Kayden continued attacking the doll with extreme speed. Even though he lacked strength, his technique and experience were not something that could be easily surpassed. He spent decades training.
BOOOM!
BOOOM!
An aura cut accelerated by six pentagrams instantly came out of the doll at point-blank range and caused Kayden to take the first damage in this battle. One of the doll’s arms was sunk a few centimeters.
There were only six pentagrams, as that was the amount that Kayden could throw instantly, fast enough to pierce the doll’s defense by surprise. Then, the doll also fired three beams at point-blank range at Kayden.
Kayden didn’t have time to dodge, but his normal attrition barrier was able to easily hold back the attack, which was weakened by his dominance. This caused a breach in his protection.
This small imbalance affected the entire system, as the damage was shared across a long series of layers throughout his body. Fortunately, the excess mana around allowed him to recompose the layers in a minuscule amount of time.
Kayden stepped aside and threw several beams driven by nine pentagrams. The puppet was strong, but it still couldn’t ignore it easily. This caused him to put his focus on defending himself while being attacked.
Unlike normal people, Kayden had an absurd facility for holding mana and manipulating it. It didn’t cost anything to his physical or mental health. So, he just continued while thinking of a plan, something that only took a few seconds.
When there was a break in the attacks, the doll approached again and continued its relentless attacks against Kayden. A positive point of this test was that it simulated a real battle, even though the doll was quick and easily cast dozens of spells, none of them were ridiculously strong.
Kayden began exchanging blows with him again while gathering up an amount of reserve mana. His attacks were defended by the doll and retaliated at high speed.
A few seconds later, Kayden used the same tactic as before and released a ridiculously strong aura slash against the robot supported by six pentagrams. Again it was very strong and fast, and he managed to cause damage to the doll.
Nothing really impressive, just a cut on his legs that would leave any human being bleeding horribly. Similar to the other situation, the doll took advantage of this moment to throw two ice torpedoes at Kayden, driven by a vacuum break.
Again his barrier managed to hold back the attack, actually not perfectly, as a hole opened in his stomach. The puppet launched both attacks together at the same point, the first attack was handled perfectly and the second was severely damaged.
"Now," Kayden thought and didn’t hesitate to open six pentagrams below his katana. Her body moved with her and descended onto the doll. The force was so great that it passed through the doll’s barriers as if they were made of paper.
The katana continued falling and cut the doll in two diagonally. Instantly, the dummy’s body was split into two and fell to the ground lifeless. The attack was so strong that Kayden’s arm was completely broken and several veins in his body were destroyed by the pressure of the attack.
If he had used this on his body, he would probably be dead right now. Just using it on your katana was already able to give a great reaction to your body. He urgently needed to create spells to remove the rebound or strengthen his body.
The first option was easier would give him less headache and would be faster, in addition to lasting for higher realms. The appraiser was looking at Kayden in complete shock.
Those capable of doing what he did were rare. Normally there would only be five or six per meeting of elves. This meant that it wasn’t exactly something rare or unique per century. But the problem...
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"He is in the third realm," the appraiser thought to himself. He had only seen people in the fifth realm manage to pass this test like this. There were some similar cases in the past, but they were all quickly hushed up by the higher-ups.
"Kid, do you have any affiliation yet?" The appraiser wasted no time in trying to pull Kayden over to the elves’ side. It was clear to him that the person in front of him had seven rays, the potential to become a god.
"Yes," Kayden wondered if he meant Merlin. It was better to make this clear at the beginning so that there was no chance of him being oppressed into joining any group on this planet.
"I see. Your assessment is currently privileged 4. Privilege assessment five is only available to people in the fifth realm." This was an old rule so that younger people would not kill themselves.
"Is my age not taken into account?" Kayden asked and made the old man look more closely at his body. It didn’t take long for him to use a tracking spell on Kayden.
"More than 250 years?" he asked confused. "But it’s okay, you did a good job and your age isn’t relevant in this situation." After the initial surprise, he gave his answer without hesitation.
The old man tossed Kayden a ring, identical to the one Gragas had. The ring fit perfectly on her finger and didn’t even feel like it was there. Kayden could also hide it inside his space earring easily.
"The level 4 privilege grants you the right to most things on our planet: lectures, specific training rooms, special libraries. In addition to a free discount at all government-affiliated establishments, which are the majority in our kingdom. But you have some obligations. At the next meeting, you must give an open lecture on a high-level technique. In addition, you must then give a closed lecture teaching this technique to everyone selected for the government."
This requirement was not something heavy for Kayden it was something extremely light, as he had no problem sharing his techniques with other magicians.
"Only that?" Kayden asked when the appraiser paused.
"We have some mandatory exploration expeditions, but since you are in a low realm we won’t ask you to participate yet, just prepare one technique for every 20 years."
"Got it, thanks for the information," Kayden thanked and instantly found himself outside the testing environment. Around him was Lucas with a despondent expression and his friends trying to comfort him.
"Master! I only got the level 1 privilege and it was still very painful, the doll was too strong for my current level", Lucas felt guilty and felt that he had disappointed Kayden.
"It’s okay, Lucas, he was really strong. Just train harder; next time you’ll do better," Kayden reassured his student without any surprise. He didn’t expect much from him.
None of the teens around Lucas would ask how Kayden performed. They were completely sure that the most he got was a first-level privilege and they didn’t want to humiliate the master in front of his students. The problem was that Lucas had unshakable faith in Kayden.
"What privilege did you get, master?" Kayden had no problems showing his strength to others and directly took out the ruby ring and placed it on his finger.
For a few seconds, no one said anything. What everyone expected was just a normal green ring that all privileges below four had. What Kayden was presenting was far above any crazy dreams they had.
"What level is this, master?" Lucas was the only one lost in the conversation. The person who responded for him was Jonatan, the first to recover from the shock and accept reality.
"Perk level 4, the level of the thousand best fighters in the elven kingdom, an achievement considered legendary. Gragas tried for more than ten thousand years for this..." With every sentence Jonatan spoke it became clearer how impressive this was.
"How did you do this? Who exactly are you? Is your age of nearly three centuries false?" Bianca asked Kayden directly. The situation made her lose any modesty.
"Perfection can’t be rushed. You set an age goal to compete against other people your age in an imaginary competition in your mind, it doesn’t exist, it’s just you against you. Perfection can’t be rushed," Kayden let out a deep sentence out of nowhere.
The moment was perfect and it entered these young people’s minds as if they were a sponge. His sentence, which seemed simple, brought wisdom that only a few people understood in this universe.
Regardless of race in this universe, everyone shared one thing that made them rational and different from simple animals: that was emotions and feelings. This naturally meant that a society was organized on a hierarchical basis.
There would always be people above and people below. This also meant that there would always be someone looking to climb the social ladder. No matter how peaceful the society was, some selfish goal was the reason it moved.