After Athan and the group decided on the name, they went to register their faction.

Registration of a new faction was pretty big news. After all, it's tough for a new faction to come into the picture due to rigorous trials, especially the last trial where they have to defeat one of the existing factions.

Athan's current superficial battle power was 200,340. This battle power was the average SBP of those who had just entered the Zen order master realm. He could increase it more, but he didn't bother after using a normal soul energy attack which brought his battle power from 112,304 to directly 200,340.

Yep, that's how powerful his current soul strength is, and this was the result of his 2nd mode of soul's soul energy which is weaker. Well, he has no choice but to transform his soul to a typical soul because he can't measure his usual mutated soul's soul energy since it possesses abyssal darkness and would end up destroying the measurement device.

Tiana and others also easily reached 100,000 superficial battle power milestones since they already broke through to the Zen order elite.

...

To hold the initial trials of the faction, there was a special hill area for it, and currently, Athan and others were standing on that hill while looking at a middle-aged man and a giant gothic-demonic-type door behind him.

The hill master in charge of factions looked at Athan and others before saying, "Dean Lenix had told me that you would come to establish your faction sooner or later, and we have decided to forgo some trials. Now you all only need to take on two trials.

"First, The trial of chaotic bond and the last trial where you will war against one of the existing faction with their rules."

The Hill master, who looked slim and bald head pointed at the door behind him and said, "Once you enter through this door, all of you will be linked with each other," Pausing here, he pointed at Athan and Linci, "You two might be able to break the link but don't do that because breaking the link means losing this trial."

Athan and Linci nodded.

Afterward, the Hill master continued, "So you all will be mystically linked together and...will fight against a horde of chaos beasts ranging from 7-star to 9-star grade. During this time, the pain and injuries suffered by any one of you will also be suffered by other members and...,"-

Narrowing his eyes, the hill master smiled-, "If any one of you thought about leaving behind your teammate, not willing suffer pain due to them, thoughts about betrayal, and such thoughts appeared in your head, then the link will break from that person, and the trial will end."

Athan and others nodded with a confident smile on their faces. None of them would think of such a thing! Anyway, they had already sworn a chaos oath regarding such a thing a long time ago.

"Hahaha, bring it on!" Arcued loudly spoke as he pumped his fist, "Let's go, Emperor. I can't wait anymore."

The Hill master stepped aside with a smile before gesturing them towards the giant door, "Survive for one day without anyone breaking the link, and you will pass the trial."

Athan nodded with a faint smile before he and others started walking towards the giant door and entered inside.

After entering, they appeared a place that can be called a hellscape.

Terrible environment, heavy air, fiery winds blowing chaotically everywhere, dangerous-looking chaos beasts of all types like ground giants, flying, plant, etc. Their total number reached fifty, but more would come after this wave since they would have to survive for a day here.

*Roar....*

*Screeeeeeeeee...*

*Growl...*

...

The chaos beasts were ten kilometers away from them, but after Athan and others appeared, they all let out their unique shouts and started moving towards them with bloodthirst in their eyes.

"Athan...we have decided that you will not do anything in this trial," Tiana turned to Athan as she said with a smile.

"Hmm?" Athan raised his eyebrows in question.

Avelia grinned and said, "It would be too easy if you entered the fray, so we have decided that you will not do anything in this trial. Anyway, we have voidling-zoids as well, but we will just command them to protect us when we are in fetal danger."

"Yes, Emperor! Please do not make any move in this trial," Arcued spoke loudly with a serious face.

Others also looked at Athan with resolve and, seeing that Athan grinned, "Alright, I will not make any move. Go and do your best."

Sen rode on her cloud of chaos as she took out her zither before intense burning wisps that looked beautiful and dangerous appeared around her.

The wisps enveloped Sen and her Zither as she closed her eyes and started moving her hands through the zither, unleashing devastating attacks towards the beast.

She released order techniques through her zither as her unique essence physique, Enmato Crusade of Burning Wisps, increased all of her attacks to new heights. Her physique granted her pure, destructive offensive power. For now, she has mastered only three types of wisps due to her limit to the zen order realm but these three types of destructive wisps were still forces to be reckoned with.

While attacking, Sen thought, 'Hmm, since my soul upgraded because of Athan's ability, I should be able to master the next wisp, Houti Deep Red soon which will increase my attack power even more. Or maybe...I can also master the wisp after that one? From the information in the physique's structure, that wisp is unstoppable due to its defense-breaking power and burn fueling property."

Sen was getting excited while thinking about how powerful she had become due to Athan's Touch of Transcendent and how she would be able to make rapid progress due to that.

On the other hand, Arcued also started.

"Hahaha, Emperor. I had also become very powerful thanks to you, and I have long discarded the shell of my previous self." Arcued said before he laughed out loud as his body started to burn in black and white flame.

Intense soul ripple released from him like a scythe purely made from soul energy appeared in his hands.

Arcued turned to Athan with a solemn and serious expression before saying, "There have been some changes to me, and the soul physique I acquired upgraded." Taking a deep breath, Arcued shouted, "Emperor! I will become your blade of soul and will harvest the souls of your enemies! Haaaaaaaaa."

Right saying that, He turned around and rode on his cloud of chaos with the black and white scythe in his hand that was twice as size as his body.

Shortly afterward, He gathered order force and chaos force in his scythe as it shined with dark green and dark red hue before releasing criss-cross slashes towards the incoming beasts.

Athan was surprised a smile appeared on his face, 'Efyeed did say that Arcued acquired the most powerful soul physique that Efyeed had access to, Ravant Blight Soul. However, the soul upgrade I did on him and what I did to his soul previous to recovery seemed to have mutated his physique. Let's see what his soul harvest is about...'

"Hahaha, you two are really eager, eh?" Theo laughed as giant electric blue lighting sparks exploded from his body with silver currents.

The blue lightning sparks and silver currents took the shape of a deadly beast that coated him, making him look intimidating as he...disappeared.

*Zaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap.....*

Athan raised his eyebrows, 'Those space fluctuations...It looks like, among all present here, he should be fastest.'

Theo didn't teleport, but he was tuned with space which increased his speed by a lot. It was how the cloud of chaos that Athan used was tuned with space which increased the cloud's speed by a lot due to ignoring all types of atmospheric resistance. In short, it feels like the space is helping one move faster.

Theo could do that because of the essence physique he acquired from Efyeed, Raiden Beastality Veborance. This physique didn't grant him any defense, but it did give him extreme speed and offense.

Tiana, Shiromi, Avelia, and Linci also smiled in excitement and started attacking. The Nimpere brothers also shouted loudly before joining the fray.

Linci had sealed her power with the orb floating beside her, and Athan also told Primo to keep an eye on her and absorb her power if they came out unexpectedly. So she was also fighting normally like others.

Seeing all of them getting this strong, Athan nodded in satisfaction.