Astolfo closed his eyes for a few seconds to concentrate on his technique.
"I'm going to attack, you're taking too long," the noble said with a fake yawn, now his actions were dripping with arrogance.
It didn't take long for Astolfo to open his eyes and shake his head at Kayden.
"La transcendência Absolute", that was the name of the second and final version of transcendence that Kayden invented, he had not used it in combat before because of the price he had to pay.
His mana veins began to swell to an abnormal level, gaining almost double in volume, even his muscles had a reddish appearance, his veins began to bulge all over his body.
His own breath was exuding mana. When the judge saw Kayden's condition, he thought about pulling the boy, as it looked like he was about to break due to too much mana, he just didn't do it because he heard the previous conversation between the two.
"Let's go", Astolfo started running at high speed and as soon as his opponents saw this they started to launch spells at him, of the opponents two were offensive mages who launched lightning and sharp pieces of metal at them.
Kayden saw something he would probably never forget in his entire life, every spell that came towards Astolfo was simply guided by his spear back to the wizard, but everything was done smoothly.
As if a simple touch could change the entire trajectory of the attack, even the rays were deflected or thrown back, it seemed like nothing could hit him, untouchable, that was the feeling Kayden had.
"What the fuck?", the judge looked fascinated at the scene, he knew that the boy was manipulating the mana of each thing he touched in a specific area under his control, but even knowing he was sure he couldn't reproduce that .
It went without saying about the opposing team who couldn't even believe their eyes, they had never seen this even once in their lives. It didn't even take 5 seconds for the two to be facing their opponents.
Kayden wasted no time and went towards the melee attackers, one of them was the nobleman and the boy decided to start with him. His opponent was using a heavy axe.
His speed at this point was on the threshold between an eighth and ninth rank, it was simply a jump of four ranks, his katana arrived at high speed to the side of the axe.
Even with the difference in size, the ax was slightly pushed, then the boy delivered another high-speed blow to the ax again, his strength was simply at a bizarre level at this moment.
Each blow with the ax prevented him from balancing and giving Kayden a decent blow, the boy also couldn't get any distance, it seemed like Kayden was simply a shadow.
The other melee fighter was some kind of assassin and used two daggers, he quickly sneaked behind Kayden and tried to stab him in the ribs, unfortunately for him Kayden's senses were at a superhuman level.
The boy dodged and at the same time threw a concentrated beam at each one, it was so close that none of them managed to do anything other than be paralyzed for a few milliseconds, Kayden took this opportunity to pop a Pop flash at them and buy even more time.
Swish !!
His katana came down tearing the air at the dagger user's head, he couldn't even see, who would have thought to dodge, he was removed from the arena in less than 10 seconds of combat, unfortunately this gave the nobleman time to retreat.
" Pebleau ", the nobleman had a certain look of disgust that was ignored by Kayden, the boy saw the ax become covered with a kind of film of fire, he had never seen that before, but it didn't seem like a good sign.
The ax came towards him with a quick sideways blow, Kayden just moved away, he didn't have confidence in parrying the blow with that film, as soon as he moved away he saw another blow coming from his left this time.
Only now it was a sharp piece of metal, Kayden simply batted it away with his katana and looked at Astolfo facing the three mages, he didn't look in a good state as he was bleeding from a wound on his leg.
But... there were only two offensive mages left, somehow the support mage was simply eliminated in that short period of time , Kayden had to turn his attention back to his battle when the ax simply descended horizontally on his head.
The boy released a concentrated ray at the same time as he moved away, this time the ray hit the ax and simply had no effect, causing another strong blow to come towards him.
He didn't have room to move without coming into the axe's radius, but it wasn't the first time he'd faced weapons of this type. In between his opponent's next swing, he landed a quick swing on the axe.
It felt like he had hit a mountain, but it was enough to stop the ax from rising in a new blow against him, Kayden knew he had to take advantage of this opportunity and continued to maintain quick and short blows against his opponent.
Kayden's fighting style was extremely aggressive, there were blows and lightning at all times, the nobleman felt like he was facing a predator, if he made a mistake, his opponent would kill him.
'I only have 15 seconds' Kayden was out of time and he knew it, it was now or never.
His eyes turned a certain shade of white mixed with blue, it looked like little rays were dancing in them, but that was only for a very short moment of time and then they returned to normal.
At this moment, dozens of lightning bolts that were pre-programmed fell towards his opponent. Even though most of them missed their target or were deflected by the noble, some still hit his body.
" Ugh !" the nobleman let out a groan of pain due to the number of small pins that seemed to hit his body, for a moment he simply couldn't clear his thoughts.
This was more than enough for Kayden to land a direct blow with his katana on the hand that was holding the axe. As soon as his opponent loosened his grip, the boy threw a kick at his chest that sent him rolling backwards.
Wasting no time or mercy, Kayden ran against his opponent who quickly got up and once again the fire film was used, only this time in his hands. Kayden didn't even think twice before bringing his katana down on his opponent's head.
The metal hit his opponent's two hands, which seemed to be made of pure rock, the impact threw the noble back, but it was not enough to cause any significant damage.
Kayden used a concentrated beam that was deflected by his opponent and then made a clean blow to his waist, the nobleman was not fast enough and was left with a large tear in his side.
Pop flash!
Concentrated lightning!
Kayden was giving it his all, the noble was for the first time in his life being pushed to his maximum by a commoner. He couldn't understand, he was at the impressive 8th rank, so that should be enough for his strength to be far superior to Kayden's.