Kayden just returned to his place and remained silent. No one came to talk to him during this period. Even though his presentation had been grand, everyone was mentally preparing for their next battles, and... those at the top knew that Kayden would not be a true opponent for the mages on this list.
The battles in the following days consisted only of mages that Kayden had never even heard of. They were all very impressive, but they weren't truly insane battles—at least from Kayden's point of view. These were mages capable of wiping out dozens of galaxies in a single move, but it wasn't something that pulled Kayden out of his stupor.
"Felix Heart, the oldest devourer of universes." The cat's title caught the attention of everyone who knew his race. He wasn't something to be taken lightly; the title of his race, whether they liked it or not, had its reasons.
Felix appeared on one side of the arena in an entirely relaxed manner. He looked like he was taking a stroll in the park. His aura was a mixture of peace and total chaos, and both laws and matter seemed to avoid his presence as if they were about to be consumed.
"Jormund Hayer." The ice creature that Kayden had met a long time ago appeared in the arena in all its glory as an ice mage. His domain did not reflect the strength he carried. Time itself slowed around him due to his ice laws.
Kayden woke up to watch this battle for two reasons. The first was that Felix was his friend, and the second was to understand a little better about Jormund and his strength, even though he was not at the demigod level. Unfortunately, Kayden didn't think this battle would be significant.
Felix was on a level far superior to any ordinary mage in the top 100. Kayden was absolutely sure of it. There wasn't a single mage capable of matching the two laws that Felix possessed in his body—they were simply too superior.
"The battle begins." The voice announced, and immediately, Jormund froze at least a hundred galaxies around him. It was completely insane to see the ice laws devour everything nearby. Absolutely everything was frozen before it could even express its laws.
Basic laws were frozen. The laws that governed the organization of the universe became static in the air. It was simply as if a space of a hundred galaxies ceased to exist and was just... frozen.
The laws were being converted into a single law—the law of ice—but it was also the law of stopped time and the law of flow. There were tens of thousands of specific laws. Kayden knew this was the effect of a mid-level fundamental law in its full capacity. At that moment, everything made sense in Kayden's mind.
It was impossible to reach this stage of the competition without something that made the mage special, whether it was a unique and unparalleled ability like Achilles' or a special law. But relying only on realms and the demigod rank was impossible. It was simply putting strength against quality—there would be no fair competition.
Felix remained calm as he felt the laws around him suffer the effects of the fundamental law of ice. He could feel his entire environment simply coming to a halt in time. Something primitive urged him to sleep and just stop.
Every movement should cease. The very act of thinking should be paused forever. There was no need for any action or anything of the sort. All heat should simply cease to exist—not only that, but cold as well. None of it was necessary. Everything should just stop.
The cat had never faced a battle of this level before. In reality, most mages had never faced something at this level before. For everyone, these peaks of power in their opponents were a novelty. No one wanted to risk getting injured before this great event. At most, small battles had occurred, but never a fight to the death between beings of this level.
Felix's mouth began to open, and the two fundamental laws in his body started rotating like a torpedo. It looked as if a massive black hole, capable of consuming anything, had appeared in the arena. Everything began to be sucked into the cat's mouth. Absolutely everything was being pulled into that abyss.
Slowly, he began to devour planets, then solar systems. In a few seconds, Felix's mouth escalated to swallowing half a galaxy, then an entire galaxy, and it didn't stop there. It was truly a bizarre sight. Felix's race was not something common, even among the great universes. It was no accident that he received one of the greatest supports from the gods.
Felix continued to devour everything around him, his mouth expanding without any limit, consuming not just matter but also the very laws that governed that space. Jormund did not retreat; his expression remained unchanged as the ice around him grew, swallowing light, time, and any remaining fragment of heat. The arena was no longer visible—there was only a vast void between the cat's darkness and the mage's absolute cold. Neither seemed willing to yield; both continued expanding their forces without hesitation.
Time grew slower and slower until, in an instant, everything simply stopped. Jormund's ice reached Felix, trying to freeze him along with all of reality around him. But instead, it started to be pulled into the infinite darkness. The black hole in Felix's mouth began to vibrate, tearing through space-time and absorbing not only matter but also the very concepts around it. The hunger of the devourer of universes and the absolute cold of the mage clashed, and in the next instant, everything was engulfed by darkness.
Felix's mouth consumed dozens of galaxies and devoured everything Jormund had conjured. The mage himself was swallowed by the laws spinning inside that throat. Kayden felt a shiver down his spine watching that battle. Felix had grown to a point he never expected, not even in his wildest dreams.