Kayden was lost with the new information he was receiving. Furthermore, slavery was a heinous crime prohibited in all countries and races, at least until now. Voting began and quickly reached a tie.
Three votes were in favor, including dwarves, dark elves, and elves. While against it were humans, beast humans, and Orcs. Humanity did not look favorably on slavery, especially considering that it was the weakest in some ways. The feral humans were not in favor, as most of the time their race was the object of the others’ perverted desires, while the Orcs did not believe that slaves should be auctioned and sold, only conquered.
"As we have a draw, we will give the decision factor to Merlin’s chosen one", all eyes turned to Kayden with Yame ’s sentence, the power he was receiving was very great in this decision. In reality, this was just Merlin’s test, the decision had already been made by him a long time ago, he just wanted to know a little more about Kayden’s nature, joining his race or going against it was an important factor.
Each person seemed to want to convey a message to Kayden. Fortunately, Yame was a powerhouse of the ninth realm which meant that none of them were able to act freely in this place. Kayden only needed a few seconds before giving his answer.
"I’m all for it." Kayden was on top and had zero empathy for anyone other than himself. This would only help you get labor easier. Everyone looked at him; this was not the answer they expected.
"Why?" Yame asked; he also thought Kayden would side with his race. He was very similar to Merlin, he could easily predict the step-by-step of inferior beings, but Kayden was unknown to him.
"I’m at the top. When I was at the bottom of the food chain, no one raised a hand to me. So, I don’t care at all if the weakest are going to be used as free labor for the rest of their lives", Kayden’s sentence was heavy and made the atmosphere dark.
"I see, we have some rules for the slave trade. Firstly, slaves are not allowed below the third kingdom, they must be made through breaking laws, debts, or war conquests. The slave trade is regulated by a private universal institution and it will enter the planet in a few months," after that, they just discussed simple issues.
It became clear to Kayden that the war between humans and Orcs was just a well-rehearsed theater. Orcs would begin to massively enter human lands after today and humanity would increase its production of humans. Various other factors like resource distribution and similar things came up in the conversations. What Kayden hadn’t seen yet was any information about Eden, it seemed like they had disappeared from the planet these days.
"With that, I will end this meeting here...", Yame didn’t finish speaking, as Kayden had raised his hand.
"The Eden organization doesn’t have voting power?" Kayden understood from everyone’s expressions that their information was out of date.
"They left the planet a few decades ago along with Adam. I have no information about where they are at the moment. If you have nothing else, we will end the meeting here." This time, no one raised their hand.
Kayden was pulled away by the administrator and everyone left without saying anything to each other. This wasn’t the ideal place for that. On the trip back to Earth, Kayden thought about how difficult his revenge had become with this new information. Now leaving the earth was no longer just a goal to increase his strength, it was now also a path for him to complete his revenge. He could have left Heimer alive for Han’s sake, but the rest would be killed without mercy.
"I didn’t expect you to be so ruthless, Kayden," Azir’s voice appeared next to them and broke Kayden out of his thoughts.
"Hello, Azir, life made me this way", Kayden didn’t say anything else and waited for the former king to continue.
"You know that humanity is the weak link in this relationship. We will probably have many of our sons and daughters being made slaves in the future, but that doesn’t matter either, it won’t reach us."
"Life is too cruel for me to care about others", Kayden responded in the same way and then Azir said goodbye. The administrator left Kayden on his mountain; the young man just continued training and doing his routine tasks. His life would be quite boring for the next few years, much like what he was used to in the abyss.
Time passed quickly and after a year of teaching, Kayden managed to reach the second level of the third realm. The level-maximizing pattern was repeated and he saw a slight improvement that, when added to the nine levels, would be impressive.
During that time, his class also didn’t achieve much in the fights. The best position they had was only in the top 50, but they were slowly progressing to something beyond the normal genius level. His mana manipulation and resilience were constantly honed.
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Kayden began introducing some techniques of his own and from Han’s book to them. Most were neutral mana, but each one was something special. The only problem was that Kayden preached that only perfection was acceptable. No one would gain any new technique without first showing complete mastery.
At this point, everyone was able to reach the top of the mountain without difficulty, but with the increasing difficulty made by Kayden and Felix, they had to be very careful not to be removed from the mountain. Most were only able to get there one day a week for Kayden’s classes and at the moment no one was able to go up alone. It would take at least a few years before they managed to get strong enough to climb on their own.
Kayden didn’t care much about his students. It would provide the basis for them to reach a good level, but if it wasn’t enough, they would just leave it aside and try to leave this planet differently.
"Father!" On a random day, Kayden was called out of his mountain by Astolfo. He hadn’t seen his son for a long time.
"Hello, Astolfo, what do you need?" Kayden left to see his son. In a way, he liked Astolfo.
"I want your permission to get married. No! I want your blessing to support my relationship," Kayden was surprised and wondered how negligent he was this year that he didn’t even notice his son’s romantic involvement.
"Introduce her to me, son, I have no problem, regardless of who it is," Kayden said the words sincerely. He didn’t care enough about Astolfo to get into trouble over the relationship.
"You know her, her name is Athena," the last part came out as a whisper through him. Even after decades, his father’s presence was still intimidating to him. Kayden was surprised by Astolfo’s speech.
This was an involvement he hadn’t expected in his wildest dreams. It was a relationship of very different worlds, but I had no problems with it I supported this relationship. Athena was a strong woman and would be able to leave this planet in the future. Furthermore, her current strength was enough to easily place her at the top of this world.
"No problem son, I approve, just ask me to your wedding, and I’ll make time to go," Kayden exchanged a few more words with his son and went back to training again. His strength buildup was slow but steady. It should only take him a year to reach the peak of the second level and then the remainder would be spent on training to maximize that level.
A year later, his class finally started to feel the difference in their strength. Now they easily ranked in the top 30 of the academy without difficulty. It still wasn’t anything surreal, but it showed that the training was being effective. Room number one was Athena’s room, which remained undefeated for a long time. All of her students managed to learn elemental mana manipulation, moreover, the best ones were slowly migrating to her.
Changing rooms was not prohibited and the best students constantly went to other rooms, only Kayden’s had no change, in fact only two students left, but that was irrelevant to him.
At this rate he would easily be able to enter the best and leave this planet through the elves’ competition, the only problem was that this would happen much sooner than he expected, and his methods were far superior to those of most other teachers.
This was because he had no fear of hurting his students and wearing them to the limit, if they couldn’t handle it, it was just their weakness and didn’t matter to him.
Everything was going relatively well and Kayden didn’t have any problems, after 1 year and a few months the first of them knocked on his door, and a teacher’s assistant was waiting for Kayden at the base of the mountain.