With enough time, Kayden could hone every skill in his collection. 99% of people end up hitting a wall during their lives and leaving important points aside, even when they have enough time to overcome this barrier. Without wasting another second in this place, Kayden continued towards the planet. Using the space map and his understanding of space, he managed to overcome the distance in just two weeks. By blinking several times, he was able to move quickly.
Kayden felt dozens of ships around him as he neared the end of the fog. Fortunately, his control over mana made him seem like a stone to the spiritual sense of high-realm beings, undetected by the weaker ones.
The planet was an immense mass of flat land with buildings on both sides. It was something very unique and incredible. It stretched for millions of kilometers in each direction and probably had an area exceeding trillions of square meters. The boy felt a strong spiritual sense sweep through his body as he descended to the planet, but that was it. There was no other attempt at contact, probably from some guardian in the ninth kingdom who upheld the laws in that environment.
Not that it exactly had many laws, Kayden went down and felt things with his spiritual sense. Most of the ships were left floating in the air, wrapped in a metal bubble. The funny thing is that this metal was transparent and did not pollute the vision. Considering that there were thousands of ships in that location, it was the most correct. It would be a ridiculously ugly sight if everything was exposed to the open air, as well as leaving the skies with a very ugly image for a developed city.
The buildings more or less followed the rules of the other city Kayden had been to. Dozens of buildings did not have great luxuries or accommodations, just empty spaces with runes of protection and privacy. The entire city had a real-life with safe zones of normal mana for weaker beings. Kayden even saw the presence of some mundane schools and institutions, it had been millennia since he had seen anything like them.
Normal mana was supported by a few dozen runes that opened space and maintained a low but constant flow of normal mana. It was enough for any living being below the fifth realm to survive. The city had two sides. One where everything was perfect and tidy, with normal mana zones and a society. The other side... was simply an open sewer. There were no laws and Kayden managed to sense several deaths in just a few minutes on that side.
The buildings and constructions were also made of poorer materials and without any intention of being durable. There were no families or worldly institutions on that side. There were brothels and betting houses. A very important small detail was that, on the normal side, Kayden felt a spiritual sense sweeping over him at all times, especially over him, who was camouflaged at all times. On the dark side, this did not exist.
Kayden spent just a few days studying the environment to understand some of the city’s dynamics. The beautiful side was intended for registered citizens born on the planet. Furthermore, everyone there had different rights to resources and opportunities. The dark side was where people from outside who could not gain citizenship lived. This side represented about 70% of the entire planet and most of the people.
There was a strong rivalry between the two sides, mainly because the owner of the planet favored his side every time. There were several massacres that he carried out to avenge crimes that occurred on the beautiful side. Kayden also felt that the people on both sides were a little strange. Their psyches were very stereotypical, almost like a game of good and evil. It was obvious that the owner of this planet was playing with the people in this place.
"What is your purpose here?" An eighth-realm wizard, dressed entirely in black, was talking to Kayden on the dark side.
"Information," Kayden replied.
"What do you have to offer?"
"Some things." Kayden only needed to interrogate the right people to get underground and discover the black market. The rules were simple: a negotiation between two entities that had to be respected. The leaders of this place were magicians from the ninth kingdom who functioned independently from the owner of the planet. They were an organization of abominations that operated throughout the abyss. Kayden’s safety seemed to be guaranteed by the honor of this group.
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He just couldn’t show many signs of wealth in this environment, because the group itself might want to rob him. But as long as it was accepted on the market, its safety would be guaranteed.
"Take the oath." Kayden received some requests for silence, but only about the group, and a few more requests. "Be free to do whatever you want here, but respect the rules."
The wizard released Kayden to get out of his sight and into the market. There were hundreds of kilometers with just stalls and people offering their products. Some shouted to get attention, while others just left a book with all their products in front of them.
Some groups were also large and had tents in this location with large expanses of space. Kayden found a real slave market at one of these points, with thousands of chained beings being displayed as merchandise.
Kayden found practically everything in this place. A large part was intended to sell common products from the normal universe, such as food and other things that did not exist in the void. But... there was also a bad side.
People were sold in pieces; you could just buy the head of a living, rational being, you just had to ask. This was a huge butcher shop. Kayden had never seen anything so ghastly before, but he didn’t pay much attention. Slavery was something common in the universe and didn’t human beings live using other beings as food? Placing the blame on rationality was a pretty stupid thing to point out, as a ninth-realm wizard could see a third-realm wizard as irrational compared to the two intelligences.