The first blow came from Kayden at a surreal speed, barely breaking the sound barrier. The boy had never been so fast in his life and a smile spread across his face.
His blow was met squarely by the opponent with the flat part of the axe. He didn't even manage to shake the man in the slightest. Backing away to avoid receiving the counterattack, he returned once again.
Again his blow was met flat, but unfortunately for the fat man, it was a feint. His katana ran through the ax at high speed and came very close to the man's neck before he dodged backward.
"Fight seriously or you will die," Kayden warned in a low voice.
"As you wish, Thomas", a look of sadness crossed the fat man's face, which Kayden ignored as he ran against him again.
The axe countered each blow. Its weight did not match its speed. It was insanely fast. It was very close to Kayden not being cut in two several times. After a few minutes of fighting, he concluded that he wasn't going to win this.
His opponent simply had much more experience than him. His blows were entirely defended with minimum effort and, soon, without any follow-up, came a well-aimed attack.
He decided to use it to train as much as possible. After a few minutes, he decided to use:
"Kill me, please," Kayden smiled internally at his little shame. "I won't be able to control myself", the boy pretended that he was fighting his own body.
"Brother…" The fat man didn't know what to do, his emotions seemed to be in conflict. Finally, Kayden left an opening in his gigantic defense. The man, subconsciously, took the opportunity to bring his ax down at high speed.
A gigantic pain assaulted Kayden's body when he saw his arm being separated from his body. Fortunately, it wasn't his main side.
"Come on!!!", Kayden shouted, making the fat man's courage waver and put the ax to his side. His thoughts were that now that Thomas was missing an arm, it would be easier for him to subdue him and then heal him.
As soon as the fat man got close to Kayden, who was crouched on the ground, he was shocked to see the katana going past his neck. The movement was so quick and hidden by Thomas' gigantic body mass that the fat man couldn't even react.
The boy didn't feel anything when he saw the fat man's body fall to the ground lifeless. This wasn't even a battle. The fat man could have killed him if he wanted to. Once again, Kayden saw what experience did in battle.
Even with only one arm, the boy continued fighting without worrying about anything. Its death count was close to 40 thousand people after another 5 days. His entire body was stained with blood.
The boy didn't even remember any other sensation other than the rustic leather in his hand. His weapon broke a long time ago and he had to make do with imitations of katana he found on the battlefield.
His killing intent was already at the level of causing paralysis in weak-minded opponents and fear in some stronger ones. The battle had already reduced in size considerably.
A day later, Kayden was simply the only man standing on the battlefield. Standing was too strong a word to describe his state. He was simply missing one of his legs and was leaning on a sword.
"I think it's over, don't you?" Kayden no longer saw any point in continuing this illusion. But still, nothing happened. For a few minutes, he just didn't know what to do. Was he really in an illusion?
He had been fighting for so long that his memories were fuzzy. He hadn't slept in weeks. The only thing he did during this period was kill. Realizing that his life no longer had meaning, he made a decision.
Falling to the ground when he lost his support, he raised his sword and brought it down on his neck, putting an end to his sad life.
As soon as Kayden woke up, he staggered down the stairs and fell face-first on the step. A plethora of memories began to assault his mind. His bloodlust began to exude at a worrying level, making the other participants on the steps below feel sick.
"Boy, contain your killing intent." What woke Kayden was the voice of an officer who conjured a bubble around him. That still didn't stop people from getting a bad feeling when they looked at his, but it was a little less so now.
"Sorry," Kayden soothed. He didn't know what had happened to the boy.
"Don't freak out, kid. You must have killed a few people and died. That was the point of the test. Just fighting a losing battle." His sentence caught Kayden by surprise.
"What the fuck did I do there then?" He certainly understood that his only alternative was to kill himself and that was the purpose of the test. But he shouldn't be the last one left. The other competitors would probably become discouraged by the weather and the environment and end up dying due to carelessness.
But that didn't happen with Kayden. He carried out an insanely large massacre. Again, he needed time to recover. This time, it lasted a little longer, reaching two hours.
He had to organize all his memories of the illusion that were sort of jumbled up on top of each other. In the end, the boy smiled. That had been a ridiculous gain. His technique had a jump of at least three times in quality.
And his killing intent was very strong. When she was released fully against the officer, she was almost attacked by mistake. Fortunately, he apologized and said it was a mistake. Finally, he was ready to move on.
The next illusions were easy and didn't demand much from the boy, in one he simply had to fight against several people who gave him a feeling of family, but that wasn't very difficult.
Another he had to defend a castle that was already doomed to failure and even though he did his best he was still invaded, but at least he held on long enough to pass the test.
After a few minutes he was finally on floor number 80, he remembered that only the violinist managed to reach this level and even so he failed, hardening his determination he stepped on the step.
As soon as he woke up he found himself living a normal life in a world without magic with loving parents and a little sister, without knowing what to do he started living like this for a few days, after 1 week he already had an idea of what he was doing there.
A small feeling was developing for this family, Kayden even thought about killing them so that the test would end, but that didn't seem to be the objective of this test, little by little he began to integrate into this new life.
1 month passed and he simply got used to this normal and boring routine, his parents loved him and his sister was adorable, without him even realizing the idea of getting out of this illusion started to become distant in his head.
In the blink of an eye, 1 year had passed, and Kayden could barely remember his life before this place even his name was different now, answering to Lucas he was thinking about what college he would go to.