Everything else was resources and techniques that could be purchased, their value was based on how many missions you did. A simple one was worth one point, a medium one was worth 10 and a difficult one was worth 100.
There was a huge disparity between each mission. One of the resources was called divine stone. In its description, it promised to make anyone advance to the fifth realm without any difficulty. It cost an incredible 100 thousand points.
Such a ridiculous amount of points made reaching it through small missions impossible. You would have to do large missions and constantly get performance and difficulty bonuses.
Kayden continued looking for other items. The number of pages was over a thousand, but the book’s weight was low and not very thick, a good spell of utility. He got lost in reading.
What was supposed to be a few minutes turned into hours and then days. Kayden went through everything only a week later and chose what he would pursue. He found some treasures that would increase his brain capacity and an incomplete technique that would cause a chain reaction in mana.
The problem was that this technique cost almost 10 thousand points because it was intended to be used in colossal rune attacks. It was very advanced and rare knowledge, unfortunately it had nothing to do with what Kayden wanted.
The other problem was that the treasures cost a thousand points each. Most came with some positives and negatives. The most common was increasing brain capacity in exchange for severe pain, as they worked based on elevating your brain to the fifth realm in an incomplete way.
Kayden spent years with a rune on his head that prevented him from sleeping. Pain and wear and tear were nothing to him. After seeing everything he needed, he went to the wall to look for some missions.
"You took a long time to leave." Evelyn appeared next to Kayden as he looked at the mural. There were so many different missions that Kayden didn’t know what to choose.
"How about a big mission right from the start?" Evelyn pointed to one of the paintings.
One of the leaders of one of the local kingdoms had immense disgust for his son and everything he was doing to the family name. The mission was to replace his son for the next fifty years.
Kayden would have to do all of his son’s social tasks, not only that but perform all of the functions well. After fifty years, the son’s identity would be killed and he would be remembered as a belatedly awakened genius.
The resources would be given by the leader and would be free for Kayden to choose, but the mission had two downsides. First, any mistake by Kayden would result in direct death for him. The second point was that he would have to learn all of his son’s details and copy them perfectly.
"How many points does this task give exactly?" Kayden didn’t want to spend fifty years for just 100 points.
"500 points plus bonuses. The bonuses are about your performance and can reach up to twice the amount of the task." Evelyn’s lines enchanted Kayden.
He could keep training and improving his way and his job wouldn’t be ridiculously difficult, it would just be tedious. Kayden pulled that quest for him with his mana.
"I’ll take this one."
"Good choice."
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"You have a talent for this, unlike my son." Kayden had been in a cave for the past six months. The person who spoke to him was Kelmor Gait, one of the senate leaders of the country of the Destined.
A country with around nine people at the fifth peak realm and with seven rays that dominated the entire region freely. There were hundreds of people in the fifth realm in this place, but most of them were weak in a certain way.
Those who were strong had already left that zone of the lucky planet and gone to a busier place with better prospects for the future. Those who remained were weak or cowardly.
That was why Kayden didn’t respect the advice about his life parameters. They were strong, terribly strong, but they would rather rule rats for the rest of their lives than try to reach a higher point.
"Thanks, Dad." Kayden embodied the character. He just needed to learn to behave like the boy he was pretending to be.
It took six months of observing and training. Furthermore, he could ask the teenager any question, all because he was under a spell and couldn’t even reason the basics.
Kelmor Gait had green hair and green fur, as well as dark, blue-toned skin. The elder had a strong and well-developed body, making it clear that he was a hand-to-hand fighter. His son followed the same path and...
"I always wanted to do this," Kelmor commented as he blasted his son’s body into thousands of pieces in front of Kayden. "You are free for the next six months. Afterwards, we will have a fighting event among the youngest."
Kayden nodded and left the cave to a palace with dozens of ancient Chinese-style rooms, with thin walls made of light materials. The palace was a rectangle with the center being a huge garden with several chairs and waterfalls.
In each room, there was a different and unique woman. They were all Kelmor’s concubines, but any visitor could use their services freely. Kayden constantly had to be with one of them, but he would just go into the room and tell the woman to simulate the sounds.
He didn’t want to waste his time on something as useless as sex. Furthermore, the palace had a high density of mana and dozens of runes capable of improving concentration and aiding cultivation.
During that time, Kayden received two medications that gave him a weaker sort of boost. They were useful, but he would need thousands of these medicines to get anything truly significant on his way.
For the next six months, Kayden did absolutely nothing but develop his path and think of techniques to solve the two problems he had encountered. Kelmor gave some more treasures to Kayden.
The amount of treasures he was receiving was the same as what Kelmor’s son received back in the day. It was a frightening amount, it would easily put someone disciplined into the fifth realm. One would reach the fourth realm in just a few decades and would have plenty of time to try and overcome the barrier of mortals.
Kayden and Kelmor were flying towards the senate mansion. It was on top of a mountain, it was completely flat with a huge garden around a large building.
"You can choose an award depending on your performance," Kelmor commented to Kayden as the two were given a thorough inspection by some Fifth Kingdom security guards.
Kayden’s image was remade using a unique spell that reshaped his flesh and other features perfectly. The only downside was that it caused a ridiculously high amount of pain to the user, but that wasn’t a problem for Kayden.
"Brain development techniques?" Kayden asked and received a nod from Kelmor. The two were quiet for the next few minutes as they entered the mansion.
It was a huge house with almost seven floors. It had several party rooms, bedrooms, and leisure areas. It was big. Kayden couldn’t put his spiritual sense beyond the walls, he felt blind as if he was at the apprentice level.
They only needed to walk a little to enter a party room. There were dozens of people eating and drinking, but as soon as Kelmor entered everyone became quiet and knelt.
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This was one of the rooms with low-level nobility people. On each floor, there were several rooms like this with people partying. For each floor that increased, the level of the nobles increased.
Kelmor walked through each room without looking at any living being. Everyone was seen as ants by him. Kayden just kept his face neutral and walked behind his fake father. It only took them a few minutes to reach the top floor.
It was a very different environment. First, the food and drinks were overflowing with mana strangely and uniquely. Furthermore, the environment was richly decorated. The music that played was divine and driven by unique mana techniques.
The people were richly dressed and they all had an aura superior to that of the lower nobility. Kayden encountered several people who he believed were stronger than him. Fortunately, of the generation he would face, there were still few.
At most one or two would be able to destroy him, and another dozen or two had the same level of strength as him. It was strange to think that in the past he was the strongest fourth-realm mage within millions of miles.
"Have some fun. In a few hours, we will have the competition of generations." Kelmor walked away from Kayden and left the boy alone. Kayden ran into some old friends of Kelmor’s son.