The difference in strength was far superior. At that moment, even Kayden had to be cautious with his movements, as a surprise attack from a random beast could kill them both in the blink of an eye.
A few months later, they found one of the first cities on this plane. It wasn’t as big as the normal cities that Kayden and Atlas were used to; it barely reached two hundred kilometers and had only a few million people within it. The difference was that most of these mages possessed an absurd amount of strength.
Each adult mage was at least in the sixth realm, and most of the population was in the seventh realm. Kayden saw the presence of many children among them, but few could survive the pressure of the laws without any prior study, which meant that only the strong would proliferate.
Most people had a high number of rays, with a minimum average of seven, and the strongest had eight rays. Additionally, Kayden noticed the presence of some beings with strength far superior to eight rays; this was a city composed of giants.
"We’re not going in; it’s not worth the risk," Kayden wasn’t going to throw his life away. He knew he was strong but against a nine-ray mage with multiple laws? He would die with just a wave of the mage’s hand.
Atlas only agreed with Kayden; even though there were numerous agreements between the natural gods and the residents of this spatial plane, neither of them wanted to risk their luck on something with no chance of bearing fruit.
They continued their journey at high speed. Kayden’s sixth sense was huge, allowing him always to sense enemies before they could even perceive the duo’s presence. Besides that, Kayden and Atlas left not the smallest particle of mana escaping from their bodies; they were like two inanimate objects flying in the environment.
Only a few beings were able to find them during this time, and most were conscious beings with nine rays and a high realm. This made them part of the agreement with the gods, and no one would go against the gods without a good reason.
There wasn’t any decent reason to go against the gods. They were ridiculously powerful, and there wasn’t a single mage capable of facing them in this plane. The best geniuses were taken directly by the natural gods and sold to great organizations.
It took years to cross the entire third plane; it was bizarrely larger than anything Kayden had ever traversed. He needed a lot of time to cover this distance, and they didn’t even stop along the way.
"It will take a few more years heading toward the center. I think this is where we say goodbye, Atlas," Kayden told his disciples as soon as they entered the plane.
"You really won’t come with me? Random laws might be much better, Master," Atlas was looking for something that resonated with his path, while the law Kayden sought was that of space.
Kayden had no intention of learning any laws from this place, as he already had an idea of what he needed for the seventh realm, and he wouldn’t find it here. For that reason, Kayden decided to try learning the incomplete law of space. He spent a lot of time manipulating space and a lot of time in soul form, which was perhaps the third thing he understood best, directly behind mana and souls.
"No, Atlas, our paths diverge here. Good luck," Kayden patted his disciple on the shoulder and simply left toward the signal in the center of the plane. Atlas waited a few seconds and then went in another direction.
Kayden spent a few months flying, only focusing on the central point. He covered an insanely vast distance in that time. Kayden didn’t stop for absolutely anything, not even for a second. Some beasts tried to stop him, but only those in higher realms were capable, and most were repelled by the gods’ amulet.
The boy saw beautiful landscapes along the entire journey. He saw mountain ranges that easily spanned tens of thousands of kilometers, volcanoes over thousands of kilometers, and ravines millions of kilometers long.
Everything was large and complex in this plane. Kayden witnessed the direct effects of the laws; some trees reached thousands of kilometers in length and absorbed divine mana like a sponge, which created an enormous mana vacuum area.
Kayden saw animals that defied the laws of nature with sizes of hundreds of kilometers, which completely went against the laws of physics. How could such a being generate energy for its functioning? It was simply too big.
There wasn’t even food for it to stay alive. They had to live entirely and exclusively on mana; anything else wouldn’t generate enough energy for the beast to survive.
Time passed, and Kayden went months without any contact. He hadn’t even fought with other people or beasts; he just continued heading toward the center of the plane, and the strength of the beings progressively increased as he advanced.
The proper time would be a few years to cover this entire distance, but now that Atlas wasn’t with him, Kayden could simply fold space and jump with his sixth sense in the blink of an eye. He was traveling billions of kilometers every day; this plane was something insanely large.
Kayden’s speed was ridiculously high, something that hardly any mage below the ninth realm could keep up with. Some might even be able to travel at a similar speed, but they would have to be entirely focused on speed alone.
A light-year was approximately 10 trillion kilometers; it was an absurd number, but perhaps after a few more realms, Kayden would be able to reach it. It was completely absurd considering he was just a mere mortal, but Kayden was slowly overcoming the laws of physics.
Kayden’s familiarity with space increased even further after so many months. As he moved toward the center of the fourth plane, things began to get a little scarier. Kayden saw beings in realms below the fourth manipulating incomplete laws, and the strength of these people easily eclipsed those with nine rays at the same level.
The law of space was becoming more evident as Kayden approached the center. The strength of the beings was expected to increase, but the law of space wasn’t something Kayden expected to feel capable of sensing. He wasn’t sensing the law itself, but rather its alterations in the surrounding space.
AN: These days have been hell, I’ll try to upload three more chapters in the next few hours