*Creeeeeeee… Boom!*


    "Alright, this is tough," Arkhen muttered as he looked at a giant tree with ck vertical oval eyes and four thick legs on four sides at its base.


    Arkhen attacked that tree with his <Earth Sphere Explosion> boosted by chaos force, but it didn''t even scratch that tree monster.


    The tree monster was fifty meters tall and on top of it was an amalgam of some kind of energy with an ever-changing wobbly shape.


    That strange tree monster was the so-called Nexus holder, ording to the voice of Lady Rong he heard from a strange bird that suddenly approached him half an hour ago.


    She even removed the suppression seal from him and told him to challenge that monster and beat it if possible. If he could do that, then he would be ranked 1st automatically.


    Though Arkhen felt he would still get 1st rank because he believed that he had killed more monsters and gathered more corrupted corespared to others.


    ''Should I try out my new idea?'' Arkhen thought with a frown.


    *swoosh..*


    He saw the tree monster releasing a glowing vine swirled by a dark green spark, causing his face to change because it was too fast!


    With his thought, he conjured several force fields in front of him to block.


    *Baam!*


    The force fields broke instantly as the vine hit Arkhen''s chest. The Archion Draconic Armor blocked the damage in exchange for reducing its durability, but the impact still caused Arkhen to shoot tens of meters away as he hit a stone pir of thisrge open ancient-looking hall.


    "Cough…" Arkhen slightly coughed because his organs jolted a bit. Of course, he wasn''t injured anywhere and didn''t bleed. It was just a slight shock to his internals since the Draconic Armor also reduced shock wave damage by 50%.


    ''First, I''ll use my other ideas regarding Order Unbound passive ability and then move to the main idea,'' Arkhen thought as he pped his hand for better control of his primal energy and started creating hundreds of force fields around the tree monster.


    Afterward, he pointed his Sarangan Dragon de at the monster, consumed his soul energy to produce Vanquish force, and imbued it into his weapon for the next powerful attack.


    The tree monster broke half of the force fields despite just a second passing, but Arkhen continued as he conjured a spear-shaped ughter de from the Saragan Dragon de so that it could get a 50% defense ignoring effect.


    ''Create Order! Order of Extreme Compression!''


    Arkhen created the order of Extreme Compression using the order force he produced after using half of his soul energy. All of his order force was consumed to create this order.


    ——


    —> Order Unbound (level 1): Whenever you use your soul energy, you will produce order force within you. It can be stored up to a certain limit. You can use the order force to create a temporary order that can affect you and your various powers.


    ——


    Arkhen used the Order of Extreme Compression on his spear-shaped ughter de that floated in front of his hand and started making it more powerful by constantly using chi energy topress more ughter des'' power in that single spear-shaped ughter de.


    100,000 chi energy…


    1,000,000 chi energy…


    2,000,000 chi energy…


    *Grreeee!*


    The tree monster broke all force fields and opened its cranky mouth at his trunk as a dark green orb started conjuring from it.


    On the other hand, Arkhen continued consuming more chi energy andpressed the power of several thousand ughter des into that single spear-shaped ughter de.


    Normally, that spear-shaped ughter de could only hold power worth 1,000,000 chi energy, but!…with the Order of Extreme Compression, Arkhen couldpress more power in it!


    ''Alreadypressed ughter des worth 4,000,000 chi energy in that spear… Damn!!'' Arkhen thought with excitement as he saw the pulsing spear-shaped de in front of him.


    It was glowing super dark red with ck and dark red sparks around it, proving the potent power it held inside it!


    ''So much power condensed in that single 2-meter-long and 5-centimeter-thick spear… Damn!'' Arkhen felt that it would destroy that monster into oblivion once he finished the preparation he had in mind.


    *Zoom!*


    s, the monster released its conjured orb after powering it up for 2 seconds toward Arkhen.


    Arkhen''s eyes trembled as he quickly executed his one and only defense-type skill! Aegis of Life Conversion!


