"Nothing is above the sun king," the boy said, and... all the suns merged into a single one over a trillion kilometers wide. At that moment, everything became absolute chaos. The heat was so intense that the laws collapsed immediately—only the fundamental laws managed to persist, but even they were not enough.
The fundamental law of balance was operating at full capacity to restore the mana and laws being consumed at an absurd speed. It was ironic that Kayden was familiar with this situation. Slowly, the fundamental law of balance was growing stronger, and in just a few minutes, it would likely surpass the sun and make the new equilibrium revolve around this absurd heat with laws of fire.
"Kneel before the sun," the boy’s voice echoed throughout the coliseum as the sun began turning white from its exuded heat. It reached such an absurd point that space ceased to exist in most of the area.
Kayden said nothing as he watched the sun rushing toward him, burning everything in its path. Something so enormous should not have been capable of moving at such an absurd speed—it spanned tens of billions of kilometers per second. In fact, it was reaching something close to hundreds of billions of kilometers per second. It was so fast that it surpassed the speed of light in a feat that defied all common laws of physics, turning the sun into a black blur that most beings could only sense.
And then, Kayden began...
Kayden converted all his sixth sense into mana in the blink of an eye. In fact, that was just a figure of speech, as his conversion at that moment exceeded that speed tens of thousands of times over. Using the fundamental law of balance at its maximum power, he performed thousands of cycles of conversion.
The sheer amount of mana surrounding him for a few seconds was so vast that it eclipsed the sun’s presence. To anyone watching, the sun was still larger, but when perceived through the spiritual sense, everything changed—Kayden seemed to be the center of the universe with that amount of mana. It was so immense that he became a beacon in that place.
The problem was that it was nothing extraordinary compared to the previous attacks from other competitors. Kayden had truly been surpassed by time, but he didn’t care. He knew that, in the end, his decision was the right one. Under no circumstance was it worth gaining strength instead of potential—the future was more important than the present.
All that mana was converted into three lightning bolts supported by the law of balance. The lightning bolts slithered through space like serpents. His proficiency had turned them into something close to a living law flying through space, albeit at an infinitely lower power than the Ice Emperor. Kayden’s attacks carried the mana of galaxies within their structures, allowing them to tear through space and laws in their path without any difficulty. Compared to the size of the sun, the lightning bolts were like flies hitting an elephant, but their force was immensely superior.
Each lightning strike caused an explosion on the sun capable of destroying galaxies just from the residual effects. Each bolt opened a hole hundreds of billions of kilometers wide in the sun. What was once a perfectly round celestial body became a battered sphere, dented on all sides. The sun had the ability to regenerate automatically without any difficulty.
This Sun was a living law. Kayden could see with his own eyes that the universe considered it a law that had to be respected and restored, as if it were part of the cosmos and a divine obligation to maintain its existence. Against any other opponent, this would have been a headache—but Kayden’s lightning was different.
"Is this the power of the legendary untitled mage?"
Kayden heard the provocation with his eyes closed, but it didn’t even register in his mind. His three lightning bolts had been consumed by the sun in such a way that even the law of balance couldn’t restore them. He had known this would happen from the very beginning—it was merely a way to test his strength against a worthy opponent.
"Can we stop playing around and move to the final part?" Kayden asked after a few seconds.
"You were waiting for the sun to return to normal, weren’t you?" Kayden’s opponent had a bitter taste in his mouth. The feeling of being underestimated to the point where the adversary didn’t attack during his moment of weakness was not something everyone enjoyed experiencing.
The sun turned black, symbolizing Kenian’s final move. In reality, it wasn’t the sun’s color that changed but its heat. It had reached a point where even light itself was consumed and turned into absolute nothingness. It was so hot that even rays of light were destroyed, making the lack of light reflection turn the sun black.
The intensity of the heat increased to a point where gravity ceased to exist. Everything ceased to exist. There was only heat—an endless, beginningless inferno. It felt as if the universe had been reshaped. Kayden could see beings of fire being born in the middle of the sun—thousands of dragons, serpents, and other mythological beasts crawling across the sun king’s surface.
Its strength and its foundation in law had reached a level where it could create life within its existence. This was truly a spell worthy of a ten-ray mage. Kayden knew he still had much to evolve, but he could see a glimpse of where this boy’s attack would lead him.
"Existence is an extension of my will."
Kayden spread his arms and demonstrated why he was a monster.
The path of the monarch of oneself was something Kayden had been mastering for an infinitely longer time than most mages in this universe had even existed. His sixth sense began to grow without any logical limit. In less than the blink of an eye, it expanded to one and a half trillion kilometers. With just a single movement, he doubled its reach.