The second bolt was the same and failed even to get Kayden to pay attention. The third and fourth were deflected as child’s play for Kayden; he was simply on a completely higher level.
The strength of the lightning was monstrous and caused giant gales in the air. As soon as they fell to the ground, they sank into the landform by several tens of meters and destroyed everything around them. The living beings on the ground were completely terrified; even those in the third realm did not dare to face these lightning bolts easily.
BOOOM!
The fifth ray fell brilliantly and with monstrous force; it seemed to carry all the fury of the heavens. And even then, Kayden just had to use more mana and pay attention to deflect it. This lightning fell to the ground and its shock wave spread hundreds of meters.
The lightning continued to fall for several seconds as if daring Kayden to continue taking it lightly, and Kayden didn’t even care; the lightning didn’t force him to give 100% of himself. Only several seconds later did the lightning stop falling.
Its environmental consequences were significant; the ground was completely upturned, the trees were torn to pieces and there was no sign of living beings anywhere. After the fifth ray fell, Kayden finally activated his domain and his path, reaching the incredible number of 10 kilometers of absolute control, something completely ridiculous that made him unique in the entire world.
Probably, a person who reached the third realm with two or three rays would not be able to have such a great spiritual sense; this was completely bizarre. If he hadn’t followed a path of slow and complete maximizing, he would probably only be at 4 or 5 kilometers.
The mana he gathered around him became liquid because of the great concentration; he seemed immersed in a blue sea, but not even a millimeter of it was touching his body. His control was perfect and prevented any contact.
BOOOM!
The lightning struck with the sound of the sound barrier breaking for every meter he traveled; the shock wave spread over more than two full kilometers. Kayden calmly waited for the right time, and when the lightning was about to hit him, he used his favorite attack.
The mana-charged aura cut met the fifth ray and split it in two like butter; Kayden didn’t even need to continue another attack. The lightning couldn’t advance an inch over him. Even after almost 1 full minute, the aura slash remained undefeated. Kayden noted with a satisfied smile how easy it had been so far. It wasn’t easy; it was just his strength that was far beyond what the second realm should contain.
The heavens helped with the recovery of mana from the area that Kayden used. All of this was done so he could get a better, fairer test. In just a few minutes, the mana returned to normal, and once again Kayden gathered it around him. This time, he wasn’t going to use an attack as simple as an aura slash.
His first action was to place a dense defensive mana film around himself; this should be able to buy him a few seconds in case everything went wrong. Then, he began to perform one of the enlargement spells that Han had left in the book.
A huge pentagram appeared in the air below Kayden; it was at least 10 meters long and was drawn in just a few seconds. Kayden had repeated this spell thousands of times and could do it with his eyes closed.
The sixth ray came without any sound; he simply destroyed any matter and introduced the true vacuum wherever he went; oxygen itself was destroyed, everything ceased to exist, and sound had no means of propagating.
Kayden threw a white beam of the same intensity as the beam that was coming at him; the attack was boosted by the pentagram and came out at least three times stronger than any attack he had ever launched in his life. He could easily kill someone at the beginning of the fourth realm instantly with this strength.
The white beam rose faster than the sixth beam and cut him in two from start to finish for a few seconds; the two rays faced each other in the sky for several seconds until Kayden’s attack was completely consumed. Instantly, he used an aura attack with all the mana he could muster. It wasn’t much, but enough to hold the lightning for a few more seconds.
As soon as that was over, Kayden irrigated his entire body with mana and then prepared for impact with his katana. Using several different spells, he coated his katana with mana and raised it against the lightning. His attack would have easily broken the sound barrier if not for his spells triggering the vacuum and increasing the speed of his attack.
The impact held the sixth beam for a few more seconds, but unfortunately, it wasn’t long enough. The lightning struck Kayden’s body; automatically his barrier was able to react and withstand the impact. It worked based on diverting the energy of the attack and fighting the rest head-on, using attrition through several overlapping circular layers of mana.
Kayden’s defense held for a few seconds before he lost his entire left arm and almost the entire left side of his body. He didn’t even blink when he saw that he survived the sixth beam
. Kayden wasted no time in stopping the bleeding and closing that part of his body; Within seconds, new skin grew and made it look like a wound from years ago. Then, he began to gather the mana the world gave to him. The heavens seemed to challenge Kayden to do the impossible.
Kayden didn’t take his eyes off the clouds for even a second; This was the decisive moment, and he was going to do it or die trying. He spent his entire life for this moment; There was no way to run away now. There were decades after decades of trying to improve by 1% per year or less, depending on luck to achieve better things. There were thousands of days, millions of hours perfecting for this moment.
Kayden again pulled mana from every kilometer possible. This time, five pentagrams appeared at his feet; Each one took a few minutes to make and carried an impressive amount of mana.
Each of them had a specific purpose, and these pentagrams were spells and not runes. Kayden developed them through many studies; they allowed him to pre-program a change to his spells after they were cast.
The degree of difficulty of this was surreal, as he needed to know exactly how his spell would be cast, the exact amount of mana that would be spent, and in addition, he needed to know the right time to activate the spell so that it didn’t break.
Without any fear, Kayden faced the heavens when he felt the seventh ray coming. It was something different from anything that had come before; the clouds parted and a kind of paradise appeared for Kayden.
For hundreds of meters, Kayden could witness a golden lawn with flying grass; there were some structures, more exactly eight strange constructions, each of them containing a unique design and different from what Kayden had ever seen; in fact, only one resembled a normal house on planet Earth.
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It was exactly from this house that Kayden saw a lightning bolt that didn’t seem to move coming out of the illusion; he only managed to see its glow before having to activate his first offensive spell, throwing an aura cut that when going through the modification spell gained almost triple its strength.
The lightning was not divided, nor did it even suffer any damage; his advance was halted for a few seconds, it was enough for Kayden to mount his next spell, a barrier of pure mana, but not just any barrier; it was the same one he used on his skin. It worked based on mana attrition with mana; by exposing spells to pure mana at different layers, he caused them to lose energy through affinity, something very complex and unique.
This time, the lightning was trapped by the barrier that created a kind of funnel for it; He entered strong and left quite weakened. Kayden activated his third spell and threw a bolt of lightning at the seventh bolt; his spell was magnified and hit head-on for several seconds; In total, Kayden had already bought quite a bit of time.
Then, he used another spell he developed during these years: mana dilation. It bathed an area of several tens of meters with a kind of sticky mana that pulled any surrounding mana into it; but that wasn’t even the best, the best thing is that Kayden developed it to function as a balancing network, where the attack’s mana would be distributed over several meters.
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