The Monarch-Chapter 510: Seventh realm

At least in an ideal scenario, but that wasn’t going to happen. Atlas would probably pursue his sister’s killer to the end of time. It would take him a while to identify Kayden, but it would likely happen eventually. He just needed to consult the right people.

A time mage would probably be able to study the entire event and understand that Kayden killed his soulmate. Even with all the modifications to Atlas’s soul, this would not stop him from chasing after Kayden. The boy had instilled ridiculously strong principles into Atlas’s mind—honoring his family came before all other obligations.

"No, no, no, no," Jasmine was beside Athena’s body, unable to do anything. Kayden had simply informed Atlas and then sat down, staring at Athena’s corpse. He answered no questions; he just kept looking at his beloved’s body.

No one dared to shake Kayden out of his state. His eyes… seemed to reflect the sorrow of an entire universe. There was no emotion in them. The aura spanning ten million kilometers around Kayden’s palace was insanely heavy. Even breathing was difficult—it was completely oppressive, as though the universe itself was suppressing everyone.

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Thousands began to die without any resistance; their minds simply collapsed. This triggered a massive exodus. Billions of people fled the center of the Class-S world. No one understood what was happening, but no one wanted to die.

As much as Kayden believed that having a complete soul would solve his emotional turmoil… it didn’t. He still felt Athena’s absence as though it were a physical part of his body. It was a pain that clenched his heart with every breath. Thankfully, it was much less intense than before, allowing Kayden to ignore it most of the time. But in this moment, he would grieve the loss of his wife as she deserved.

"I want her buried in the Land of the Gods," Kayden murmured these words, and everyone looked at him the way one looks at a madman. The Cemetery of the Gods was a place reserved solely for deities and a few rare souls capable of attaining that recognition.

The gods had departed many years ago, but some places continued to function independently, sustained by what they left behind—several highly skilled caretakers who would maintain their foundations until the end of time.

The Cemetery of the Gods was probably guarded by dozens of Ninth-Realm mages with eight rays and maybe one or two with nine rays. But that wasn’t the main issue—it was that the place was practically sacred. Approval from the Honor organization would be required before anything could be done.

"I will summon the Honor. The meeting should happen in a week." Without the gods to shortcut paths, it took an enormous amount of time for people to travel from dozens of places to convene.

Fortunately, spatial portals still existed, so it would probably take only two days to travel from the most distant points in the universe to Honor’s headquarters—assuming portals were available. Otherwise, it could take billions of years to traverse some distances.

"Leave me alone, please, and take Athena’s body. Also, start an investigation into how she died. Consult everything you can. I’ll pay any price," Kayden lied masterfully, without anyone noticing.

"I’ll be back soon," Atlas muttered a few words during this meeting. He, too, would do everything possible and impossible to discover who killed his sister. A few minutes later, Kayden was alone again in his palace.

It was finally time to elevate his realm—not only that but also to face the ten rays. He had prepared for this for an insanely long time, one of the mages who had spent the most time in the lower realms in existence. Kayden had lived for billions of years, yet he still didn’t believe he had achieved perfection until this moment.

The universe had been pressuring him to advance for a long time, but Kayden had been holding back—at least until now, the moment when he could turn his soul into an incomplete law. This was the project he had spent billions of years refining.

Kayden would merge his path and soul into an incomplete law that didn’t yet exist. He would create his law. Learning the incomplete law of space had caused his understanding of laws to advance immensely. It was only because of this that he could take this step now; otherwise, he would have had to go through the entire process of understanding what a law was.

In Kayden’s understanding, a law was something that didn’t exist. It was impossible to explain a law to someone because a law encompassed all the fundamental knowledge of a certain category. A complete law was all the intermediate knowledge of that category—or at least that’s what Kayden had learned. Laws were just superior understandings of knowledge.

He understood his path and soul to an insane level at this point. He still couldn’t place them on par with a complete law, but forming an incomplete law was ridiculously easy. Kayden began the procedure on his soul, altering its basic form. It took only a few minutes for insane pain to set in, but he ignored it. After Athena, no pain was truly strong—they were just passing sensations.

His soul was transformed. Kayden would never reincarnate, and he had known this for a long time. His soul had already been altered too much; it was far beyond purified. His soul was completely unique. The universe would not allow him to reincarnate—it would simply erase him from existence.

In just a few minutes, Kayden intertwined his soul with his path and the universe. He also incorporated the law of space into it all, but it was logically subordinate to his path. As soon as he finished, the heavens darkened with a golden hue. As much as the universe had waited all this time, there was no more delay. Kayden had to advance, and he knew it.

Author’s note: I will be releasing chapters in the next few hours to make up for the one from last week that is missing.