It wasn’t difficult for Kayden to manipulate the mana to take away what he only wanted. The process took a few minutes and once it was over, it burned the young man’s body completely. Knowledge of the new language was divided between the two. Felix had a splitting headache and lay on Kayden’s shoulder like a sweaty t-shirt.
Kayden didn’t care much about the pain. It was pretty weak compared to everything he’d been through. The boy just waited while his brain digested all the new knowledge. Even though it wasn’t particularly complicated, it still took him a full hour to become fluent in the new language.
His first objective was complete. Kayden continued his journey towards the human settlement once Felix was better. The feline took a little longer to digest all the new information. The two traveled without any fear, not even someone at the peak of the third realm would be able to detect them.
It didn’t take long and they arrived at the human settlement. Calling it a human settlement was not the most correct. Kayden came across an entire medieval-style town. Even from afar, he was sure that more than 10 thousand people lived there.
The two got close enough that Kayden’s spiritual sense could detect human interactions. It took him a few days to understand the culture and functioning of the city.
First, its length was about four meters and it was divided into a few different areas. The lowest level was where the buildings were the worst and some people were in the first kingdom, but only the oldest ones stayed there.
Those in the second kingdom who were the majority could enjoy clean streets and various perks a little further away from the city. There were also teenagers and children in the first kingdom at this location. The last area was the center. Kayden detected the presence of only four people in the third realm at that location.
This area was private and separated by a wall. A few people from other kingdoms had access to the center, mostly servants and family members of the true leaders. Another thing Kayden noticed was that...
This was a sick society. The strong dominated, but on an inhuman level. One of the leaders of the third kingdom received female visitors every day, of all ages.
Whether they were children or elderly women, he received them and had sex with them. Women often had families, and Kayden discovered that this had been happening for centuries and they just accepted it as if it were inevitable.
Another leader had a hobby of using narcotic drugs, of all types and forms, from herbs to stones, it didn’t matter. It seemed like he was always trying to escape some personal problem.
There were two more leaders. One of them was someone normal to a certain extent. His only problem was that he had a bad habit of imposing himself on the people of the city who were inferior to him, whether by surprisingly increasing his taxes or making them kneel.
The last leader was a young-looking and narcissistic woman. Out of everyone, she was considered the worst in Kayden’s yardstick. She had purple hair that fell to her waist. Her body was completely proportional and at just 1.50m would make any man fall in love with her.
His hobby was taking male people, preferably young ones, and torturing them for weeks and months. She practiced a very unique type of torture. As much as the physical pain was present, Kayden identified it as something more psychological.
She would first have sex with her victim and then torture her. As time went by, he would ask the victim to self-harm or do specific things in exchange for sexual acts with her. The person would slowly break down from the physical torture and seek this little relaxation. Unfortunately, it was this process that she enjoyed.
Seeing her victim slowly relate her pain to her pleasure and completely lose her sanity was what she sought. Leaders were treated as living gods and unrelated to humans.
Reputation and hierarchy divisions were based on the amount of lightning people got on their first breakthrough. The average among people was two spokes, those with three spokes held prominent positions in the city and leadership roles. These were less tormented by the gods.
The city’s currency was a circle made of metal painted gold. He had the face of the four gods of the city. Most of the strong inhabitants openly abused the weaker ones, to the point where daylight murders and rapes were normal.
The funny thing was that most people were probably mentally normal. Just the fact that they had power and could use it freely made them give freedom to their darkest desires.
Apart from this small factor, it was a very well-organized and functional society, with each person performing a specific role. There was free public education, even their healthcare system was free. Of course, this was only for people from high society, around 20% of the population, the rest just tried to survive as best they could.
"We’re going to kidnap the woman in the third realm and turn her into a slave, I have plans for her," Kayden communicated to Felix, who was excited to get some action different from the usual. He didn’t care about Kayden’s motives, the feline was too lazy for that.
Kayden continued studying society and looking for the best time for his kidnapping. As he was someone rational in the third realm and probably with four lightning bolts, Kayden had to be extremely brutal in his attitude. The first thing he did was place clues that she was being followed.
At some point, the woman’s ego would get the better of her and make her leave town to lure her pursuer. At that moment, she would easily be able to catch him, her arrogance was not unjustified considering her strength and position in society, even more so that her ego would be hurt by not being able to detect the person.
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It was only after a month and a half that the woman left the city limits. Kayden followed her a few hundred miles to a waterfall. Behind the waterfall, there was a small sanctuary protected by several runes and decorated with luxury items from the abyss.
A few minutes after the woman entered, Kayden, without any fear, crossed the waterfall. He had to crush the woman’s confidence first for the enslavement spell to have a better effect.
"Hello, stalker. I hope you knew what you were doing," Kayden said to buy time. He automatically released a gigantic aura slash capable of splitting the woman into two halves. She reacted quickly and moved on adrenaline, raising a barrier of water in front of her that completely absorbed the impact.
Before she could say anything or breathe, a black cat with white paws appeared at her side with a domineering aura and unleashed five black claw slashes at her at point-blank range. She still managed to raise a barrier of water, but the claws easily broke it, causing five deep cuts that went from her waist to her neck.
" Aargh !" The woman groaned in pain and tried to perform a mana explosion to push away her attackers and get some distance. Kayden didn’t even flinch as he threw lightning and aura slashes at her.
Even though she was ridiculously strong in this place, the surprise and lack of combat meant that her decisions were made irrationally. Almost instantly, she healed her own body, making it clear that she was a healing mage.
Kayden used his domain and prevented her from triggering any signal to her allies using an artifact. The woman frowned as she felt her spiritual sense shrinking to the size of a room and functioning very poorly.
" Hey ! Wait, let’s agree!" she shouted as she backed away and began pulling all the mana she could into her. At that moment, the ground at his feet turned to snow and began to freeze his body from the inside out.
BOOOM! She burst the ground at her feet using a torrent of high-pressure water and freed herself from the negative effects of the cat’s spell. At the same time, he erected a wall to defend himself from several mana slashes thrown by Kayden.
His defense snapped and one of the cuts went deep into his arm, leaving him hanging by a small piece of flesh. She automatically used mana to heal herself and started pulling mana from the environment, but...
"Where!?" She couldn’t feel even an iota of mana outside her body, and this healing had used up a lot of her mana. She didn’t have time to think as she felt everything around her go black and silent, there was absolutely nothing anywhere.
Her sense of space was affected as she moved back a few meters, and as she expected to hit a wall, she simply felt nothing against her back. This was Felix’s shadow domain and combined with Kayden’s mana domain it became a deadly trap.
author’s note: Special thanks to King_of_Death for the golden tickets, I’ve never received so many in one go, thanks to everyone else who is also donating and Kit_0685 for constantly donating