The Monarch-Chapter 497: Time

In the blink of an eye, time passed at high speed; hundreds of thousands of years went by in a flash. During all this time, Kayden was solely focused on cultivating his world and honing his skills in his free time, still waiting for certain things before he could advance to the next realm.

Amanda needed an astonishing 200,000 years of soul sessions to finally reach a point where she could advance and become a monarch. At the moment, she had been in a coma for several decades, and Kayden had no idea what her future would be, nor did he care—at least not about her. Yan would still serve as his protection for the next few million years.

Kayden’s world reached a completely insane level, practically becoming the number one planet in the entire universe. Its growth rate created significant concerns among all the gods, prompting them to start investing in their planets purely out of ego.

The average power level of Kayden’s planet reached six rays, which was far more impressive than the old seven rays of his Class A world. At this point, it was ridiculously larger and held an absurdly higher number of people, yet its average quality remained remarkably high.

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With a world of this size, Kayden changed many things. Firstly, although cities still followed the model where the strongest ruled, they could now all unite under one flag to form a country. Later, these countries could merge into an empire, and even further down the line, they could unite as a world.

Wars now happened on multiple scales. In the cities, mages below the fourth realm gave their lives to thrive and grow stronger. Among countries, the mages ranged from the fourth to the seventh realm. The empires’ wars were decided only by the geniuses, with very simple rules: the strong crushed the weak but couldn’t destroy another empire, only change its leadership.

The war between worlds was much more complex and involved thousands of variables. First, these wars were fought between empires but managed between worlds. In truth, Kayden did not allow worlds to rule multiple empires openly; they could only rule from the shadows, but everyone knew who truly held power.

World battles involved an economic level and dozens of other factors. It was no longer just a pastime, as worlds could indeed crush all their opponents without any repercussions from Kayden. This was the race happening at this moment: Kayden made it clear that he wanted a general ruler for the Class S world, and only the one who dominated everything could attain that position.

A Class S world, with all the resources Kayden was injecting and all the soul-altering sessions he was conducting in populated cities, had a massive effect. Kayden now had hundreds of nine-ray mages, surpassing almost all the great organizations in the universe, which was completely absurd—a single world had more nine-ray members than organizations that had traversed the river of time to reach their current level.

Kayden maintained strong control over these mages. All had their souls modified to be loyal to him at an extreme level; even a god could not sway them, no matter how many resources were offered. Each mage held at least a country or empire, though most preferred not to participate directly in global politics, instead just maintaining a territory.

This situation made global control extremely challenging. How could one mage dominate dozens of other nine-ray mages? They were ridiculously powerful and absurdly numerous across the planet. Kayden knew this, and he set this objective precisely to push everyone to strive much harder than usual.

Seven-ray mages were as common as grass on plains—at least one in four people reached seven rays. This was an absurdly high number and put Kayden’s world directly at the top of the worlds. Eight-ray mages were not as rare either, with about one in every few million. This might seem like a small number, but considering the trillions of mages in the world, it was remarkably high and common. These were the top figures everywhere, while the nine-ray mages operated from the shadows.

Atlas surpassed all his siblings except Athena by a vast degree. He still hadn’t left the seventh realm; Kayden wanted him to reach ten rays, but he needed to first pass Athena’s blessing, and she was making this incredibly difficult.

The other siblings had all reached the ninth realm, yet Atlas remained superior to all of them, crushing them with ease. It was a direct contest to see who could control the most mana, and given Atlas’s lineage, his path as a monarch, and his incomplete laws, it was practically a pointless struggle among them.

Fortunately, Yan had raised the siblings well, and there was no conflict among them. Matheus was set to become the next leader of the false gods. Atlas and Athena had already declined the position and fully supported their brother with no reservations. They didn’t want the leadership role; this was solely Matheus’s dream, but…

"What do you think I should do, master?" Matheus was having tea during one of Kayden’s rare free moments.

"You’ve finally understood, haven’t you?" Kayden smiled. He had explained this situation to Matheus many years ago, and finally, Matheus was beginning to grasp Kayden’s words.

"Yes, the leadership of the false gods means nothing. I’ve reached the peak of power in the realms, and there’s no further to advance. Leadership no longer brings me any relief; it isn’t an achievement—I simply acquired it." Kayden spent a long time shaping Matheus’s mind while purifying his soul.

Power was always pursued by everyone, but few understood its true beauty. Most sought it to satisfy basic desires and greedy impulses; only a minority pursued power for themselves. Kayden was one of those people and always instilled this mentality in his apprentices. Some took time to realize the truth of his words, but it always dawned on them at some point in their lives, and this time, it had reached Matheus.