"I am the monster that life taught me to be. You live in a closed and illusory world, Astolfo. In reality, humanity is selfish and cannot organize itself at all well. Therefore, I had to intervene and look for someone capable of facing me", explained Kayden. Astolfo couldn’t make sense of Kayden’s words.
Kayden manipulated the mana around him, and in a few seconds, a portion of mana with dozens of expressions in the spiritual sense appeared over his hand.
"Try a little of my memories," Kayden gave Astolfo no alternatives and forced the mana on him. Within seconds, the boy’s eyes became cloudy. He saw the nobility trampling people like cattle. He felt firsthand what Kayden went through with the Ashford family and what it was like to lose his father because of people he considered brothers. The shock was so great that Astolfo spent more than half an hour just going through the memories he received. Logically, they were cut out, but they gave him an idea of the surface.
The problem was that it was an idea distorted and manipulated by Kayden to make him agree with his opinions and not cause dissent.
"Humanity cannot be given any degree of trust. If you want to go to the surface now, I won’t stop you, but you’ll probably be killed and plundered the second you appear. In a few years, I’ll come up, and if you want to come, I’ll escort you," offered Kayden.
Astolfo did not respond and left the room with Kayden’s permission. He needed to think. A completely different world was opened to him, a cruel and violent world, with no rules other than the law of the strongest.
Kayden didn’t mind going back to learning concepts. His strength had to reach a limit at some point or his useful life would come to an end. Either of these two options would come first. Any one of them would result in him advancing in the realm.
A few years later, Kayden and Felix were outside the city near the crystals. The mana density of the region here was much higher than on the ground. Along with them were Milena and Astolfo.
The boy accepted Kayden’s words as if they were the absolute truth and promised to strengthen himself so he could go out with his father in the future. The truths revealed made him distance himself from other people.
Knowing the truth made him observe the people around him more closely and could easily notice some signs of hypnosis and lamb thinking. For the majority there, there was nothing other than living one day after another, without any objective and without aiming for anything.
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Furthermore, he opened his eyes to see how, even under Kayden’s influence, small negative actions were still present. Be it people deceived to gain an advantage in a negotiation or killing their friends on an adventure to loot their bodies. In a way, Astolfo lost faith in humanity, like everyone who reaches a certain level of power.
"This is the first step to reaching true peak power, Felix. Do your best," Kayden said. After Kayden said those words, they all stood back and watched the cat begin its ascension challenge.
His rise to power was very quick. In just a few decades, he was ready to move up the kingdom. This was justified by its number of rays and its lifespan. It took many years just manipulating mana and learning.
The first bolt of lightning struck and was simply consumed by a sobering vortex that shot out of Felix. The second and third had the same ending and didn’t even manage to present any damage to Felix.
Every time Kayden saw his companion using his skills, he was sure that they were not the skills of someone from this world. His genes were too advanced for anything on this planet. In the past, your ideas would just be the baseless ideas of a creative mind. However, after reading Han’s presentation, he knew that living beings from outside the planet were constantly manipulating things inside.
The fourth beam fell and shattered Felix’s vortex like it was nothing. The feline didn’t even move as it cut the lightning with its paws. His strength was completely ridiculous, and yet the lightning managed to pass through his defenses and land on his small body.
Pain surged over him and made him squirm for a few seconds. Fortunately, the lightning was already weakened and was unable to cause any damage other than breaking some bones in its body and burning its fur. Kayden saw in the cat’s eyes that this was one of the first times he was facing real danger to his life.
"Don’t settle for mediocrity. Rise", said Kayden and saw his sentence reach the cat’s eyes at the right second to regain his motivation. The constant involvement with Kayden slowly changed the minds of everyone around him into more obsessive and less self-tolerant beings. As incredible as it was, this wasn’t caused by Kayden consciously.
The fifth bolt came as the most frightening display of force Kayden had seen in decades. The lightning came breaking the air barrier in several directions and releasing shock waves visible to the naked eye. Furthermore, his aura was completely threatening.
Now Felix used his final card, something that made Kayden truly confirm his alien descent. The cat opened its mouth, which stretched for a few meters in a completely unnatural way. A black vortex appeared in the feline’s throat.
It seemed to be something capable of swallowing all existence in its claws, the suction force was faster than lightning and made it seem like it was pulling the natural phenomenon towards itself. Every second the lightning struck, Felix’s body contorted unnaturally.
His fur began to burn and disappear into ash, it might look like something caused by lightning to others, but Kayden had a completely insane level of mana sensitivity and could feel that it was Felix who was consuming his existence to sustain his spell.