Author’s note: you want a villain, don’t you? So get ready
As soon as Kayden was removed from Han’s vision, Han turned off his spell which was freezing time. Thanks to his techniques, he could still live a few more minutes without paying the price for his actions.
"Han? What are you doing here and since when have you been in the fifth realm?" Their leader was a young man who looked exactly like Adam, making his descent clear.
"Just fulfilling the role of a father," as soon as he said that, a surreal amount of mana began to move around the three, causing the space to warp and close in on them.
They didn’t even notice before their bodies were turned into a heap of flesh. The manipulation of space was too much for them to handle. Their leader...
A glow came out over his destroyed body and glowed until the entire mass of flesh on his body disappeared. Han recognized it as a life-saving device and felt the space opening up for him to escape. Unfortunately, having time stopped meant he was unable to continue and just watched the young man flee.
The two adults with him who were dead were of the fifth realm, but only at the base, while the young man was getting close to the peak of that realm. Their ages probably didn’t match their appearances. Han crushed them like they were cockroaches. He didn’t even break a sweat and could have easily done so before. Unfortunately, it had to be this way.
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If they escaped and attacked without worrying about anything, Kayden would be killed, and Han was tightly tied to the power of spacetime and knew that this was his last day. He didn’t want to fight against fate and chose the option that saved his adopted son’s life.
His body began to break into small gray parts and fly in the wind. On his face, he had the smile of someone who was satisfied and fulfilled with his life. He had already accepted that he would finally have definitive peace in his life.
"I will claim your life now," the same voice from before resounded. This would not be a simple death. Han was being completely erased from existence, his soul and flesh would be erased from the timeline.
"I will pay his price," another voice appeared and hooked Han’s soul when his body had already completely disappeared.
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Kayden had been falling for a few hours at a steady speed. Just a few minutes after he started falling, he noticed that it was a spell that was taking him down, and there was nothing he could do to speed it up or slow it down.
During this time, he did nothing as he stared at a fixed point below him. Your mind just stopped working for a while. He was still digesting everything that happened previously.
His life was at its complete peak, everything was within his reach and he had gained ridiculous strength and then, in just a few hours, all of that was undone. He lost his father, he lost his best friend and he lost his brother.
Many memories flashed through his mind of moments he had with Han and the two traitors. He never expected it to end like this, he had never done anything for Eden and yet he was obliterated by them.
Kayden put them on his revenge list, this time out of respect for his father. He might never be able to climb out of this abyss, but if he did, that would be his number one priority.
His second decision was the most extreme, he would only move up the ranks when he reached complete perfection. He only got ten concepts in the first realm this time...
"Hundreds." Kayden would only move into the ascension process on the last day of his life. He would polish his existence to a completely absurd level. His goal was to be able to reach the third realm with seven rays and be able to jump entire realms in terms of strength.
This meant that he would spend the next two hundred years or so locked inside this abyss without contact with any human being. Any normal person would be crazy to decide that, but Kayden had already completely broken down. Only the obsession with becoming stronger kept him alive.
After a few more hours, Kayden finally came to peace with all his thoughts and chose to open the book Han gave him. The cover had a title that demonstrated that he had a treasure.
"All of Han’s spells and a small bibliography," Kayden stared at the cover for a few seconds and then opened the book.
"Hello son, I’ve only a few times called you, but now that I’m dead it doesn’t make any difference, I’ll start from the beginning so it makes sense. My name is Han, the son of farmers, someone without a future and marginalized by society. When I turned 14, I was only in the sixth rank of apprentice and I had no prospects for life.
During this period, I joined the army and started training like crazy. I became addicted to gaining more and more power. My talent was never great, among geniuses I was average, but I worked harder than anyone in that place. By a twist of fate, I broke into a water organization hideout when I was in the second realm and around 50 years old.
It may seem weak to you, but that was a few centuries ago, at that time it placed me just below the thousand best geniuses in the kingdom. In the water hiding place, I found dozens of second-realm seeds and several innovative techniques. Furthermore, I came across the path and the detailed ray concept.
All my advances were with four spokes and were no big deal. That day, I decided to bury the cache along with all the evidence and keep all the treasures for myself. This allowed me to break through to the peak of the second realm in just 5 years.
This time, I joined the list of greatest geniuses, and even more resources were invested in me by an old man named Azir. Unfortunately, I never had contact with him again after the kingdom suffered an attempted coup, and the Sol family took over the government. I don’t know where he is, but I wish him all the best.
Finally, I managed to break through five rays and was very close to understanding my path. I don’t think I ever told you this, but if I did, I probably made up some nonsense. My path was the noble one of fire, it combined my noble and honest personality with my favorite element.
What an idiot I was, with less than 100 I reached the fourth realm with five lightning bolts. I took my ascension test hidden in the forest, on the recommendation of a friend named Thoth. Even so, I ended up being caught by Eden. If you don’t know what they are, there is a sheet at the end of the book.
"Thoth?" Kayden latched onto that name. This meant that that teenager teenager would not be the correct word, that old man was pulling the strings of destiny many years ago. Putting that aside, he went back to reading.
At least I managed to hide the amount of lightning I had gotten. At this point in my life, my parents had already died and I had managed to build my family with a beautiful wife and adorable children. A few more centuries passed, and I had to defend my hometown.
That day, I lost my cultivation and everything I had achieved. Still, I didn’t give up. I had ridiculously large amounts of wealth and was a national hero who could not be killed. In 20 years, I regained my level, and... my ascension to the fourth realm killed my family.
At that moment, I went into a ridiculously high state of denial, and in the same place where I went forward again, I stood still, not thinking, not having any reaction for 10 years. I just broke in every way possible.
When I woke up from my trance, the first thing I did was break all my cultivation and start over again. I won’t go into details, but I retraced my path entirely. This time, I got a path rare enough for Lucifer to come talk to me.
Lucifer is Adam’s teacher. He controls the entire forest and most of all land on our planet. Its main form is that of a dragon. You must see it in the future if you can become stronger.
Continuing my story, I acquired the spacetime path. According to Lucifer, this is the strongest path that any existence can achieve. He is practically considered a future god. You’ll learn about this in the future, I hope.
I got 6 lightning bolts and reached the fourth realm again, but my strength was ridiculously high. When I manipulate space, even figures in the fifth realm can be killed easily. But when I manipulate time, I suffer ridiculously high repercussions to the point where I can’t use mana for years.
This power has a price and can make me fight people in the sixth realm easily. This is a new realm for you. knew that only two beings had reached it so far, Lucifer and Adam, Adam being only a sixth sacrificed kingdom.