That place... was his mind. This whole time he was facing something inside his head. He was the master of himself, the owner of his will.
"Get down on your knees"
Kayden rose above the eyes. This time, the size difference became even greater, but it still didn't matter. The pressure on his body was unimaginable, but it was nothing compared to Kayden's willpower.
This was the last stage and the situation finally reversed. Kayden was applying pressure to the eye. An invisible fight began between the two, it felt like a man pushing a boulder against a mountain.
Time passed quickly.
Days.
Weeks.
Months.
Years.
Ten years passed before Kayden managed to break the balance. This time, even with the difference in size between Kayden and the eye, the boy still seemed bigger, his aura was more oppressive.
"Get down on your knees"
The same words he repeated thousands of times during these years finally took effect. The huge golden ball finally expressed some reaction. This time she blinked, but that was all.
"When you reach the false peak, look for me"
Those were the words that resonated in the boy's mind before he lost consciousness.
Chapter 2
David had not only paid for Kayden's surgery but also cared for him throughout this time. It took a while for Han to accept his request, but after signing a few contracts, the old man accepted David's request.
Kayden was placed in a room where the variation of mana in the environment and his body was monitored 24 hours a day. Their vital signs and many other points were monitored in real-time and, if a variation occurred, a medical team was called immediately by artificial intelligence.
BEP! BEP!
An incessant sound began playing while David was in the middle of a meeting. At a huge table with almost fifty seats, everyone turned to him. This was something unheard of, no one had ever dared to enter this room with their cell phone on.
Before anyone could reason about what was happening, David stood up abruptly from his chair.
"Master!"
David looked desperate. "I need to go out, I'm sorry about that, but it's something very important to me!"
A woman who seemed to be shrouded in darkness sat at the end of the table. No features of her were visible, she was practically a shadow.
"You will still have to pay for your crime."
His voice was neutral, but it sent a shiver through everyone in the room.
"Even if I have to put my head on this table, I will gladly accept it."
His words sparked the curiosity of everyone in the place to know what was so important that he was willing to trade for his life.
"Can go."
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In a very distant place
In a very distant place, outside of space and time, a dragon was lying down. Its size was monstrous, reaching more than a few hundred kilometers. It could easily be confused with a mountain.
"Master," a smaller dragon called from elsewhere. It was difficult to say when or where this voice came from, as space did not exist in this place and time did not pass, it was as if the entire existence existed in the same time and place. "A monarch has arisen."
The gigantic dragon opened its eyes in surprise. This was an infrequent event. His perfect memory reminded him perfectly of when the last one came.
"It's been a few billion years, hasn't it?", he commented amicably, not even seeming to be the lord of several universes.
"The last one was the human king, sir, do you want me to give the orders to look for him? He appeared in our area", the smaller dragon seemed eager to reach this person.
"Yes...", he was interrupted before the bigger dragon could say anything.
"I don't allow them to look for him," a voice resounded out of nowhere. The two dragons remained motionless. Time had no direction in this place, so it was not possible to know how long they just stood still, but it was very long.
"What was that sir?", the smaller dragon broke the silence after a long while.
"I don't know, but for him to be able to resonate his voice in here... that means he's on the last step", a huge sigh came out of the dragon's mouth. "Do nothing or our race could be annihilated in seconds."
"I see", the doubt in the smaller dragon's head was who that voice belonged to.
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Note: Get used to Kayden taking a thousand steps back to be able to take 1001 steps forward, that's his personality type and he will always be willing to change everything to move even a millimeter forward.
Kayden found himself on a large bed connected to dozens of wires. This time the boy had no confusion in his thoughts, as it was just like changing scenes, he didn't even become unconscious.
The first thing he did was look at his body. Firstly, he grew a lot and secondly, he no longer had any trace of mana, his heart didn't even exist anymore.
" Humph ", with a snort from Kayden, all the mana in the environment began to face his will and almost instantly all of it became neutral, or rather, without any trace of the will of the world.
Easily directing all the mana into his chest, he began to build another heart, this time much stronger, using only pure mana that he completely commanded.
His eyes turned a shade of blue for a few seconds because of the amount of mana that was entering his system. Slowly he shaped his new heart. The pain that always came with every process Kayden did was present, but it didn't even take away a bit of his concentration.
This amount of pain was simply insignificant to him. Again he repeated the process he had done years ago, he slowly built each cavity of the heart, manipulating the mana to fill each space.
This time he managed to fix small mistakes that he didn't have enough experience to notice in the past. The process was incredibly smoother and faster. What previously took almost an hour, this time it took barely 10 minutes.
The mana came in a constant flow and his control reached an absurd level. Now he was just fixing the primary functions of the heart, like beating and… pulling in mana and completely cleansing it of the will of the world.
That last part was something he decided on now and it was proving to be quite easy. He just had to make the mana go through several cycles inside the heart before it could be released.
It was something done automatically, it was similar to training your immune system against a disease. In this case, the vaccine was a weaker virus and that was what Kayden was doing. Slowly the will of the world in mana was presented to his body as something bad.
Another ten minutes later Kayden finished the process. He felt his body begin to be elevated to the first apprentice level and...