The amount of mana that Kayden could manipulate was ridiculously high and meant that no mage at the first levels of the second realm would be able to fight him, in fact, not even those at the peak of the second realm would stand a chance, it was six rays and a solid path.
After fighting just two battles, they moved on to the remaining ten teams. A recap was made with a few more fights so that the number was correct, thus ending the penultimate day of the battle of the world.
As Kayden returned to his room, he noticed how distant he had become from the genies. His strength was on a completely different level, perhaps when he reached the peak of the second realm he would be able to face people in the third realm on equal terms.
Kayden was training and cultivating in his room while most of the people in his kingdom were celebrating entering the top 20 and similarly, this happened with all the kingdoms.
The stands this time were floating imposingly above the clouds. The expenditure of resources for a presentation was completely surreal, there were kilometers of structure being supported.
The landscape was awe-inspiring with gigantic white clouds being the floor of the environment, in the center there was a huge plate of glass floating, huge to the point of easily exceeding 5 kilometers.
"Welcome to the last day of our event, at this point we will decide the best of the best and the best, so we cannot have pairs at this stage and we decided to put the twenty participants in the arena fighting each other." The revelation took everyone by surprise. "Teams are not allowed, first place will receive a fifth realm seed and the one with the highest elimination count will receive a legendary technique capable of making you escape from people above your realm."
The second part fell like a bomb among people, jumping kingdoms was absurdly difficult and was done only a few times in history, a technique that promised to make you escape from someone’s entire kingdoms above you was impressive.
A few minutes later, everyone was placed inside the arena a few dozen meters away from each participant. Kayden could feel all of them within his spiritual senses, apart from Apollo he did not know any other participants.
"I ask for a second of everyone’s attention," the boy who got five lightning bolts in the kingdom of the enlightened raised his voice. "My name is Bruno Keilypson and I represent the peak of the enlightened realm, I would like to ask for a duel with Kayden and show the real reason why I got five lightning bolts."
His request brimmed with arrogance and his thoughts were that Kayden had gotten six rays of luck, something quite ridiculous and impossible. Kayden just looked at that idiot as he continued talking.
"Most mages utilize an element or two in their entire lives, but I maximized fire, wind, water, and earth, being the most complete mage there could be," Kayden smirked, even if the boy had done that he still only used the earth element in his advance, probably because it was the strongest he had. After he finished speaking, he looked at Kayden.
"A master of all elements is the same as a master of nothingness," Kayden spoke and began to collect mana from all three kilometers. Within seconds, the entire region was dominated by his mana, anyone who cast a spell would find it difficult to pierce the mana bubble in the environment.
The amount of mana around Kayden was completely ridiculous and it was directed entirely at Bruno, the boy couldn’t even react when Kayden ordered it.
"Kneel" and then he received an aura cut that removed him from the arena, this didn’t even last two seconds and he was eliminated as if it were nothing, then Kayden turned to the others and began to eliminate them in the same way.
In a few seconds, the space became an absolute mess of spells and with Kayden being the focus of most of them, even Apollo was using fire attacks against the boy, but... they could barely get a few meters around him, the mana cloud caused them to be suffocated and Kayden just dodged or used a pure mana shield.
What followed in the next few minutes was a true massacre in a fight of 20 people against one, Kayden forced them to kneel and then took them out of the match as if they were nothing more than vermin.
"Ridiculous", the current king of the sun kingdom blurted out to himself when he saw this carnage, that was the thought of everyone in the room and the surrounding stands, a fearful silence as everyone subconsciously hoped that he would not be able to win.
Why? Out of fear, a senseless and irrational fear of the strength of someone several realms smaller than themselves, it was one thing to recognize someone strong, but what he was doing was far above mere strength, it was wrong, and it felt unnatural.
In a few minutes, the match was down to just 10 people, making Kayden the person with the most eliminations in a rapid manner and without competition, the worst thing is that he was continuing as if he hadn’t even started to sweat.
"Fight for second place, I won’t interfere anymore", his voice was emotionless, but the speech itself carried an arrogance... in fact, the correct thing would be absolute confidence, none of the great magicians exchanged glances with Kayden.
These few minutes made them develop an absolute fear of the boy, every time someone raised their voice against him they were eliminated with priority, no one wanted to lose their positions further ahead, but.... it seemed that it had lost its meaning.
All the effort they had already put into their training, all the hours wasted seemed like jokes compared to the strength that Kayden was demonstrating, in a way this was the biggest trauma they had received in their lives, but it would not leave any consequences, because in a few years they They would simply classify Kayden on another level and would no longer compare themselves to him.