This wasn’t even a fight, it was practically a one-sided beating. At every moment, Marco was shouting that they would regret this and all the typical phrases of those powerful people. The mess ended up waking Kayden up.
"Crap?" Kayden blurted out in surprise and made everyone stop to look at him. The three hoped that Kayden would step in on Marco’s behalf, while the silver-haired teen hoped that he would receive some help.
Kayden first wondered how poorly guarded this place was and soon the answer appeared in his mind. Probably the powerful just let the new generation solve their problems and grow through conflicts.
"Don’t worry about me, just continue whatever you’re doing," Kayden sat down and went back to cultivating, leaving everyone disconcerted by the situation. This was not even remotely a normal reaction.
"Hey! Help me here, call for help or something, I’ll reward you for it", Marco’s scream fell on deaf ears. Kayden just went back to cultivating normally, without caring about anything. In his mind, this was a personal fight.
Over the next few minutes, Marco was ridiculed and beaten up a bit. After that, Mario just threw him out and turned to Kayden without knowing what to do. The young man in front of him had a strange aura.
"Boy! Hey!" Mario shouted at Kayden, and again his words fell on deaf ears. Seeing this, he decided to throw a small mana attack at Kayden. That wasn’t a good idea.
Kayden opened his eyes and a sinister aura came out of his body, all his killing intent focused on the three people in front of him, all the thousands of people he killed strengthened his aura by several folds.
Nine pentagrams appeared in front of him instantly, and his domain broke Mario’s attack instantly. From the pentagrams, an aura slash was released and came out at high speed towards Mario.
The man in the room became static and seemed to be crawling into existence, its control became difficult, all because of Kayden’s path. His attack was met with surprise by Mario, but he had time to conjure a barrier that was easily broken.
Again, the surprise factor and ego played a big role in the situation. He could sense Kayden’s realm and didn’t expect such a strong attack. Fortunately, her companions put up two other barriers and managed to hold off this attack.
"Explain yourself", Kayden said in a neutral tone and with his voice without any increase in tone. His eyes were cold, almost as if there wasn’t any life in them. He looked at Mario like someone looks at a pig about to be slaughtered, he had no emotions, no pleasure, just the silent promise of death.
"You weren’t waking up… I just wanted to scare you!" the century-old man stuttered as he did when speaking to his father. Kayden’s aura automatically made him lower himself as inferior in conversation.
"Alright, what do you need my attention to?" Kayden’s dark aura and killing intent disappeared and a calm and peaceful face appeared. Again, his actions confused them both as it was a very quick turn of emotions. What seemed like a fight turned into just a quiet conversation.
"I want to use this room, and you’ve been holding it for too long. That’s not right", Kayden’s friendly tone made Mario also more relaxed and not aggressive like in his conversation with Marco.
"I will use it for another 7 days, but I only use large amounts of mana a few times a day. I don’t mind sharing the room with you", Kayden said and watched the surprise on Mario’s face.
"What if you steal my techniques? Furthermore, I practice a... special type of cultivation," Mario had the same doubts as Marco.
"I don’t need your techniques, I can just sign a contract that I won’t pay attention to you for the next seven days," Kayden just wanted to get back to cultivating as soon as possible.
"Contracts can be broken, let’s take a soul oath."
"Broken? I didn’t know that, I don’t know what a soul oath is, you’ll have to teach me", Kayden’s sentence made the three of them look at him strangely.
Even a hillbilly would know about soul oaths and that contracts were easily broken by different techniques or advancing into the cultivation realms. Mario sensed Kayden’s sincerity and threw a roll at him.
Quickly, Kayden understood the soul oath technique. It was simply putting some of someone else’s mana into your core with the oath between the two parties in it. If either side broke their promise, they would be instantly killed.
Furthermore, the papyrus that Kayden received showed that the technique did not have any danger, as the piece of foreign mana was placed in his body by himself, and he could verify that it did not have anything other than the promise. It was practically a perfect agreement technique.
"Thank you for the technique, can we sign it immediately please," Kayden and Mario signed the agreement, and Kayden could feel a piece of mana from Mario at his request to not pay attention for the next seven days and never share any information he got in there.
The piece of mana was inside his main heart, something strange since it didn’t take up any physical space and could easily stack thousands of promises inside. Kayden began to develop an idea of forcibly placing this oath in other cores, practically a quick and easy way to create slaves.
That was an idea for another day, Kayden just sat down and went back to cultivating without answering any additional questions from Mário or being the least bit sociable. He was very close to getting a breakthrough.
It had only been a short time since he was at the second level and even less time since he had maxed out that level, but this room, coupled with some treasures on his part, sped up the process a fewfold.