Time passed and everything was going well, at least until two days later, when another event happened. The room they were in was removed from the space in which it existed and placed in a world of its own. No one noticed anything until the door opened, revealing Marco and a phenomenal-looking woman.
The woman was about 1.80 meters tall, had silver hair that fell to her waist, and eyes that looked like outer space rotating in various colors. Its beauty and proportion were perfect due to its high realm.
Mario was speechless for a few seconds. The fact that he was a man meant that he was easily affected by the natural charms of the woman before him, while his two companions quickly put on their clothes.
"To whom do I owe the pleasure of addressing?" asked Mario. But before he could respond, he was pressed to the ground by a ridiculous mana pressure. Meanwhile, Kayden was quiet in the corner of the room, unaware of what was going on.
"Did you find out about the penalty for what you did to a direct member of royalty?" Marco said, with a smile on his face, finally making Mário realize the seriousness of the situation.
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"Your Highness, please forgive this fool. I just thought Your Highness was taking advantage of the name of our elven dynasty," Marco tried to explain, slightly nervous. He knew his actions would not result in death as he came from a powerful family.
"The punishment is death, but you’re trash with a good record. So the most I can do is beat you up a little. Sister Triz, hold him down, please," said the woman, waving her hand. head.
In the next few minutes, Marco took out all his anger against Mário without mercy. It was a brutal beating, leaving several bones broken and some teeth missing. But Mário didn’t care, as he recognized the woman holding him.
She was the death elf, a divine-level challenger, someone who achieved seven lightning bolts in her advancement to the fifth realm. Even though he was young, he was already in the seventh realm and maintained his amount of seven rays.
"I hope you know who you’re dealing with from today onwards. Get out of this room, you trash," Marco said, throwing the three of them out. Then he turned to Kayden.
"Hey! Wake up, you piece of shit. Do you know what the punishment is for not helping a direct member of the royal family?" he shouted, but the words fell on deaf ears. Kayden was focused on his cultivation and had no idea what was going on around him. Marco thought he was scared and threw it in Kayden’s face.
"There’s no point in freezing in fear now, you’ll have to pay for your mistake!" Marco just wanted to scare Kayden; he had nothing against the boy and knew that his help would be useless at that moment.
"He’s not listening to you, you idiot," Triz said, her voice seeming to hide the truth of the universe and resonate with existence itself. She directed her mana at Kayden and before she could get within a meter of him, she felt her mana becoming spaced and distorted, and then being shattered. At that moment, Kayden’s eyes opened.
"You again? Just cultivate like last time. I’m busy, your friend can also participate, I don’t care what you guys do," Kayden blurted out a few words and was about to sit down to cultivate again when he felt the aura of someone ridiculously strong open up over him.
All of his movements were frozen and he couldn’t even expand his mana an inch outside his body. This made him look into Triz’s eyes. She expected a surprised and dazed man, but what she found were endless, dead eyes.
"Do you know the punishment for not helping a member of the royal family?" Kayden remembered the fight before and automatically closed the missing parts in his head. Now, he understood what had happened to Mario.
"No," Kayden released that single word without any fear and stared blankly at the two. That certainly wasn’t the reaction they expected, especially since Kayden didn’t seem to be lying.
"The punishment is death, only death awaits this kind of person," Marco expected to see fear in Kayden’s eyes, but he only saw disinterest and boredom.
"I don’t sense any killing intent from either of you. Just tell me what you want and save both of us time," Kayden was ready to summon Merlin at the slightest sign of disagreement.
"Aren’t you afraid of death? From the royal family?" This time it was Triz who spoke, Kayden’s genuine actions seemed too stupid for her to keep quiet.
"I didn’t commit this crime, I didn’t know he was someone from the royal family and he didn’t inform me either. I just want to resolve this peacefully without having to ask my support for help," Kayden’s speech made it clear that he had someone on his back.
His confidence in expressing this in front of elf royalty and even more so in the presence of a seventh-realm wizard made him seem sincere in saying that his support was ridiculously strong. Even Triz was reluctant at this point, but she also had the option that Kayden was just an excellent liar.
That was the option Marco chose, and he calculatedly released his killing intent on Kayden slowly. Kayden was 100% attentive and at the slightest sign broke the brooch instantly.
An absolute mana pressure fell across the entire planet. Even the elf monarch was frozen in his actions, unable to react. There was no way to compete with a god. The pressure was great enough that the planet was almost frozen in time.
The freezing was such that nothing was able to move, not even air could pass through. But time kept passing, it just seemed like everything had frozen. Kayden thought about how good it felt to have strong support and use it when he saw Merlin appear in the room.
"God Merlin, I had a little problem here, sorry to bother you," Kayden was polite again and saw Merlin’s expression turn irritated as he recognized the situation. The mana pressure disappeared from the planet as if it had never happened.
Marco and Triz fell to the floor, suffocating. The two could barely keep up with the changes that were happening in the situation. Marco had never seen Merlin, but Triz was one of his direct protégés.
"Challenger Triz, why are you bullying a junior Challenger?" Merlin’s voice was harsh and fell on everyone’s ears. At that moment, Marco understood a little the status of the person in front of him and was sure when he heard Triz’s voice trembling as she responded.
"God Merlin... I’m sorry, I didn’t know about who he was, it was a mistake on my part and I’m willing to give something to reward the defiant Kayden for my lack of manners," his speech was shaky and Merlin’s presence made with enormous pressure assaulting his mind.
Marco couldn’t even think straight, his thoughts kept slipping away and he wasn’t even looking at Merlin, if he did that he would be completely stunned for a few months.
Merlin stopped for a second and studied the situation of the entire world and all the treasures and opportunities that Triz could offer Kayden. Right now, he was by Kayden’s side in every situation that might come his way.
This was because of the boy’s peculiarity, in his entire territory there was no low-realm mage who could escape his God aura easily. Furthermore, this was a bet that cost him nothing, at most in a few thousand years everything would go back to square one and he would have to find another future investment.
"Your entry into the elven time room, I want you to give Kayden this opportunity," Merlin’s voice was like thunder in Triz’s mind and caused her expression to drop deeply. At that moment, Kayden coughed.
"Sorry to interrupt, God Merlin, but I would like to know what the time room is before receiving this invitation. I know you have more knowledge than me, but I believe I must follow my path with my own mistakes and choices," Kayden’s voice caused a ray of hope to sprout in Triz.
Merlin looked at Kayden with surprise in his thoughts. The fact that he couldn’t easily see Kayden’s actions caused long-dormant emotions to awaken in him from time to time.
"It’s a room that compresses time and makes it pass faster. How it works doesn’t matter to you right now, it’s something too complex for your mind. Just know that you will spend the rest of your life there and can only leave when you have 24 hours left of your life. Besides, it’s impossible to pass the kingdom in there," Kayden didn’t let Merlin continue talking to convince him.
Kayden was as emotionless as before and didn’t care at all about the other two’s thoughts. He was about to sit down and cultivate again when Triz spoke to him.