"That’s not enough, what resources do you have? Information?" Kayden’s cold eyes were like an abyss staring at the three of them.
"You annoying, Aunt Kamila warned you you wouldn’t fall for my tricks." It was obvious that the woman in the middle, Hanna, was responsible for the idea. The other two were Luísa and Fabiana.
"A pretty face is found around every corner," Kayden murmured. This woman could be his new target if he took care of his ego.
"I am more than just that." Kayden chuckled to himself, people had the same reactions and personalities after he met thousands of people. "We have information about the next zone and some sixth realm techniques."
"Show me the information first and then we can discuss it." Kayden wasn’t an idiot and always hoped to win something first.
"We have a map of the next zone with some specific treasure spots. Furthermore, we have details of all intergalactic organizations in that zone." Kayden was automatically interested.
"I accept, but I want an explanation about these organizations and what their strengths are." This was a simple request really.
"Fine, but we want proof of your strength. Aunt Kamila just said you were terribly strong, nothing more." Kayden could have knocked them over or something, but there was a much easier way.
"Sign an oath of silence first." In just a few seconds, everyone signed a contract and Kayden just cast the number he received in the universal tournament.
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"Gods, what are you doing in this end of the world with such a high number?" Luísa couldn’t contain her words.
"What is the challenge for the next zone?" Kayden had never asked about it and everyone just assumed he knew.
"A labyrinth with some monsters from the sixth realm. It’s nothing out of this world, but a few mistakes in it can easily cost you your life." Kayden wasn’t expecting anything too difficult anyway. "We don’t want to make any mistakes, so we want your protection."
"I will need a few days to advance to the sixth realm, after that we can go smoothly." Kayden spent the next few hours getting access to the information.
These were things he had no idea about. There were so many organizations with different purposes and different strengths that, even with a brain in the fifth realm, he became lost. There were even organizations to manage other organizations outsourced.
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"KAYDEN HEART! SKIRT!" It had been two days since Kayden had talked to the girls and this strangely familiar voice appeared to him. It belonged to a wizard of the sixth kingdom and with incredible seven rays, something very common these days, but...
"Hello, Athena." A middle-aged woman stood in front of Kayden, her hair was black and her eyes were green. Kayden didn’t quite remember if the woman looked like this, but he remembered her mana signature perfectly.
Neither of them said anything else as they stared at each other. Athena was visibly disappointed with Kayden’s strength, just six lightning bolts into the fifth realm? This wouldn’t even be a fight.
Kayden looked at her without any negative feelings, there wasn’t even curiosity in his eyes, while Athena seemed to have encountered the most hateful being who had ever lived, the only person who deserved all the hatred in her heart.
"DO YOU KNOW THE REASON FOR MY HATE? DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU DID?" Kayden had no idea what happened.
"No." His neutral and indifferent response was even more humiliating for Athena. The only reason he hadn’t contacted Julian was still a bubble around his housing that was at a much higher level than his.
"You still don’t understand your situation, do you?" Kayden already understood, but he didn’t see any major threat in front of him.
"What happened to Earth?" Kayden preferred to clear up their doubts before they started fighting, something that would have been inevitable.
"Plundered by some pirates, some people like me were made slaves and taken to the true universe, luckily this helped me find you." Kayden was starting to get curious about the reason for the hate.
"What exactly did I do?" Athena almost screamed, her eyes burning.
"There are soulmates in this universe, Kayden. We are all born with a half and only that half will complete you and that’s not some stupid fallacy," Kayden thought it was. "A soulmate goes far beyond sex or race, it’s a piece of you somewhere else. Your son was my soulmate."
Kayden remembered killing Athena’s husband at the time, but it had been so many years that he barely remembered the name of his offspring. It made him realize how time passed.
"How do you know I killed him?" Kayden remembered using the slave marking, his actions were supposed to be completely anonymous.
"I studied the situation for centuries and looked for divine treasures capable of helping me with this, I spent millennia looking for the person who destroyed my life." Athena had truly been through a lot.
She had been taken as a slave in one of the pirates’ raids and spent centuries working in mana mines on unknown planets, her strength and intelligence made her survive all these years, but what motivated her was hatred.
At one point, his planet was attacked by one of the local forces that dominated that solar system. It was at that moment that she managed to be released, actually not exactly, as she had to work for another organization again to buy her life.
"Your existence is no longer necessary." Kayden activated his surprise domain and all material things within a radius of several kilometers completely ceased to exist, it was just the blink of an eye.
A ridiculous amount of mana appeared for Kayden, using this technique in real life was much weaker than in the tournament, simply because out here the amount of divine mana was much smaller for Kayden to use.
Athena reacted quickly and erected a huge white barrier with thousands of unique symbols, the strength of this barrier seemed far superior to normal things in the sixth realm, but that didn’t matter to Kayden.
All the common and divine mana were suppressed in a single attack, a completely monstrous aura slash came out of a circle and slashed towards Athena, it arrived in less than 1 second against the woman’s bubble and...
"You’re the only soulmate you need," Kayden muttered as he saw the bubble being cut in two and the woman being separated in two vertically. The body fell lifeless to the ground and Kayden only looked at it for a few seconds.
He felt nothing about this situation, there was no dopamine from skipping a realm like it was no big deal, not even sadness from killing someone from his past, it meant nothing to him.
The only emotion was contempt for Athena making him weak for a few months, his plans to advance quickly were nullified because of this situation, but it wasn’t exactly a priority either, the girls were still hunting the bears.
As they did not have a sixth realm wizard to assist them, the situation became much more difficult. They had to hunt bears that were isolated and had to work as a team to kill the creature.
"Who was she?" Julian appeared at Kayden’s side after a loud bang that broke the bubble.
"A small problem from the past can plunder the body and take everything." Kayden didn’t offer much explanation.
"What happened to the surrounding land?" Julian looked like he was on a battlefield that had spent weeks of fighting.
Everything was planned, the only thing that existed in this place was the dirt floor, other than that there was no other sign of matter or anything like that, not even air was present in the environment.
"Nothing else." Julian understood that Kayden wouldn’t talk, they already knew each other well enough for that.
"Destiny is a funny thing, no matter the distance or the difficulty, our past will show up at one time or another." Kayden was impressed when he thought about it.
When he killed David, it was at a very random and meaningless moment. The amount of coincidences that had to happen for them to meet at that moment was completely surreal.
"At one time or another, you sit down to a dinner of consequences."
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The skies were completely closed with golden clouds that stretched for thousands of kilometers, there was a grandeur and pressure on all living beings in the region, it seemed as if the gods were descending to earth.
"I have never seen such a big cloud in the fifth realm," Julian commented to himself.
"It’s bigger than my spiritual sense." Hanna thought she had successfully passed into the sixth realm, but Kayden’s mere cloud was superior to her spiritual sense.
Meanwhile, Kayden was on the ground waiting for the rays, the first ones would practically be a joke considering all the stoning he did over the years, and it was.
Boom!