A feeling he hadn’t felt in literally tens of thousands of years was assaulting his body. Kayden was sleepy... he didn’t understand exactly why, but he knew it wasn’t natural, something was terribly wrong in this situation.
"Shit" Kayden couldn’t concentrate enough to feel things in detail with his spiritual sense. He didn’t know if this was a pirate attack or if he was being targeted alone and...
POOFT!
Kayden’s body hit the ground with him unconscious. It had been a long time since Kayden had lost consciousness, literally thousands of years since he last had anything like this. The reshaping in advances didn’t count, as he didn’t feel the shift in consciousness.
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Kayden was floating above a huge sea of crystal-clear water. The bottom of this sea could not be seen, as the water was in such a perfect state that it reflected the clouds in the sky, making it appear like he was walking on clouds.
His spiritual sense could not leave even an inch of his body. The mana in this place was completely unlike anything Kayden had ever seen, he was not able to utilize it even when he forced his absolute dominance over it.
It was heavy, yellow mana with white lines. This mana had a feeling of being solid and illusory, not only that but it was also completely different from every type of mana Kayden had ever seen in his life.
There was nothing in this place, no matter how much Kayden walked or flew, time didn’t seem to pass and he found nothing for hours... nothing for days ... nothing for weeks. The boy had no way of calculating time in this place.
Years or centuries could have passed and Kayden would have nothing but his mind to calculate time. His brain capacity allowed him to count seconds and have an estimated idea of time, but this was a flawed method and he knew it.
At one point, Kayden simply gave up and sat down to cultivate. He could do two things in this environment, the first was to study this strange mana and the second was to study its path to elevate it to an incomplete law.
By eliminating advantages and disadvantages, Kayden decided to study the mana of this environment first, he didn’t know how long he would spend here, but it probably wouldn’t be long, that’s what he expected...
A thousand years later, Kayden was in the same environment without any advancement in his study, he was lost in absolute concentration, time no longer made sense to him again and just understanding this mana was his goal.
"Anything?" Kayden muttered after the 1 million 300 thousand test, a perfect round number of failures. At that moment he finally turned to himself and made a mental note of his body.
"Nothing again?" This time it was something else that Kayden focused his attention on, his life force hadn’t changed even a millimeter in the entire time he’d been there.
This meant that he was immortal in this place. Kayden was surprised for just a few seconds, but soon after he turned back to his path, since he had precious time that he wouldn’t waste his life, he decided to make the most of it.
Kayden avoided losing himself in a state of absolute concentration now, as he wanted to keep up with his life force to get a better idea of what was going on. It didn’t take many years for him to make a discovery.
"Decreased" Kayden couldn’t explain what was different, but it was clear to him that his useful life was spent when he began to study his path, why this difference existed Kayden didn’t know.
In the following years, he did the verification test by studying the abnormal mana again and found that its lifespan did not decrease at all. Whatever his reason for being here, it was obvious that whoever put him there wanted him to study this mana.
The environment remained the same without any change, it seemed as if Kayden had not even spent 1 minute in that environment. The water was the same as always, the skies were the same, and nothing changed.
The amount of mana available to Kayden was only what was in his body, it was relatively little considering that his techniques focused on using mana from outside and not storing it in his body like most people.
Kayden probably had less mana in his body than a fifth realm mage and that was something quite peculiar. Fortunately, he was able to recover the mana he lost as time passed. This natural regeneration was another unknown for him, as this mana came from somewhere unknown to him.
Time began to pass, and understanding this mana proved to be the most difficult task of Kayden’s entire life. He didn’t even have the slightest sign of advancement even after thousands of years, not even 1%, his understanding was the same as the first day.
Anyone else would go crazy in this environment without any signs of life, it almost felt like they were frozen in time. Kayden just continued studying the mana, he didn’t have anything else to do.
Even if he managed to raise his way to an incomplete law in this place... that didn’t mean he would be able to get out of there. Trying to fly upwards was one of his first actions and he discovered in just a few seconds that the space between the sea and the sky was infinite.
Space was dilated by a ratio of trillions of times, practically making the distance infinite for his strength. It was a high-level spatial spell that he couldn’t even understand in the slightest.
Swimming downwards also led to the same end, there were no exits, there were no living beings, there were no changes, it was the same environment for thousands of years without any changes, and there wasn’t even an air current in that place.
As the years passed, Kayden lost connection to any thought beyond the mana he was studying. Thinking about leaving this place was useless, thinking about what was happening in the universe was useless and didn’t even matter.
This 𝓬ontent is taken from fгeewebnovёl.co𝙢.