It didn't even take two minutes for Kayden to reach floor 29, once again impressing everyone watching. A 9-year-old boy was ahead of everyone and still had a good margin of ti.
The best had barely made it to floor 20. Could Kayden make it to the top floors? That was the question on everyone's mind, but against all expectations, Kayden simply stopped.
He froze and couldn't take a step forward. All of his mories were being replayed before his eyes. Even though he spent years in limbo, he hadn't completely overco it.
There was no longer any hatred towards his uncle or any remaining remnants of that period. He didn't even have emotions for Nicholas, but he finally realized sothing he should have understood a long ti ago.
Limbo prepared him to be able to live his life normally. He never got over his traumas. They were hiding, ready to co out at the first sign. Until today, he had never received any encouragent in this regard.
He had. In one of his first battles at school, he faced a magician who ssed with his feelings. At that ti, he had already beco beside himself and should have realized it.
The minutes began to pass. Little by little, most of the mages began to pass Kayden.
He still had his foot raised in the sa position.
'What did this kid go through to not be able to set foot on the next floor?' That was everyone's thought, especially Han, who didn't rember him having such a traumatic event in his life before. The old man made a ntal note to pay more attention to the boy's life from now on.
'Co on, Kayden, it's just mories' The boy said to himself, but he couldn't take the step he needed. He had been in the sa position for more than 10 minutes, practically everyone had already surpassed him.
"Your fear condemns you to diocrity" A voice appeared near Kayden. As soon as the boy turned around, he ca across Astolfo, one of the people he least expected to be there.
His phrase... was what he said to his old teammates in the city championship. One small sentence made Kayden look down and go into thought.
How long would he run? Hasn't he faced everything once? Why run from your ghosts? Wouldn't they haunt him forever like this? The boy sighed and made a decision.
"Thank you, Astolfo" He didn't even ask his friend anything. This could be done another ti.
The boy went up to the next floor.
Instantly, he found himself where he feared most: lying in a hospital bed. His heart started to race, and after taking several deep breaths, he managed to calm down a little.
Every second he spent in there made it easier to deal with the situation. Little by little, he lost his emotions about the situation. It seed like just a normal day at the hospital.
Completely boring and with nothing to do, during this ti the boy began to notice how well made this illusion was. Even the nurses' speeches were identical to those in his previous life.
For a second, he was afraid that the academy had control and could see what was going on in his mory. But after so thought, he simply left it aside. The nobles would never allow sothing like that.
'Ah, shit' Kayden recognized the day he was in. It was the first ti his uncle had beaten him rcilessly. Much of his days were limited to vague mories, with only remarkable scenes being rembered by him.
But that day, he rembered perfectly everything that had happened. Everything, every al, from the beginning to the end of that day, everything was recorded in his mory, the minutes turned into hours.
Finally, the final mont ca, everything was as he rembered it, his uncle started hitting things while he was drunk and threw himself on the chair next to him.
"Hello, big guy." An endless hatred, an uncontrollable rage, that was what Kayden expected to feel, but there was nothing, only pity, he couldn't feel anything beyond that.
"Hi, Uncle." Even so, he continued with the theater. "Why are you here?" His calm tone seed to surprise the fake Max.
"Today I ca to tell you the truth..." The sa pathetic phrases as last ti. "Now you will pay because the courts are seeking ." Until now Kayden didn't even flinch, his mind was calr than ever before.
The spanking began and...it just seed annoying next to the pain of improving his core, there was simply no comparison. Once again his only emotion was pity, in the end, his uncle was the one he most feared becoming.
A diocre person controlled by worldly and animalistic desires, without ever really achieving anything relevant in life. Pathetic.
"Co on, kill at once." Kayden had a crazy smile on his face and before he could receive a response from Max, the illusion fell apart in front of him.
He found himself back on floor 30 and with Astolfo still behind him, it seed like the illusion had been instantly realized in his mind, smiling at the boy, he thanked him again.
He quickly headed to the next floor which was only on step 40, he already knew which mory it would be and perhaps this one would be much worse than the last ti. Taking courage, he went ahead and entered the next illusion.
The sa hospital scene repeated itself, and because Kayden hated being right, his mory prevented him from lying to himself, he knew he was on the day of his death. Everything was identical to how he rembered.
This ti he just waited patiently, and his emotions remained stable, this ti he took the ti to learn about the spell, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't feel anything.
It was as if this was his reality from now on, for a few monts, a sick fear settled in his heart: what if he never made it back? Fortunately, this only lasted a short ti in his mind.
A few hours later, he saw Nicholas again, his mind went blank for a few seconds, he thought he wouldn't have any strong feelings, but even after years, when he looked at his friend, his only thought was happiness.
All the hours they spent talking together, all that ti had been fun in his dark world, maybe that was the only thing that kept him from going crazy, well, totally at least.
The boy had already accepted that he was not normal, his mind did not work similarly to healthy people, and things that were acceptable for him to have a small improvent in his cultivation were unimaginable for most normal people.
"Hello, Kayden."
"Hello, Nicholas." Again he heard the sa conversation about choosing his friend's daughter's na and how happy he was to be a father, all of which was slowly making Kayden feel uneasy.
Finally, the ti ca, his uncle ca in knocking on everything like in his mory, it didn't take long and after a little conversation, he started laughing while telling him his plans.
"You know, idiots? I'm simply finished and nothing better than fulfilling my last wish, right? Now, who will die first?" He took a gun from his waistband while laughing himself to death.
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