The Tale of the Void Emperor

Chapter 55: Hitting a Wall

After Athan comprehended the Earth Intent, The squad started to recover their energy, the rate of recovery was very fast in this virtual world and in just 2 hours he recovered quite a lot of his energies of different elements.

He found out from Laksel that He could see the stats of his energies if he touched [ Elements ] words in his profile window.

[ Elements: Fire, Lightning, Water, Wood, Earth, Air, Light, Dark, Space ]

Fire: 8/10

Lightning: 9/10

Water: 10/10

Wood: 10/10

Earth: 7/10

Air: 10/10

Light: 6/10

Dark: 6/10

Space:5/10

Total: 71/90 EP

" What about our real bodies? Can our energy recovery and energy consumption here reflect to our Real bodies in Virtual Tube? " Athan asked curiously, although he believed that it would not be possible, He still couldn't help but ask because of many magical things he had seen until now.

Risa shook her head hearing Athan's words, " Nope, This EP and CP are only applicable while we are in this virtual world, but intents plates, intent slates, pills, and equipment we buy from the point shop will be applied to our real body. For instance, If you buy a pill here and eat it then in the real-world, The staff on this spaceship will inject a serum with a similar property as the pill into your body through Virtual Tube which can affect your real body and virtual body both. "

Laksel nodded with a plain face and spoke while looking at Athan, "Similarly if you buy equipment in the virtual world then regardless if you pass or fail the examination, they will give you the equipment you bought here in the real world and as for intent plates and slates, well since you already comprehended an intent from intent Plate then you should know about it too. "

Athan nodded and spoke with a smile, " Yep. In reality, We comprehend intents with our consciousness and since our consciousnesses are in Virtual World then What we comprehend here is directly applied to our real body through consciousness as a bridge between our virtual body and real body. "

He then looked at Tiana and asked, " Did you eat the Mystic Mind Clearing Pill ?"

" Yes and My Mind stat became 10 in five minutes after I ate the pill, it certainly worked very fast. " Tiana nodded happily.

Athan was surprised at the efficiency and effectiveness of the pill.

" Let's continue to recover our energy for one more hour, After that, we can go out to hunt Ants again. "

Hearing Risa's words, Everyone started to recuperating their energies, But Athan was doing more than just recovering his Energy.

After an hour, Four of them left the Tree trunk and started moved in a random direction discreetly using Risa's another type of mist spell that could cover aura and body heat.

After moving for 30 minutes they finally encountered another ant, This Ant didn't have a large buff like the previous Ant they encountered but It had sharp pointy legs with spikes all over them and a slim body, its body color was a mixture of green and cyan.

[H.Ant]

CP: 320

Attack: 120

Defense: 80

Speed: 120

Looking at the stats of this Ant, Athan drew a breath and spoke in a low voice, " This Ant is obviously more powerful than the previous Ant. "

Laksel nodded with a grim expression said, " Indeed, But This Ant will still give us only 1 point. In fact, we will encounter more powerful Ants with varying stats in the future but they will also give 1 point which is truly dammed. "

" By the way, They didn't tell the time period of This round. How long will this round last? " Tiana raised an important question.

Risa shot her a glance and spoke, " The round will end when we die because after each Ant we kill, the subsequent Ant we encounter will become more powerful, and eventually, we will die which is the same for all participants, therefore after all participants die, This round will come to end. "

As they were speaking, The Ant seemed to have noticed something and moved in their direction.

" Alright stop discussing now, I will go in first and distract the Ant, Risa you will immediately bind the Ant while Athan and Tiana will prepare the offensive, This Ant's defense is low so we should be able to finish it with one combo of your offensive. "

Saying this, He dashed towards the Ant as he successfully drew its attention.

After that, Risa followed as she used Ice bind spells on Ant's legs, While Athan and Tiana started to prepare their offensive spells.

After destroying Laksel's defensive Spell, The Ant was going for one more attack when it was bound by Risa's Ice Spell.

But Risa's spell didn't bind Ant for even 2 seconds and before she could cast another spell to bind it, The Ant broke off the Ice as it ignored Laksel and dashed towards Risa.

Seeing the Situation, Athan used a new spell he created while they were recuperating, <Lightning Vines> towards the Ant's legs.

He had already created Spell runes of <Drilling Lance> and <Lightning Vines> while he was recuperating.

<Lightning Vines> consist of Wood element and Lightning Element. First, the vines of Wood Energy would be created, and then Lightning would coat the vines in a tendril pattern which might bring about an effect of paralyzing after <Lightning Vines> wraps around the target's body part.

Two <Lightning Vines> shoot out towards the Ant before two of its legs got wrapped by vine impairing its movement.

Athan's <Drilling Lance> was also formed, It's might superior to the previous version due to Earth intent.

Currently, Ant was facing in his direction so he threw <Drilling Lance> towards its head, and Tiana's spell soon followed up.

The Ant's armor on its head was blasted open and Tiana dealt finishing blow with her spell.

[ Laksel: 0.15 points, Risa: 0.15 points, Athan: 0.50 points, Tiana: 0.20 points ]

[Squad]

Athan: 0.65

Tiana: 0.40

Risa: 0.30

Laksel: 0.65

Athan then looked at his CP.

