The Monarch-Chapter 573: Ice emperor

The force of the attack terrified most of them; none were capable of facing such power. Those who could wouldn’t set their pride aside to ask for Kayden’s teachings under any circumstances. It was preferable to die rather than admit to having a master who had once been beneath them.

Kayden and Han vanished in a series of spatial jumps. No one could track Kayden’s trajectory. The two wandered for quite some time before Kayden found a galaxy suitable for him to destroy.

"Your technique is far beyond what I expected. You truly understood what I meant," Kayden began inspecting Han’s soul minutely. "Unfortunately, your potential is far from being enough to become an opponent to me, but..." Kayden started making some changes to Han’s soul, leaving the boy slightly uncomfortable.

"But?" Han asked. Kayden had placed countless additional soul fragments in Han, which, at this moment, served no purpose. Furthermore, he was now able to clean them much more effectively and build numerous fragments that would strengthen the boy over time.

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"There’s still the tenth realm. You must strive to become a tenth-realm mage with ten rays. That’s the only path that will give you the potential to become a god. But there’s a small problem: the chance of tenth-realm mages becoming gods is ridiculously low. It’s both an excellent path and an absolute gamble."

Kayden continued speaking, explaining all the details to Han while working on his soul. It had been a long time since he had done a thorough cleanup and fixed weak points in his apprentice’s soul. With just this session, Han’s strength should grow by 10%, and his potential would likely increase by 30%.

Another thing he chose to do was examine the soul prison Han had created. It was truly unique. Han was stacking tens of thousands of souls and making them self-destruct using the law of fear. Afterward, he would place the fragments into a massive patchwork of souls. This patch was slowly becoming a soul with strength superior to all the others.

Souls with the strength of tenth-realm mages were extremely crude and riddled with flaws. To Kayden, it was obvious that this was a soul constructed roughly and carelessly. Han didn’t fully understand what he was doing; he just kept stacking souls until they broke or elevated to another level.

"Study this," Kayden said, tossing an orb containing thousands of years of experience in soul manipulation. "Learn the basics of soul manipulation and refine your skills properly. Also, release control over this soul." Kayden pointed at the weakest of the three souls, and Han obeyed, loosening his grip on it.

Immediately, Kayden began a cleansing process on the soul. It was so poorly constructed, held together by a primitive law of fear at every point, that in just a few minutes, Kayden had doubled its strength. It quickly caught up with the other two and was far from finished. Kayden kept working on it for several days.

There were thousands of details to address until he reached a point where he could no longer advance. At this stage, the soul was almost clean but was still entirely sustained by the law of fear. This law pushed various fragments to bond and held them together. Kayden couldn’t comprehend what was happening or expand the soul beyond this point.

The way the fragments were stacked was insane; it seemed as if an invisible web connected each point. This was because Kayden had no understanding of this law, making it an absolute mystery in his view.

"Test the strength of this soul," Kayden instructed Han, and...

BOOOM!

The mere movement of the soul’s blade caused space to collapse. The strength of this soul was now infinitely superior to what it had been before. It could easily rank among the top 20 strongest mages in the universe. Kayden smiled as he observed Han’s potential; it was far greater than he had anticipated.

"This..." Han was speechless. With this strength, he could conquer a zone—something far beyond his wildest dreams.

"Your next steps are to study the memories I gave you and learn to do the same with other souls. This should take several dozen billion years. Good luck." With that, Kayden vanished from the boy’s side.

Han remained deep in thought, testing the soul’s strength. It was simply surreal what Kayden had managed to accomplish in such a short time. Han likely would never have reached this level in his lifetime. It was highly specialized knowledge, but now he had been given the right path to approach it.

Kayden made just a few jumps before stopping. He only had to wait a few seconds to sense the presence of the Glacial Emperor. It was amusing how the very existence of this mage could distort the law of balance into something colder. It was utterly surreal because Kayden knew he wasn’t doing this intentionally.

"Hello, Kayden. You took a bit longer than I expected." The Emperor was someone who could wait decades calmly, but this matter preyed on his anxiety in the worst way. After all, it concerned his life.

"I happened to come across something interesting," Kayden replied without much thought. "Make a peace oath, and I’ll share all the information I have." He was straightforward, showing no hesitation. Time, after all, was a finite resource.

"I think I’ll opt to extract the information from you myself." The Emperor smiled, and all the space around them froze. Alongside this, Kayden felt the presence of two other mages with strength close to the Emperor’s.

For billions of kilometers, everything was turning to ice. The laws were being completely inverted, and balance was becoming a mere memory of a distant past. Time itself began to slow down and pass more sluggishly. Kayden stood still, showing no reaction. His aura didn’t even shift a single centimeter.

Ice dragons began to be born, some of them hundreds of millions of kilometers long, worlds were swallowed by the enormous dragons, serpents were also being born and swallowing suns as if they were nothing, space itself was being frozen and petrified, even so Kayden did not move.

Author’s note: I caught a cold along with a virus, I will update the missed chapters in the next few days