Before his pressure could even leave his body a meter, his head began to plummet. No one even had time to react before the old man’s skull hit the ground and burst into a pool of blood.
"Is my protection a joke for the Yasmim family? Well, as king, I order the end of the Yasmim Marquis family. Their entire generation must be exterminated." The king’s voice thundered across the entire arena.
Even those in the fourth realm felt their bodies tremble and their instincts screamed at them to run. No one knew the sovereign’s exact power, but it was now clear that he was not a normal wizard in the fourth realm.
Over the next few minutes, confusion ensued as the royal guards executed an entire family of nobles because of the king’s orders. Quickly, a high-level noble house was eliminated from the kingdom.
At that moment, all the nobility understood that Kayden was untouchable for the next twenty years. Even the dukes were afraid. As much as they were at the top of the food chain, they were nothing more than weak before the king.
"Continue the test." When all the confusion ended, the dean spoke again. Kayden scratched his head for a moment.
"My revenge won’t just stay on paper," Kayden continued as if nothing had happened. "At the moment, I don’t have the strength to go against the entire family, but I will give a demonstration of what awaits them in the coming years. I challenge the Ashford family servant Marcos to a life and death fight."
For a few seconds, no one knew what to say. No one knew Marcos or had even heard of him. Until a voice stood out in the crowd, drawing everyone’s attention.
"You’re good at making up stories, kid." The speaker was a middle-aged man, wearing a black suit with a mask that left only his eyes visible. Kayden recognized him right away.
The boy didn’t even express any emotion. He wasn’t feeling anything. His emotions were killed. He was nothing more than a machine pursuing his goals at that moment.
"I didn’t call you here to talk. I’m here to kill you." Marcos’ level as a wizard was instantly identified by everyone at the event and Kayden’s words were taken as delusional.
Never before has an apprentice managed to overcome a wizard in a fight. Regardless of how bad the wizard was and how genius the apprentice was, it was like an impassable river.
"If you wish to die, so be it." Marcos floated to the opposite side of Kayden. The distance between the two was only a few dozen meters.
"Judge, I need 10 minutes to prepare." Kayden sat on the floor, not worrying about anything else at that moment. The boy was resonating with his path.
With each passing second, the mana in the surroundings began to feel strange. She seemed inert and lifeless. It started near Kayden and slowly spread. At first, no one noticed, but after a minute, everyone with a certain kingdom noticed this anomaly.
Even the king stopped reading Kayden’s book to pay attention to this anomaly. The sound of a rhythmically beating heart also began to be heard. It wasn’t very strong, but it was constant and deep.
"Leo, this boy…" The dragon that accompanied the dean looked thoughtful. "He makes my instincts scream to kill him." Kayden’s tyrannical heart was causing a bad feeling to any beast at the event.
From the smallest magical animals in the apprentice realm to a dragon in the fourth realm, their instincts screamed that a predator was near them, ready to tear them apart at the slightest sign of carelessness on their part.
Over the next few minutes, some changes happened to Kayden. First, her hair was flying. Even without the boy opening his eyes, he could see a shade of blue shining in them.
The mana around him became chaotic. Before it was lifeless and listless, but now it felt like a storm. This mana flow was insanely fast, even some elements started to be produced into the air because of the collision.
When it reached 9 minutes, Kayden opened his eyes. All the mana within a 100-meter region instantly calmed down, not only that, but she seemed to be submissive.
"I’m ready." Kayden’s voice sounded strange, his breath released mana in gaseous form.
"You can fight." The judge’s voice came out in the middle of the spell Kayden was preparing. Marcos just stood there with an air of superiority. Before anyone could notice, the mana in the surroundings had a significant change.
" Collapse ." With Kayden’s order, it seemed like all the mana in the arena knelt before a god and obeyed his orders. The pressure caused by the mana made it visible in the air.
All this surreal amount of mana was suppressed around the mage instantly, an immense pressure preventing Marcos from moving for a few milliseconds.
Then another unbelievable thing happened. Even more, mana headed towards Kayden and orbited around him. The amount of mana was far beyond what a mere apprentice could handle and even some mages wouldn’t come close to it.
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The air itself was shaking from the immense amount of mana in the environment. The quantity was so much that it was visible. This entire flow of mana practically happened in a few milliseconds.
Kayden used the basic acceleration spell he knew but with an insane amount of mana. The key point at this moment was that all the mana was not being directly digested in his body.
It seemed like she was floating around him and being used outside his body to generate the spell. It was simply inexplicable to most people, even the king had no idea how this was being done.
Kayden stomped hard on the ground and it opened a large crack. Time seemed to stop for a moment in Kayden’s vision. The acceleration spell was thousands of times faster.
SWISH!!!
The sound of the wind cutting exploded in height and Marcos’ head fell to the ground along with it. Kayden moved fast enough to end the fight in less than 1 second. Even though the mage could fight back and kill him dozens of times in that period, she couldn’t do anything while being held back by the mana around her.
Kayden was still standing, but it was clear that the boy was no longer awake. He had practically passed out right after killing the wizard. Even so, his body remained upright, holding onto the last will he had when he was conscious.
"This kid is a real monster." An old man appeared next to the king. His features were very striking, with all the hair on his body in a pure white tone. Her hair was long and arranged in perfectly symmetrical braids that reached down to her waist.
"Father?" The king was surprised to see his father suddenly appear. "I saw that he is a monster, but to the point of attracting your attention?" The king was indeed impressed with Kayden, but there were still some small monsters that had reached this level before. Apollo was one of them.
"The mana around you responded to your desires at a level of control that not even I can reach." The old man’s sentence surprised the king more than all the events in the last decade. His father represented the peak of power of a kingdom currently.
"Should we kill him?" The one who said this was the king’s brother.
"No. We need to save all the strength we can. Even if they are uncontrollable monsters, he has 20 years of protection. We can’t force a contract on him during this period, so try to tie him to royalty another way."
"Yes, father." The two brothers responded together. They had logically seen value in Kayden. The boy even accomplished the historic feat of killing a wizard while just being an apprentice. But there were still other geniuses who deserved more of their attention, at least that was their opinion.