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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
Sovereign of The Abyss Chapter 42
Liam ran back, “before I go, what path did I come from earlier?”Akiya stood without giving a reply.Liam shoved his hands in his pockets. “Doesn’t matter now. We have matches to win.”Akiya followed her gaze. Across the clearing, other competitors were whispering, their eyes flickering with something between fear and interest. They had all seen what happened. They had all seen Miko do the impossible.“Let them watch,” Akiya said, cracking her knuckles. “I dare them to come at us next.”Liam sighed. “You’re gonna get us killed.”A horn blasted through the arena.“Next round, prepare for battle.”A golden projection appeared above them, listing the matchups. Akiya scanned the names quickly.“Great,” she muttered. “They’re pitting us against the top teams now.”Liam smirked. “Guess they want to get rid of us while we’re still shaken.”“Then we don’t give them the satisfaction.”Akiya grinned, fire dancing at her fingertips. “Damn right.”The next battle was about to begin.Suddenly, a k
Sovereign of The Abyss Chapter 43
At the last second, he stepped aside, hands in his pockets, and let the spike stab into empty air.Damian scowled. He stomped again, sending another jagged rock toward him.Liam yawned, dodging just as easily.“Really?” he said, ducking under a third attack. “You’re making this too easy.”Damian snarled. He slammed his fist into the ground. The earth cracked open, and a massive wall of stone shot up, aiming to box Liam in.Liam’s smirk widened.There it is.The wind around him shifted.Then, in an instant—He was gone.Damian's eyes widened. "What the—"Liam reappeared above him.Before Damian could react, Liam brought his heel down—hard.The kick connected with Damian’s shoulder, sending him crashing into the dirt.Liam landed lightly, stuffing his hands back into his pockets. “Took you long enough to do something fun.”Damian growled as he pushed himself up, rubbing his shoulder. “You think you’re fast, huh?”Liam tilted his head. “I know I’m fast.”Damian exhaled sharply. "Alright
Sovereign of The Abyss Chapter 44
Aria Lin stood in the center of the battlefield, her fingers twitching with restrained power.The cold wind around her stirred, ice particles forming at her feet.Her opponent, Kael Dris, smirked from across the field. He was a brute, a brawler with Earth abilities—not the refined, tactical type like Miko.No.Miko was different.She clenched her jaw, the memory still burned into her mind.How had he done it?How had he countered her ice?No one had ever done that before.But Miko had.Kael charged.Aria’s eyes sharpened.She didn't move.He closed in fast, his fist coated in stone.He swung.Aria exhaled—And her body turned to mist.Kael's punch hit nothing.His eyes widened. "What the—?"Aria reappeared behind him.Her hand froze the air itself.Kael barely turned in time before a pillar of ice erupted, slamming into his side and sending him skidding across the battlefield.The crowd gasped.Aria didn’t stop.She flicked her wrist.The air froze solid, spikes of ice forming in an i
Sovereign of The Abyss Chapter 45
The room went silent.Everyone had given Miko some space to breathe and recover.Miko let out a slow breath, sinking deeper into the thin mattress. The quiet was nice, even if his body still ached from the fight. His limbs felt heavy, and for once, he actually considered listening to Anna’s advice and getting some rest.Just as his eyes started to close, the door creaked open.He sighed. "I thought you guys wanted to let me rest—" He turned his head, expecting to see Akiya or Liam smirking at him.It wasn’t them.Aria Lin stood at the doorway, arms crossed, her usual cold expression in place.Miko blinked, sitting up a little. "…You’re not one of my teammates."She took a step inside, closing the door behind her. "Obviously."Miko tilted his head. "So what, you here to finish the job?"Aria exhaled sharply, shaking her head. "I don’t know why I’m here.""That makes two of us," Miko muttered.Aria’s sharp eyes flickered over him, as if scanning his injuries. She crossed her arms tighte
Sovereign of The Abyss Chapter 46
The stadium buzzed with excitement, the ground trembling under the weight of thousands of stomping feet. Cheers erupted from every corner, voices merging into a deafening roar that filled the night sky. Golden confetti swirled in the air like falling embers, catching the glow of the stadium lights.Miko Asterion stood among the competitors on the field, his arms hanging loosely by his sides. His body ached from his last match, but he ignored it, his gaze locked on the massive screens above. His name had flashed there moments ago, alongside a strange title.Miko Asterion – The Ash-flaming Challenger.He wasn’t sure how he felt about it. “Man, they really didn’t know what to call you, huh?” Liam chuckled beside him, hands stuffed into his pockets. “Ash-Flaming. Sounds dramatic.”Akiya Ren scoffed. “They could’ve at least come up with something cooler. Like, I don’t know—Shadow Inferno or something.”Miko shot her a flat look. “That doesn’t even make sense.”“Neither does Ashborn,” Akiy
Sovereign of The Abyss Chapter 47
Anna moved swiftly between them, her light-infused hands skimming over the wounded as she muttered hurried healing spells. Blood dripped from a gash on her own arm, but she kept going, refusing to stop.“Where the hell is security?” Liam shouted, using gusts of wind to keep a group of wraiths at bay. “This is their job, isn’t it?”As if on cue, a thunderous crash echoed through the stadium. From above, white-cloaked figures descended in streaks of light, landing gracefully amid the chaos. Their silver armor gleamed under the stadium lights, and each bore the insignia of a golden cross on their chest.“The Church Knights,” Anna murmured, eyes widening.One of the knights, a man with short silver hair and piercing blue eyes, stepped forward, drawing a massive greatswordfrom his back. He raised it high, and pure white flames erupted from the blade’s edge.“In the name of the Sanctum, cleanse these wretched beings!” his voice rang through the battlefield like a divine decree.The knights
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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
