Atlas’s cut recovered in the blink of an eye and went against Kayden once more. He seed to have infinite vigor, sothing that shouldn’t be possible. The cut kept attacking Kayden without any sign of losing strength. No matter how many lightning strikes Kayden hurled at it, the cut always regenerated until the mont Kayden clapped his hands, and Atlas collapsed.
An unbearable pain assaulted Atlas’s body; his cut dissipated without any sign of returning. He didn’t understand what was happening. His control over his spells should have been absolute—an extension of his very soul—but now he had no way of regaining control. He was paralyzed.
"Pathetic. You truly have no idea how souls function, do you? A simple soul clash, and you were destroyed. Even a pathetic mage with a single lightning spell could kill you in these conditions. I didn’t train you for this," Kayden said as he teleported in front of Atlas and slapped him across the face.
"You’ve grown, Matheus," Kayden turned to the last remaining mber. "You have ten million years to reach a stage capable of killing , or I’ll go after your soulmate." Kayden also appeared in front of him and humiliated him with a slap.
"See where your ego has led you, Atlas!" Kayden pointed around. Atlas and Matheus were completely stunned, unable to react properly. "Your ego killed your last brothers. I hope you understand that you will have to look your father in the eyes and explain just how pathetic you are."
Kayden clapped his hands, and the three layers of reality shattered into mana. The void was instantly transford into mana, the real reality was turned into mana, and the space in between was also converted. The amount of mana, almost a million kiloters multiplied by three, reached a completely surreal level. All of it condensed into a single lightning bolt without any delay. It was as if ti itself ceased to have aning before the speed of Kayden’s spell formation.
Kayden’s lightning bolt was the absolute peak of power in this universe; no mortal could ever unleash sothing like this. It surpassed the explosion of a star. Space fractured into innurable black holes—a mixture of space and ti without any coherent laws.
The impact of the lightning wasn’t limited to the surrounding space; it transcended the barriers of existence itself. Waves of pure energy emanated in all directions, dissolving matter and reorganizing it into patterns incomprehensible to mortal minds. The light emitted was so intense it seed to erase shadows, illuminating even the farthest corners of the cosmic void. Every fragnt of reality it touched was obliterated, becoming part of a chaotic maelstrom where the concept of order was nothing but a distant mory.
Sothing beyond space itself was being shattered by the attack’s pressure—sothing no one present could see, though they could feel the fear emanating from an assault that defied mortal laws and the highest limits a mage should be able to reach.
Then Kayden unleashed his attack. To say it was fast would be an understatent. Kayden’s strike tore through the fabric of reality; ti itself bent in its wake. It roared past Atlas like a cannonball, continuing for billions of kiloters. The entire region of space was fractured. Whole planets were knocked out of their orbits as the lightning passed nearby.
The bolt traveled so far that none of them could sense it anymore, but it eventually struck an asteroid, disintegrating it completely. The problem was this happened dozens of tis before it was stopped; each asteroid asured millions of kiloters in width.
"Your ego killed your brothers. Your life could be taken with just a re movent of my fingers," Kayden struck Atlas across the face again. This ti, the boy was fully awake but still unable to react.
Atlas felt utterly confused. He couldn’t comprehend how Kayden possessed such power or how everything had unfolded. To affect a mind like Atlas’s, the shock had to be ridiculously imnse. But the mont it surpassed his limits, the boy’s mind plunged into chaos. The sa applied to Kayden; if sothing could affect him, he’d never cultivate it again, as it would have to be a force far beyond what he could handle.
"Hunt to the ends of the universe, search for desperately, but this is your last chance. Next ti, I will take your pathetic life." With these words, Kayden disappeared with just a few teleports.
He had no intention of killing Atlas at all. Atlas would be the final stone he’d use to sharpen himself in this universe. There wouldn’t be ten-lightning mages born anyti soon, and without them, Kayden would grow like a flower in a greenhouse. His battle with Atlas would be legendary, were it not for the ridiculous mistakes that made Atlas as strong as a child before him.
Atlas’s strength was insane, but his ego was sothing Kayden couldn’t fathom. He had spent so much ti honing Atlas’s soul to make the boy a perfect being—a man without morals or ethics, without ego or pride—but sothing had gone wrong along the way, and Kayden would never figure out what it was.
Killing Atlas’s brothers had been the perfect fuel to make him even stronger. Kayden knew that the next ti they t, their battle would be far more intense, especially because Atlas wouldn’t seek him out until he had achieved an insane leap in power. This allowed Kayden to return to reality for a while without being disturbed.
As soon as Kayden stepped into the universe, he felt the presence of so beings around him. Fearlessly, he waited for the mages to erge from their spatial bubbles. There were two of them specifically: one Kayden had known for a long ti, and the other was soone he’d never seen before.
"Hello, Kayden," Han erged from his bubble and greeted Kayden directly, without any fear. The aura this old man exuded sent a chill down Kayden’s spine. His life was at risk, and he knew it. Kayden understood there was no point in running; if he were ant to die, it would happen the mont he appeared.
Author’s note: The next two weeks will be exams at college, so I apologize if I can’t keep up with the usual frequency, worst case scenario I will release more chapters after this is over
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