His strength in the ninth realm allowed him to do this, but not to the point of quickly placing him in front of Kayden; he had to wait behind a huge line of people ahead of him, especially considering he had no direct business objective.
"Who is it?" Kayden asked with no emotion; he truly had no idea who the being in front of him was.
"It’s , Thoth." Many would expect a surge of feelings from Kayden, especially after being betrayed and nearly losing his life, but the boy didn’t even flinch.
"Thoth?" Kayden hoped this god—or whatever he was—would eventually appear.
"Don’t you have any questions or accusations?" Thoth expected at least so minimal reaction from Kayden, but even his imnse soul didn’t respond to the mage’s words.
"No, Thoth, what do you want?" Kayden asked with no intention of dragging this encounter out.
"You’ve beco a strong candidate for the top, Kayden, but unfortunately, Hypnos is your patron and has been protecting you all these years. I want to help you with your goals." Thoth was direct, and Kayden didn’t understand the god’s change of positions.
"What’s your true objective with this?" Thoth took a few seconds to respond to Kayden, but after that, he looked directly into his eyes and said the saddest words Kayden had ever heard in his life.
"Imagine you’ve reached the peak of the universe, Kayden; you’ve learned absolutely everything there is to learn. You’ve lived much more than all beings sumd and multiplied by trillions; you’ve reached a level where nothing is new, nothing is interesting anymore—nothing makes sense, Kayden; each day is the sa as soday you’ve already lived."
Kayden had never thought of this point—at the true pinnacle of power, an absolute peak where nothing was novel, where everything had truly been done, a level where trillions of years equated to re seconds.
"I want to die; I can’t kill myself, Kayden. Do you understand this? I’m above ti and the laws; I’m above anything. I can’t eliminate my existence."
In the end, the only certainty in life was death, but when it was taken from you? Where would true rest be? Perhaps this sounded like the words of a weak mind, but Thoth was looking at Kayden in a ridiculously sad way; he wanted to die, that was all.
"I understand, but what do I have to do with this?" Kayden understood the sadness of being in front of him but didn’t care in the slightest, to be honest.
"I will help you beco very powerful, and in the end, I ask only that you kill . You are one of the plans I abandoned, but fortunately, everything is moving toward sothing incredible." Thoth was sincere in each of his words.
"If you’re so strong and old, how can you not foresee every point in this universe? That’s not difficult even for a common god." Kayden knew that a god’s mind was bizarrely superior to that of mortals.
He had studied and knew that a god could easily see thousands of years into the future of mortals just by making predictions based on all the circumstances around them; their spiritual sense was great enough to eliminate surprise factors and calculate every atom in every second.
Thoth’s mind should be great enough for him to do sothing like that; if he was beyond ti itself, he should be capable of sothing at that level. Moreover, Kayden had already understood that he and Hypnos were the true peak of the gods—beings so strong that they no longer participated in the power dynamic.
"I can see space-ti itself, Kayden, every centiter and second of it; everything is within my reach. Do you know what that ans? It ans I know that the universe will not produce anyone with this potential; there’s only one thing that can make this happen." Kayden received the answer he imagined, but the detail he ntioned was, "The law of chaos; this is the only thing that makes incapable of understanding and predicting the future, which is why I engage in many strange actions."
Kayden smiled at the god in front of him; the information he received sent his mind into a brief mont of reflection. Thoth had co so far that he was no longer even capable of dying.
"I understand; what’s your advice for ?" Kayden wasn’t going to turn down the knowledge of a being at this level.
"I don’t know; you are treading a unique path. Only a few dozen have reached this sa path in all my existence, but none chose to beco one with the universe." Kayden beca pensive again.
He always thought he was on a unique and unprecedented path, but at that mont, he realized that perhaps it was just a matter of opinion. If he were to see dozens of universes, he would probably find so like him.
"How far above the other gods are you? And what do you know about the multiverses?" Kayden asked so questions that wouldn’t have been answered anywhere else.
"Those are questions you don’t have access to, Kayden; I can’t interfere in certain things, and these are among them. Just know that the exit of the gods is a gift from to all the plans I possess; conquer as much space as you can in this universe. A few million years after the gods disappear, the universe will be flooded with mana and resources."
Terrifying; Thoth simply could manipulate the multiverses. Not only that, but he was also capable of sending all the gods to the next universe without much effort.
"How many candidates are there? Tell a bit about your plans." For the first ti in a long ti, Thoth found soone curious about his actions.
"Don’t try to pass this information on." Kayden just nodded. "I possess a few trillion small plans, a few billion dium plans, and only a few thousand large plans."
Those were incredibly large numbers; Thoth had to be present in most of the universe. Not only that, but he also had to be able to identify potential geniuses and make small changes in their lives—it was simply colossal.
"On what scale am I included?" Kayden strongly doubted there were many people with his level of strength.
"S-class plans; I only have a few dozen in this universe." Kayden was still surprised by the number, but not too much; there would always be soone stronger than you hidden sowhere in this universe.
"How many of them reach divinity?" Thoth imdiately replied with a shocking number.
"Less than 1% of all plans succeed in reaching divinity, but each of them can achieve an unprecedented divine level every ti."
It was a ridiculously small number, but one Kayden understood perfectly. In the end, the stronger people were, the harder it was for them to beco gods. The universe did not allow a tiger to beco a cat at the end of the evolutionary path; it was simply an offense that no one could bear the consequences of.
"Incredible; what do you know about ten-ray mages?" Kayden’s question did not surprise Thoth.
"Only a few are generated in each cycle of the universe. The number that ets the requirents is thousands over ti, but only a number less than two hands can reach the true level of ten rays. This universe is at such a high level that it will manage almost a dozen in the future."
"Are these the ones you’re looking for?"
"No, yes, they’re good candidates, but that’s all, most of them don’t get to where I want them to be either." The levels they were looking for were simply too scary for Kayden to even think about.
"I see." The two discussed a few more curiosities and details, but there really wasn’t much they could talk about. Most of the information was locked away for reasons of karmic value according to Thoth.
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