The pain didn’t leave his head for long minutes. At a completely random moment, Kayden stopped feeling pain or any other discomfort. It seemed like nothing had changed in his mind.
As soon as he focused on seeing all of existence as just mana, he felt his head start to hurt as if someone was putting a screw directly into his brain. It was a ridiculously strong pain, but it didn’t stop Kayden from continuing to look for the weak points in the tangle of mana. Again, he experienced the same feeling of helplessness. His mind was capable of analyzing many more points than before, but even so, it was not enough.
In the past, he was trying to get water from a river using a glass. At the moment, his container grew into a laundry basin, but even that was too little to empty an entire river.
Since he had nothing better to do, Kayden just kept trying to figure out the tangles and their meanings. Some of the time he thought his way too.
Quickly, time passed and he did another task for his fictional father. Again, he received a reward. For the next few years, he just stayed in that cycle. In a way, destiny helped him reach the best possible point.
He also returned to broadcast his life and explain some things. His original audience was small, but thanks to his feats and recorded videos, he got a good name on the outside that has lasted through all these centuries.
In just a few years, he had established himself as a C-Rank lucky planet player with a number of a few hundred trillion. He was a special case across the planet. Kayden didn’t have many accomplishments, but he had two things that set him apart.
A very useful course on how to follow a great path as a wizard and the feat of having killed a Lich, something that few people have done in the entire universe. This made him one of the people with the greatest future.
The dragon god’s promise was in effect, and Kayden was receiving thousands of techniques and gifts at every moment. It was such an absurdly large amount that he seemed to have assaulted an entire constellation.
Techniques, resources, practically everything was offered to him in the amount of millions. Furthermore, many were ridiculously high-level and refined, but few were what he needed. But... little in millions was still a frighteningly large amount.
Kayden managed to develop his brain to a ridiculous degree over the years, all thanks to a technique he received one random night. It was a strange encounter, as the papyrus appeared above his desk along with a letter.
"The possibility of breaking a barrier without breaking a kingdom." It was pretty much what he needed, but... "This technique will cost you a favor in the future. Think carefully before using it."
The letter only contained these words, but Kayden didn’t care at all. Owing favors was not the end of the world and it would be better than dying talentless in the fourth realm. This technique was called "Sharp Mind."
She worked on a very delicate point of increasing the electrical current and its speed inside the person’s head. It was extremely painful to work with and could easily lead to death with any mistake.
Kayden had no difficulty and adapted perfectly to the technique. He still wasn’t able to elevate it to the best level, it was still halfway through the process and it would probably take a few more decades to fully perfect it.
The sum of various techniques and treasures made him one of the best minds in the fourth realm. He could easily see the world as mana at this time and read various parts.
The problem is that it still wasn’t enough. Kayden would need something much stronger than that. He needed to truly transcend his mind and body. He could spend decades training to reach a new level, but...
It wouldn’t help. Kayden could clearly understand that his problem was a limitation that was impossible to overcome. His body could not elevate his mind to the point necessary.
Kayden wasn’t someone who gave up on his goals, but he also wasn’t someone who pursued a goal with no chance of success. At that moment, he changed his plans completely.
It took him 10 years of constant mental progress to realize this. Now, his goal was much simpler: just to break through to the fifth realm. He would invest a few more centuries just improving his path and trying to extract something beyond what he achieved.
Once he believed he had reached a plateau, he would advance to the next level. With his current strength, getting six lightning bolts should be no problem for him, but seven lightning bolts would be out of his reach.
Even though it was a situation where he was decreasing in power, Kayden just had to accept it. There was nothing to do. Furthermore, he didn’t want to waste too much time in the fourth realm searching for something useless.
Advancing with seven rays would greatly improve his body and strength, but... he was the master of his body and mind. It took him more than a millennium to understand that he was responsible for his strength and not a gift caused by lightning.
At some point in his life, he would no longer be able to depend on lightning. It would have to be something that came entirely from him or Kayden would just become another generic wizard among billions.
About 30 years later, Kayden had managed to establish a great reputation and was respected throughout the kingdom. He received thousands of resources from his father, and his mind reached an absolute plateau. There was nothing else to improve. Any slight advancement required decades and hardly increased his brain capacity, and Kayden understood that it was his kingdom that made it impossible for him to go further.
"The kingdom is going to do a massive raid with all mages to the next zone of the lucky world. Since it’s impossible to get back, we’re going to have to finish your mission early," Kelmor dropped this bombshell to Kayden on a random day.
"If I may ask, why this decision to change zones?" Kayden couldn’t understand why cowardly kings would want to trade their sovereignty for uncertainty. Kelmor remained silent for a few seconds while breaking out in a cold sweat.
"A demigod has emerged with enough strength to subjugate the entire zone, and once he emerges from his seclusion, we will all become his slaves until the dragons intervene to restore balance," Kelmor revealed. Kayden was surprised for the first time in decades.
To achieve a feat of this size with just one person...
"Does it have eight spokes?" Kayden asked and saw Kelmor’s eyes twitch.
"Yes, the first in a few millennia. The last one practically flattened half of this zone by testing his gravity spells." Kelmor and Kayden had developed a friendly relationship over the years, so Kayden was asking and being answered.
"Seven rays are a possible future god, but what about wizards with eight rays?"
"I don’t know, they’re rare, ridiculously rare. In my life, this is the first one I’ve seen," Kelmor admitted. Over the next few minutes, they talked about plans for Kayden to disappear.
Over the next few days, everything went as planned and Kayden returned a decade early to the guild he was working for. His performance was rated as perfect by Kelmor and earned him all the bonuses he was entitled to.
"Hello, Kayden Heart, your mission was very well executed. Enjoy a few years off and then come see me to talk about your next mission. There is no point in giving you small fish," Kayden thanked Evelyn and retired to his room.
As his plans changed, he would have to look at the available items again. This time it was much faster, as he already had an idea of what was in the store. In the end, he got around 1000 points.
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It was a ridiculously high amount for just a mission lasting a few years. This value gave access to many useful things. In the end, Kayden chose the incomplete technique to improve his mind to the fifth realm.
He would still try a few more things before actually giving up. To reach the fifth realm he would not have many difficulties. In the decade that his access to gifts was unrestricted, he received some manuals to advance.
Each of the manuals Kayden had received was different and had unique features and methods. Some had you create a superior core with semi-divine capabilities; others made you destroy your core and put your body as the main factor.
Even using an object or living being as a container was among the methods. Those were pretty rare, and Kayden thanked his viewers for the gifts many times, but only one caught his eye.