At least that was what Kayden expected, but first place continued to climb at high speed and even though he took out the fourth realm mages like grass, the other side was also doing the sa.
It beca clear to Kayden that Nathan Yuma was a seven-ray wizard and that he was fighting people from a realm above him. The question was how Kayden would overco him; this competition was practically just between the two.
Third place and the rest had no chance of competing. The prize pool for skipping a realm was much higher than hundreds in the sa realm. So special wizards could jump realms, but not as easily as Kayden and Nathan.
"That was close," muttered Kayden after dodging a wind attack that surged dangerously beneath his foot. It was very sneaky and he had no idea where the attacker was.
"Hang on! Hang on! I attacked by accident!" Kayden saw a young man with light blue eyes and bright yellow hair. He was tall and carried a sword. Her outfit was elegant and full of folds, but at the sa ti tight and with a diagonal divider from shoulder to foot.
Kayden imdiately felt that the person on the other side was in the third realm. The problem was that he couldn’t tell what his opponent’s exact level of strength was. Coupled with the perfect surprise attack, Kayden killed the charade quickly.
There were seven rays. Seven rays in the third realm were rare, extrely rare among challengers. In this generation, for example, there was only Kayden and Nathan. The third place who was fighting for the top positions was just a young girl who reached six lightning bolts directly into the first realm, a ridiculously rare feat.
"You’re Nathan, aren’t you?" The boy’s eyes lit up when he was recognized.
"So you know the illustrious challenger Nathan Yuma. I could even give you an autograph, but I don’t have ti for that right now. Furthermore, your low power disgusts ." Nathan couldn’t understand Kayden’s kingdom or his strength. He just considered it as soone at the apprentice level.
He considered that his attack on Kayden was deflected by soone superior at the last mont. He just didn’t understand how soone of that level of strength was present in this region. His superb nature was clear to Kayden.
"Illustrious? Don’t you an the most pathetic? I challenge him to a fight until only one side remains. I put my honor on the line that I will not run away and I hope that a worm like you does the sa." Kayden’s speech was extrely heavy. High society was not used to direct offenses like this.
Even more, Nathan, who was considered a future god by everyone on his planet and outside, received the sa respect as a monarch of a planet. Kayden’s speech entered his young mind and made him automatically roar in response.
"I won’t run away from a weakling like you. Tell the na of whoever I massacred at my hands!" He was much younger than Kayden and still only 60 years old.
His talent was far superior to Kayden’s and even Triz’s was inferior to his. His age and his lightning count were sothing that shouldn’t be possible together, this gave him one of the biggest egos in this solar system.
"I am the challenger Kayden Heart, the monarch of mana." Kayden’s speech caused the audience to erupt in such loud noise that runes had to be added. Not only that but all eyes were focused on them now.
No one knew Kayden or had even heard of him. His na did not exist in any universal internet registry. His speech was treated as a lie by the majority, but... deep down everyone wanted to see what the end of this fight would be.
"Do you know what a cri it is to impersonate a challenger?" There was no punishnt for this, but Nathan was extrely furious at the thought of soone being on the sa level as him. "I ask you to stop this test and arrest this rubbish!" His voice was only t with silence.
"I recomnd you take this seriously or later don’t say I didn’t warn you", Kayden stopped talking as he took a deep breath, his eyes closed for a few seconds and...
"Co to your monarch," the mana from over 5 kiloters converged towards Kayden at high speed, his spiritual sense was expanded by 10 tis the amount it was at, a feat that was only possible for a short period of ti.
"It’s your last chance to prepare," Kayden said looking into his opponent’s eyes. The amount of mana combined with Kayden’s calmness in the situation caused Nathan to expand his wind domain automatically.
His body lost its shape and for about 150 ters the air changed slightly, not only that, but this entire area beca an extension of Nathan’s body, he could appear anywhere imdiately, and his speed increased dozens of tis.
"This is my domain, the wind becos one with my person, and to this day no opponent has been able to overthrow , I am the undefeated king and will continue to be", Nathan’s voice ca out as if it was accompanied by a strong wind.
"You are the first to see my peak power, I hope you entertain enough", Kayden nad this peak the monarch state, his mana control was ridiculously increased, and his spiritual sense received a huge increase in transmission speed and range.
All of this was done using several pentagrams that amplified and increased power, but that was not the main thing, the most important point was that Kayden had managed to place the pentagrams in his own body.
There was a complex layer of pentagrams all over his body, so increased the power that the mana passed through his veins, others distributed it to his flesh, and others regenerated the damage caused by pressure.
It was a sum of gigantic changes, from tiny ones like increasing the elasticity of a tendon to the size of an organ to increase its activity, this was the stage that a few months ago Kayden wouldn’t have had the courage to try, but after all the knowledge he obtained was willing to take the risk.
Considering there were several dozen peak healers in this competition he would be fine regardless of the damage he received, his katana appeared in his hand in ti to parry a wind slash that appeared inches from his head.
His speed was completely ridiculous, his reaction ti was accelerated by dozens of tis, and he could practically see the flapping wings of a fly in front of him at that mont.
Clang!
Nathan ca at Kayden without any fear, his rapier was masterfully defended by Kayden, but Nathan ended up being pushed back, the boy had very high speed, but his strength was not consistent with his speed.
Whenever Kayden moved, a pentagram appeared on the opposite side and released a kind of explosion of air and mana, this was to prevent Kayden’s body from receiving the impact of his movent.
"Are you going to hide?" Kayden teased as his opponent disappeared from his spiritual sense and vision, he couldn’t understand, the wind attacks kept coming from all directions and he didn’t even know where his opponent was.
"You talk a lot!", the voice appeared from all sides, Kayden concentrated on trying to find out exactly where the strongest point of propagation was coming from, and Nathan continued trying to abuse his speed and stealth far above normal.
Every ti he appeared, Kayden ended up receiving a blow, even with his high speed he could only partially defend himself, so every ti Nathan disappeared, Kayden tried to understand where the boy had gone.
He began compacting the mana around him, practically causing it to beco sticky and stick to anything. As soon as Nathan ca out of his immaterial state, he was completely marked by Kayden’s mana, but it didn’t do anything, the marking only stayed for a few milliseconds and disappeared.
Kayden, who had always been the master of battles of attrition, was starting to get the worst of it. Fortunately, he had enough mana around him to suppress his excessive spending. His strongest attacks were useless against Nathan as he was too fast and stealthy.
He continued placing the mana around 100 ters and stacking it so that it was extrely dense and difficult to pull, his idea was to first limit Nathan’s space to just 50 ters.
"A small sacrifice," Kayden said when he saw his arm being severed by Nathan’s attack and he managed to apply a reasonable cut to his opponent’s chest, the blow was a bonus, as the main thing was that he was able to close the 50 ters with extrely dense mana.
"There’s no point in keeping here, you’re stuck with and not the other way around" Kayden smiled when he saw Nathan’s arrogance, maybe in the future he could lose this fight when Nathan managed to overco the physical limits of his spell, but now?
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