The Monarch-Chapter 513: Win

Those capable of passing this test were unique mages who rose above all others. They would etch their names in the annals of history without any shadow of a doubt. Each mage with ten rays was strong enough to change the entire universe on their own.

Kayden’s ray ascended against the tenth ray in an insane display of power. These were two attacks that shouldn’t have been possible for mortals to unleash in their lifetimes. Time seemed to stop as Kayden’s attack faced the ray in the same way across all timelines; in each one, Kayden did the same thing.

The true meaning of perfection had been reached by the boy. He performed the same action in every second, as if the time being shattered meant absolutely nothing. Even when the rays in different points had different characteristics, Kayden did not alter his approach.

Atlas had been a mage who, for each specialty he faced, changed his form of attack and defense. In some, he excelled; in others, he faltered. But Kayden maintained total confidence in himself. Across all points in the timeline, he remained the same person with the same actions.

The two rays collided in all timelines. In some, Kayden was directly crushed by laws he could not even dream of comprehending; he simply died without ever understanding what had happened. In others, he won without even being injured. But these were absolute minorities in the grand scheme of things.

For the most part, it was an insane battle between the two attacks, culminating in the destruction of space across hundreds of millions of kilometers. It was mass destruction that even a ninth-realm mage couldn’t achieve. Even mages with nine rays couldn’t destroy hundreds of millions of kilometers with such ease.

"Is this even possible?" the gods wondered, witnessing Kayden’s strength in action. This shouldn’t have been possible for mortals. It wasn’t a level they had seen in all their lifetimes, and they had lived for billions of years.

Kayden’s body began to be destroyed by the pressure of the attacks in most timelines. He was simply being undone, yet he smiled as he watched the attack. He didn’t care in the slightest; his body was merely a cocoon. His soul had been Kayden’s true form for a long time.

Kayden had entered the void to avoid damaging his planet. But even that wasn’t enough to save his world from suffering some collateral damage to its crust. For one, its orbit was being altered and shifted, even as the battle raged in the void. The remnants were strong enough to kill ninth-realm mages as if they were children.

Slowly, second by second, more and more versions of Kayden emerged victorious over the tenth ray. Most lost their bodies entirely, with significant parts of their souls utterly destroyed, leaving Kayden in an almost comatose state. Yet, he remained alive.

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Destroying Kayden’s body no longer had any effect on him; only his soul mattered. Even killing his soul was terribly difficult, as Kayden’s soul was directly connected to the universe and possessed an extremely accelerated recovery rate. In mere seconds, he was recovering. But for the most part, the damage exceeded a quick recovery, requiring millions of years for him to heal fully.

The lifestyle and principles Kayden had developed throughout his existence were evident in this moment. He trusted himself so completely that he used the same attack against anything he faced. Slowly, he began to prevail across all points in time. Kayden was solidifying his legacy.

The tenth ray was insane, but Kayden had reached an insane level as well. He triumphed, prevailing in most timelines, far more points than Atlas. Kayden trusted himself in all of them. It took only a few minutes for all the timelines to conclude. This was insanely fast, especially because he did the same thing in all of them.

In most timelines, Kayden’s mind was comatose. But magically, he recovered. He didn’t even blink before absorbing all the memories from all the timelines directly into his mind. At that moment, he gained one of the greatest benefits of the ten-ray test. His knowledge advanced by millennia in just a millisecond. The number of different battles he faced was completely insane, and the clues allowed him to absorb everything without any harm. This new knowledge was simply placed directly into his mind.

In the blink of an eye, Kayden found himself floating in a completely different space. He was in an enormous starry universe. Before him stretched a golden mana path lined with statues on both sides. Each statue bore the figure of an insanely powerful individual exuding a completely unique aura. The moment Kayden laid eyes on a statue, he received some information.

"George Thoth, the first mage of divine water, the first ten-ray mage across all universes…" It went on to describe more of his story. Kayden was impressed by the last name of this figure and…

"Luis Thoth"

"Maria Thoth"

"Yone Thoth"

There were many people with this surname. The more Kayden walked, the more such names appeared. They were still a minority but were present in great numbers. Kayden had no idea there were so many ten-ray mages. The path was so extensive it took him days to traverse it—or so he thought. He had no idea how long he had been inside.

The number of ten-ray mages confirmed two of Kayden’s theories. The first was that there was much more than just one universe. There had to be thousands there must have been an infinite number beyond Kayden’s ability to quantify. There were no other explanations for such a large number of ten-ray mages.

A tremendous number of possible scenarios were required to create beings at this level for the birth of monsters of this magnitude to occur. A ten-ray mage was nothing less than an almost non-existent chance of happening. Kayden understood this after analyzing Atlas’s birth and his own as a ten-ray mages.

Author’s note: I owe a chapter, I’ll pay it this week