The Monarch-Chapter 574: Ice emperor[2]

"Is that all?" Kayden asked without any hurry. The emperor watched as his domain was completely ignored by Kayden, as if he were just another mage.

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"You know you’re not capable of fighting me. Let’s see how far your courage can take you," the emperor said. Kayden couldn’t believe that a being so old could utter such a cliché.

The serpents and dragons began to charge at Kayden, ripping through space and consuming the very laws of the universe. It was insane to see beings made of pure ice, stretching millions of kilometers, moving at such insane speeds. Now, this was the kind of spell Kayden wanted to see. This would either be a beautiful battle or his last one.

Kayden’s lightning cut through space with more mana than an entire galaxy could hold. It was an amount of mana far beyond what should have been possible in a spell without it collapsing. But Kayden’s lightning tore through space and everything in its path. The laws were shattered into pieces by sheer brute force.

The clash between Kayden’s lightning and the ice serpent caused a cosmic catastrophe that crossed the boundaries of an entire galaxy. The bolt, charged with absurdly immense amounts of mana, pierced the colossal creature, creating an explosion that spread waves of destruction across hundreds of thousands of star systems. Stars were ripped from their orbits, while planets and moons were disintegrated by the sheer force of the impact. The serpent resisted momentarily, each fragment breaking off its body and releasing such intense cold that it froze the very fabric of space itself. But even with its magnitude, the lightning’s advance was relentless, tearing the creature apart in a storm of cosmic ice.

The impact caused a rupture in the universal laws, creating distortions that reverberated across the galaxy. The explosion left a colossal void where entire systems once existed, billions of kilometers plunged into darkness. Shockwaves swept through the galaxy, erasing nebulae and scattering cosmic debris along chaotic trajectories. Nearby stars collapsed under the pressure, creating new supernovas that echoed the destruction of the clash. Still, Kayden remained unshaken, observing the collapse with an almost unnatural calmness, as his devastating power reaffirmed his position as an unmatched force. The serpent was obliterated, and the now mutilated space bore witness to the extent of the confrontation.

"Your strength is truly absurd," the emperor said as his aura disappeared, and the two other mages hid in the voids of space. Neither of the combatants spoke as they observed the wreckage of their spells.

"Still, I would lose in a true battle. This serpent was almost a living law. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a well-crafted spell in my entire life," Kayden said, each word coming with the utmost sincerity.

His lightning was strong enough to destroy the serpent in a direct confrontation, but the question was that it wasn’t even the largest one roaming through space. Furthermore, it had merely charged straight at his spell with no real tactics. Kayden was sure there was much more to it than that. Another factor was the amount of mana used.

The serpent barely used any mana to sustain itself. It wasn’t even 1% of Kayden’s spell, yet it was still able to face off against his lightning and cut its path. All of this was because the serpent was a law in all its glory. The emperor’s very aura was a law in its most potent form. Kayden only needed a few seconds to understand this.

"Frightening. Something I spent billions of years studying was unraveled in seconds," the emperor couldn’t help but comment. "Why is someone with your talent here in this second-rate universe?"

"I ask the same question to you. Why is a ten-ray mage from the tenth realm lost in this hole of a universe?" Kayden didn’t take long to understand the real level of the force he was up against.

The serpent wasn’t an incomplete law... it was the damn law itself. It was the same law a god could manipulate, but here it was in the hands of a mere mortal. This was not something this universe should have. Kayden was sure he hadn’t even faced 1% of the serpent’s true power. There were some that were beyond his sixth sense’s reach. This was completely insane.

"I’ve been following a child developing in these low-level universes. What about you?" The emperor hadn’t grasped the magnitude of Kayden’s enigma until he saw him fight against his serpent. His disinterest in this universe was so great that he hadn’t even noticed Kayden’s rise.

"I was born here. That’s all," Kayden responded. The emperor raised an eyebrow. Kayden’s words were true. This meant that this universe had managed to generate an anomaly.

"Your talent, and all the nuances of your strength, are far beyond what should be allowed to descend to these realms. Furthermore, your soul… it’s strange. It’s full and completely different from the soul of a conventional living being," the emperor read Kayden’s secrets as if he were reading a book.

"I fused my soul with that of my soulmate," Kayden didn’t mind revealing his secret to him. This person was far beyond anything he had ever seen, so it was useless to try to hide things.

"You?!" This time, the emperor lost his composure.

"Actually, I killed my soulmate and absorbed their soul," Kayden said, feeling even more lost as he specified the phrase.

"You killed your soulmate?" It had literally been trillions of years since the emperor felt this sensation of surprise. It was the feeling of hearing something so absurd that he couldn’t even believe it was true.

"Yes," Kayden replied simply, as though answering whether the food tasted good. The emperor remained silent for a few seconds, thinking about what Kayden had just said. It was truly terrifying.

"Was it worth it? How hard was it to do?" Kayden smiled.

"It was worth it, but the difficulty... it was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. Killing my soulmate was hundreds of times worse than tearing my soul apart for millions of years. To this day, there are still scars of my actions in my mind," Kayden began explaining the procedure like a madman.