"I enjoyed my last night’s sleep yesterday." Kayden didn’t say anything else, he had already decided: that sleeping was eating up a lot of time in his day, so he looked for a way to solve this problem.
What he found was a forbidden surgery of placing a small mana stone along with a spell inside his head. This would prevent you from sleeping and would not harm any part of your life.
Your growth as a teenager would not be hindered, your information storage process would not be hindered. It was pretty much just earnings. Even the risk of him receiving a blow to the head did not exist, as the spell would simply dissipate and then return using the stone’s mana.
This was a medical miracle when discovered. The person who developed it was currently called the god of medicine and enjoyed a free pass to enter every country on the globe.
The problem was that not everything was perfect and, over time, defects in the technique began to appear. The tiredness of not sleeping did not exist, but rather a mental fatigue that accumulated from remaining for a long time without real rest. This would slowly destroy the person’s mind.
Day by day, she had to accept the fact that she couldn’t sleep and wouldn’t even be able to rest, regardless of what happened. And trying to force unconsciousness would accomplish nothing, as the body would not rest or take a break.
Even unconscious, the spell would still work and you would just be sleeping with your body awake. In other words, it would be useless. You would have to deal with this weight for many years.
"Only in the second realm will you be able to get rid of it completely. Because at first, you don’t need to sleep, but it would still help you rest your mind and relax. In the second realm, this becomes useless, we have mental reset spells that do the job of sleeping instantly."
"I’ve already made my decision, Sebastian." With the boy’s sentence, the butler finished pretending to put away the tools and turned to Kayden.
"We can’t use anesthesia, so resist the pain." As soon as he said that, Kayden closed his eyes and... felt the cold of sharp metal touching his head. What happened next was a true horror show.
A hole was opened in his head with the boy conscious. Furthermore, the process was done slowly so as not to damage anything. Just opening the hole took 30 minutes. The pain would have made anyone at least scream or cry.
Even the toughest soldier would become a young lady during this surgery. But Kayden... just had his eyes closed and the scariest thing was that, from time to time, he opened his eyes and just watched Sebastian.
It sent a shiver down the head butler’s spine every time. He had never seen anything like it. It seemed like he was performing the surgery on a demon or a person who didn’t feel pain. But he knew Kayden was in pain. He often saw the boy complaining about kicking the corner of the table. It was silly, but the surprise and pain of having your little finger crushed was universal.
"I will begin the final process." Kayden just remained quiet and... watched the process trying to learn something from it. The head butler used some paint and... started drawing strange symbols on Kayden’s brain.
The feeling was... ridiculously painful. But the strangest thing was that the pain was coming from different areas of his body. It all depended on where the brush was passed. The painting only lasted 5 minutes and then came the mana stone part.
To do this, Sebastian had to remove a small part of Kayden’s brain. According to the butler, this part was insignificant, as it didn’t even work properly. The test to find it was using a mana wave and, where there was no reaction, it was the right place.
The doctors didn’t know what exactly this area was for, but everyone had it and it represented absolutely nothing. Even people who had it removed lived for centuries without any consequences. Furthermore, it was the only point in the brain that did not accept mana.
Again, great pain invaded Kayden and his entire body began to vibrate from being invaded and inspected. He attributed this to the wave of mana passing through his brain. It felt like every inch of him was being turned over
Kayden found himself disoriented for a millisecond but soon returned to normal. That was because Sebastian had taken a part of his head. That millisecond was his brain being reorganized to live without a part of him, even if it was useless.
The next pain was from something else being introduced into his head. Kayden didn’t feel anything this time. It was just a pain in the region. Once again, he found himself disoriented for a moment and soon after returned to normal.
Then Sebastian took a healing pill out of his pocket and was ready to put it in Kayden’s mouth, as he had done countless times with other patients. But again the boy surprised him by catching it himself and eating it quickly.
The very act of chewing was making his head burst with pain, and yet the boy did it without complaining. This was the final step and he would finally be free. In just a few seconds, all of his injuries healed.
"Kayden? What’s your name? How old are you?" Sebastian began asking several different questions to test Kayden’s memory and intelligence. The butler knew that any mistake would result in a vegetable.
All questions were answered expertly by Kayden. The boy did a physical and mental review and could only notice one difference: he wasn’t sleepy, even though it was his standard bedtime. Furthermore, I didn’t have the fatigue of spending a lot of time awake.
"I’m fine, thanks for that, Sebastian. The payment for the surgery is on your account." Even though the old man did this willingly, Kayden decided to reward him. Money was nothing to him. This was more of a goodwill gesture than actually a payment.
"Thank you, sir, salary bonuses are always welcome." The old man left, leaving Kayden alone in the room. The boy wasted no time and started cultivating. His immediate goal was to reach the ninth rank.
Now he had 7 more hours of cultivation left. This increased his progress by several folds. The boy estimated that it would only take a month if he used an environment with 15 times the amount of mana and added it to 14 straight hours of cultivation daily and reached 48 straight hours during the weekends.
