The Monarch-Chapter 588: The event[4]

The skies closed with red clouds, and not a single mage there recognized what they were. These clouds had never been seen at any moment in the existence of the universe—only the gods watching knew what they were.

"Whose disciple is this?" a god’s voice rose.

"Since when do we have a challenger of the heavens in this universe?" The gods were in a chaos of voices, exchanging thousands of sentences in a time that mortals could hardly perceive.

It did not take long for them to understand who Kayden Heart truly was, and even less time to realize who his patron was. This caused a terrifying silence to emerge among the gods, while, elsewhere, a cat took a peaceful nap, fully aware that not even the most insane of the gods would dare to move their gaze upon him.

Kayden elevated his path to something superior to everything common mages had ever seen in their lives. They couldn’t even comprehend what was happening. Kayden had turned his path into a law—not just any law, but a fundamental-grade law. This was true madness.

He had long abandoned the Law of Balance; rather, it had been integrated into his path in a way that created something new and utterly unique. Kayden’s soul was already merged with the universe and, at the same time, with his path. This was one of the reasons he had always been restrained by a certain limit of power, but Kayden did something that set him apart even further.

His soul had fused with the fundamental Law of Balance and his path. He made his soul slowly become something beyond just a soul—he literally turned his soul into a unique law. Kayden had not yet been able to name it or even see with his own eyes what law he was creating, but he knew he was on the right path.

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All of this was achieved over four billion years—a time of intense duration, even more so considering that his mind and soul were capable of far more than any common mage. His genius was insane, his talent unparalleled. All of this, combined with a long period of refinement, allowed Kayden to take another step toward becoming something beyond a mere ten-rayed mage.

Kayden converted all of his sixth sense into mana and, using his own law, converted it tens of thousands of times. The amount of mana he manipulated came very close to the same mana Matheus had used in his attack. It was an enormous amount, but at the same time, nothing extraordinary—at least by the new standards of the universe.

POOFT!

The sound of reality breaking was heard by all. It was not an explosion, nor was it like shards of glass shattering—reality simply ceased to exist due to the pressure of the ray Kayden unleashed. His very existence was being observed by the heavens. An insane pressure was present upon all the mages in that coliseum; it felt as if they were being watched by something far beyond their comprehension.

Kayden’s ray reached a size of tens of millions of kilometers. It was impressive, but not something Kayden found useful. In the future, he planned to concentrate all of his power into just a few meters of attack—now that would be impressive beyond imagination.

The sun was swallowed by the attack—there wasn’t even an explosion. The sun simply ceased to exist, its entire magnitude consumed by the ray. For trillions of kilometers, nothing remained. Kayden’s ray consumed the laws, the space, everything—absolutely everything was devoured in a way that left not even the smallest trace of existence. The Law of Balance couldn’t even enter that space; the fundamental law had to intervene.

The ray continued its relentless path, crushing the sun with silent brutality—there was no resistance, no explosion, just the light fading as if it had never existed, as if the very concept of a star had been denied. The space around it was dragged into nonexistence, sucked into a force beyond understanding, leaving an absolute void where neither time, matter, nor energy dared to manifest. The trillions of kilometers of the coliseum were engulfed in a terrifying silence—a dead space where not even the fundamental laws could mend the wound without intervention.

"I forfeit."

Kayden’s voice… shocked everyone. After an attack of this magnitude, all expected him to continue the battle to the end. But to everyone’s surprise, he surrendered.

"Why? What was that? What are those clouds?" Kenyan asked, his heart racing. He knew that if that ray had been directed at him... not even the shadow of his corpse would remain. Kayden had given him this victory for free.

At least, that was what he thought. In reality, Kayden didn’t have the strength to perform another attack like that for the next few days. He would have to recover from the strain on his soul caused by surpassing the limits imposed by the universe itself. With that in mind, he decided to test his final attack against the sun and take full advantage of the situation.

"Is this the end of the legendary mage? Is this the peak of power you’ve achieved after so much time, Kayden?" Netero appeared, floating in space and clapping his hands. "I expected more from the mage who was able to place the gods beneath his ego."

Like Netero, everyone was thinking that Kayden had reached his true limit. Like it or not, the boy was a mage who came from nothing. His techniques and everything he possessed were created by himself. He lacked support to remain at the top. In the end, this was the maximum strength Kayden had achieved as a tenth-realm mage…

Kayden released his aura for all to see, and the murmurs ceased. Not even the sound of a single mage’s breath could be heard. Kayden could have spoken thousands of words, but just one movement was enough…

"I hope this universe can entertain me when I truly reach the peak of my power."

Kayden had revealed his realm—a mere eighth-realm mage had been able to unleash an attack of this magnitude.

The situation was so shocking that even the gods were silent. None of them had dared to probe into Kayden’s power, not after discovering which god was protecting him. This made Kayden’s strength a mystery to them until now. Everyone there had assumed the boy was at least a peak ninth-realm mage, but he was only in the eighth.

"Terrifying."