For the first time in many years, Kayden found himself alone again. Your attitude or mindset has not changed; he just continued cultivating and studying the blue liquid. Loneliness didn’t weigh on Kayden’s mind. He could spend millennia in this place just doing the same things every minute of his life, as long as the slightest progress was made. He would have no discouragement in continuing.
Loneliness didn’t change Kayden’s steps and, quickly, a few years passed. Much more than a few years ago: only five centuries later, Kayden achieved true mastery with the blue liquid. He had nothing more to learn from this liquid. During this period, he did something ridiculous: changing the base of his body to blue blood. It wasn’t a very high amount of liquid, but it was still an emergency reserve.
His mastery of mana increased by many, many folds. His path was getting closer and closer to becoming something superior and different from anything he had ever seen. His next step would be changing his path based on his learning. It was to adapt the knowledge of transforming something material into mana. What it did was nothing more than recognize the parts of mana in the blue blood and break them into smaller parts, which would fall apart into pieces. These small pieces were unsustainable on their own and ended up becoming pure mana.
The problem with doing this with other material things was that they were much more complex; they were practically an indestructible web of mana. Kayden has learned to see things as mana, but nothing more. He could see how the grass and other things were made of a super complex tangle of mana intertwined into tens of millions of knots. He just needed to find a weak point in that part and it would be turned into mana.
The problem was that this was extremely complex. Kayden was only in the fourth realm; his mind did not have enough cognitive capacity to be able to process all these factors. Probably, only in the next realms would he achieve some advancement on his own. At this time, he was completely dependent on treasures and special circumstances, but all this time was not wasted.
Kayden has come a long way on his path. His strength was reaching its peak again, but without his concepts, he was still very weak. He would probably be able to fight head-on against someone with seven lightning, but the outcome of the battle would completely depend on the difference in experience between the two.
His hexagrams were condensed into mana circles that did the task he wanted. It was a calmer and more constant flow of mana. Their casting speed was superior, and the best part was that they could be reused infinitely, as long as they were fed with mana. For Kayden to put the blue liquid into his body, he had to study the anatomy a lot. This made him able to further develop bodily change through the circles; his speed and all attributes were improved to a much higher level.
All this progress meant that Kayden managed to reach the fictitious seven-ray level. He was on a fine threshold between six and seven rays. At this rate, he probably wouldn’t be able to advance with seven lightning bolts to the fifth realm. To get seven rays, you needed to have something special, at least one attribute raised to a high level, and Kayden currently didn’t have that. His path was strong and unique, but still not enough.
"I would like to leave." Kayden just said that sentence and found himself outside the tower in the same space he entered many years ago. The difference is that this time, he was without Felix, just Kayden staring at the tower in the distance. He started to head back to the city. It had been many years since he had been there, but he could still get some information or, depending on the situation, organize one of his most far-fetched plans.
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After a while, Kayden found the city. She was visibly different. First, its size increased considerably and reached several thousand people. Second, the middle level had dropped to only the third realm.
Furthermore, Kayden couldn’t sense any people of seven rays or with great strength in the vicinity, only a few people in the fourth realm and a few rays. This change was very significant.
Because of the number of people in this place, Kayden was able to sneak in undetected. He only needed a few minutes to discover that the leaders had abandoned the village because of a golden opportunity that appeared a few centuries ago.
"Hello, village leader," Kayden said before knocking out the elder in front of him with just one surprise blow. What remained of this village was very weak in terms of combat, they only had high kingdoms and radii. Kayden drew some runes that he hadn’t used in a long time. His memory was still fresh and he didn’t even linger for a minute. Soon after, he began the enslavement ritual.
As incredible as it may seem, it was more difficult than other times. It seemed that the elder’s mind was more robust and it took Kayden a few minutes to break through his barrier and penetrate his mana into the elder.
"Don’t talk to me, you will gather the entire village in a week and take them to the village entrance. Afterward, we will gather at the Sea of Wisdom," Kayden left with some more guidance.
He flew towards the wisdom storm and began to arrange dozens of runes and circles. The runes were not of high level, but they should be able to kill at least those in the second and first realms. Those in the third and fourth realms would be killed by their circles, which were already programmed. Kayden could probably kill thousands before they started running, after which he would just need to use his spiritual sense and kill the rest.
Time passed quickly, and within a week, Kayden went to the front of the village and saw the leader with about 23 thousand people. This would be very useful; Kayden would probably achieve a high level of momentum.
"He is my personal friend and he knows the right way to escape this calamity", the leader gave a strong speech about how they shouldn’t be afraid and that it was necessary. Kayden had already given the order for him to kill everyone he could as well.
It took a little longer than usual because of the amount of people Kayden was taking. In about an hour, thousands of people were in the Sea of Wisdom. Kayden waited until the last living thing entered the Sea of Wisdom. At this moment, he activated all of his preparations. Instantly, thousands died without even being able to react; the remainder suffered at least some degree of debilitating damage.
Several people started blowing up on their own because of Kayden’s orders. He had enslaved a few more people at that time. This only increased the damage and damage; within seconds, only a few lucky ones remained. There was no crying or screaming, it was too quick and deadly for them to react. Only the survivors were screaming. Kayden began to launch dozens of aura slashes at high speed and claim the lives of hundreds of people within seconds.
The village leader prevented anyone from escaping. The massacre lasted only a few minutes and tens of thousands of people were dead. Kayden carried out one of the biggest massacres this region has ever seen. Kayden had turned off the broadcast for a few days and would only return after sorting out this whole mess. He saw the red rain begin to fall, but it was much thicker and more concentrated.
"Kill yourself," he ordered the village leader and sat in the air to take advantage of all the momentum he could. It was a frighteningly large amount. In a few seconds, he understood why no one did this. A ridiculously bad headache assaulted Kayden. It was a pain that would make any wizard fall into the sea and be eaten by the beasts of this place, but Kayden just knocked himself out of balance in the air and quickly returned to normal.
This pain was strong, but any mage above the fourth realm should be able to separate it from their mind. This action was probably prevented by the leaders of this region, but Kayden had no reason to worry, no one would notice his movement.
Impulse began to work its magic and Kayden began to understand things more easily. The blue blood in his body became just a clump of pure mana in his vision. The state he was in was very different from when he passed the realm, it wasn’t even a hundredth of what he experienced back then. Kayden was able to see the tangle of mana in the things around him more clearly.