"No, he is a real challenger," Yan replied, also paying attention to the movements as he expanded his spiritual sense to ask:
"He who destroyed the other universe?"
"No, but he was the harbinger of the end, and pretty much everything ended because of him. He’s a unique wizard who only appears three times per universe. Now, he’s trying to go beyond godhood."
"Is he a ten-ray mage?" Nyc came to this conclusion quickly, and a chill ran down the spines of everyone who managed to hear the conversation.
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This was the strength of a ten-ray mage? Able to face the entire universe for years and still not be at a disadvantage? It was something completely superior to anything any god there had ever seen.
Even the Librarian found himself unable to measure this level of strength. It was completely insane. As the years passed, more and more gods sleeping in the far reaches of the universe began to appear.
Mortals were dying by the trillions every day. No matter what they did, the puppets kept appearing, and they began to hunt down the deserters. Only war was known at that time.
The birth rate of living beings had dropped to a ridiculously low number, and the universe was very close to collapse. As time passed, Aries grew in power. His puppets were now all in the eighth realm, with a good portion in the ninth.
The gods were still numerous and accounted for most of the battles. Each god was capable of fighting an infinite number of puppets, which bought time for mortals to begin reproducing again.
Slowly, the universe began to enter a strange balance between death and birth. The situation accelerated the birth of geniuses: only the strong were born, and only the strong survived.
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Kayden had found the memories of his past life. They were rooted within his soul. In a way, they were part of his soul, and yet not part of it. It was a strange concept, with no explanation.
Every time he touched Nivus’s soul, he ended up feeling the dragon go through moments of high resistance, and this unconsciously made him fight against Kayden’s manipulation. It took a long time for him to be able to remove one of these memories.
That piece of soul was simply thrown into nothingness, and Nivus didn’t receive any boosts. His soul remained normal, and that piece was simply replaced by the fragments of his current life.
Kayden slowly erased every piece of the dragon’s soul he could. With each removal, it became cleaner. At first, he would only remove one memory at a time, but with practice, he began to remove dozens and hundreds.
After many millennia, he managed to take one life at a time. The amazing thing was that the dragon always seemed to have more lives. No matter how many Kayden took, the amount of memories seemed to be infinite.
Kayden encountered another problem during this time. The more lives he took, the more unstable Nivus’s soul became. At first, it was just small things, like his appearance. But after so many lives were taken, the dragon began to have ingrained memories of different lives.
Over time, Kayden learned to simulate living memories to test the effects of his experiments as if Nivus were in a material body. The soul was so powerful that it simply performed everything perfectly and reproduced the memories.
The technique consisted of a trick: leaving a large part of the memory incomplete, missing many important details. This caused the soul to relive that memory and fill in the details according to its reality but in an impartial way. Logically, this did not always work.
A strange case occurred when Kayden forced a situation where Nivus was going to die. Even so, the soul would make him die and then bury that memory in the subconscious, leaving it aside.
The more Kayden removed Nivus’ past lives, the more the soul caused him to lose traits of his personality, becoming more unstable and with very obvious psychological problems.
Without mercy, Kayden continued. The process slowly accelerated, and he began taking dozens of lives, then hundreds. In a period, he had taken away all of Nivus’s past lives and…
"What the hell?" The dragon’s soul began to attack itself, trying to kill itself dozens of times. Kayden saw it directly begin to consume itself and try to create lasting memories with itself.
It was a completely surreal sight. The dragon’s personality was completely altered. His memories were remade and remodeled without any order or meaning. At that moment, he was no longer Nivus.
He was nobody, and yet he was everyone. His personality changed with every passing second. His mind was in complete chaos, but... he was much stronger. Kayden noticed that at times, his soul felt lighter.
In very specific moments of lucidity, Nivus had his techniques polished to a completely different level. It was as if he breathed in his abilities as if they emerged so naturally that they seemed innate.
The mana expenditure in each of them was minimal, almost non-existent because it was so perfect. There was no error whatsoever, no matter how difficult the technique was; it was reproduced with a ridiculous degree of perfection.
Another thing Kayden couldn’t explain was how easily Nivus’s soul absorbed new knowledge. Kayden played a lesson directly into the dragon’s soul and saw Nivus absorb the entire content in seconds.
A completely inhuman degree of talent was given to the dragon, in compensation, this knowledge was hardly held in its mind, it became a complete chaos where anything was absorbed.
Kayden wasn’t quite sure if it was willpower that the dragon was lacking or if the soul wasn’t made to have just one life, but... at the beginning of all existence it should have been like that, right?
First of all, there were no lives to be past lives, that didn’t make any sense, so Kayden concluded that it must be a lack of willpower, at that moment he continued to break the dragon’s soul.