The mood was much lighter than Kayden expected, but he could still see that Triz was too nervous to eat in public. She had probably been in this situation before.
"I think it’s worth offending the strongest beings I’ve ever seen." Kayden raised a barrier over everyone’s eyes, no mana and no vision could enter his barrier. In fact, it would be extremely simple for the surrounding powerhouses to just put their spiritual senses through the holes or just unravel the barrier and see it as if it were transparent, but none of them were crazy enough to do that in Conor’s presence.
"He’s crazier than you were when you were young," Rafaela commented to Conor, and the man just snorted dissatisfaction.
"You are crazy? Or just mentally retarded? Why did you do that?" Marco couldn’t believe his eyes, neither he nor those around him who looked at the bubble in astonishment.
"Triz doesn’t feel comfortable if other people see her eating." Kayden’s speech had a very simple reason for such a big action. Each of the three at this table faced Kayden directly, each with their thoughts.
"Just for that?" Marco looked stunned.
"Kayden, you didn’t have to do this for me. It’s not the first time I’ve eaten with members of the royal family. Furthermore, none of them dare to spread the word about this matter." Triz seemed to feel guilty about the problems Kayden could get with his actions.
"Don’t worry Triz, to see you at ease, I don’t mind making some enemies." Kayden’s speech was said looking into the woman’s eyes and in a slow tone. This earned him two red cheeks and silence at the table, at least until Helena exploded.
"Marco, become a man like Kayden, you piece of shit! I won’t accept anything less from my little brother." Along with Helena’s not-so-elegant sentence came a slap on the back from Marco that would easily ruin her image as a lady.
In the next few minutes, everyone exchanged a few words. Inside the bubble it was just normal topics, but outside Kayden’s name represented the hottest topic. Everyone knew why he did that, mainly because Rafaela was a great gossip and quickly got together with her friends to gossip.
After almost an hour, everyone had already arrived for the competition. The test of valor would begin once again but with a unique gift for first place: the right to enter the divine room of the elves. Few knew what this was, but that didn’t stop everyone from wanting the room.
"Good morning to my people." Conor appeared in the center of the stadium, and his voice reverberated everywhere with perfect equalization. "Once again we have proof of value and with a very special prize this year. Know that this award is worth as much as millennia of work. This is a direct offering from the God Merlin and something that was written in the stars. Anyone brave enough to participate can jump into the arena and you will be transported to a random point."
Conor stopped talking as hundreds of people started jumping around the place. This would be an epic event and many people would be participating, from apprentices to fourth-realm mages.
"Triz, I kind of lied to you, I’m going to participate, I just wanted to spend more time with you." Kayden didn’t give the woman time to respond and just jumped from the stands along with the other hundreds of people.
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He was teleported to the top of a snowy mountain. In front of him were two people from the third realm and a small tree with only a blue fruit on its branches, it was dripping with a large amount of mana. His body was immobilized by superior mana.
"The strong should not beat the weak, moreover, your performance will have more impact on your evaluations than the level of the things you achieve. In other words, everyone has an equal chance to prove themselves worthy. Good luck to everyone." The exact second Conor finished speaking, Kayden could feel the mana around him and...
"1000 times!" The mana density was completely ridiculous, and he wasted no time. He conjured nine pentagrams and threw an aura slash at one of the third-realm mages. Without even waiting for the result, he conjured nine pentagrams again and threw them against the other wizard.
His time in all the lectures was not wasted for nothing. The nine pentagrams came out completely stable and without any errors. The aura slash passed through them and perfectly gained all the attributes Kayden wanted to put into his spell.
Before anyone could even reason about which participant to follow, a name appeared on the table with the highest score. While everyone had a zero, Kayden was on top with two points.
The two aura cuts were perfect and easily knocked his two opponents out of the competition. This earned him a few million looks. There were so many that Kayden’s sixth sense began to tell him something was wrong, but his eyes were quickly suppressed by runes and he didn’t notice anything else.
Without wasting time, Kayden took the fruit and placed it in his space ring without even seeing what it was. His spiritual sense opened, but he only managed to reach 500 meters around him. Before the lectures, he would probably only be able to reach 100 meters with this ridiculous mana density. These 500 meters made him easily spot some other third-realm people on the mountain.
In every location, there was at least one fruit or a scroll and some people fighting over them. Kayden took off like a rocket towards those closest to him. His name on the table was in first place, but several others appeared in second and third with one or two points.
He only had three points for retrieving the fruit quickly, but soon his score would increase. In front of him were two people facing each other equally. Kayden couldn’t sneak up on them, at least not while they were in combat.