"Good job, guys," Lucas said as soon as they returned to the camp where they had spent the last few days. Kayden was responsible for keeping watch at night, but as a benefit, he did not need to prepare food or perform any household tasks. Sitting while waiting for dinner, he began to cultivate. In the last week, this was the routine: fighting all day and, in the evening, cultivating and reflecting on concepts. Their opponents were high-level beasts, and their team hunted at least some beasts at the sixth rank and above.
"What’s it like at the gym, sunshine Kayden?" Asiva asked. She was the only one still trying to have any kind of conversation with Kayden. Most of the time, the boy responded in a monosyllabic manner and went back to training. This stopped people from trying to learn more about him—at least the majority. Asiva was very curious and wanted to know everything after seeing Kayden’s strength, even more so after knowing where he studied.
The girl’s question made Kayden stop his cultivation for a moment. He didn’t know what life was like inside the academy, which places to go with his friends, or which attraction to go to in his free time. He spent two years practically in his room, cultivating and training in the coliseum.
"I don’t know, I don’t interact with other students, I just attend classes," Kayden replied. His answer suited his personality, which is why Asiva didn’t question him for the rest of the period, at least not until another doubt arose in his mind.
"Do you have a girlfriend?" His question caught Kayden by surprise for a few seconds. Then he responded normally.
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"Yes," and with that he went back to cultivating without bothering about anything.
"Hey, guys, come up to the sky for a second," Lucas shouted, not bothering to attract the attention of nearby animals. As soon as Kayden climbed up, he came across a huge blue blob a few miles away. It rose high above the clouds and was lost in the sky. Other than its size, no characteristics could be defined. The group was quiet for a few seconds before Kayden spoke up.
"I’ll explore that."
"What if it’s dangerous? We’ve never seen anything like this before," Kayden’s only response was a shrug and then he flew into the dome, his team reluctantly following him.
As soon as they arrived, they noticed the presence of several mages of different levels of power flying in the air. Within seconds, Kayden found Locke with his spiritual sense, resting in one of the trees below.
"Hello, Locke. Do you know anything about this?" Kayden was direct with his question and received a straight answer from his friend.
"The kingdom has no information about this. Mages above the first realm can’t enter, mages in the fourth realm haven’t even been able to open a hole in the barrier. For now, it’s free for anyone to enter. We believe it’s some alien treasure." "
The fact that not even the kingdom knew what was happening caught Kayden by surprise for a few seconds. After reflecting a bit, he decided to ask Locke one more question.
"Are you going in?"
"Yes, my grandfather said that there is nothing above the first kingdom in there, he guaranteed this information about his life. The only problem is that there doesn’t seem to be a way to get out." With that, Kayden also decided to join. Locke would still wait a few hours for Luan and some teammates to arrive. Kayden didn’t want to wait all this time.
He was confident that he could at least evade any opponent in the same realm as him. Furthermore, the longer it took, the fewer treasures he would be able to find in the shallow part of the forest. The bubble appeared to stretch nearly 1000 kilometers according to authorities, and no one was able to see what was happening inside.
Kayden talked to Locke for a few more minutes and decided to enter the bubble. Incredible as it may seem, his team was willing to join in too. Kayden didn’t completely trust them, but he had a degree of respect for their abilities, so he didn’t mind having them inside.
As soon as he got close to the bubble, he heard a strange sound, a loud noise that came from the man holding the barrier. Kayden was amazed to make another discovery, the mana wasn’t divided into parts, it was just a large chunk of mana across the entire barrier.
Without fear, he put one arm forward and…lost any feeling of it, almost as if it had been cut from his body without him realizing it. The worst part was that he wasn’t able to pull his arm back again. Accepting this fact, he entered with his entire body.
As soon as he arrived, his body shivered at the enormous amount of mana present in the environment, it was at least 20 times the mana outside. Not only that, but everything felt more alive. The trees were bigger and more vibrant, even the animals seemed to have silkier, more well-groomed fur.
" Holy shit," Kayden cursed in his mind at the sight of a tree of flaming apples. It wasn’t really rare, but each apple cost around 100 gold coins and the tree was loaded with at least a few dozen.
"We’re rich!" Paulo was the first to scream when he saw this scene. He was the main guide in the knowledge of the forest and had to explain what the tree was to his group. Within seconds, the group had collected a few dozen into an expandable bag. The hunter guild did not have space rings, something Kayden was sure the higher-ups should possess, at least those in the fourth realm. He’s seen Han and Bolt pull things out of thin air multiple times.
The expandable bag was made with runes that took its weight and shaped its size to fit even a bus without increasing its overall weight by a single gram. Each one cost a few thousand gold coins, but every hunter needed to have one.
Kayden didn’t bother wasting time collecting a few hundred coins. His focus remained on his surroundings, trying to detect anything useful around him. He saw several plants that he recognized and his studies that had some commercial value.
"I’m going to get these sheets here guys," Kayden said calmly. No one in the group recognized the leaves and just ignored them as they organized the money that would be given to each apple tree.
Meanwhile, Kayden began chewing the leaf and soon felt his blood being boiled like a cauldron. The pain was ridiculously high, but Kayden didn’t even express a reaction. Each sheet of this was worth a few hundred thousand gold coins. Its function was very simple, it increased the concentration of nutrients and mana in the blood, changing it to become denser and thicker.
Kayden continued chewing every time the burning went away. In just a few minutes, he managed to make the leaf no longer have any effect on his body and become useless. But his gain was ridiculously high, as it was almost impossible to merge blood with mana naturally.
In addition, it is very difficult because the person would have to have great control over their mana so that it does not turn into poison within the blood. After the second realm, this became useless, but at this point, Kayden would make an insane recovery. A cut of medium depth should close in just a few minutes as long as he circulates the mana in his blood and a severed limb could grow back in a few weeks naturally. His gain was beyond ridiculous, and that was just the tip of the forest.
Kayden just watched as the group went through a near breakthrough for just a few thousand gold coins. He was unfazed and advised that he did not need to be included in the profit sharing. Within a few minutes, they decided to move on.
The situation became strange when Kayden realized that the entrance had some treasures perfectly positioned to attract adventurers. In the next few miles of forest, they only found a few things of low value, at least in Kayden’s eyes.
"A world tree," whispered Kayden in surprise at the sight of a huge tree on a plain growing alone. He recognized the shape of the tree with its gigantic leaves the size of a house and the completely black wood looking like it had been burned.
"It is in the third realm, as it only has three major branches," said Lucas, bringing information that made Kayden surprised. Fortunately, this tree wasn’t aggressive as long as you didn’t attack it. Even if you stole her seeds, she wouldn’t care. The only thing prohibited was attacking his body.
The guild’s hunters were given great knowledge about all the treasures they could find in the forest, even if it was something national level like the world tree. Logically, this involved heavy loyalty and silence contracts.
Author’s note: I was sent to the emergency room due to an emergency in my right eye, I may lose vision in my eyes if everything goes wrong, in that case, I will put a summary of the work and how it should end, sorry about that, at the moment I can’t respond to any comments, my eyes are dilated