Star Odyssey

simple power and there was a reason why they prospered in the Innerverse.
Even though there had been a large gap between Zora’s strength and his own, she had still been able to affect Lu Yin.

“The sixth match, begin.”

Everyone grew somber.
There were twelve new students, so the remaining two who had not yet battled were about to go: Michelle and Darkvoid.

Of Astral-10’s new students, these two were in a entire league of their own.
One had joined the Ten Arbiters Council as a Melder while the other possessed a strange innate gift.
They were both unfathomable individuals, and this battle was bound to be the most interesting of the first round.

“Everyone, move back,” Little Pao warned.

The students retreated further back, leaving Michelle and Darkvoid standing in front, both of whom’s faces showed nothing.

Neither spoke or exchanged any pleasantries.
They immediately started battling.
Michelle pulled out a red shortbow from her cosmic ring and condensed her star energy into arrows.
As the arrows flew toward Darkvoid, they distorted the space around them, compressed the air into liquid, and blasted the clouds away.
Against this attack, Darkvoid didn’t even move as a strange explosion burst out in front of him, completely blocking Michelle’s star energy arrows.

The onlookers were stunned and pressured by the shockwaves.
The duo’s strength was already astonishing in the first exchange.

Each one of Michelle’s arrows could rival Zhao Yilong’s Hundred Swords as One and had the power to shake the void and sunder the earth.
And yet, these overpowering attacks had been easily blocked by Darkvoid, giving the audience quite a thrill.

Zhao Yilong’s face turned ugly.
He had thought that it was rare for a Melder to be able to unite a hundred swords as one, but even though the sixth battle had barely started, he knew that he would have already lost to Michelle’s relentless attacks.

The tremendous impacts from the unending bombardment released huge shockwaves that caused the ground to collapse wherever it spread.
The affected area spread so far that Coco was pressured to the point of barely being able to breathe.

Lu Yin was stunned.
He knew that Michelle was powerful since she had been able to join the Ten Arbiters Council, but Darkvoid’s strength was the true surprise.
After all, he was someone who originated from the Outerverse, but he had still managed to reach such a level at his age.

The ground trembled as Michelle’s attacks grew in ferocity.
Each attack was coated in a terrifying sharpness, and even the surrounding space was sealed off from the distortion forces.
Darkvoid’s expression remained as calm as ever even though the ground that he stood on was the only bit that had not been blasted away.
There was a circle a hundred meters in radius, centered around Darkvoid where the ground was hollowed out and ruined.

Michelle’s explosive barrage continued for two full minutes.
At the end, she was slightly out of breath as she stared at Darkvoid in disbelief.
He hadn’t taken a single step from his original stance.

Xia Luo also stared at Darkvoid in amazement.
If what he had seen was true, then this person’s innate gift was terrifying.

Yin’s originally beaming face had grown a bit stiff.

Lu Yin’s eyes were sparkling.

“Are you going to keep defending just like this?” Michelle asked coldly.

Darkvoid looked at her with the same indifference as before.
He slowly raised his hand, revealing a black fingernail.

A chill ran down Michelle’s spine when she saw Darkvoid raise his hand.
She instinctively dodged to the side as a black smear of color flashed through where she had been standing just now.
A terrifying explosion erupted at the spear’s impact point, shattering the void.
Before their very eyes, the scene cracked as if it were a reflection in a giant lake.
The violent shockwave pushed Michelle back a dozen meters.

Everyone’s eyes widened even further.
This was an attack that had damaged space itself.
Impossible! It was practically impossible for a Melder to shatter space, especially within Astral-10, but it had still happened.
Darkvoid had shattered the void.

Everyone was stunned and gaped at Darkvoid.

Lu Yin’s eyes twitched.
That attack was a little too horrifying!

Little Pao gravely said, “This is why I had everyone pull back.
Darkvoid’s innate gift causes explosions in the void.
You would be easily injured if you were even the slightest bit careless.”

It took a while for his words to register within everyone’s minds.
Void explosions?! Just the name of the gift sounded troublesome.
Typically, the void was extremely difficult to shatter and even an unstable space could only be shattered by someone at the Limiteer realm.
It took a freakishly strong Melder to crack the void, but Darkvoid’s innate gift actually allowed him to cause an explosion to ring out in the void.
To put it simply, when he awakened his innate gift, he had stepped ahead of countless others.

Michelle looked at Darkvoid with some fear in her face.
She knew he was terrifying, but not to this extent.
Why had he not gone to the Innerverse? He should have been discovered when he had asked to join the Ten Arbiters Council long ago.

Darkvoid remained silent and only continued to wave his finger.
Michelle’s face fell and she dodged again.
The place where she had been standing once again became distorted before exploding, sending shockwaves rippling in every direction.
The ground crumbled like paper, and the destruction spread almost a kilometer out, and maybe even further.

The students pulled back again.
No one wanted to feel the aftershocks of an attack that could sunder the void itself.

Dark smoke swirled about, and Michelle emerged from the ruined area with a back slick with sweat.
She closely watched Darkvoid since she had to dodge whenever his fingers so much as twitched.
Darkvoid was still standing in his original location while Michelle was now forced to scurry around like a mouse.
She had never been toyed with by an opponent before.

In the sky above the battle, the Rain Observatory Mentor exclaimed, “Such a powerful innate gift! It’s a pity that this child’s personality is too dark and that his experiences have caused him to close his heart to everyone else.
Such a pity.”

The Sand Ocean Mentor quietly replied, “This innate gift would be absolutely terrifying even in the first three academies.
Very few can match him while in the same realm, but it’s not like he can’t be defeated.
He only knows how to unleash his innate gift on an instinctual level, but he doesn’t know how to truly use it.
It’s still immature.”

“Give him to me,” the Rain Observatory Mentor said, and no one raised any objections.

Boom!

Again, the void exploded, and Michelle’s face paled.
She gasped for breath as her clothes were ripped apart, revealing some of her snow white skin and catching the eyes of the audience.

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