"Kill him, this shit has no one protecting him ." Before Kayden could reason and understand what was happening, the wizard burned Ryan to ashes with a fire spell. An endless hatred began to well up in Kayden.
"Again the same shitty fate was screwing up his life and he couldn't do anything but exist." Kayden started pulling in all the mana around him like crazy.
"His veins were hurting and burning at an absurd level, but even so he continued without caring about anything, his mind had lost its reason a long time ago." Within seconds, he forced his body to a level beyond the second stage of transcendence.
"All the mana in the room was being dried by the boy, it was almost ten meters of space in the apartment and he kept sucking it like crazy, within seconds he absorbed everything around him." Kayden estimated that he was at least five times stronger than when he fought Alexander, without wasting time he turned towards the nobleman, even if he lost his life, that was his goal.
"Putting all the mana in his veins to work, he… couldn't do anything. The man was rejecting his orders." "Let's go! Do!" No matter how hard he tried, the mana's will did not obey him.
"He was disowned." His only true confidence in his second life was himself and his strength, even if it wasn't much, he could still utilize it however he wanted.
"But in the end, he was wrong. His mana considered him unworthy to use it, he could almost feel its mockery, the amount he absorbed was too much and there was no time for him to digest it."
"Look what a joke young master, he can't even use the mana he absorbed." The two began to laugh as if a big joke had been told between the two. Reality began to knock on Kayden's door.
"Unfortunately, he didn't have time to reason before his entire body started to catch fire; it was an unbearable pain that started to grow uncontrollably throughout his body."
"I forgot to say that one of the balls also had poison. I was just a little late." That was the last thing Kayden could hear before pain overwhelmed all of his senses.
"The intensity was similar to when he was going through the first time in his advance, even though his body was completely dominated by pain, the boy was relatively calm in mind."
"His focus now was to survive, at any costs, he slowly started heading towards the entrance of the apartment, every inch that his body moved took a few minutes."
"He wasn't sure where the noble was with the wizard, but he didn't care, his mind was clear on his goals, nothing else mattered beyond that." Kayden had no idea how much time had passed when he leaned against the wall by the door.
"Fortunately, his spatial memory was good enough to take him to the right place, at this moment the right part of his body was barely functioning, his left arm supported all his strength to bring his body to his knees."
"The door opened to the outside and Kayden's body fell out, the boy continued to crawl towards the elevators." His determination reached an inhuman level, he was going to kill the noble and the wizard.
"His revenge would extend to everyone who bore the Ashford name, he didn't care, even if he needed to kill a god or overthrow an empire, it would be done, whatever the cost."
"Kayden!?" Darkness took over Kayden after hearing Astolfo's sentence.
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At a hospital in Kayden's hometown, two people were talking. One of them looked extremely worried as the conversation continued.
"Are you sure, doctor?" David asked, not believing what he heard.
"Yes, he will probably never be able to use mana again in his life, even if I heal his wounds. And even then, he may never be able to move again," the other voice said, without hesitation.
"Please heal him. I will pay the agreed amount of 1 billion gold coins, don't worry about it."
All this time, Kayden was just listening. He had been awake for a few minutes, but the only thing he could do was listen. He quickly understood that he was in a similar situation to his first life.
Confirmation came with the conversation between David and the doctor. After learning about his condition, the only thing he did was try to sense the mana... and nothing. It was as if he had returned to when he was born.
He didn't feel a shred of mana in the air or his body. When he calmed down, memories of the event came back like a bolt of lightning in his mind. An endless hatred assaulted his emotions.
Not only for the nobleman but also for the sister who disowned him. This betrayal he felt was something that hurt more than all the physical pain caused by the ball. Why didn't she obey his commands?
He withdrew the main will of the mana, he was sure of it. The residue shouldn't be enough even to hinder the most basic spell. His reflection lasted only a few seconds and he concluded that his cleaning was inefficient.
"Never use mana again." That phrase started repeating itself in his mind over and over again. Time stopped making sense to Kayden. Any hope he had was shattered. He didn't know what to do.
"Even if it costs me my life." That's what Kayden thought when he remembered the nobleman's face. At that moment, reason returned to his mind. He still had dozens of years ahead of him.
With a lot of hard work, he could feel mana again. Maybe it was something he would never get even close to, but that didn't matter. The last barrier separating Kayden from something inhuman was broken.
His emotions were buried deep in his mind. He had a goal and that was all that mattered. Kayden was a strong person, even with the stress of his previous life, he had never truly broken.
But now it was different.
"Even if I have to kill millions."
Ethics and morals meant nothing to him now.
Kayden couldn't think of anything else as unconsciousness soon took over him.