To do this, he would have to leave aside the coliseum and any event on the weekends. Your life would practically become hell and not even the unluckiest slave on planet Earth would have such a high workload.
Kayden smiled.
"The world will doubt reality with my progress."
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"Boy, what the fuck?" As soon as Kayden stepped into the alchemist tower, he was greeted by an enraged Bolt. "Did you throw your whole life away just to not waste a few hours sleeping?"
Kayden’s initial confusion was replaced by understanding.
"Don’t worry about that." His tone was neutral, but upon seeing his master’s second explosion coming:
"Master, I’m not a child. I know what I’m doing." Kayden’s voice was cold and his eyes cut off any challenge from Bolt.
His age compared to his new master was like that of a newborn to an adult. But Kayden’s eyes were those of an existence that saw the birth of civilization and survived to the present day. His mental age was far beyond his physical age.
"Alright, come on, let’s cultivate until you die then." The old man seemed hurt that his apprentice had left him in the dark about this matter, even though the master-disciple relationship was only affected yesterday.
This time they went to a room on floor number 20. It had several rooms with increased mana levels and, in front of them, a price in terms of merit points per hour.
The most expensive one increased mana by 30 times and cost an incredible thousand merit points per hour. This was a high number for Kayden at this point, considering his only source was the coliseum and he only gained 10 merit points per week. This amount of a thousand points was still something far away for him.
Environments with 30 times or more the amount of mana were useless for apprentices, as most were unable to utilize all of the mana in the area. However, they were still useful for advancements, where the amount of mana needed to be higher than recommended to increase the rank.
He didn’t even know how to get merit points. The only way he knew how was to complete the class he chose with merit and that was decided by the teacher. Each class with merit earned a thousand points, it was practically a gold mine for a hard-working student.
"When you feel hungry, just let me know. We will try to do at least eight hours of cultivation." Bolt put in a high number of hours as he believed Kayden had the potential to do so.
He, when he was at the apprentice level, could barely cultivate for more than eight hours at a time and his maximum was twelve. This was still considering that he was always very hardworking and had strict discipline.
"Do you have anything to do later, master?" Kayden didn’t understand why only eight hours of cultivation.
"No, but eight hours is a lot of time already, Kayden. We shouldn’t put too much effort into just one thing, otherwise your mental health may deteriorate."
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The boy finally understood what was happening and smiled.
"Don’t worry about it, master. Just wake me up before class." Bolt was confused for a second. It was still Saturday, classes would only start on Monday. Before he could say anything, Kayden closed his eyes and began to cultivate.
Wasting no time, the mage gathered mana for the boy and just focused on doing other things during this period. Only by utilizing his spiritual sense could he command the entire building, at least in the area he was responsible for.
Not only that, but he could cultivate and not even lose concentration on any of his tasks. Moving up a kingdom was more than just power, it was a change in practically everything. Slowly, you would lose your humanity and become a god. Splitting your mind was a basic thing that any second-rank mage already could do.
Kayden looked like a vortex-absorbing mana. He had never had so much mana available for so long. Every centimeter, or rather every millimeter, was being tested and altered to get the best performance possible.
Was the mana vein too short? Kayden increased it. Was it too soft? He hardened her. Did you need to touch your own heart and the pain felt like you were taking an organ out of yourself? It didn’t matter. The pain meant nothing.
Slowly, the hours began to pass. Kayden didn’t even remember the time. That didn’t exist inside his head. His focus was absolute. But someone else remembered. Bolt had all his attention focused on Kayden, waiting for the boy to break down.
"18 hours straight? What the fuck?" He had never seen this in an apprentice. Even a wizard didn’t have the mental development for that. It would have to be at least a second realm wizard.
And not even the amount of mana that the small black hole called Kayden absorbed per second decreased. Bolt assessed his clarity runes. Could it be that he placed a divine tier rune here?
That was the question running through his head when he arrived at 24 hours. He didn’t even know if there were divine-level runes and still went to check. It didn’t seem real what Kayden was doing.
"When school starts..." Finally, it made sense in his head. The boy wasn’t kidding. He was simply crazy. The next few hours passed slowly for Bolt.
Every hour that passed, his ego got a slap in the face. He was always the hardest worker of his generation and truly reached the top of the world, but he was watching a kid who hadn’t even turned 20 destroy everything he believed in.
When it arrived at 6 a.m. on Monday, Bolt touched Kayden’s shoulder and the boy still didn’t wake up. He had to throw cold water on Kayden and shake him a lot.
"Sorry, master," Kayden woke up and soon understood the situation. "Thanks for your help. I’ll be back this afternoon." The boy walked out the door, leaving Bolt unresponsive. He couldn’t understand.
Where were the negative reactions?
The outbreaks because of this inhuman effort?
Author’s note: I was out of time so I compiled two chapters into one, the bonus caps are now 25 stones, once again you were above expectations and I need to increase lol