This was not an ordinary attack, for besides destroying everything around, its bolts saturate the ambient mana, making it erratic and unpredictable, practically causing everything to melt. The speed at which this was falling was breakneck.
Kayden smiled and fully activated his path. Everything within ten thousand kilometers turned into mana. Kayden couldn’t throw anything outside the barrier but simply pulled everything toward him. The entire landscape was instantly undone and transformed into mana. No one had time to react, even the other combatants had their spells turned into mana before they could respond.
The judges overseeing each battle barely had time to blink before all the mana was gone. It simply evaporated, and within ten thousand kilometers, mana ceased to exist, leaving a massive void with no explanation.
BOOM! Crack!
The sound of space breaking and everything exploding echoed as an enormous, unprecedented aura slash destroyed everything inside Kayden’s bubble. The barrier held his attack only because the judge was directly supplying energy to it.
The ground sank into an immense ravine more than two thousand kilometers deep. The combat zone, which had once been a forest with various lakes—a true environment—no longer existed; it was now just a vast emptiness.
The woman had managed to perfectly defend against Kayden’s attack, but it cost her a significant portion of her mana and stamina. Her hand trembled as she looked at Kayden, who was regarded as if he were a monster. Without any expression, Kayden floated in the air with both hands behind his back. This had been the strongest attack the mage had ever used in public, and she had not expected her attack to be completely absorbed.
Additionally, she had to use a special defensive spell, dividing her body dozens of times to survive and distribute the damage. Unfortunately, Kayden’s aura slash covered 100% of the space in the zone, and she had to do everything she could just to stay alive.
Fights at this level of power became very quick. There weren’t many special techniques at this stage, as most people could only maximize a single spell, which became their trump card. The rest was just to test the strength of their opponents.
Kayden knew thousands of spells, but he only used simple mana slashes perfected to the extreme. Sometimes, he used a few lightning strikes, but most of his attacks were weak and poorly crafted.
Everyone was looking at Kayden in complete shock as he floated calmly in the air. He had simply destroyed everything around him. The judge didn’t know what to do. Such cases were rare but not unique.
"Congratulations on reaching the third level of privilege, Kayden Heart," the judge’s voice declared, ending the battle. The mage could no longer continue; her strength had been completely obliterated.
Meanwhile, several dozen ninth-realm mages appeared to rebuild the entire battlefield. Normally, only one or two were required per zone, but at this moment, nearly a hundred appeared. Ninth-realm mages were supposed to reign over all others, but most of them were slaves nurtured by the government since childhood and were now used as cheap labor.
It took about an hour to fix everything Kayden had destroyed. It was simply a vast area and required an immense amount of effort from them. It was rare for mages to destroy the bubbles, but destroying ten of them?
"I’d like to try for the fourth level of privilege," Kayden’s voice caused a small murmur among the crowd; he had already gained some fame in this place.
"Proceed to the seventh-realm mage zone, Mr. Kayden," the same judge informed Kayden of his orders.
This time, they used a combat zone for seventh-realm mages, but Kayden’s opponent would only be in the sixth realm. The real problem was Kayden. This zone was about twelve thousand kilometers wide, a surreal size.
This world was bizarrely massive. Even the medium-realm combat zones were enormous. This world must have been tens of billions of kilometers in size. It was so large that only by using space leaps could some distances be easily traveled.
The government felt utterly oppressed by what Kayden had done. Those in power wanted to find someone who could directly attack his weak point, but the problem was that Kayden had crushed his opponent so thoroughly that they didn’t even know how to do so.
How many times could Kayden launch an attack of that magnitude? Capable of making a ninth-realm mage completely unable to cast even a single spell, it was a bizarre display of offensive power.
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At this moment, they had two options. They could place a mage capable of matching Kayden’s power, or they could place a mage who could endure his attack and then fight with a weaker force afterward.
Both cases were a gamble. In the first case, there was a risk that Kayden was even stronger than he appeared. In the second case, they risked that Kayden could use his attack more than once.
"Hello! My name is Matheus Jyn, and it’s a pleasure to fight you," a blonde teenager with green eyes appeared, floating in the air. He had a muscular build and carried a large shield on his back.
"My name is Kayden Heart. Are you related to Reyna Jyn?" Both shared the same last name, but when Kayden asked this question, he saw his opponent’s eyes narrow slightly.
"She’s a banished member of our family tree." Kayden didn’t want to dwell on the matter, as in the end, he didn’t care.
The two remained silent for the next few minutes. Matheus was a sixth-realm mage with nine rays, entirely focused on defense. But the main detail was that he belonged to the false gods. His strength far exceeded his realm and rays.
He hadn’t yet fully transitioned into the state of a false god, which was why he didn’t have the characteristic blue hair of false gods. A few minutes later, the judge gave the signal to begin.
The space around Matheus fractured in several places, and the void mana inexplicably flowed toward him. It was a simple spell that all false gods could cast. Then, the shield on his back liquefied.
This liquid covered his body until it fit perfectly, mana filling the shield on his body and creating an unexplainable compressed mana barrier.
The density of the mana was so high that it began to break the space around him. Each step Matheus took caused massive cracks that spanned kilometers. At that moment, Kayden understood why he was a nine-ray mage.
Each crack in the space expanded dozens of times, filling the entire arena. Matheus was an expert manipulator of space, a ridiculously rare race capable of bending space with no difficulty.
The cracks began to move like snakes, seemingly alive. With each second, the amount of mana in the environment increased and disappeared simultaneously, in a mad duality to behold.
The space was completely unstable. Kayden could have half his body destroyed in the blink of an eye if he wasn’t careful. Moreover, he could sense that Matheus was everywhere in the arena, yet nowhere at the same time.
WHOOOSH!
A vortex opened next to Kayden, followed by an attack with a dagger, moving at a speed that should not have been possible. Kayden couldn’t react in time and saw one of his arms severed.
He looked directly at Matheus and saw a smile on the false god’s face. Kayden then looked at his arm, several kilometers away. He still had a lot to learn. This attack was so natural that he didn’t even understand how the space had twisted.
"Unleash that attack again, or I’ll take you apart piece by piece," Matheus seemed to have completely changed. The humility had vanished upon seeing that he was winning.
The ego is a feeling that every race possesses. It’s extremely difficult to rid oneself of ego and pride. Matheus had the same eyes as kings... who, after some years, were killed by the blindness of their egos.
"Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall," Kayden murmured one of his core teachings.
Being a teacher for so long gave him certain habits, one of which was correcting students with high egos. At that moment, Matheus saw himself as the strongest mage of the sixth realm. Kayden smiled; it was time to change that.
In the blink of an eye, all matter within 10,000 kilometers ceased to exist and became mana. Once again, it was so fast that no one could react. The gift of transforming matter into mana was something that false gods possessed, but the problem was that Kayden was not a false god, and to make matters worse... his technique was even stronger than theirs.
As quickly as the matter was transformed into mana, an aura-cutting attack appeared in its place and swallowed the entire arena. The twelve thousand kilometers of the arena were flattened to a depth of 30,000 kilometers in a frightening manner.