Another bolt of lightning struck, severely weakening his movements. His fear made him an easy target to attack. Kayden sighed and ran at the bear. If he was caught by Last Scream, he would be debilitated by at least 50% of his overall stats. This would result in an easy fight for the bear.
Once he got close, Kayden realized he had underestimated the bear’s will to live. The animal’s claw came with much more force and speed than before. This time, he was pushed back slightly. Without giving the beast a breath of air, Kayden was against him again.
This was a fight of enormous tension, as any mistake could result in the death of one of them. Kayden was sure that that claw would be able to split him into two halves easily, and once the bear broke through again, he would end the battle decisively.
At the exact moment, the claw hit the katana, lightning struck the bear without him having room to run, this time he was stunned, unable to react while Kayden quickly approached him.
Demonstrating a certain degree of intelligence, the beast did not try to grab Kayden and make the same mistake as last time what he did was pull both claws to close Kayden in a death grip and then rip off his head with his mouth.
Kayden was not an honest fighter and yet another lightning struck the bear, this time he thought he was safe from the lightning considering that Kayden was too close to him to risk something like that, what he didn’t know was the level of control that Kayden had to your spells.
His lightning was slowly heading towards a spell of his own making, slowly becoming an absurdly strong trump card worthy of a genius, his control allowed him to blast lightning a foot in front of him and only receive minimal consequences.
For every step that Kayden took, an infinity of mana was drawn towards him, it seemed like a whirlpool accumulating everything it could around him, in an instant the 150 meters around Kayden ran out of mana.
The amount of mana was ridiculous, no wizard should be able to pull so much mana so quickly, Locke could feel the poverty of mana in the environment and how the world was throwing mana from other regions in that direction.
All this man was put into an aura attack, the electricity was making frightening noises on his katana, and it felt like dozens of electric snakes were crawling around him.
The aura cut came out cutting the air at high speed, approaching the bear in the blink of an eye, the animal even tried to put its two claws in front of it in an attempt to defend itself, both arms were cut as if they were butter, not even managed to put up any resistance.
The aura lost half of its strength but continued in a straight line, the bear’s reflexes increased by the sensation of imminent death that it was feeling put its head down.
Unfortunately, this only caused the top part of his head to be split, taking only part of his brain, but it was more than enough for him to no longer be able to function properly.
Kayden looked at the animal for a few more seconds and was impressed by the strength he gained, his eyes looked up at the people around him and...
These were the emotions he saw in the eyes of most, his strength put him at the top, but every top is lonely, without caring about that he got up and went to Locke calmly.
"I’ll take care of the plane at night, call me in a few hours"
Another day passed and Kayden only had to face some animals on the third level. Not even a beast at the fourth level rose again. Every room faced a fourth-level beast at the end of the previous day or during the night.
The lower rooms were destroyed and more than 10 rooms fell in just a few hours, while others suffered heavy casualties. Only a few rooms had mages capable of facing fourth-level beasts, but others managed to win with just strategy and a game of cat and mouse.
On the third day, practically all of the beasts that were rising were at the second level, and around 20% were at the third level. Furthermore, the number of animals was much higher than the first two days, easily reaching five dozen per hour.
This time, Kayden had to stay alert to help any wizard in his class. His accurate intervention saved at least a dozen of them from being disqualified and at least two dozen from being seriously injured.
The third-level beasts were being cared for by groups specially trained in not fighting them head-on, just using spells to win in a game of cat and mouse. Kayden and Locke were just supporting the teams when needed.
The day passed quickly with dozens of rooms being eliminated at this point. It was practically one every few minutes. At the end of the day, only 40 surviving rooms remained, most of which suffered severe casualties.
In the end, teenagers were not capable of fighting for several days without any rest against beasts that could kill them with the slightest mistake. Apart from some extremely strong rooms, most were experiencing anxiety attacks and enormous mental pressure.
In the evening, Kayden once again took the lead. This was probably the last day he could do this. This time it was divided into shifts, a group of fifty students were helping Kayden and then they would go to sleep for the other half to take over.
Not even a fourth-level beast went up, in any of the rooms. This was in a way very good, but it also meant that something was wrong with the order of the beasts and they should be prepared to face higher-tier beasts the next day.
Only 15 rooms survived the brutal night of third-tier beasts rising by the dozens, and as soon as the first ray of sunlight fell in the morning, an eerie silence permeated every room.