The Monarch-Chapter 649: Eternal laws

Kayden took full advantage of the opportunity. Facing the mountain once had caused immense leaps in his knowledge—he wasn’t going to miss the chance to face it again, even to the point of life or death.

This time, the pressure came in physical form. It wasn’t just pressure—it was a physical law being imposed on him, forcing his mind and his knees to bend. It was very different from before. It was a physical attack with all the force of the divine mountain—or rather, not its full force.

Kayden didn’t need much time to understand how this organization worked. Everything was a test and an opportunity. Every stage of the mountain could be challenged. Everything could be changed at his will.

The pressure began to be converted without hesitation. Kayden didn’t even flinch at the amount of energy being turned into his own. With each passing second, his aura grew larger. The crown on his head shone more brightly, heavier, almost as if it had developed a will of its own.

A sound like shattering glass echoed through reality—a massive vacuum formed in the mountain’s aura. As the mountain applied pressure, Kayden converted it into energy. The mountain couldn’t press hard enough to stop him from doing this, so...

BOOM!

Kayden continued expanding his aura. With every second, he became greater, more terrifying. The energy in his hands was infinite. It was the pressure of an entire divine mountain being converted at his will. Not just a few dozen kilometers or even hundreds of millions—but tens of billions of kilometers were being transformed into mana.

The divine mountain was practically a living being. It was home to the majority of the gods in that organization, many of whom were peak gods. The amount of energy Kayden was absorbing at that moment surpassed what he had received when he converted the entire universe he had once lived in.

Each centimeter of that mountain held more energy than a trillion kilometers of his former universe. The difference was completely massive. His aura kept growing. There simply seemed to be no ceiling to Kayden’s power at that moment. Little by little, his rate of growth began to slow.

Kayden was like a bottomless pit. He was consuming an absurd amount of energy, but it didn’t seem to end. It didn’t seem like he was satisfied. Kayden was capable of absorbing even more. The mountain had no trouble continuing this battle.

Time began to pass, and Kayden kept drawing in energy. Days began to pass. Kayden had already manipulated more energy than dozens of universes. Then came weeks, then months, and in the blink of an eye—decades, centuries in that situation.

The mages who had been with Kayden at the start were now climbing the mountain in their own ways. The boy had been quite a spectacle at the beginning, but the gods grew tired of waiting for him. It seemed nothing would happen anytime soon, and they were right.

The amount of energy kept accumulating without pause. Most of it, at that point, was being wasted by Kayden. He used entire universes of energy to refine a single galaxy—and even so, he kept going. This was the perfect opportunity for Kayden to make the final touches to his law. It was the right moment to do something that should have taken far more time.

Kayden’s presence at the base of the mountain became a constant as thousands of years passed. After tens of millions of years, Kayden’s presence became practically part of the mountain itself. Gods and mages who were recruited and climbed the mountain referred to Kayden as a landmark by that point.

His aura and the energy surrounding him terrified everyone, but after a while, they got used to it. Most would spend a few days or weeks studying Kayden and his aura, but none of them could come up with anything meaningful.

"There are several levels of laws," Thoth was sitting beneath Kayden and began to speak. The sage’s presence was normal for Kayden but very rare for most gods.

Some of the strongest presences on the mountain were sitting around Kayden like students gathered near a teacher. This caused two things to happen: the first was that they truly began to feel Kayden’s presence. None of them had really paid attention to this mage before, but at this moment, it became impossible to ignore him.

"Who exactly is he?" one of the gods muttered. "His titles... they’re a little too insane."

"He’s an enigma. No one knows where he came from. He just showed up in Atherion and killed a god some time ago." Even though the heavens had placed their voices in the minds of every living being, many gods in that realm had the capacity to completely ignore such messages in their heads.

"Silence," Thoth glared at the gods speaking around him. "As I was saying, laws are divided into five levels according to my studies." Thoth was the wisest god in existence. It was practically a consensus among all gods, so most of his ideas would be accepted completely.

"The first level consists of common, basic laws that most mortals will be able to manipulate to some extent—the most basic of basics. The second level is composed of fundamental laws at any tier—low, medium, or high—they’re practically the same thing."

To classify low, medium, and high-level fundamental laws in the same tier would only be possible if you were an absolutely insane god, a being of the highest transcendent level. Otherwise, it would be mere arrogance with no meaning.

"The third level... are the eternal laws. These are laws that transcend reality, created by living beings. It’s a tier that places you in history as the holder and creator of your law. Anyone who uses your law after that will only perceive it as a fundamental law, while in your hands, it will remain an eternal law."

CRACK!

The conversation was interrupted when Kayden had finally reached the perfect point of accumulation. He had spent billions of years in that place to be able to make the final leap he needed. The amount of energy he had absorbed had gone completely beyond madness at that moment.

"Here we have an example of a third-level law."

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