The dean once again made a quick and precise speech and left everyone’s sight. The competition began and Kayden sat on the ground to cultivate. His focus now was to reach the ninth level and only then begin another concept.
He set this goal because his treasures were accumulating and it would be faster to advance a level than to learn another concept. He would still be learning another concept, he just hasn’t decided which one. Besides, I would also have to study a little about having just one heart.
Kayden got lost in his thoughts and was only awakened by a tap on his shoulder. When he looked up, he found Locke looking next to Luan. Kayden understood immediately and stood up. Just a few seconds later, he was in the same bubble as a month ago.
Kayden saw the same faces as last time and, oddly enough, some new ones too. But they were a minority in the changes. In general, the top 20 remained the same as before. This time, everyone was more afraid of fighting and being disqualified. Kayden didn’t care and just sat and waited.
The minutes began to pass as the nervousness grew. Everyone’s aggressive aura was causing the atmosphere to become gloomy. In a few seconds, the first movement finally happened.
Anabela began to release dozens of phoenixes against the weaker participants. Anthony and the one-eyed man were also against them. This time, this team decided to prioritize the top 10 instead of chasing the top 1. And after seeing how Kayden was just sitting around doing nothing, they took the initiative.
Locke engaged in a battle to eliminate the weakest first. With that, it didn’t even take 10 minutes for there to be only ten people left. At this point, the match again began to calm down as the strong faced each other.
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There were four people in Anthony and Anabela’s group, while Locke and Kayden added two others. There was also another group with four other people, three of whom were melee mages and the rest were ranged mages.
"Hey! Let’s form a temporary team!" one of the leaders on the other side shouted and explained his plan to take Kayden out of the game in a less-than-honorable way. Anabela thought about the matter for a while.
On the one hand, they could have a chance to eliminate the strongest competitor. But on the other hand, they would lose any honor they had left, and it wasn’t much considering the last beating they took.
"Kayden! If I face them, will you two butt in?" Anabela screamed. A red tint could be seen on her cheek, she was probably remembering the events in the bubble. Kayden only took a second to respond.
"As long as they don’t attack Locke, I won’t meddle." With that, Anabela’s group got into a fight against the other four. The most incredible thing is that as the minutes passed, it became clear that it wasn’t easy.
It was to the point where the one-eyed man was eliminated from the match. Even so, the difference in strength was very large and the result was as expected. Only three people remained: Anthony, Anabela, and the support mage whom Kayden discovered was called Vitória.
Even though he was cultivating, he was aware of his surroundings and stood up as soon as Anthony started to come at them. His speed was higher than before. It was possible to see a yellow glow around him.
Kayden used acceleration and ran into the boy. Their speed was much superior and within seconds they found each other. On the way, Kayden pulled out the maximum mana his path allowed. He looked like a supernova charged with mana at high speed.
Anthony already had a general idea of which attack Kayden would use and his blanket was in the defensive position at all times.
SWISH!
An extremely fast aura slash came out from Kayden’s katana. Anthony’s blanket was arranged to receive him. The boy didn’t pay much attention and focused his attention on Kayden. He knew his blanket could hold off one attack at least.
BOOOM!
The blanket of water burst and the cut continued at high speed, reaching Anthony almost instantly. He wasn’t even able to react before he was disqualified. Anthony didn’t know this attack would be so strong at this point and he ended up paying for it.
What he didn’t know was that Kayden got another concept and another rank. Using all the mana he could, his attack reached a ridiculously high level. Locke had barely reached both and his fight was already over.
BOOOM!
Kayden unleashed lightning on Anabela, who was taken by surprise. She wasn’t paying attention to Anthony’s struggle and hoped her friend could hold Kayden for at least a few minutes.
The girl had to put a bubble around herself, which prevented her from moving. This allowed Locke to launch a strong flame attack against her. One more bubble was stacked, showing Anabela’s skill as a genius wizard.
BOOOM!
Kayden unleashed lightning again and broke what was left of the bubbles. Locke once again approached the girl, who just conjured another bubble. But the bubble was cut by a hidden aura attack.
The girl would have been disqualified at that moment if Victoria hadn’t placed another bubble around her and pushed Locke away with a wind spell. Then, she used a spell to gather some mana around the two of them.
BOOOM!
BOOOM!
BOOOM!
Kayden didn’t give a second of rest as he continued bombarding the two with lightning without stopping. Locke took advantage of these gaps to use flame attacks and aura cuts. Anabela still could throw several different attacks, but the pestering prevented her from using a strong move.
Slowly, everyone’s mana began to run out, even more so with the mana in the environment being difficult to control. Meanwhile, Kayden was at his peak and couldn’t stop launching aura and lightning attacks.
"Shit," Vitória cursed under her breath as she was disqualified by a slash of pure mana thrown by Kayden. Over the next few minutes, it was just a matter of attrition until Anabela was caught by an attack from Locke and was taken out of the arena.
"I quit". The same situation happened again and Kayden remained undefeated for two months in a row. Without caring about it, he just went to Sarah. Before the match, he promised to go to a formal event with her.
A few hours later, Kayden finally returned to his house. Even though the social event was a huge waste of time, he still made some profit by talking to the duke and asking for some favors for his companies.
As soon as he entered his room, he placed a treasure seed he received from Athena in his mouth and felt the mana in his body begin to multiply. In just a few seconds, it was ideal for him to cultivate.
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Three more months passed and Kayden remained undefeated in the championship. In the meantime, he learned another middle-level concept called electric shock. He had to use one of his treasures for this, but the gains made it worth it.
There were just a few more concepts left and he could start learning the electrical spiritual sense technique made by Bolt. The technique called for at least one ray path with 4 concepts about lightning in the first realm.
Counting all his concepts, Kayden reached the number of seven concepts and felt that his path was becoming more powerful. At the same time, his control over concepts was looser. For every concept he added that didn’t have a direct effect on his path, he lessened his control over the other concepts.
He didn’t know what would happen if he accumulated too many concepts. Maybe he couldn’t keep them interconnected? Kayden didn’t know and wasn’t very willing to find out. Therefore, he chose to always alternate between concepts.
He was currently at the peak of the eighth level and would advance today with the seed he gained a few days ago. But he was stopped when he received an invitation from Azir. Kayden didn’t know what it was about, that’s why he was on the dean’s floating platform.
Azir was sitting in an armchair drinking wine from a glass. As soon as Kayden arrived, they both looked at him and sized him up. A look of surprise appeared on both of their faces. They could feel Kayden’s level, and it didn’t surprise them. It was his aura.
They couldn’t directly say how many concepts Kayden learned, but it was certainly above normal. And the worst thing was that their aura was solid, showing that they were tied together. The two would have to stay with this curiosity, as Kayden wouldn’t respond.
"Don’t look, I won’t offer. These were made by a wizard who has since died." The old man directly denied a request that Kayden wasn’t even going to make. The boy just waited uncomfortably.
"Kayden, are you interested in participating in the Battle of the World for our academy?" The dean got straight to the point and caught Kayden by surprise. He didn’t expect such an invitation.