Unfortunately, this made his reserves even smaller. The battle of attrition was increasingly fierce, and the skulls were in dozens outside Thomas’s bubble, continuing to attack without any rest.
Kayden searched every corner of this floor and, even so, could not find where the cursed object that bound the lich to eternal life was. Time was running out for his companions.
"Thomas!" Kayden screamed and made everyone realize he was still there. "The main skull is the cursed object. Let’s use a joint attack." This time, everyone took Kayden seriously.
The boy proved that he understood the situation when he talked about Gnar. The regret of not taking his words seriously was still strong in everyone alive.
"Light my way." Thomas detached the bones again and launched a giant flash at the lich. Its light burned to the immortal and destroyed the mist on the way like it was nothing.
Aqua threw three balls of solid water, Shiva threw a tide of liquid fire, and Malphite threw a huge burning rock at the lich. Each of these attacks represented the pinnacle of his techniques and consumed a lot of his mana.
Kayden unleashed three bolts of lightning backed by several hexagrams but kept much of his mana in stock for emergencies. The lich didn’t have time to dodge and just raised a wall of green bones in front of him.
The light attack destroyed it and decimated half of the bones in the lich’s body. The water attack broke both of its legs easily, and the fire tide melted the rest. Malphite’s stone buried and crushed any trace of remaining bones.
For a few seconds, only silence remained. There was no sound or sign of life from the lich. Thomas’ group looked expectantly for the floor to signal any sign of victory, but unfortunately, only silence remained in the air.
"It was a good try," the lich’s voice resounded to everyone. The bones were nowhere to be seen, but the skulls came back with a vengeance. The only one who managed to put up a defense was Thomas.
The rest didn’t have enough mana for that. The leader realized the situation he was in and the amount of mana he had, so his barrier was compressed just to stay around him.
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"You lied!" Aqua screamed at Kayden as a skull bit her ankle. Then several others came and started eating her alive. It was a pretty horrific scene to watch.
"Let me in, Thomas, I’m your wife!" Shiva started screaming when she saw Thomas’s bubble just protecting his body. Thomas just looked at her with his heart pounding.
Tears appeared in his eyes and increased as he saw the woman in his life being bitten to death in front of him. Malphite was free of skulls, but as soon as they both died, they went for him.
The immense stone had already accepted its fate. He didn’t have time to run to Kayden or Thomas, and even if he had, he knew neither of them would give him any support. The stone just stood there as it died.
"I hope you’re happy, Thomas," those were the last words of the huge stone, leaving only Kayden and Thomas from the original group.
"What are we going to do now?" Thomas was visibly emotionally unbalanced. His words fell on less than sympathetic ears.
"The skulls will probably eat through your stamina within a few minutes or hours. After this, you’re going to be eaten alive like your friends," Kayden said in a neutral tone, making the situation even darker. "I just recommend that you kill yourself."
His words were harsh and added to the situation and the influence of the fog in Thomas’ mind, they made the young man accept his fate without putting up much of a fight. His mind became calm as he injected mana into his brain.
Thomas knew Kayden wouldn’t help him. Plus he lost all his friends, his morals were non-existent, and his emotions were a mess. All of these factors combined to leave only Kayden and Felix alive.
The skulls began to advance on Kayden’s domain, but the boy was easily able to keep them at bay. Against the lich, Kayden was one of the worst opponents he could have encountered.
This was because Kayden’s techniques made him a master of the battle of attrition. Whether it was his mana recovery, his dilation domain, or other factors, it all contributed to providing the ideal environment for him to prolong the situation.
Kayden began throwing explosive spells at the ground around him, all with as much force as possible, and released every few minutes of each other. This break was so that Kayden could recover his mana and be in an ideal state.
"What is the little mouse doing?" The lich was momentarily lost and began to increase the density of the mist. At this moment, even the air was being consumed by its mist.
Kayden just continued his actions. He would glide the entire floor in search of the cursed object. If the lich made even the slightest movement of mana, it would be picked up by his spiritual sense, making the fight even easier.
The lich knew this. He had been through enough battles to feel that every movement in the hundreds of meters around him was being analyzed by a pressure of mana. It was a mentally exhausting feat, but relatively easy to do.
"Do you think you’ll survive that long?" The lich understood Kayden’s plans and laughed like crazy. He had lived thousands and thousands of years, time had worn out his mind.
The fog began to condense and spread to all sides of the floor. Every inch was permeated with the mist and it began to melt everything within its reach. Kayden reflected for just a few seconds and took out a metal box from his earring.
"Shut yourself in here and hibernate for a while." The cat found these orders strange.
"We’re in a fight now, Kayden." The cat purred without much concern.
"Just sleep, furball." Kayden punched the cat into the box and placed it on the floor. This was a special box made to hold high-realm prisoners in their solar system. No man was able to enter or leave, even those backed by truths.
Kayden sat on the box and began a cycle of destruction, maintaining his dominance, and destroying the environment. The fight, which seemed simple for the lich, began to last much longer than he anticipated.
Within a week, the fog had already advanced strongly against Kayden and showed signs of the superiority of truths. Their ability to overcome the mundane and common was very strong.
"Just give up." The lich was already getting upset. Even though he lived for millennia, he was not one of the most patient creatures in existence. Time continued to pass without any change in Kayden’s expression.
Within two months, the fog had fully penetrated Kayden’s domain and was wearing down the boy’s last barriers, but even so, Kayden continued his sporadic attacks.
He had already used up 30% of all the surrounding space. The earth was turned over until the dungeon stone that supported the great floor appeared. Its rays were simply destroying all matter around it.
The lich realized that Kayden was crazy and did everything he could to kill the boy. He used his strongest techniques and even special runes, capable of decimating entire countries over time, but even so, nothing had any effect.
Kayden just put up more defenses or fought the attacks head-on. The lich specialized in killing, but not people like Kayden. He was facing one of his worst natural enemies.
About four months later, the fog finally broke through any of Kayden’s defenses. The lich could practically taste victory as he watched his mist burn away and leave Kayden with his flesh exposed to the outside world.
"Victory is mine, you worthless mortal." The lich laughed like crazy, but with every minute that passed, he grew more apprehensive and suspected that something was wrong.
His suspicion was proven correct when he saw Kayden just continue his actions without any expression of pain or emotion. Even as the flesh was torn to pieces, its lightning continued to fall.
Kayden had already understood that this moment would come. He just needed to put together a plan that consisted of small barriers mounted inside his body and automatic regeneration cycles.
This caused him to protect necessary parts at one time and regenerate others at the same time. When one was regenerated, he changed the position of the barriers and regenerated the other side.
There were two big problems with this: dealing with the pain of having mana barriers moving around inside your own body and dealing with the pain of having your body torn apart. But for Kayden, it wasn’t a big deal.
His speed was slowed considerably by his new spells, and this caused the lich to feel a glimmer of weakness, but for the first time in many years, the ancient monster felt despair and anxiety about a situation.