"The barrier opens once a week at the southern point, we have to hurry, we only have a few more hours before it opens." The group began heading south with a compass that Heimer had in his hands.
At full speed, it didn’t take long for them to find other people on the way who joined them. It was safer to walk in relatively large groups in the forest, which kept away animals that roamed in packs.
Kayden found himself facing the same strange barrier as a few months ago. Even though some time had passed, it felt like barely a week had passed since he entered. They had to wait another half hour before hearing a deafening sound of metal being cut.
Slowly, the bubble began to show its outside, a small circle was expanding while its edge seemed to be on fire. Within a few seconds, the outside became visible and everyone began to quickly pass by. Just 60 seconds later, the portal closed, leaving Kayden with a sight that surprised him.
A small city was built where before it was just woods and trees. You could see several houses and some paved streets, in addition, there was a large market where various items were sold. Kayden wasn’t too interested in finding a place to rest like Heimer’s group and just headed towards the huge market. Unfortunately, he discovered that only medicines and items found in the forest were sold, there was little stock of techniques.
Fortunately, they put the internet in the area, and with just a few calls, Kayden received a few different techniques for him to purchase.
**Giant’s Breath**: allows you to store 3 times more air in your lungs at once, requires physical training and body alignment using mana, costing 10 thousand gold coins.
**Total Breathing**: Receives air through any hole in your body, it requires knowledge in creating veins, and physical and painful training to mold your body to the new shape, only try if you are a wizard, apprentices cannot stand the body change.
**Skin Breathing**: absorbs oxygen through the skin, in small quantities so as not to damage the muscles, but if done on the entire body, the absorption of oxygen increases by several folds, and it works slower underwater, consequences: skin will wi rough due to the number of small holes that will develop, it does not have a visible appearance, cost: 100 thousand gold coins.
Kayden quickly decided on the latter. It was practically a perfect technique. It didn’t even take two hours for him to have a book in his hands. Wasting no time, he booked a room in one of the hotels and began studying the technique.
It wasn’t anything too difficult, it just had to be done carefully. He had to hold his breath and cover his skin with mana, and he also had to leave some holes open on his body for air to enter. According to the book, it should take a week before the mana forcibly changes her skin with small corrosions.
Kayden cultivated the method 24 hours a day, letting his breath hold as long as possible. In just 4 days, he felt that even if he held his breath nothing would change. His body began to absorb the oxygen around him naturally.
Running his hand over any corner of his skin, he could feel that it was rough as if he was touching some kind of asphalt. It wasn’t particularly pleasant, but that didn’t matter to Kayden. He released his circulation at maximum speed and saw that he had no collateral. His entire body was being supported with oxygen from every possible point his skin came into contact with the air and even through his clothing.
Kayden felt ridiculously powerful, it seemed like any action his body could make could be done without delay. Furthermore, his regeneration was ridiculously high. This was something that bothered him, as in the future he would not always have healing mages within easy reach. Without even resting, Kayden decided to return to the forest and continue fighting. This time he didn’t join any team, he could manage alone and didn’t want to trust strangers easily.
The next few days were just Kayden hunting and collecting some natural treasures, as he could go out once a week he left them with a company specialized in treating treasures that turned them into medicinal pills.
There wasn’t any other lucky encounter like at the beginning of the adventure, it seemed that all the major points of interest had already been caught by other people, Kayden at that moment was flying over the region. "This..." Kayden felt a group of 4 humans around a world tree seed, but it felt strange, the mana she was exuding was not normal and caused a strong awakening of carnal desires.
This was visible in the eyes of the four people, in the group there was only one man and three women. This should be almost any man’s dream, but Kayden saw it becoming a nightmare as they had sex for hours.
In a moment, the man just fell to the ground and could no longer move, a little lucidity opened in the eyes of the three, but it was too late...
Three rays in sequence fell on the three, paralyzing their movements and seriously injuring their bodies. The pain made reason return to them completely, but it was too late anyway.
Two aura slashes using all the mana Kayden could muster were thrown at the three. The first two women were just decapitated without even being able to react, while the third turned towards where the cuts came from.
" Why? Who are you?" Kayden didn’t respond, he wasn’t going to waste time on a dead person. His next aura attack decapitated the woman instantly. His rays had already damaged her body so much, she was unable to do anything but accept her death.
Kayden burned the four bodies after looting some treasures and some gold coins. They didn’t have anything very relevant. For a second, Kayden felt bad for his actions, but that passed instantly. His goals came before his morals.