While Kayden only cultivated on the lower floor, dozens of plans were made above him. Most developed an irrational fear of Kayden; even the craziest of the group didn’t want to fight him.
"We can kill him outside the ship, this is in accordance with the rules of the oath."
"He put a 6-month clause without any attack," the leader replied. "Let’s just let him go, that man is too dangerous to mess with without any precautions."
In the end, Kayden didn’t care either. As crazy as it was, he had full confidence in killing everyone on that ship and still killing the leader. Maybe it would be a little taxing on your body and taxing it, but it could still be done. He just wouldn’t do it for two reasons: first, that he didn’t care enough, and second, that he didn’t want to expend unnecessary strength. Time passed quickly without any intrusion into Kayden’s room.
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"Exactly 1 month until we arrive, sir." A voice sounded from outside and caused Kayden to wake up from his cultivation. He only addressed the ship’s leader, as his agreement also covered a map for the rest of the route.
The leader easily agreed to this request, as she thought Kayden just wanted some of the wealth of knowledge reserved for void sailors. Never in his wildest dreams did he expect Kayden to leave the ship.
"The map, please," Kayden asked without another word. His neutral tone didn’t sound disrespectful and the request at the end made his aura strange. He was so strong and at the same time, he acted like he was just an ordinary person.
"Here." The woman threw Kayden a huge painting with dozens of mana runes. This was a really special map made by a rune painter.
Spatial maps contain thousands of pieces of information. Each rune revealed a large part of the path and all possible information about it. Each ship captain had his personnel, but could easily generate copies without his personal experiences.
"Thank you," Kayden thanked and disappeared to his room. He didn’t blindly trust an oath, but he trusted his instincts a lot. Just releasing a bit of his aura was enough for everyone in the room to feel fear but not nervousness.
He waited for about two weeks to pass and then left in a random part of the ship, hiding his presence. He planned to leave longer ago, but after reading the map he changed his mind. In these two weeks, they made it 70% of the way to the city.
The reason the other 30% had the same crossing time was because that part was infested with toxic mana, a type of void mana in the form of gas that attacked both physically and mentally all living beings.
It was extremely strong, but as long as you had strong mana control you would be able to easily overcome that distance in about 2 months. It would take much longer than the ship, but it would still be much safer.
Kayden also left a rune covering his room from any invading spiritual sense and, on top, placed an explosive to activate as soon as the ship stopped. That should be enough to fool anyone.
As soon as he left, he saw the purple-colored mana looking like a huge gas. His spiritual sense was a little distorted, almost as if it was being refracted in water from all sides, but it was still possible to use.
The toxic mana tried to corrode Kayden’s body as soon as he touched it. The boy quickly converted it into pure mana and placed a barrier around him. Toxic mana could be converted at a rate of 50%. Kayden was dazzled by this.
The psychological attacks were not even felt by him. Any normal person would be a little discouraged in this environment, but Kayden couldn’t even feel any difference in his mentality.
The fact that he could convert this toxic mana, which was nothing more than void mana into gaseous form, revealed many details to Kayden. Maybe he would spend a little more time than just two months in this fog.
Kayden learned to enjoy traveling through space through several space jumps. His spatial sense made him able to travel several tens of kilometers at once. This was the first time he was doing this.
Traversing space was ridiculously dangerous, as any change to the space tunnel that Kayden created could cause it to be split into two or thousands of pieces. Fortunately, the fog hardened the space.
It was a bit of hypocrisy, as the mana from the void left the space more open and elastic most of the time, but in this place, the mana was in a gaseous state and made the space tighter.
These coincidences meant that Kayden was able to train a little more in space with his spatial sense. This was something he couldn’t do in that space room, as the space there was quite strange.
After a month of converting mist mana and studying it in every possible way, Kayden managed to increase his conversion rate by an incredible 5%. It seemed like a small number, but considering the size of his spiritual sense, this was a terrifyingly large thing.
Kayden considered this gain monumental. He has become accustomed to spending decades or even centuries to see even a 1% improvement. So when he gained strength that quickly, he became drunk.
In the blink of an eye, Kayden spent a decade there and reached an incredible 70% conversion rate. At this moment, he was like a god within this mist. The amount of mana he could utilize was completely absurd.
Kayden had full confidence in facing several people from the seventh realm in this environment without major difficulties and, regarding eight-ray magicians in the sixth realm, complete confidence in the same way.
Kayden spent another decade in that environment training in every way he could, but there came a point where he hit a real plateau, he easily identified that he was not capable of increasing conversion by even 1%.