The Monarch-Chapter 539: The Event

"The universe is starting some new things—tournaments and events without risk of death. I wanted to propose a trade." Netero smiled at Kayden. "I’d like some private lessons on souls in exchange for information on how to grasp a few of the laws of balance in just a few years."

Kayden raised an eyebrow. It was, in his opinion, an extremely fair deal.

"How much time?" Kayden asked, unwilling to spend thousands or millions of years teaching someone else.

"A few decades at least. In exchange, I’ll teach you one of the laws I know during this time," Netero replied.

Kayden thought this was an excellent trade—investing some time to take a significant leap in understanding the laws of balance.

"What are these tournaments about?" Kayden recalled similar actions by the heavens in ancient times, but it seemed like they had disappeared in recent years.

"Each area will send 90 of its best fighters to compete, with 10 additional participants chosen directly by the universe. Only demigods are excluded, as we are neither gods nor mortals. This means it will be a direct competition among mages who have mastered the laws of the stones—and you two, the mages of ten rays."

Kayden raised an eyebrow again.

"I don’t officially belong to any area. How will the universe allocate me?"

Netero answered with something Kayden had already suspected.

"The central area is where all unaffiliated mages are gathered. However, those who identify with a specific area can compete for their places there."

"And the rewards?" Kayden had no interest in fighting for honor or recognition.

"The best will receive incomplete law stones of their choice. The rest will get random treasures of lesser importance, but even those are extraordinary."

At that moment, Kayden became extremely interested. There was nothing faster than this to achieve his goals. His realm’s ceiling had been reached, but it could be broken. To do so, he would have to take some unconventional paths, one of which was mastering a law that perfectly complemented his current path.

"This feels like an attempt by the heavens to regulate the power of mages in this universe," Kayden remarked.

Netero nodded in agreement.

"The demigods dominated this universe far too easily. That forced the heavens to react before everything here was lost."

"How long did it take you to learn these soul-related abilities?" Netero asked Kayden on a random day, decades later.

"A few billion years, maybe tens of billions," Kayden replied, unsure of the exact time he had spent in Licht’s soul prison and the river of souls. His sense of time was extremely distorted and confused during that period.

Netero raised his eyebrows. He hadn’t expected Kayden to be so old, nor that his skill took so long to refine. Yet, it made sense. Soul manipulation was undoubtedly on par with space-time manipulation in terms of complexity and difficulty.

"That’s quite a long time."

Kayden nodded in agreement. Their conversation was interrupted by a subtle change in the skies above. Golden clouds appeared throughout the universe, wherever living beings existed.

The golden clouds hovered like a celestial veil, radiating an oppressive light that seemed to pierce through to the very bones. Their presence thickened the air, making it dense and suffocating, as though the universe itself was silently observing. Everything around seemed to bow to their majestic authority.

"The heavens open to the brave. Those at the absolute peak of their zones who wish to claim the remaining ten spots may ascend toward the heavens," a voice echoed in everyone’s minds.

"Let’s go. Demigods can observe the event," Netero said. He and Kayden began ascending through the clouds. The sensation was heavy as if they were confronting the entire universe. The clouds seemed like two immense eyes watching the vastness of existence.

As soon as Kayden and Netero passed through the clouds, they were teleported to another place—a flawless world of perfect grass and a golden sky. Beyond this, there was nothing else in sight, just an infinite expanse of grass and the two of them.

"This place is an endless prison," Netero murmured. Kayden nodded. His sixth sense, which was extraordinarily vast, couldn’t perceive the edges of this world.

"You have one year to leave this world," the heavens’ voice declared. It spoke no more, offering neither recommendations nor rules to follow.

"I didn’t expect to compete for a spot among the top ten," Kayden murmured, showing no urgency to leave the place.

"Probably the best were already selected. The weaker ones couldn’t even fly to the heavens," Netero remarked.

Kayden began studying the environment. After a few seconds, he opted for the simplest method.

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The space around him began to shatter mercilessly. Kayden acted like a colossal black hole, consuming everything in his surroundings. There was no pause as he caused the world to collapse entirely. The law of balance was absent, allowing him to devour space using only the law of space itself.

The mana Kayden was accumulating was astonishing. He teleported in the blink of an eye, consuming even more. This was something he couldn’t do in the normal universe, where the law of balance would draw from nearby areas to reconstruct what he destroyed. Here, however, everything was restored almost instantly.

Kayden took advantage of this opportunity to experiment with his primary lightning spell and test the limits of his mana conversion. After several months of experimentation, he decided it was enough.

In one final act, Kayden destroyed the planet’s space in such a way that it became impossible to reconstruct quickly. Then, without hesitation, he leaped into the void he had created.

Kayden and Netero appeared in another world similar to the previous one, but the difference was that the grass in this one was golden, in addition there were other people in this environment, there were about ten thousand magicians from different kingdoms and classes, many of them had a frightening aura, but not even one of them was able to make Kayden lower himself to using anything beyond his basic techniques.