    Four watery orbs with emerald hues in them appeared around Arkhen. Instead of waiting for them to activate automatically, Arkhen activate all four orbs to create a defensive shield in front of him before he continuedpressing more power into his spear-shaped ughter de!


    *BOOM!*


    The dark green power orb of that tree monster hit the shield after a second, but it was entirely absorbed by the shield and turned into a healing force into a single orb at the side.


    *Grrrrrrr!*


    The tree monster was infuriated that this ant blocked another of its attack and shot several thick dark green projectile spinning disks towards Arkhen!


    Arkhen gritted his teeth and decided to take them head-on to get chaos force. He removed his Archion Draconic Armor as it went inside his body but kept his Exo-skeleton of Combat Art because it was a part of his body.


    The iing four dark green spinning disks hit Arkhen one by one.


    The first spinning disk hit Arkhen, and he was instantly near full!


    ''Shit!''


    Arkhen forcefully deactivated his passive to prevent excess chaos force from producing before the next three spinning disks hit him.


    The next one cut off his left arm directly as he tried to dodge!


    ''Healing force!''


    The healing force stored in the small orb of the <Aegis of Life Conversion> skill healed him and reproduced his arm.


    "Arghhh! Fuck you!" Arkhen roared as he saw the next two spinning disksing to hit him!


    He used all chaos force to be bigger and tougher, so the next spinning disk was once again absorbed in his body to produce more chaos force.


    However, he couldn''t use that chaos force to get bigger anymore. So the fourth spinning disk created a deep gash on his stomach as blood gushed out like a fountain.


    Arkhen was six meters tall giant with lean explosive muscles at the moment. At the same time, he was gushing out blood from his stomach because of the severe injury.


    ''Healing Force!''


    All the remaining healing force was consumed as he was healed to the perfect condition again.


    His spear-like ughter de also reached the limit after hepressed a total of 8,400,000 chi energy worth of ughter des'' power in it!


    A maddening grin appeared on his face as he looked at the tree monster and dashed toward it!


    The tree monster had some intelligence, and it sensed real danger from that tiny spear-like ughter de in front of Arkhen.


    "Grraoooo!" The tree monster roared in its weird voice as he created a dome ofb-like defense of thick glowing vines to protect itself.


    "Heh, you want to defend this?" Arkhen muttered with a crazy smile on his face.


    ''Fire-type!''


    The spear-shaped ughter de gained fire attribute! Fire affinity bonus:—> Fire-rted skills'' damage increased by 50%!!


    ''Melferious Shrine Tree: Jiragen! Overlord Shrine!'' Arkhen activated this skill too, but felt a sharp pain in his soul since he consumed all of his remaining soul energy by using this skill!


    ->Overlord Shrine: Conjures a shrine of the overlord. It will boost all your skill effects to 250% of their original for the next three seconds.


    After all, the skill consumed 25% of his total soul energy!


    He could recover his soul energy gradually, but he had spent all of it in thisst fight:


    ->Two <Melferious Shrine Tree: Jiragen> = 50% of his total soul energy.


    -> 50% in soul energy consumed by using his Vanquish affinity trait to produce order force.


    Andstly... Arkhen added all the chaos force produced from the spinning disk attack to the spear-shaped ughter de to further increase its power!


    …


    "What the fuck?!" The bald middle-aged eximed as he stood up from the couch.


    "Such abination of powers in that single attack… I also wouldn''t want to take it head-on without any defenses," the middle-aged womanmented.


    "But how? How did he manage topress so much power in that single spear? How is that possible?" the other silent middle-aged man spoke in disbelief. "The only reason I can think of is that the power of his Star of Endowment allowed him to do that."


    ''Could it be because of his physique or his Star of Endowment?'' Lady Rong guessed. She also didn''t know what kind of innate physique Arkhen possessed nor did she know about Arkhen''s Star of Endowment.