It was guaranteed by the middle ground, it was right by the unknown. Merlin’s mind was pounding, it had been so many millennia since he had had to make such a difficult decision. Any normal person would have simply turned Kayden in, but Merlin was a unique god; he got to where he was just by gambling and going against the grain.
"Kayden," the god called to the boy as he made his decision, "you did very well. I recommend that you hide this new power of yours for now. When you reach the fifth realm, we will talk further." Merlin decided to buy a little time to think.
It was a very difficult decision and he didn’t want to make any hasty decisions. There was no chance of Kayden’s power leaking out of this solar system. Like it or not, it was all in Merlin’s pocket...
"God Merlin, can I ask you a quick little favor?" Kayden thought about his situation and decided to fix some problems.
"Depending on them, I don’t mind doing it," Merlin replied without paying much attention.
"Inside planet Earth, there is an abyss and a human civilization inside it. Could you eliminate all human beings with my blood from that place and erase any existence of civilization?" Merlin responded immediately to Kayden but was slow in his godly mind.
"Why?"
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"This could end up destroying a lot of my plans. I’m going to do it one way or another, I just wish I didn’t have to waste time on it." As Merlin listened, he cast his spiritual sense toward where Kayden spoke.
It didn’t take long for him to find several humans with Kayden’s blood. Without much conscience, he eliminated all life in that region. Even animals that had some consciousness were eliminated, and all traces of this civilization also ceased to exist.
"Ready. I’ll be out for a few decades. Try not to kill yourself during this period," Merlin said and threw Kayden into space along with Triz. Kayden took the longest to go through the advancement process.
Their gaze met after thousands of years for Triz and a few centuries for Kayden. At the same time that a smile spread across each face, Kayden did one of his worst actions.
On planet Earth, Astolfo and Milena died with their bodies combusting from an enslavement spell that had been on their bodies for centuries. It was at a completely random moment and neither of them could do anything to resist.
Kayden didn’t even blink at killing the woman who spent the most time with him in this universe and his son. All this so that no evidence of his previous actions could escape. Felix was spared for the simple fact that the cat was a special breed and his thinking was more similar to Kayden’s.
While on Earth Athena and other family members of the two dead people were in despair when they felt people important to them die out of nowhere and without any explanation, Kayden was smiling at Triz.
"It’s been a while," his first sentence was just that.
"Yes, are your feelings… still the same?" Triz seemed more mature and with more courage. Kayden didn’t like it very much, but he didn’t let it show on his face.
"As strong as the day I last saw you." What hasn’t changed is his talent for sweet, persuasive words. Triz wouldn’t be easily attracted these days, but luckily she already had feelings for Kayden, and that made the process easier.
"Do you want to eat fish with me?" Kayden was surprised by the woman’s initiative, but unfortunately, he had his latest actions rattling around in his head.
"Sorry, Triz, but I urgently need to digest what I learned and I need to do it alone." Kayden didn’t see the woman’s face change, but he felt the mana around her move slightly, something imperceptible, as there was no change in the quantity or quality of mana.
It was his path subconsciously emerging in a way he wasn’t able to understand.
"All good. You can stay in your house that you won. When you’re done, just come find me." Kayden didn’t have time to respond as he was placed in a small mansion in the Palace of Towers.
His speech probably hurt the girl, but he didn’t feel like thinking about that right now. He didn’t even have the curiosity to walk around the house he received. He just sat down on the ground in the yard and started to review what happened.
His first thought was how he got to the boost state. He had never come so close to death. Slowly losing the life in every part of his body was a very strange feeling, something completely new to him.
Normally, no mortal should be able to deny their primal instincts. These were instincts that all living beings had. Regardless of race or strength, as long as you had a soul, you would have these instincts.
During history, some of them were framed. The main thing was the protection of the soul. Whenever the soul was attacked or modified in any way, ridiculous pain would assault the person. A despair strong enough that someone would kill their parents with just their teeth to survive would be awakened in the person.
There would be no limits to what a person would do to survive. It was automatic. His feelings ceased to exist, his rationality was set aside. When the body perceived the slightest sign of failure, it simply died.
The brain was forcibly turned off and all organs automatically failed. Even a possible ninth-realm god would be forced to die when his soul was attacked. Your own body would order it from you. There was no way to resist.
The pain of denying this action was unbearable. It was like going against your existence and that’s exactly what Kayden did. He was one of the only people in the universe who came so close to death and calmly analyzed his own dying body.
His will held his life back and made him lose bits of life little by little. This was something that should not be done by any rational being. It was scary and crazy, but Kayden did it anyway.
Author’s note: For Ten Stones there were no two bonus chapters /: