements."Professor Reika clutched the edge of the monitoring station, her knuckles white. "That's not just dual elemental control. That ash technique... it didn't just block her ice. It destroyed it. Molecularly.""Impossible," Professor Varn breathed, his analytical lenses recording data streams that defied categorization. "Ash is a derivative element. It can't possibly... no one has ever..."The magical sensors throughout the forest sparked and sputtered, overwhelmed by read
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"Miko," Akiya murmured, her fingers brushing the warm black dust where he had stood moments before. "Where did you go?"A shout broke the tense silence, making everyone turn. One of the junior cadets was running toward them from the treeline, panic etched across his face."Something's coming!" he yelled, stumbling as he reached the group. "Something big!"Gregor grabbed the cadet's shoulders, steadying him. "Catch your breath. What did you see?""A wraith," the cadet gasped, pointing back the way he'd come. "I was setting up perimeter markers and I saw it. Just standing there, watching me.""A wraith?" Gregor's expression hardened. "You're sure?""Positive," the cadet nodded frantically. "It... it smiled at me."Liam and Anna exchanged alarmed looks."Come to think of it," Liam said slowly, "we haven't seen any wraiths since we entered the Abyss. Not a single one.""How many?" Gregor demanded, turning back to the cadet. "How many did you see?""Just one," the cadet replied. "But it wa
Chapter 119
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
