Chapter Ninety-Two: The Isle of the Void

“I want greater power.”

Sonia heard that she could ask for a wish, and answered without the slightest hesitation.

She and Mr. Dark had, in a sense, come to believe in the Void at the same time, yet compared with her, Mr. Dark had clearly been granted far greater power.

She was confident that she would become strong in time, but she had to admit that her starting point was still far too low.

So receiving more blessings and laying a firmer foundation would allow her path to unfold more steadily in the days ahead.

As for money, Sonia did not give it much thought, because she knew the world she was about to enter was one she had never touched before.

She had seen too many officers of the Star Legion to be deceived by rank alone. The difference between one star and three stars was not power, nor birth, but the Nova Battle Armor that transcended the lower ranks and bestowed might far beyond them.

So Sonia understood very clearly that the foundation for surviving in a world where superhuman beings existed was not beauty, not wealth, and not authority.

It was power sufficient to protect oneself against any sudden danger.

When Harvey saw Sonia answer at once, he did not try to dissuade her. He merely pointed, and a band of purple Void energy, carrying life force with it, surged directly into Sonia’s body.

The Void energy and life force rapidly strengthened every cell within her.

And because of that infusion of Void energy, Sonia’s pure and innocent air took on a subtle, irresistible allure.

“Great and noble Mr. Dark, thank you for your mercy.”

Feeling that her senses and strength had been enhanced, Sonia glanced at the wall nearby, bright enough to shine with reflected light, and bowed deeply in gratitude to Harvey.

“This is the reward you deserve.”

“First go and get used to your new strength, then bring those chefs to me.”

“I’ll be waiting for you at the villa.”

Harvey looked at Sonia as he spoke.

Then, with a thought, he vanished from the temple.

“Yes.”

Hearing this, Sonia nodded with utmost seriousness in reply.

She knew that even though Mr. Dark had already departed, he would certainly still be able to hear her.

For even she, so weak, after receiving another blessing, could now directly catch the slightest stir of wind and movement outside the temple.

Needless to say, the mysterious and magnificent Mr. Dark must have the entire island, perhaps even the whole world, within his gaze.

Soon after, Sonia walked out of the temple. At first her steps were careful, but after only a few dozen meters she began to quicken slightly.

Before long, in less than a few minutes, she was darting and leaping among the island’s great trees, her body nimble as a butterfly.

The soothing touch of the breeze upon her face, and the sense that everything within a hundred meters lay clearly within her sight and control, filled her with wonder.

“So this is the power of the Void.”

“Great and glorious Mr. Dark, I thank you sincerely for granting me this chance.”

Sonia’s jade-white feet lightly tapped from branch to branch without making the slightest tremor. She then sprang up to the crown of a tree more than twenty meters tall, her body perfectly steady, gazing at the distant sea with eyes full of astonishment and reverence.

Harvey appeared directly inside a European-style villa, and was thoroughly satisfied when he saw that its furnishings were much as he had described to Sonia before.

The villa stood halfway up a mountain slope, close to the island’s highest point.

When Harvey reached the balcony and looked out, he could see the harbor dozens of miles away.

Clearly Sonia had considered that, with his abilities, standing high would allow him to survey every corner of the island, and had specially built the villa in such a place.

There were also binoculars on the balcony, so that in the future, when Sonia attended him here, she would be able to keep track of the island’s situation even more easily.

After walking through the villa, Harvey discovered that the only places on the entire island fitted with surveillance were the areas around the villa, the harbor, and the training room. The rest had no cameras installed.

It was obvious that Sonia had considered many possibilities and believed there was no need for more.

Harvey understood her intention and had no objection. After all, nobody liked living beneath the gaze of cameras.

Still, he could perhaps bring this gravity apparatus back to let Tony take a look.

He was not expecting a perfect copy, but if Tony could gain even a little inspiration and develop a less sophisticated gravity device, it would still help Earth’s technology make a major breakthrough.

But before that, after finishing his tour of the villa, Harvey took out his cosmic communicator and, without any wasted words, casually sent a message.

“Believe in the great Void, and join the glorious evolution—Void God Dark.”

“The Void Church grants everyone a chance. If you want the power to change your life, come to Void Island forty nautical miles southeast of Falling Star Harbor.”

After that, he left it alone and prepared to go to the training base twenty miles from the villa.

A gravity device was a wonderful thing. In his previous life, even Son Goku from the world-famous Dragon Ball had trained in a gravity chamber for a period and emerged vastly stronger, which had struck Harvey as incredibly impressive.

Now that he possessed power himself, he also wanted to see whether training under a hundredfold gravity would truly be effective.

Earth did not have such advanced technology, but now that a gravity chamber had finally appeared, even if its training effect were not so extraordinary, he was certainly going to try it.

The next second, Harvey arrived outside the training facility.

From the outside, the entire structure was cast in black metal, spanning more than five hundred meters and divided into ten floors, like a black tower.

Harvey studied the levels from outside and saw that each one was marked with a different number.

The topmost first floor offered twofold gravity, while the highest tenth floor reached one hundred times gravity.

Even without any weights, if one could adapt layer by layer all the way down to a hundredfold gravity, the body would become inhuman in its strength and endurance.

Yet ordinary people could never accomplish such a thing. Even with gene medicines or various strange potions to assist them, allowing them to adapt little by little, the process would inevitably be accompanied by unimaginable pain.

No wonder Sonia had specifically said before that the training facility meeting his requirements would cost a great deal of money.

The one and a half billion she had asked him for probably included a third spent on this training ground.

To spend more than fifty million on a gravity training facility useless to ordinary people would probably seem insane to others.

But for those who had gained the power of the Void, it would be an ideal place.

For in an extreme environment, rapid evolution and adaptation were precisely the Void’s hallmark.

Though the process would be painful, it would certainly be far shorter.

And once the transformation was complete, the power would remain with one for life, without the side effects brought by odd medicines and their artificial aid.

After that, Harvey walked straight into the training facility.

As he entered the gate on the first floor, the lights automatically came on.

It looked like a black tower from the outside, but the interior was not dark at all. On the contrary, it was brilliantly bright.

However, Harvey did not feel any change in gravity. He thought about it for a moment and understood.

The gravity would only shift within a limited area after some special device was activated.

If the entire black tower were kept under gravity conditions at all times, leaving aside whether the ground could bear it, the people who installed the equipment certainly could not.

And with all ten floors covered, five million would likely not even be enough to outfit such a training facility.