The Monarch

Chapter 343: A beautiful show

He took turns defending and attacking until the mana around him no longer existed. His spiritual sense was terrifyingly great, and yet the mana ran out. The problem was not the quantity of mana, but the quality of his skills. In the end, it wasn’t enough, and Kayden didn’t show any reaction when the lightning destroyed half of his body. At this moment, golden drops began to rain. Kayden didn’t understand what that meant, but...

"The fall of a challenger," Eros muttered. The heavens understood that Kayden would not be able to face the next lightning and said goodbye to a possible god. Those who missed the seven-ray plateau could never reach it again.

Kayden waited a few seconds and then the rays came to remake and improve his body. At this moment, he had to do something unique: the crown in his mind was elevated to a vital organ. She was more important than her core. She was his way into physical shape. It wasn’t difficult; only a severe headache passed through Kayden at that moment, and then everything went dark. A few seconds later, he opened his eyes and found himself floating in the skies.

He looked at his hands, and after a few seconds, he understood that he was in the fifth realm. This was the most mediocre and tedious advancement he had ever had. It seemed like everything was done in a hurry and left to fate. Kayden sighed and...

"Finally," he felt all the mana around him and was able to read the tangle of mana. It wasn’t a difficult process; Once his mind focused, he was able to separate the millions of parts. Kayden got lost in this feeling and it took him a few minutes to break the mana with his mana. It wasn’t difficult, but the amount of mana that came out was low and barely reached 40%.

"Kayden," Before he could continue his studies, he heard Eros’s voice beside him. "Then you have failed. Your services will no longer be needed." Kayden felt his life at risk, but he didn’t even tremble.

"I didn’t fail," Kayden’s tone made his sincerity clear.

"How not? You’re only down to six lightning bolts. Even my employees are stronger than you," Eros asked doubtfully.

"I achieved what I needed in the fourth realm. With more time, I will surpass everyone in the fifth realm." Kayden’s sentence came out as if it were an insult to everyone; there was a lot of ego and arrogance.

"Aren’t you very arrogant?" Eros asked a question that Kayden had received other times in the past.

"I have no ego," Kayden looked into Eros’s eyes. On the one hand, a king with an established empire; on the other... nothing, not even any emotion.

"In 100 years, you’re going to have to impress me with something or you’re going to end up dead." Eros floated away and left Kayden alone.

Without caring about anything or anyone around him, Kayden returned to his room and began studying his body and everything he achieved with this advancement. The first thing he studied was his ability to convert material things into mana. At the moment, he only managed a low conversion percentage, but it was still significant and helped him have a large amount of mana at his disposal quickly.

The conversion measure was more or less one meter of matter for one kilometer of natural mana in the environment. As he couldn’t convert 100%, the measurement changed to around 400 meters. It was a large amount of mana. At the moment, he could only convert half a meter in a few seconds. It wasn’t much, but... his spiritual sense was within 500 kilometers.

If Kayden was able to convert all of these 500 kilometers into mana... he could probably leap a realm, even against people with seven lightning bolts. His strength would reach the highest level of his entire existence. At this moment, his body was at least 10 times faster and all of his functions improved to the same extent. It was a different world from the one he lived in before. Something else appeared to him as well.

Kayden could feel a kind of special mana in the environment, quite different from anything he had ever seen before. This mana was around them and all people in the fifth realm, probably what made them demi-gods. It didn’t take him even an hour to be able to put this mana into his attacks and... he saw an increase of more than ten times in the strength of his attacks. It was something ridiculously superior to anything he had ever seen.

Divine Mana was capable of enhancing his attacks and spells to a completely different degree. This was why he was never able to beat someone from the fifth realm when he was in the fourth realm, even when fighting weak people of low lightning. The problem was that this man was in small quantity and took a long time to recover normally. Kayden could only boost a few spells before it ran out.

It was a new mystery that he would have to learn to use, but at the moment that wasn’t important. Kayden only had a century to go before he could become strong again, and he had two things to do. The first was to get your basic spells into the new realm. The second was to learn how to convert more mana with his mana and put that into his domain. In order of importance, raising his spells was the first thing.

Kayden sat on the floor and began to think. His familiarity with his skills was extremely high. It took Kayden three decades to raise his aura slash and lightning to the fifth realm. His circles continued with the same functions, the only problem was that they were at a much weaker level about maximizing the strength of Kayden’s attacks, but he knew this was predictable, as he only managed six rays.

At this moment, Kayden began to study his domain and spiritual sense. After a full year, progress was excruciatingly slow. From half a meter, it rose to just an additional 0.5 meters. This wasn’t something that bothered him, he just needed time. Twenty-four hours a day for decades, he just trained this increase. His speed didn’t increase, nor did the amount of mana he got change.

The decades began to pass quickly. In the blink of an eye, the century Eros promised Kayden passed. At this moment, Kayden could convert 35 meters into mana. These 35 meters were instantly converted into 7 kilometers of mana under Kayden’s free control. It was a completely absurd amount. For the first time in a long time, Kayden felt afraid of himself. If he managed to transform all of his spiritual sense into a mana converter, he would reach a whopping 200,000 kilometers worth of mana. It was ridiculous, not even a mage in the sixth realm should have this ability, probably not even someone in the seventh realm could achieve something like that.

Kayden, at that time, discovered another problem that he expected to face at some point. The amount of mana was free for him to use, but most of it was wasted, as his skills could not use so much mana. It was like using an entire river just to quench your thirst for a glass of water. Kayden had no desire in the matter. At some point, he would be able to solve this problem, at that point...

"Kayden, come and change my mind." It was show time.

Kayden went outside and saw Eros with hundreds of other people. Each of them was strong and gave off a unique aura. Not even a mage with less than seven lightning was present. Kayden was the only one. Without showing any emotion, Kayden rose into the sky and stood in the center of the castle. All eyes were on him. Most thought he was just a charlatan. He was only at the first level of the fifth realm after 100 years.

"I ask that everyone delete their transmissions for a few minutes." Kayden’s request seemed abusive and caused a stir among everyone, but after Eros nodded, everyone became quiet and accepted. Almost everyone. A few idiots just ignored orders and there was no way anyone could know that. This was probably one of the biggest mistakes they could have made in their lives.

"I haven’t managed to master it yet, but I believe it will be enough to show you." As soon as Kayden said that, he expanded his hold by a few meters. Anywhere his domain reached...

Reality disappeared. The grass and trees were simply torn apart. No one could understand, as soon as their spiritual senses got close to Kayden, they were transformed into mana.

"That’s enough," Eros interrupted Kayden, his voice shaking. He wasn’t just another idiot in this end of the world, he understood exactly what Kayden was doing and what the force behind it was. At this moment, they just remained silent. No one was speaking a word while Eros was thinking. The demigod was thinking exactly what he should do at that moment: kill Kayden or let him live.