"It was similar to the nectar of knowledge, something quite useful," Kayden replied neutrally. "Let’s move on?" None of them knew the number of rooms in the place. They had already passed through three rooms and there seemed to be a few more.
As soon as Kayden took three steps into the tunnel leading to the next room, his vision blurred for a full second, and then...
"What the fuck?" Kayden was floating in the sky above the huge forest, in front of him was Azir, floating in the air in an imposing manner. There was no sign of anyone else in their group.
"Majesty?" Kayden got no response. The silence only lasted a few more seconds, when Locke appeared at his side, disoriented as well. After that, Azir finally turned to the two.
"I will answer your questions later. In the meantime, just watch that pink tree over there." A kind of ipê was where Azir pointed. The tree was beautiful, but that was its only feature. It just looked like a normal tree.
In just a few minutes, a ridiculous amount of mana began to be moved. There was so much mana that Kayden felt like he was in a river. He lost his sense of space; everything was mana. The floor ceased to exist; heaven ceased to exist.
No matter how great his spiritual sense was, he was not able to move out of this mana area, nor could he even control this mana. She had a ridiculously strong will even for him.
Kayden had his mind opened again. He couldn’t even think of a spell that needed that much mana. He had never seen this much mana before.
The river of mana lasted for another few minutes before Kayden could finally begin to feel things again with his spiritual sense. The first thing he noticed was that he was no longer able to feel the ground. They were flying even higher.
Within seconds, all the mana was gone and Kayden was finally able to look down, and... there was nothing. The ground was completely barren, looking like a desert. The huge forest from before was reduced to just sand. There was no life anywhere that Kayden looked; trees, bushes, animals, nothing was visible.
Perhaps just a few atomic bombs from his past life could bring such great destruction. Kayden’s vision could reach several miles further than a normal person’s and even then he could not see any sign of grass.
Only one thing was alive and whole; the ipê was intact in all its glory. Not even a hint of mana could be felt around it, but its leaves seemed to have turned a blue hue.
"Don’t talk," Kayden heard Azir’s voice in his mind milliseconds before he tried to ask a question. At this moment, the clouds in the sky closed in; the scariest thing was that they had a golden hue.
Kayden recognized them instantly but had never seen anything this big and majestic. Each cloud appeared to be handcrafted by a divine craftsman. They shone with grandeur and strength. Kayden felt tiny, like a grain of sand in the enormous universe.
He had only had this feeling once in his life, and that was when he fought the golden eyes in his coma. The clouds stretched as far as his eyes could see; he would be even more impressed if he knew that they extended for more than 10 thousand kilometers. Its extent was larger than a continent on ancient Earth.
A few seconds later, it seemed like the world had stopped; a completely monstrous flash fell on the ipê tree. It was so strong and immense that Kayden’s vision went white for a full second.
The shock wave traveled dozens of kilometers; an immense mushroom of dust was raised. The entire earth shook and a ridiculously large crater was opened in the ground, revealing large roots hundreds of meters long.
The shock wave went to the bubble in which Azir was protecting Kayden and Locke and... the three were thrown back as if they were made of cloth facing a storm. This was bizarre considering Azir was at least in the fourth or fifth realm, Kayden still wasn’t sure about that.
The lightning came without spending mana; Kayden couldn’t feel the attack. This was ridiculous; An attack of this magnitude should have cost a lot of mana, but even so, there was not the slightest sign that any mana was used.
The next flash came as magnificent as the first; the strength and speed were unmatched by anything Kayden had ever seen. Even Azir had barely seen such strong blows in his entire life.
This time, the ground opened up even more; practically 1 kilometer around the ipê was sunk, and its roots, which did not match the size of its trunk, were exposed, revealing a ridiculous amount of accumulated mana.
The next flash came even stronger; this time, practically dozens of kilometers were sunk. The tree was forced to float in the air with its roots so as not to lose its balance.
Another flash fell to the ground; with this, there were four rays marking the tree as a genius, at least by normal human standards. At this moment, it had not lost any roots, nor had it even suffered any damage.
This time, she had a bit of difficulty facing the legendary fifth ray. Kayden couldn’t take his eyes off the tree because he felt wasn’t over yet. A huge crater where the tree was had appeared; only a huge dark hole could be seen. Its roots were burned in several places, some of them were destroyed, but even so, the tree was still intact and waiting for the next lightning bolt. Until this moment, she had only used her body to defend herself, but now the mana around her began to be used in her wood.
The wood turned a darker tone, resembling metal, and the roots began to move. It was ridiculously strange to see such large roots moving; the tree was easily over 10 kilometers long and yet it seemed more agile than many small things.