It seemed like Felix had grown a lot in strength, but the one who grew was Kayden, as he was still able to match an entire realm of strength while being at the same level. This meant that all his time learning different techniques and concepts wasn’t wasted. And he hadn’t even gotten close to the concept saturation point he was predicting.
Most likely, at that point, he could, with luck, face someone in the fourth starting realm and have a slim chance of victory. While those in the third realm would be completely decimated by it to a bizarre degree. Perhaps even another person with six lightning bolts wouldn’t be his opponent, simply because he was maximizing his realm to the maximum.
Hardly anyone would go to the point of spending years just to gain a few minimum percentages of strength. Kayden didn’t even know one person who theorized this path or followed it. In a way, he was the first and only human to have this disposition.
A while later, Kayden was reading Han’s book. Even after decades, he hadn’t been able to digest everything in the book. The amount of spells and runes the old man stored here was completely surreal.
Furthermore, it had an entire flap dedicated to manipulating space-time. Kayden discovered after reading the first three lines that two pieces of information that Han seemed to already know would be found and prove his knowledge of the future.
"Hello, Kayden. It’s been a few decades since I died. Your progress is impressive and you are the strongest second realm wizard I have ever seen in my entire life. I won’t beat around the bush, I have a request and a piece of advice. First, I ask you to spare Heimer’s life and not kill him, this is a selfish request from a father, consider your last favor to this old man. My advice is that you do not return to this part of the book until you reach the fifth kingdom, I would say sixth, but with your strength at the fifth, you should already have the capability."
Kayden stared at the paper for a while after reading the sentence. A few minutes later, he just smiled and agreed to his father’s request. It had been so long that his emotions with the people on the surface had died down, he no longer cared if David or Heimer died or didn’t die.
He would only fulfill his promises, the Ashford family would be killed as soon as he rose from the abyss if they had not already been eliminated over time. Afterward, he would focus on destroying Eden.
Kayden left his room to clean up the population and impregnate the next generation. Time passed very quickly and there were only warnings from Milena that kept him up to date with the city’s news.
The surface has faced many problems in recent decades. Dozens of cities were completely decimated, and in just fifty years two kingdoms fell completely, Jarvan’s and the water kingdom.
Humanity had to join forces and unite against a common enemy. The three kingdoms were disbanded and transformed into just one human kingdom called the Trinity, where each king had the right to one vote in general decisions.
Fifth-level mages had their public appearances completely cut off and only commanded a few times. Most of the decisions were made by the ancient Fourth Kingdom kings. This happened on Merlin’s orders, he didn’t want the demigods to directly enter the war.
Humanity proved to have a strong strategy and only by utilizing their peak mages were they able to turn the tide in the early years, and this went against God’s goal. Therefore, he simply placed a warning in the heads of everyone in the fifth realm that they just had to obey or be killed.
Even if someone in the fifth realm saw their son being killed in front of them, they couldn’t do anything. This was the situation that was in front of Azir at this moment.
"I AM YOUR FATHER, LOCKE! YOUR ANCESTORS WOULD BE TURNING IN THE GRAVES SEEING YOUR ATTITUDES!", Locke rose into the air against his father showing all the glory of a wizard of the fourth kingdom with five rays.
"You sent me and Luan to our deaths just to force Apollo to inherit the throne. I promised my best friend while he agonized in my arm that I would avenge his death. Today I come here to show that blood ties are not eternal. At the moment that you gave up on me, you stopped being my father."
Locke and Luan were sent three decades ago on a suicide mission. This became evident when his team was completely slaughtered by a third realm Orc. At that moment, everyone fought to the best of their strength, but the difference in realms was simply too great to overcome.
What saved Locke was the intrusion of an unknown old man into the apprentice realm, he just made a move using a minimal amount of mana that was able to break the Orc’s spell in half in mid-air and cause it to explode on the caster himself. Locke was in a near-death state actually, but he could still clearly hear the old man speaking to him.
"You’re too interesting a chess piece to die here." That was the last thing he heard before he lost consciousness. When he woke up, he was still on that battlefield filled with blood and broken parts of human bodies.
He used a pill he had with him and was able to heal himself enough to get up and leave that place. He did not return to the Sun Kingdom. He knew that this mission was given by his father and he also had the knowledge that the kingdom’s intelligence had not erred in the information.
This was the breaking point that allowed Locke to break through and become the youngest Transitional Realm wizard humanity has ever seen. Not only that, but he did it with five rays.
Where he found this refuge in the beast civilization, which was on the opposite side from humans and had opened the door to anyone who dared to look for them. It was the best choice he made in his life, it was able to provide strength and a family for him.
"Grandfather, I hope you don’t intrude", Locke said nothing, and without him knowing, Azir was crying in the air next to Apollo, the only one who understood why his grandfather couldn’t do anything but watch his family being destroyed.
"I did what I had to do!" the king tried for the last time, even though he had been in the fourth realm for centuries, he had a miserable talent of only three rays.
"I don’t care, you’ve been governing our country in a mediocre way, you think I don’t know that you’ve gone into drink and drugs? You’re pathetic," Locke threw his father’s defects and how he was ruining the kingdom with its rampant vices.
"So come, I want to know the strength of humanity’s youngest genius," the former king stood up against Locke in an imposing manner, showing that his centuries at the top were not for nothing. Locke’s response was just a spell.
"The sun kneels at my feet", with that phrase, a golden ball appeared below Locke and practically the entire area began to heat up, and there was not even an appearance of flame when everything began to turn to dust.
The king was unable to react as he was turned into dust, his body began to burn from the inside out at a completely ridiculous speed. He recognized this spell, as he was the one who taught it to Locke, it was called Fire Domain.
The difference was that Locke had elevated it to a completely surreal level, probably on the same level as a legendary technique. This was completely ridiculous, but it made a mage at the second level of the fourth realm able to kill someone seven levels higher easily.
"Locke!", Apollo descended from the heavens and saw his brother who he believed to be dead look at him without any emotion in his eyes. Time passed and old emotions slowly died.
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"I have nothing else to do here, the throne is not in my interest," Locke was preparing to leave, but was trapped by Azir’s mana. The prince raised his eyes to the old man in the air and waited. Outside of their expectations, Azir did something that shocked them both, he approached Locke and hugged him while crying. Locke didn’t know what to do while being used as a support. Azir cried for at least half an hour while apologizing.
"I wanted... I wanted to help you ... but any movement of mine results in my death!... all because I’m weak... forgive this old man for being useless, I’m willing to give my life, but I don’t have a negative image of your grandfather, I loved him as much as the moon loved the sea", slowly Locke’s iron heart that was preparing to fight was melting. The final point was when he looked at Apollo and saw his brother with tears in his eyes.