<-Athan Long->

[~Stats~]-↓

[Elements]-↓

CP: 181

Attack: 101

Defense: ~

Speed: ~

Control: 80

He was surprised to find a new state, ' Looks it will appear if I can use spells with such effects, I used control spell so it was added to my [Combat Power] and since I have not used any defensive spells or Movement spells, Their numbers are Nil for now. '

He then looked at everyone and spoke, " Let's continue to move, We still have enough energy to defeat one Ant even if its slightly more powerful, after that we can recuperate. "

Everybody agreed as The squad continued to move forward for some time before they encountered one more Ant.

[G2.Ant]

CP: 330

Attack:110

Defense: 110

Speed: 110

Looking at this Ant's stats, Athan smiled wryly, " Damn it, My spell won't be able to penetrate its defense. Looks like it will be troublesome to defeat this Ant. "

The Squad fell silent hearing him but after a few seconds, Laksel spoke as he looked at Athan, " I can break its defense with my spell but then you have attracted the Ant's attention and defend. "

Athan thought for a second and said with a smile," Alright, I will do the defense work. "

Tiana wanted to speak but looking at Athan who had a faint smile on his face which was filled with confidence she didn't speak.

" Since it's decided then I'll go out. " Saying this he directly left the group and dashed towards the Ant.

The Ant noticed him soon and chased after him.

This Ant was similar to the first one they encountered, Seeing Ant chasing after Athan, Risa and others also followed up.

Athan had already stopped running and used <Myriad Prison> on himself. This <Myriad Prison> was made from Earth energy which was boosted by his Earth Intent and After he imprisoned himself in the prison, He controlled the passage of the two demon mouths and threw Fire balls towards the Ant to attract the Ant's attention while Risa used Bind on it.

But Athan's <Myriad Prison> was shattered in one hit and he barely dodged the Ant's mouth which was going to clap him when it shattered the <Myriad Prison> with its powerful jaws.

An oppressive pressure descended upon Athan making it difficult for him to move, ' Sh!t this is much more difficult to do than I thought. '

He instantly used <Lightning Arial Wings> But realized he was having a lot of trouble operating them, What breaking the sound barrier? Under this pressure, He might not even be able to outspeed the Ant.

But nonetheless, He dodged the Ant with <Lightning Arial Wings> and Risa's spells Afterward, He stacked two <Myriad Prisons> before Ant attacked again.

At this time, Laksel's spell was also ready, This time it was not Dark Metal Spear but he had a bow made of Wood Element and it had an Arrow made of Metal and Dark energy notched in it.

After pulling hard, He released the Arrow towards Ant's belly and Tiana's followed after it, The Ant which was going to snap its jaw once again toward's Athan got it by both spells one after another which caused it to cry, Tiana released one more spell with her Lightning Inferno energy causing the Ant to cry in anguish for a few more seconds before it disappeared.

[ Laksel: 0.23 points, Risa: 0.21 points, Athan: 0.34 points, Tiana: 0.22 points ]

After defeating this Ant, The squad hid in a cave they found before recuperating their energies.

After recuperating their energies for 3 hours, they once again set out to hunt more Ants.

Risa said before that the Ants get more powerful each time they defeat one and it indeed seems to be the case.

[S.Ant]

CP: 340

Attack: 140

Defense: 110

Speed: 90

They barely defeated this Ant with the help of Risa who used an Ice Defensive Spell to Aid Athan to defend the Attacks while also binding the Ant with more powerful Ice spells, But The energy consumption was great so the Party rested one more time.

They continued this way and defeated 5 more Ants, Laksel's Offensive Spell was quite powerful as it always managed to break open Ant's defense, It even tore open Defence of Ant which had 130 points in Defence, But the Ant they were facing now seemed to be very troublesome.

[A3.Ant]

CP: 410

Attack: 200

Defense: 140

speed: 80

Looking at this Ant's stats, Athan spoke, " Let's recover our Energy to full and plan first. "

They slowly retreated and hid inside a tree trunk.

After hiding Inside, Athan asked, " How do you generally raise the level of Intent? "

" Either you need to buy Median Intent Plate which you can't buy right now or comprehend the intent yourself. " Laksel answered hearing Athan's question.

Athan fell silent, He understood that he needs to increase the understanding of Earth Element to raise the level of his intent, but it's easier said than done. ' Looks like I have to give it a try. '

After making his decision, He said to the group, " Give me an hour and I'll try to comprehend the median level of Earth Element. "

Both Laksel and Risa had weird expressions on their faces hearing Athan's words.

Looking at their expression, Athan smiled and spoke, " Aren't you surprised at how I was able to comprehend Earth Intent using the trash Intent plates you spoke of? "

" Indeed. " Both of them nodded as they were also curious.

" Actually the reason why I was able to comprehend the Earth intent easily was that I had eaten some mystical fruits which had same pattern as I saw in the earth Intent plate I bought, At that time I thought that I was just imagining things because I didn't know the existence of Intent, But now I know and I think I might be able to comprehend the next level of Earth intent if I try. " Taking a deep breath Athan told them about the fruits.

Laksel and Risa were surprised to hear that and both of them nodded in understanding, as Risa spoke enviously, " There are indeed such fruits but they are very rare and extremely valuable, your luck is very good to be able to eat such fruits. "

Of course, he lied. The patterns in the fruits were very low in amount and even if he tried at that time, He wouldn't be able to comprehend intents.

But he wanted to try something and if he succeeded then he might be able to comprehend the next level of Earth intent.