The Monarch-Chapter 535: Netero

The more Kayden delved into understanding space and advanced his cultivation, the more he grasped the fundamental laws of the universe. One of these was the law of balance—everything tended toward a natural equilibrium. If life diminished too rapidly in one area, the universe increased birthrates elsewhere. If space was consumed, mana would surge in another location.

Kayden began a small experiment... one that was far from ethical. He was destroying entire planets along with all life on them. His speed of destruction was astonishing—he was annihilating hundreds of planets per day without even focusing his full attention on it. Within just a few days, his name started spreading across the universe.

Kayden was already famous before, but now he gained notoriety among the universe’s newer residents. Fear gripped everyone’s minds—would their planet be the next to disappear? The irony was that, despite his actions, Kayden couldn’t feel a significant impact on the law of balance. It would likely take millennia of such destruction to create any measurable effect.

The number of planets in the universe was staggeringly large, likely surpassing trillions with ease—this was a conservative estimate from Kayden himself. His actions had an almost negligible effect on the grand scheme of things. Still, he persisted; it was an excellent model for study.

Another minor detail was that Kayden hypothesized he might be improving the quality of mana in the universe through this method. It was just a theory, but it seemed plausible. Perhaps he could achieve something akin to Yan, albeit on a ridiculously smaller scale. In the distant future, he might even reach the level of the Father God. His ultimate goal, however, was to devour the entire universe in order to truly study the laws of balance.

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A few years later, Kayden had yet to encounter even a single law drifting aimlessly through space. The stones containing laws had no detectable mana signature; they were ridiculously difficult to find, a matter of luck more than skill. By this time, Kayden’s name had spread rapidly.

The fame he once held as a "creator of monsters" was entirely replaced. Now, he was Kayden, the Destroyer of Worlds. Tens of thousands of worlds had been annihilated by him. During one extraordinary moment when he destroyed over a hundred planets in a single strike, he finally managed to sense the law of balance.

In that moment, he felt the universe’s mana flowing back at an absurdly high speed, almost instantaneously reforesting the affected area with divine mana. The ten billion kilometers of destruction he had caused were replenished within seconds. This heightened rate of recovery occurred because the combined destruction of life and consumption of space released a quantity of mana far beyond anything Kayden had ever manipulated before.

This triggered the activation of the law of balance, albeit only for a few seconds. But Kayden’s innate talent allowed him to perceive these alterations perfectly. What shocked him most was realizing that the law of balance wasn’t a single law—it was a composite of dozens of intertwined laws. The law of imbalance, the law of chaos, the law of weights, the law of mana conservation, the law of exhaustion—there were dozens more that Kayden couldn’t even name.

The truth was that the law of balance simultaneously existed and didn’t exist. It was an enigma Kayden wasn’t yet capable of answering. He would need to study extensively before he could fully understand this law. Nonetheless, it became his closest objective, as it aligned perfectly with his path and techniques.

If Kayden could manipulate the laws of balance, he could use mana on an even more terrifying scale. He could convert the same space into mana dozens of times without difficulty. This would elevate him far beyond his current level—by dozens of tiers. However, this was a plan that would take millions of years to achieve.

Time began to pass rapidly. Centuries flew by in the blink of an eye. New mages capable of wielding laws started appearing frequently. Initially, they were suppressed and hunted by the demigods. But one of the demigods issued a universal decree, which was also a veiled threat: these individuals were to be left alone.

Kayden shared this sentiment. Once a stone was used by a mage, it became useless to anyone else. It couldn’t impart its secrets to another, making it a waste of time to chase after these mages. Furthermore, having more powerful individuals at the universe’s peak was beneficial. It naturally raised the standard for those striving to ascend the ranks.

"Finally, we meet," Kayden heard a voice just after obliterating an entire planet as if it were no more than air. He turned to his side and immediately realized he was in trouble.

A few million kilometers away stood an old man holding a mystical-looking staff. At first glance, he seemed like nothing more than a harmless, ordinary elder. But his soul told Kayden an entirely different story.

The old man appeared frail, with a slightly hunched posture and simple robes that floated softly in the void of space, worn and weathered by countless ages. His face was deeply etched with wrinkles that seemed to hold the stories of innumerable civilizations, and his eyes, though clouded, gleamed with an ancient and unfathomable knowledge—as if they had witnessed the universe’s birth. The staff in his hand, rustic and adorned with indecipherable symbols, pulsed subtly, emanating a mystical aura that distorted the space around it, as though reality itself feared to touch it.

Despite his stillness, he radiated an overwhelming presence—a force as silent as an endless abyss. Kayden knew that behind the man’s ordinary appearance lay a power capable of challenging the very foundations of balance.

Kayden quickly understood that running wasn’t an option. He felt the runes surrounding the space locking his teleportation abilities in place—at least without significant effort. No one should have been able to surpass his control within his sixth sense, yet this old man was creating an incomprehensible distortion around him.