My contact with space-ti opened new doors for . I knew from the beginning about your torture and your path. Since the day I held you in my arms, I’ve had glimpses of your future.
I saw you being tortured, I saw you being betrayed and cornered by Eden, I saw you getting six lightning bolts, I saw you bending the impossible. But that’s sothing you’re still far away from.
And as much as I didn’t want one of my children to go through this, there was nothing I could do. It was his destiny, and fighting destiny is not sothing mortals can do easily. But don’t be fooled into thinking that your future has already been shaped. You only tend to a certain point in the divine plot.
Maybe you’re wondering why I exchanged my life for yours. This is sothing you will probably understand when you are a parent. I knew that my interference at that point was the only thing that would allow you to live. In any future I was alive, you would be dead. So I did what I had to do.
Make the most of my techniques and live your life as you wish. To the son I loved most, I leave here my goodbyes and my last words.
When Kayden finished reading, his eyes were watery. Without any fear, he began to cry and shed an absurd amount of tears. That was the most incredible thing anyone had ever done for him, but that wasn’t the reason he was crying.
He was crying in mory of Han and shedding his last real tears. From that day on, he killed all his feelings definitively. They were the last tears of the old Kayden.
It was long minutes before he stopped and cald down. When this happened, a new look was in his eyes. Before, it was an emptiness and a deep abyss for anyone. Right now, it would be a little different. It would be like seeing a dead person’s eyeball.
"Han was a real monster," Kayden comnted to himself. Before, he thought that the old man had reached the top twice. But this ti, he understood the depth of the old man’s strength.
There were three tis, and in one of them, with six rays. Furthermore, his second path was sothing beyond ridiculous, which enabled him to break any known parater. Han probably slaughtered those three figures as if they were absolutely nothing.
Kayden promised not to let Han’s mory be forgotten. And when I got out of that hole, I would turn this book into sothing public. Everyone on the planet would recognize his na. This was his last favor to his father.
Leaving that aside, Kayden took out from his space ring the technique he would need most if sothing went wrong: the legendary technique called Coward’s Escape. It had been falling for a long ti and it seed like it was still far from over.
The technique was difficult and laborious, but Kayden put all his focus into it. It would be essential for their survival. Ti had no aning for Kayden at that mont. Everything was black, there was no way for him to identify anything around him.
Kayden could not test the technique freely and could only simulate it outside his body. But with just that, he managed to master the art of being launched like a rocket. The part about becoming invisible to others was still in progress.
It consisted of changing his presence to sothing in the environnt, almost as if he were an inanimate being. It wasn’t particularly easy, as even his mana had to be exhaled differently. Furthermore, he couldn’t draw any mana into his body, even subconsciously.
He easily managed to master it with a little ti. He just didn’t get the part about moving underground and blinding everyone around him. He didn’t have ti, as he found himself falling into the real abyss.
A gigantic forest stretched out on all sides as far as Kayden could see. He exited the side of the ceiling, and as he looked up, he felt a ridiculously strong mana barrier preventing him from going back.
The ceiling was made of a crystal that illuminated the entire environnt below even from a few dozen kiloters high. It was a shade of blue, nothing too strong, but it made the land look strange. The mana density was five tis greater than on the surface.
"Crap?" Kayden used his technique to hide imdiately as he sensed so aerial creatures in his range. They weren’t strong and only seed to be in the first realm, but... Millions of them were flying over the region. Kayden could feel them feeding on the mana the crystals exuded.
Kayden began to descend quickly and discreetly. Even though they were weak individually, their joint strength was ridiculously high. The further Kayden went down, the more details of the forest he was able to see. And as far as he could see, there was no civilization at all. It was all bush and magical beasts.
Sothing he noticed was that there were no beasts above the second realm. This made Kayden relax a little. His first action was to find a cave to cultivate quietly and study the techniques. It didn’t take long, and after managing to clear the place of so animals, he returned to studying the Coward’s Escape technique.
During this ti, he could see how the passage of day and night down there was similar to where he ca from. The crystals darkened and there was a slight blue glow, just simulating dusk.
It took Kayden two full weeks to bring the technique to its best state. Moving underground was a little strange and uncomfortable, but he managed to maintain a good speed. Furthermore, the technique of blinding his opponents was also done successfully. It was similar to the flash he used at the apprentice level, the difference was that this ti the elent was light.
Once he achieved this, he mustered the courage to co out of his hiding place and look for treasure and beasts to face. This proved difficult. Kayden traveled several tens of kiloters and within a month did not encounter a single considerably strong beast.
He had to be content with facing weaker animals, but only to train his and Han’s spells. Unfortunately, this did not stimulate his sense of life and death and represented a minor gain. Slowly, the days began to pass.
Kayden began to accumulate so things he found, whether natural treasures or spoils from his prey. Fortunately, he always kept so books on different specialties with him. The natural treasures he found were being used by him to improve his alchemy.
The problem was that relying on books was ridiculously difficult and caused him to have dozens of spoiled and destroyed products. Kayden only dedicated one hour of his day to this project. The rest was divided into fighting, cultivating, and learning the techniques from Han’s book.
Other than that, his main objective at the mont was to learn the technique that would increase his life expectancy. Kayden didn’t find it too difficult considering his experience moving things that shouldn’t be touched.
His routine has also changed slightly. As he had a lot of ti, Kayden began to eat als more frequently to keep his body nourished, and the at he ate was only from animals from the second kingdom. This would increase its strength slightly after a few years or decades.
A few weeks later, Kayden finally encountered the first beast in the third realm. He had to travel a lot to make it. As soon as his spiritual sense hit the animal, he recognized it as a huge dog. Kayden wasn’t an idiot and just kept his distance and ran away.
He was not yet ready for a confrontation on this scale. He would need to reach the peak of the second realm to have a real chance of leapfrogging an entire realm. Furthermore, he was far from being able to advance.
His goal was to advance only when he reached the perfect maximization of the first level. Even with the treasures he had in his possession, it should take at least two years per level. But he wouldn’t spend any treasures and would save them for when he hit a wall in cultivation.
anwhile, he would use the natural treasures he managed to plunder from the abyss, and there were many. Kayden has found world trees several tis with seeds in the second realm and even more fruits and things in that realm. He harvested several but kept so so as not to break the balance of the system. Like it or not, he would spend several years here.
It took two months for him to learn the health increase technique. It was a ridiculously complicated process. Kayden thought it would be simple, but he was completely wrong in his thoughts. The infinite life technique took ti, as it needed to be a change to the entire body.
As soon as he finished learning it, he felt as if he was overflowing with vitality and energy. Besides, your skin has lost any marks of wrinkles, stretch marks, or moles. Any type of tissue damage was undone.
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