The fact that Kayden was only chasing his goal without caring about anything else, was it considered being lost? For most, it would be. He was throwing his entire life away in pursuit of a final goal that wouldn’t even reward him with anything.
"I didn’t get lost, in fact, I found myself during this time, that’s all." The two remained silent for a few seconds; it was a long time they had spent apart, and they didn’t even know each other well anymore.
"I see, do you want some help in this place?" Kayden just shook his head.
"No need, thank you." Han gave Kayden a nod and disappeared from the place. In the end, the two no longer had any connection; their relationship had died over time.
Kayden refused his help for the simple reason that receiving help to understand law was practically the same as not learning it at all; nothing that came from others was truly his, and Kayden fully embraced this mindset, even when facing a specialist mage to solve his problem.
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After a few more years, Kayden finally emerged from this temporal lapse. In the end, he learned very little or almost nothing about time, only learning about space itself and how it could be bent at different points by the force of time. It wasn’t an amazing learning experience, but it wasn’t wasted time either.
Kayden had the option to return to this rift, but it wouldn’t be very useful; he couldn’t learn anything about the laws of time in just a few years—he would need at least several tens of thousands of years studying this area.
Without any hesitation, Kayden moved forward. He wanted to reach the center of the fourth plane as quickly as possible; it was already taking too long in his view, and his planet was going unsupervised. However, on the other hand, he didn’t really care. The more he gained in this environment, the better it would be.
The years slowly began to pass, turning into decades, then centuries, and Kayden still hadn’t reached the center of this place. It was simply too immense for him to do so quickly.
Kayden had never spent so much time flying and teleporting before; this place was just enormous—probably the four planes together were larger than an entire high-level solar system.
During this time, Kayden faced many problems with beasts and other high-level beings. Most of them had mastery over strange and absurd laws. Some sixth-realm mages were on the same level of strength as Kayden, which was completely insane—the laws were truly crazy.
Kayden participated in many events occurring on the fourth plane; he witnessed the birth of many laws randomly. He saw beings rise from the lowest point of strength to monsters merely by mastering a law that was perfectly suited to them.
During all this time, he never met any acquaintances again, nor even talked to other people. Kayden didn’t want contact with random people without any profit; he was already accustomed to solitude.
The environment was always strange—the closer Kayden got, the more madness he witnessed. He even saw a bird tens of thousands of kilometers long; it was completely insane. Its wings were large enough to cause something akin to night, even during the day.
Kayden saw ravines millions of kilometers deep; he crossed cities where giant beings resided—humans over two hundred meters tall lived comfortably in a massive space.
He saw mountains that were just gigantic anthills, used as a massive hive for ants, even though they were only a few centimeters in size. Their population was completely absurd.
At the moment, Kayden was sitting on a mountain while analyzing an enormous ten-kilometer-long platform at the lowest part of the valley of mountains where he was. A few hundred people were around him; every mage here possessed ridiculous strength and wasn’t just another fool in this world.
The platform was entirely made of spatial laws; it didn’t have any matter, just space compacted into a physical form. Kayden first began studying this platform before attempting to descend to it.
At the center of the platform was a man nearly two meters tall, with yellow skin and black markings on his body. He was in the ninth realm, and his strength was absurd, yet he seemed like just an ordinary middle-aged man. He wore a white tunic and had red hair—a great variety of colors.
It only took Kayden a few hours to understand what this event was: anyone could descend and try to reach the man. The platform was a completely chaotic space, with spatial webs entirely distorted. Kayden had never seen such a disordered space in his entire life.
In a small area of just a few centimeters, there were dozens of different types of spatial dilation; it was completely crazy and deadly. Any mistake could kill the person, as at one moment, half of their body could be compressed while the rest was stretched, or their heart could be taken elsewhere.
To reach the person at the center, the mage would have to walk all ten kilometers—not just walk them in a straight line, but cover every centimeter of the platform. When walking in one spot, they would quickly find themselves in another. The confusion of the spatial webs meant they had to traverse all points.
After a few days of studying the entire environment, Kayden got a sense of the difficulty of this test, and... it was one of the most absurd things he had ever seen in his entire life. Those ten kilometers contained at least several hundred million kilometers in total.
The man at the center had mastered the law of space in its entirety. This wasn’t something that could be achieved with an incomplete law, but he was not a god. Kayden’s mind became a bit confused after this realization.
Not a single mage had been able to reach the mage at the center. Most gave up after a few days; they only needed to fly upward to escape the spatial tangle. Some people seemed to have been there for a long time—Kayden overheard conversations about people who had been there for decades. It was a long time, but it was also great training.
Every second there, one had to be able to manipulate space in different ways. Anyone who reached the end of the course would likely be considered high-level—practically a genius in spatial manipulation.