"Administrator, can I get these three?" Kayden asked an unusual question. If he had to divide his attention between more than one student, he could waste time. The administrator just nodded his head.
With that, Kayden pulled them with his mana sense and took them away from the elf city. Before leaving, he bought three special pills from a random store, having an elf follow his movements to ensure nothing wrong happened.
"The three of you will face the most hellish training of your lives, but it will also be the most worthwhile training of your entire existence. If you want to give up, this is the time. I won’t let the teacher following us take them off after we start." Even with the threatening phrase, none of them moved to leave.
They traveled a few more kilometers until Kayden found a relatively unoccupied plain. As soon as they arrived, he marked out an area with water another with food, and one a little further away with golden books. Each area was at least 20 meters away from each other, and the first two were about 10 meters away from where they were, while the last one was about 50 meters away.
"I will apply mana pressure to you that will make it extremely difficult for you to move. Furthermore, your mana will become strange and difficult to control. I know that you can go days without eating or drinking, so you are going to receive a pill that speeds up your metabolism to the extreme. Your objective will be to collect food and water using mana. The books displayed there are techniques that I obtained from my master, a sixth realm wizard." There was nothing there. Kayden was just promising something they wouldn’t achieve.
"You can start."
Kayden gave them each a pill and began applying pressure. In the first second, the three fell face down on the ground and couldn’t even move. Their spiritual sense was reduced to a non-existent distance, and they couldn’t even get it an inch outside of their bodies.
"Compress your mana and direct it to a specific place. You will stay like this for the next 24 hours." Over the next few minutes, they tried hard to do what Kayden ordered, but unfortunately, they were unsuccessful.
"The first person to reach any reward will win the benefit of being able to sit in a very comfortable chair," Kayden joked about their competitiveness. None could tell how close one was to the goal.
They kept trying. When it got close to an hour, they finally came up with enough skills to compress the mana and launch it towards the reward areas. At this point, hunger was already in their stomachs and it felt like they hadn’t had water in weeks.
"Very well, you’re very close," Kayden threw out this phrase at random. None of them knew who he was talking to, and it sent a dopamine rush into their brains as the voice appeared very close to them and they were still able to hear Kayden walking next to them.
A few minutes later, Kayden staged a little farce so that none of them would get the chair, as they were face down on the floor, they couldn’t even tell who had it.
"Congratulations, you have talent. The others were just inches away from winning. Enjoy your seat." None of the three won, and that was Kayden’s intention.
A few minutes later, they were all able to eat or drink. Each chose an option and received their reward directly into their mouths. A moment of happiness appeared over them, it seemed as if they hadn’t fed in weeks.
"Now that you’ve learned how it works, I’m going to start the second part. Every minute I will place my killing intent on you, and if your concentration is low, it will be broken and you will have to restart your spiritual sense. Good luck." Kayden logically wouldn’t put out all his killing intent, it would be quite diluted, just to shock them.
Over the next few minutes, they advanced at least a meter each, which was a considerable increase considering where they started from. Kayden slightly tightened his mana pressure so they wouldn’t notice. As soon as he released his killing intent, he saw them having a small epileptic fit on the ground.
It was something too strong for their minds to handle at that moment. It broke their minds. In the next 10 minutes, they only advanced a few inches before having their spiritual sense broken due to lack of concentration. But for every minute they spent in this situation, they managed to improve their will a little.
About thirty minutes later, their recovery from Kayden’s will to kill was at its peak. They just lost concentration for a few seconds. They were still able to resume work part of the way. For every 10 minutes, Kayden increased the difficulty in pressure or desire to kill.
He let them achieve something every 1 hour. Even though they wanted to give up, they couldn’t. They could not speak or gesture, only extending their mana in a constant desire to eat and drink. If they stopped, they would die of hunger or thirst.
"You are very close to the treasure. I used this technique to achieve six lightning bolts in the second realm, I was the first of humanity to achieve this." Kayden’s sentence made the three who were already giving their all double their effort.
None of them had reached the treasure yet, but if they could speed up their process of getting to the food, they could try to get to the treasure. The best thing was that everyone could win this treasure, the only problem was that it wasn’t easy, not at all.
Quickly half the time passed, and Kayden had already reached a bloodlust that he considered the maximum they could currently handle. The pressure continued to increase little by little, and it was currently almost twice as high as it was at the beginning, but they didn’t notice it.
His ability to manipulate mana grew stupidly at this moment. The pressure that Kayden was applying was completely selective, and he hid everything that was happening there from the eyes of the elf in charge, only letting him check on their lives from time to time.
They could eat and drink every ten minutes if they wanted now, but their only goal at the moment was to reach the treasures. They only ate occasionally. Kayden whispered very beautiful words all the time.
Kayden never let any of them get to the treasure. Whenever one got close, he would increase his mana pressure and release killing intent attacks more constantly. The students lost track of time and couldn’t tell that Kayden was cheating on them.
"Congratulations on being able to reach the treasure. Start with this book, it will teach you how to jump realms in your fights," Kayden threw one of his best baits when there were only a few hours left.
This again sparked the desire to reach that treasure for the three of them. It was a once-in-a-lifetime chance for them. The three knew that they would probably reach great heights with their talents, but the speed and quality at which they would get there was uncertain.
At this time, they could achieve very high strength with just a little more effort. When there was only an hour left, the first of them finally managed to reach the treasure. Kayden let him leave where he was and pulled him towards him.
The teenager in front of him was someone short, with blond hair and white skin. His pointy ears made him identified as an elf, in addition, he had very visible canines, an anomaly not very rare in his race.
"What is your name?" The others probably wouldn’t be able to reach the treasure, their wills were weak. The one who succeeded was one of those with low talent and no resources.
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"Lucas Gravin, sir," he replied wearily to Kayden. This was the most difficult situation he had ever been through. He always seemed to be one step away from completely breaking down.
"The treasury requires you to sign a silent contract. You will never disclose this to anyone and protect this book about your life. It will give you a free pass to reach high heights, but logically it won’t be easy. Do you agree?" Kayden wasn’t going to give them anything, but this student’s performance made him rethink.
"Yes sir," Kayden took out a book from his spatial ring titled "The Abyss Manual", his name was at the bottom, making it clear that he was the main author.
"Below us is the abyss, a land without law and organized races. This book is a manual of everything there and all the secrets of that place. You can easily reach the third or fourth kingdom there if you do everything right, and that’s in just a century or two. I recommend that you find a team with a good blacksmith and a good alchemist to get the most out of it. Also, bring plenty of books. You won’t be getting out of there for several decades," Kayden threw a door-thick book at him.
"Thank you, Mr. Kayden," the boy marveled at the treasure. He was disappointed to learn that it was not a technique, but after thinking quickly, he concluded that this was a much greater gift than he expected.