The more Kayden took pieces of Nivus’s soul, the closer she became to collapse. Kayden had no idea, but he was inadvertently strengthening Licht to a whole new level, accomplishing something Licht had always wanted: to absorb souls without their owners being present. For the first time in his life, Licht was succeeding.
Nivus’s soul was slowly destroyed and absorbed by the cold that Nyc exuded. In just a few days, Licht’s strength had practically doubled. This was completely unreal. His soul was enhanced, and he noticed that his techniques were being executed more fluidly.
No matter how hard he tried to understand, Nyc couldn’t determine where this power originated. He hadn’t discovered anything new or used any resources recently; his prisoners were still in the same situation. At least, that’s what he thought. Nyc could no longer sense Nivus’s soul in his prison. All souls have a unique signature and are 100% distinct; no two souls are alike. For the first time in a long time, Licht was scared.
Any fool would be overjoyed to gain strength without doing anything at all, but Nyc didn’t think so. He had placed Nivus together with Kayden, and magically, one of the souls ceased to exist. He hadn’t even known that was possible; weren’t souls supposed to be eternal? In a way, what Kayden had done was ridiculously unprecedented, for he was a soul manipulating another soul, and… He hadn’t destroyed Nivus’s soul; it had been reabsorbed into Nyc’s soul. While this wasn’t something completely new, the way it was done was unprecedented, and… only two people knew about it, and only one of them knew the entire secret.
Licht was genuinely afraid of putting another soul into his prison, fearing that Kayden would break free and start attacking more than just that soul. This fear kept him from doing crazy things in pursuit of power.
Fortunately, this was exactly what Kayden needed. He slowly began to destroy his past lives. The sensation was ridiculously strange, the pain was pure hell, but even so, he didn’t stop. His mind was completely hardened against the pain. His past lives were removed one by one, and then in dozens. With each life that came out, he felt both the positive and negative effects.
His current life became brighter, the details more vivid, his techniques easier, and thinking about things became ridiculously simple. Previously complex matters began to unfold for Kayden at an incredible speed.
The negative effects were also present, but they were suppressed by his will. The main negative effect was him getting lost in his memories and wandering, but slowly, Kayden was resolving this.
His personality didn’t change at all, because, in fact, it didn’t even exist. Kayden wasn’t boring or happy; he simply didn’t express any emotions. He wasn’t cold or evil; he just had a goal in mind and would do anything to achieve it.
Sometimes he would notice things in his psyche that weren’t exactly his own, seeming to be traces of emotions from his past lives. Kayden quickly suppressed them. His soul was his own, unique and indivisible. This was a ridiculously large step on his path. A monarch who does not rule himself is not worthy of ruling any other being.
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"So you’re the one messing up the universe again?" A ridiculously loud voice resounded throughout the universe. It seemed to be bathed in electricity, something quite surreal.
"Are you still alive, Zeus? I thought our last battle made it clear who was the strongest," Aries expressed some reaction after decades of silence.
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Zeus appeared in the form of a carefree-looking teenager. His body was perfectly proportioned and his face was a divine masterpiece of beauty. It was obvious to everyone that this being was extremely vain.
His strength seemed to be so high that Aries stopped sending puppets and focused all his attention on him. Next to Zeus appeared another existence, well known to many.
"You too, Athena?" Aries shifted uneasily this time. These two together represented a considerable force, and at that moment, his entire plan could collapse without advancing even an inch.
"Our era has passed, Aries. You have failed and you will not succeed," Athena said in an extremely cold voice.
The woman was wearing a white dress that contrasted with her... colorless skin. She was a purple-skinned being with galaxies floating on her body, a completely surreal sight, even more so considering that they didn’t seem to be just paintings.
"Nonsense. Even if I have to burn down every universe I pass through, I will reach the level of legends," Aries didn’t reach ten thunderbolts for nothing; it was through completely crazy determination.
"Our era has come to an end, and I am here to kill the last three gods of Olympus," Zeus said calmly, and the space around them began to close in. Aries didn’t even try to escape.
He knew it would be no use because that space... was beyond his capacity. It was something that only Athena could do. In the end, only the three of them were left trapped in an enclosed space, ready for one of the most difficult fights of their lives.
Each attack would be enough to break the universe in half, it was a degree of strength that only a few people have achieved in all of existence, Zeus was an authentic ten-ray wizard and used lightning as a weapon.
His own body was lightning and moved like one, the speed of light was just a joke compared to his speed, Aries was fighting using his axe, at that moment he was fighting for his life and not to ascend.
Athena was a false ten-ray magician, this meant that she survived the ten rays, but not that she had defeated them, it was a small detail that didn’t matter much with the other numbers of rays, but in this case, it placed her at a much lower level of strength.
The battle was being broadcast to a chosen few, who was the person capable of doing this? No one knew, but a giant screen opened up and several gods and mortals were thrown into a room to watch.