"And then...we parted. He made me a direct disciple of the valley master of our Thunder-Fire valley and told me he fulfilled his promise and went away with his friend."

Tiana smiled as she shook her head, "But then I realized my feelings. After returning to the valley, I became one of the most important people of the valley. Everyone respected me, but...I felt empty. Every day, my longing for him increased, and then I decided to pour out my feelings and made a major decision because...I felt similar to Sen, I guess. He was so powerful, but I was weak. So I decided to confess to him to see if I could spark his love for me and then took the risk to get powerful.

"I waited for him to come back and then knocked on the door of his house before pouring out my feelings. He was stunned at first, but I moved his heart. I could see his expression changing while he looked into my resolve-filled eyes. He was attracted to me as I sparked that same flame in him at that time."

Tiana shook her head with a weak smile as she continued, "My determination and resolve moved him along with my speech, but he couldn't realize that...the determination and resolve I had was accepting the risk of death I was going to take to get more powerful so that I could stay beside him.

"Even though he didn't realize what that determination and resolve were for at first, that was indeed the catalyst that sparked the love in him," Tiana said before she sighed, "And then, I went and did a stupid thing even though he loved back. Now that I think about it, If I really died, I would have made him even sadder. But thankfully, I didn't die by taking that risk because of Athan.

"Athan really truly saved me when he met me. After joining the Thunder-Fire valley and failing to get the support of a female-core elder because a more powerful core-elder had his eyes on me, I was always living in fear of being sullied by his grandson and others. That fear was gradually turning into despair as well. I even thought about dying. Even though I put a strong front so that bastard wouldn't go overboard fast, I was really in fear inside. But Athan saved me, his heat of moment promise saved me. hehe, I think I really fell for him from that moment but couldn't realize since at first, I was cautious of him as well due to my bad experience."

...

After Tiana finished speaking, Linci and others asked about Avelia, and she also told them her story, which made others speechless at first because of her antics.

Though they were surprised when they found out that Athan was a monogamous type of person in a world where having multiple partners was common. Females and Males can both have multiple partners as long as everyone is fine with it.

On the other hand, Athan was done playing with his opponent as he had done something very terrifying to the lady, but no one, not even the lady herself, noticed that her further days were going to be hell.

Illias and others were surprised because Athan didn't torture her like he always does with his opponents.

He was always on defense, and the few times he attacked were weak as the lady easily blocked his attacks.

But they didn't know that Athan planted something terrifying inside the lady when he attacked those few times.

He attacked her with his natural soul energy that was black and white with a hint of grey. Nobody could feel, sense, or see this soul energy. They could if he used with intent to attack, but he didn't intend to attack.

Instead, he just put his soul energy inside her as a tiny white orb with a black aura in it. He did that when he attacked her with his normal essence order techniques to mask his hidden activity further.

After he was done putting that inside her, He decided to finish the battle quickly since he took more time planting the seed of nightmare in her.

By quickly, he used his Gaze of Void that was now effective on Zen order grandmaster since his soul became much more powerful and easily defeated her.

Athan then returned and saw that everyone had gathered together and were talking about something.

Seeing that, he asked with a smile, "What are you all discussing?"

Avelia smiled mischievously and said, "It's secret."

Tiana shook her as she smiled gently and said, "We were just talking about how you met me and Avelia and our time with you."

...

On the other hand, After Nevitia returned, she frowned, "Why did Athan fight like that?"

Illias also had a frown on his face, "I don't know. But his innate physique is very powerful."

Nevitia nodded with an amazed expression, "Indeed. Those cerulean vines with red sparks. They actually absorbed the power of my attacks rapidly, and when they hit me, I couldn't control my order force and chaos force properly and was feeling exhaustion as well. It was like my life force was being absorbed slowly. But I could still resist their effect to an extent. However, It will become very formidable once he develops that physique more."

"Humph, since he is the master of that Chaos Enlightenment Tree, he obviously must have gotten the best thing from Efyeed," Mubomgin said with a snort, envy apparent on her face.

...

Five minutes passed as the next battle started.

It was between a 2nd order Zen order elite vs. Tiana.

"Hehe, we'll finally see the full power of sister Tiana," The eldest brother of the Nimpere brothers spoke as he and others saw Tiana flying in the battleground.

When she saw her opponent, she didn't waste time and instantly used her Geno Frame before attacking with her soul order technique and zoomed forward.