The weight of these words was gigantic and it increased even more when they saw the administrator say nothing; his silence seemed to agree with the boy’s sentence, something that many thought was just daydreams in their heads, but it was simply reality.
"Ridiculous! Superior? Your arrogance knows no bounds. I challenge you myself at this moment," a voice came out from the cluster of teachers floating in the sky. It was an elderly woman with wrinkles on her face, it was obvious to Kayden that she had a lot of battle experience.
Even as time passed in his body, his movements were fluid and rhythmic. She carried no weapons and appeared to be a mage from a distance. His level was the sixth of the fourth realm, something strong, but not very impressive to Kayden.
"Of course, but I only do life-and-death fights. Not even the administrator will interfere with a fair deal. Are you sure you want to continue?", Kayden asked calmly and saw a wave of uncertainty appear on the woman’s face.
Everyone who fought long enough knew that arrogance was loud, ego made itself heard, but confidence? She was silent. No lion needed to prove itself as king of the savannah; everyone knew who he was, or would find out by annoying him.
At that moment, the elf began to regret her decision, but there was no going back. His honor did not allow it; elven society would never look kindly on her again. A match would practically be made based on his race.
"Yes, let’s set a time..." Kayden interrupted her directly.
"We can fight right now, it won’t take more than a few minutes," his tone finally made the old woman get angry, but not lose her temper. She was not a newbie. Unfortunately, Kayden’s sentence left her at a crossroads.
An irrational fear began to circulate through her. Kayden was very calm. He was risking a lot for nothing. Was all this trust? Or was it just a bluff from a crazy guy?
Everyone started to make room after the administrator gave his approval for the confrontation. They could fight freely, as any remnants would be removed by him and prevent them from reaching the teachers or students.
"Start", each of them was about 1 kilometer away from the other. Kayden instantly pulled the 100-kilometer mana towards him in a forcible manner. The man that permeated the forest was completely deprived of his will and placed in his domain.
The flow of mana was something extraordinary. Everyone could feel as if they were in the middle of a river with a strong current. The speed caused even the surrounding trees to sway. Kayden extended his mana domain to three kilometers and instantly began to dilate the mana in space.
His attitude proved correct when the elderly woman released tens of thousands of concentrated beams of light. Each of them had enough strength to penetrate Kayden’s skin a few centimeters, and it didn’t even seem to use up much of her mana, an excellent spell.
Unfortunately, Kayden’s mana dilation meant that they were unable to move even a hundred meters before being shattered into nothing. He didn’t give her time to conjure anything else and with the help of a pentagram, he used a silent aura attack.
The attack cut through the air at an absurd speed and would decapitate the elf if it weren’t for her insanely fast reflexes. Kayden could see that her eyes became bright and she acquired a speed much higher than what she should have.
The woman took out a wooden stick that looked like it was over a millennium old. At each of its ends, a shiny metal that looked new glistened against the sun. Kayden saw her body begin to glow, and with a wave of his staff, a white dragon came out.
Even Kayden’s domain was completely consumed by the attack. He used black lightning coupled with a pentagram to make the two attacks explode. The residual force caused the trees in the distance to sway.
"That’s very impressive," the woman commented, but Kayden didn’t respond. He began summoning dozens of pentagrams, each with a specific function. Then he launched dozens of aura and lightning attacks, each passing through a pentagram and gaining a different attribute. The elderly woman frowned at this attack;
A beautiful dance began in the air, with an old woman and a stick. Each attack of hers caused a dragon to come out; these were scary and simply consumed everything in their path. Kayden’s aura cuts and lightning were mere obstacles to the dragons.
All attacks that came within fifty meters of Kayden were ridiculously weakened by his compressed domain. He had already added his mana dilation and his layered barrier technique into his short-range domain. This caused the area around him to become a dead, static mana point; nothing could move properly. Even the dragons were severely damaged, and only needed Kayden to launch a ridiculously weak aura attack at them.
This wasn’t going to be an easy fight, so Kayden decided to take this seriously. A huge pentagram appeared around him, easily reaching 100 meters in length. That pentagram moved along with him as he rushed at the woman.
In all his years, he understood two things about reality: the first was that it didn’t exist and everything was a lie put together by mana. As long as you had the right knowledge and necessary strength, you could change existence itself. The second thing was that his body... was nothing more than a container of mana, a spell in its pure, consolidated.
The pentagram changed the structure of his body for a few milliseconds, enough for him to be able to perform extremely fast movements that did not match his strength, not only that but changing his bones and organs around was easy in this state.
Author’s note: I know it was supposed to be yesterday, but I ended up not being able to keep that promise, I apologize for that