He found himself floating in the air in a lost manner, not knowing what to do. In a way, he did not receive any useful information from Lucifer. Still, in compensation, he received new books with advanced knowledge that had a different methodology than what he had seen until now.
This was because these books came from Merlin and were the rarest treasures on planet Earth then, but Kayden didn’t know that, he was just amazed by the knowledge he acquired.
The strange situation was forgotten by everyone over the years, except for Kayden, who with the new material increased his strength by a few times. This manual taught him how to do something he had observed in the labyrinth when he was at Sol Academy.
His spells were no longer 100% constructed; he only did about 90% of their structure, and the universe completed it for him. According to the books Kayden received, this was called balance theory.
If he left a spell with a certain amount of mana, the universe would finish the spell for him, because that mana format did not fit the correct form existing in the universe. It was incredibly difficult, and at the moment he had only been able to conjure simple lightning using this method.
His lightning bolts were faster than normal and cost less mana. Furthermore, they left his hands almost half the time as before. These techniques were not passed on to his slaves, because as soon as he opened the books he found himself signing a confidentiality contract instantly.
Without caring, Kayden continued his routine calmly. He still had many years to live before he reached his conceptual limit. At the moment, there were already more than a hundred and there was still going to be much more. If he didn’t reach the concept limit before reaching the elf competition, he would simply leave it aside. Kayden wasn’t going to make the same mistake as before; its base and maximizing were the only things that mattered. Over time, he could reach the top of any realm. It wasn’t worth trading what he had prioritized for decades for a chance to go abroad.
Time continued to pass, and without Kayden realizing it, it was already in the fourteenth generation and the amount of lightning once again suffered a drop. He just repeated the same thing as before and killed a few hundred people. He didn’t care about that anymore; no one of note appeared during these years.
Han managed to achieve six lightning bolts and proved himself worthy of the name Kayden gave him. Furthermore, he grew up and developed a courageous and unethical personality, similar to the one Kayden had.
Kayden had been in the abyss for about 200 years at that point and was heading towards the end of his life. Stacking concepts started to give him a tiny gain in strength; it took at least a dozen for him to make a minimum gain.
This made Kayden begin to doubt that concepts were synonymous with strength; there had to be something beyond them. Logically, there were still millions of concepts he could explore before reaching them all, but even so, he was still looking for something beyond after all these years.
His body and face already showed aspects of advanced age; Kayden already looked like someone in the last years of his life, more specifically a 70-year-old man. He estimated he still had at least 70 more years to live; his strengthened body combined with the life-increase technique provided him with this.
Lucifer’s visit had been an incredible 70 years ago; Kayden had put that aside a long time ago. The books he received were incredibly useful and did wonders for his fighting power. Some of them also showed different ways of cultivating the body and purifying it; Kayden was unsuccessful in these techniques, his body was already purified to a very high level.
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Astolfo entered the fourth realm with five rays and was at a completely absurd degree of strength; he just couldn’t compete against Felix. Considering how long it took him to do this, it was impressive.
The boy’s advancement was extremely fast. His fights with Kayden were now more one-sided; The years of experience helped him close the gap in strength between them, but even so, Kayden was still able to win 20% of his fights. Against Felix, he no longer had a good win rate; in fact, it was barely 5%.
This meant that his strength had stabilized in recent years. His progress was minimal; only new techniques and experience were gained during these years. But even so, he continued with his goal of maximizing the kingdom. His goal was to get seven rays, and any minimum percentage would be able to help him in this endeavor.
His spiritual sense had grown over all these centuries and reached the incredible size of 8 kilometers, a little more than double what he started with. Milena said it was only 15 kilometers when she was in the third realm, and Felix said it was 20 kilometers. Once again, he was a cut above everyone. Kayden couldn’t wait to face seven lightning bolts and see how strong he would become.
Probably, his strength would skyrocket to an even more ridiculous degree than it already was. He did not doubt that he would achieve this feat; the amount of strength he had accumulated was simply insane.
Over time, Han grew in strength and experience and reached the third realm, a six-ray wizard in the third realm. Kayden no longer could crush him 100% of the time, but his number of victories was still high, approaching 50%.
The years began to pass, and Kayden left the city aside. He no longer cared about her; the city would no longer produce genius people capable of keeping up with its progress. It would be a futile effort. This meant that Milena could freely govern the city as she pleased. His old vices and bad habits appeared again after seeing that Kayden didn’t care. Logically, she made a point of hiding this from her children.
Astolfo and Han were given much more power in their hands than they had before with Milena in full power. In the end, power corrupts people in one way or another, whether with women or excessive flattery. In this case, only Astolfo stood firm and continued training. Han had a bad habit of collecting hearts and impressing other people.
His hard work unraveled as soon as Kayden stopped closely monitoring his progress. Kayden cut himself off from everyone as he finally felt like he was approaching the turning point in his cultivation. Their concepts were being saturated; he came to this conclusion after feeling that he was no longer able to remember a simple concept he learned decades ago. Not only that, he managed to relearn it; the problem was that another concept was lost in the meantime.
Kayden was currently 240 years old and still had a few decades to live, but he already had nowhere to improve. His base was perfect; his concepts were stacked in hundreds; his knowledge of spells and other subjects was refined to the maximum extent that their kingdom allowed.
When he advanced to the realm, he would be able to understand more complex things. In a way, your processing capacity would be improved; his understanding of mana and its concepts would also be improved, as he would understand in more detail how things work.
According to the books Kayden received from Lucifer, the first three realms were just the basis for how far someone could go in the future. You didn’t learn anything absurd, unlike the higher realms. For example, in the fourth realm, you were already practically a genius and could even change your element at that point and be successful. Felix’s shadows seemed more alive and his control over them was greater. Before it was just a simple, lifeless spell, but now it could attack Kayden in completely different and unpredictable ways.
"Felix, I need you to protect me if I’m close to dying and use this seed to help me if I can’t," said Kayden as he took out one of his greatest treasures and handed it to the cat. This treasure would be able to heal any injury on his body; he was specific to helping any realm below the fifth. It was practically a second life for anyone.
Kayden was floating near the crystals. The only person who was with him was Felix. In the end, he was the only one he trusted at all to help him if something went wrong. Wasting no time, Kayden just accepted the breakthrough process he had been holding onto all these years. Completely monstrous clouds appeared and extended for hundreds of kilometers. The golden color appeared beautifully in the skies. The first beam fell within seconds against Kayden, and he just used a simple mana shield and deflected the attack.