He was like a chameleon. Kayden managed to integrate perfectly into the group and began to practice a little manipulation on everyone around him. Kelmor’s former son, named Harry, wasn’t exactly a central figure in the social group of his age.
That was slowly changing with just a few words from Kayden. They were people so young and easy to manipulate that he even felt sorry, but compassion wouldn’t stop Kayden from continuing his mission.
As the hours passed, he began to expand his circle of friends. It wasn’t too difficult, considering Harry wasn’t someone who had harbored grudges or had a bad image in other people’s minds.
The situation was a blank canvas for Kayden to do as he pleased. It wasn’t difficult to get some dances after some flirting and some proposals for joint training with some promising geniuses.
Time passed quickly. Kayden felt extremely bored and annoyed the entire time, but like a great actor, he didn’t show anything on his face. He looked like a different person on the outside.
A drum roll began and silenced all conversation in the building. It was slow and demonstrated an emotion of overcoming and challenge that could be felt by the surrounding mana. It was an incredible feeling that Kayden had never felt before.
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"Only the strong have the right to a free and respectable life," a deep, thick voice began to spew out some universal truths. "Anyone can rise to the top, but only the worthy can remain. Everyone came here today to show that they deserve this place. All those under 200 years old can raise their hands and address the heavens."
The roof of the house was completely removed and several people began to settle outside. Dozens of tents and chairs were erected in that garden that a few hours ago had absolutely nothing.
Kayden was well over just 200 years old, but his contractor said no one would have the courage to do an age test on him. It would be very disrespectful to your family. Even other great leaders would not have this courage.
The boy flew into the sky and saw several groups dividing. Everyone was given a color and a number. Each person would have to face the number directly higher than theirs, based on their last performance.
Kayden had number 3,000 and some broken ones, a really low number. The fights took place inside a bubble for everyone to see, and the highest numbers were the first to face each other.
In just a few minutes it was Kayden’s turn. What he didn’t expect was that it would be ridiculously easy. His opponent barely had battle experience. He was a wizard of the fourth realm and seven rays, but that was it.
It was a lot of force for an inexperienced person, very similar to giving a firearm to a baby and expecting him to be able to use it perfectly. His feat went unnoticed by most.
The first fights were only attended by family members, practically no one paid attention to such weak fights. With this single fight, Kayden managed to jump a large number of places.
His next fight was against someone a thousand ranks lower than him, and yet nothing changed. His next fights were practically a repeat of the first. He finally found worthy opponents when he reached number 2,000, and even then, they weren’t impressive.
Only in the top thousand did he start to have difficulty and had to use his path together with his complete almanac of skills to be able to fight, but they weren’t really difficult battles.
Genius opened many paths and allowed many leaps in power, but they were not able to suppress the difference in experience against Kayden. Many factors made it impossible.
Kayden continued to fight his way through relatively difficult fights, winning by what seemed like luck to the untrained eye, and to the true warriors it was a perfect move at the perfect time.
It didn’t take long for him to reach a barrier that he was unable to overcome, even with his experience. Those in the top 100 were ridiculously strong and managed to suppress any difference between them with absurdly strong techniques.
His performance was still very good considering the position he had left. In the distance, he could see his fictional father clapping his hands in satisfaction. It wasn’t first place, but that was excellent so as not to raise any suspicions about him.
After that, Kayden just watched and interacted with other people for the next few hours. His new strength opened a few more doors to the influential friends he was able to make. His image was slowly being polished.
A few hours later, the event finally ended. It had lasted about three days, and Kayden hated every second he was wasting. Fortunately, Kelmor’s satisfied smile as they walked away showed that his service was appreciated.
"I have a pill that increases your brain capacity by a few percentages, but it causes immense constant pain when your brain uses something greater than it previously could," Kelmor explained to Kayden as they flew.
"No problem. It won’t affect my performance." Kelmor didn’t doubt Kayden. He saw the boy’s performance during training.
"It will be delivered to your room. Your next role is a faction race in the desert." Kayden didn’t ask for more information. When the time was right, they would come to him.
Arriving at his new home, Kayden just sat down and started training. He needed to put his brain on the same level as someone in the fifth realm, but to do so he couldn’t kill himself in the process.
His skills were already practically honed to the maximum they could be. He had nowhere else to grow other than raising them to a new level, but that would take millennia to do.
The only possibility was to be able to increase his brain to the fifth realm while he was still in the fourth. That would also be ridiculously difficult. In the end, he could just sit there while studying books about the human brain.
There were thousands of books at his disposal. He felt again as if he only had a few units of life when he needed to study every nuance of the human and animal hearts, all so that he could reach a new level.
It had been so many years that he ended up putting his heart aside during those years. In future millennia, he would have to change this situation. Kayden had neglected this point of his strength to the detriment of others.
The truth is that he didn’t have time to take all his skills to a higher level. It would take a long time for him to achieve perfection in everything, and he didn’t have that long of a lifespan.
Geniuses could do this more naturally. Kayden faced several people in the last fight who had a very strong main point but still managed to balance other small factors far superior to him.
Kayden wasn’t a genius. He had no talent; he had only determination, and this was clear throughout his life. Perhaps if he had received divine blessings of talent, he could have eight rays at this moment, but life was not based on guesswork.
The pill reached Kayden the next day. It was just a blue pill, without any marking or factor that highlighted its use. Without any fear, he swallowed it. It took a few seconds for him to start feeling enormous pain in every nerve in his body.
The effect of the pill was not on the entire body, but directly on the brain, and he was able to propagate pain in layers much higher than normal, as his mind-controlled practically everything in his body.
This realization made Kayden realize two things as he felt his head heat up, and begin to grow and reshape. He was dependent on something physical; your mind was the main organ of your body.
This was a weakness. He put one more thing on his to-do list: in the future, he should study the complete details of immaterial life forms. They were few in the universe and only mentioned in a few points in books.
Ghosts were not easy beings to find and, unlike what a normal person from an ordinary world would think, ghosts were ridiculously strong beings when they were free.
Some ghosts were tied to something physical, and if that was destroyed, their souls disappeared from existence. Those weren’t rare. In some unique events involving mana, living beings could become trapped in this form.
The free ghosts were ridiculously few and there wasn’t even one that wasn’t at least at the demigod level. This made something clear to Kayden: relying on his own body was not the final answer on the cultivation path.
You could even be a body mage, but his body wasn’t the answer, he was just a cocoon of his existence, Kayden didn’t have much time to think about it, as the effect of the pill began to wear off.