The Monarch

Chapter 389: The soul

"We are not the creator," Hypnos seemed to be able to read Kayden’s mind as well. "All living things dream, Kayden, and have their nightmares. The two are nothing more than the same thing presented in different ways: dreams, the mana of the soul, the soul itself, and the life force... they are all the same thing presented in different ways."

This revelation opened Kayden’s mind to frightening levels. This meant that all this time, he had been consuming his soul and using it as strength, but fortunately, the mana from this place was able to regenerate it.

"It wasn’t the soul you were moving, but rather its reduced version in the form of life force. I had hoped that you would at least be able to mold it freely after so long, but even that you were not able to do."

Kayden had no way to defend himself, he tried with all his might for thousands of years and, even so, he had practically illusory progress in this area. His talent was ridiculously low and he always knew it.

"But why am I in this place?" Kayden finally asked the question that had sparked doubt in his head for the longest time.

"Since Thoth delivered some secrets that will lead Father to advance to divinity, the space-time cycle has been closed from the eyes of the gods by the true god of time. This means we can now only make predictions."

Hypnos threw out the information as if he were reading a newspaper. Revealing that there was a time god capable of preventing everyone else from seeing into the timeline was a completely frightening secret.

"Before, we could easily look a few millennia into the life of every living being in this universe. Even the gods were not free from our predictive abilities, but now we can only rely on our minds."

If even gods were below the ability to guard against the prediction of these two entities, did that mean that they were indirectly above the divine level? At that moment, Hipnos opened an enigmatic smile and Kayden understood that he knew about his doubt and was not going to answer it.

"Our mental capacity is more than enough to predict every action of every atom in this universe for the next thousands of years." Ridiculous! It was a capacity far beyond any of Kayden’s wild estimates. "But the problem is that some beings like me and Thoth are in the mix, making everything unpredictable."

The only thing these beings were unable to calculate was each other, as in a way they were on the same level of strength and their impacts on the universe were too great to be easily measured.

"All of Thoth’s plans have a reason. Father is, at the moment, the one who is getting closest, you and the other trillions represent just one more attempt. The problem is that with all this confusion in the universe…" Hypnos stopped talking. "I had forgotten that you spent a little time trapped here."

Kayden and Hipnos disappeared from that place and found themselves flying over one of the ends of the universe. Kayden was seeing perhaps one of the craziest and most meaningless things in his entire life: the complete and perfect lack of existence.

"Father has managed to advance and is slowly gathering mana for his plans. This is called the mana of nonexistence, true and complete lack, a law in its purest and most primordial state." Hypnos finished his sentence and the two returned to the dream world.

"Right now, no one knows exactly what will happen in the universe and how far Pai will consume mana. We’re just watching to see if anything interesting comes out of this situation. This means that Thoth had to choose which plans he would keep and which ones would be set aside."

"I’ve been left out, haven’t I?" Kayden quickly understood his situation.

"Yes, you are strong and have great potential for a nine-ray mage, but... that’s it. You will never be able to beat Father in the future in the eyes of Thoth and all the other great players in this universe."

Kayden suffered a small blow to his pride, at least if he had any feelings of ego, he just accepted this criticism and thought about how he could overcome this barrier, this detail of something missing was what he said to thousands of people throughout your life.

"But you think differently, don’t you?" Kayden saw no other reason for him to be there.

"Not really, I’m just lazy and don’t want to participate in big fights, and at this moment, where I can’t watch the time... everything has become an interesting bet, that’s why we’re here."

When you reach the top of the universe... you have absolutely nothing left to accomplish, there must be some barrier impossible for these entities to break. Thoth probably seeks a solution to this, but the others just have as much fun as they can.

"Did I fail?" Kayden understood that his time here was both a test and a gift.

"Yes, but there are no problems either, I just don’t think you will evolve much staying in that environment. The soul is a delicate subject, Kayden, even though I am the greatest master of it, I don’t know all the details, there are only two truths about it: the soul cannot be consumed and there are no beings without a soul."

Kayden raised an eyebrow at the last remark. The soul not being consumed was something he could understand in a certain way because it was something special and beyond the ordinary, but the fact that there were no beings without a soul was unknown according to his life information.

"The soul is eternal, Kayden. You are unable to consume it in any way to generate mana and there are beings like the undead, for example, that hold dead souls, but they are still souls, even the strangest and deadest being in this universe has a soul, be it pure. or modified."

This was very high-level information being delivered into Kayden’s hands. Probably not even a thousand people in the entire universe know necessary to discover it.