NOVPUB"Is the pain worth all this? Why don’t you end your life already?" The lich spat words that fell on deaf ears; his fog had no psychological effect on Kayden.
Four months later, only 10% of the material remained in the room, with just a few piles of dirt and random trees. The lich even tried to create more matter to fill the floor, but Kayden seemed like a perfect machine at differentiating real things from newly created matter.
"I’ll finish it in no time. If I find your object, you die. But first I will give you an offering: give me the piece of soul that remains in your object and submit to my will." The lich heard these words and almost let out a roar of rage.
"I will never surrender to a pathetic mortal like you!" His words were of no value to Kayden. Liches were divided into two classes: those who pursued a greater goal and those who just ran from death.
This specific lich seemed just to be one who was afraid of death. He was in a shallow realm with powerful techniques, which meant he spent a lot of time refining them in the fourth realm. Probably his talent wasn’t very high and he became a lich just out of fear of dying. Time has made him able to increase his strength to a ridiculous level, even though before he was useless.
Kayden continued destroying everything in his reach. With each day that passed, he removed even more matter, which caused the lich to begin to become desperate. He couldn’t believe how this situation was unfolding.
His attacks were useless against Kayden and he was unable to change the boy’s psychology. His fog was doing its best, but it still couldn’t kill Kayden.
When only 5% of the original material remained on the floor, the lich finally accepted the situation and began to slowly move his mana to change his object and hide it in his mist. The problem was that Kayden was tracking every inch of this place’s mana with his path. As soon as the lich began to perform a different manipulation, Kayden felt it and just waited patiently.
The lich proved to have a cunning mind. It took his mana an entire day to reach a fixed point and start moving something. In the meantime, he also increased the skulls and confusion in the environment. Kayden just pretended to throw lightning at that moment and remained alert. Within a few hours, he was able to see a perfectly smooth green ball with the appearance of a rare jewel.
"Now that I have identified your cursed object, you have only one day to decide your answer." Kayden’s voice startled the lich and caused him to almost drop the green jewel.
The lich understood that it was now all or nothing definitively, it was even more evident when Kayden expanded his domain again and pushed the mist away. Furthermore, he woke Felix up and updated him on the situation.
"You will die in this place!" The lich let out a hate-filled sentence and began to summon an army of skeletons with eyes burning green. Thousands were rising out of nowhere and charging towards Kayden.
Kayden pulled mana from the entire floor into him, practically leaving a giant mana hole in the room. He utilized all of this to strengthen his domain with an immense density of mana. As soon as the first skeleton stepped into his domain, he was torn to pieces by the pressure.
Some were stronger and managed to get through, but were quickly destroyed by Felix’s attacks. Again, the lich’s attack was designed to suppress the opponent with timing and quantity. There were dozens of skulls with a body of strength at the lowest level of the fourth realm and the ability to throw green flames.
Kayden had no difficulty destroying large numbers of strong opponents using his domain and a few aura attacks from time to time. He also made no move to approach the lich.
Time began to pass and the lich felt like a mortal with his heart beating again. He wouldn’t hand anything over to Kayden, he knew that would make him a slave for the rest of this universe’s existence.
A day later, he hadn’t even managed to advance a single step towards Kayden. This time, the boy’s attacks were different. There were dozens of cuts and rays appearing, supported by several hexagrams.
"Say goodbye to this universe, lich." Kayden began attacking the ancient monster with full force. Kayden was just distracting him so that Felix would show up at the best time and destroy the green ball.
Kayden’s attacks were strong, but the lich was also a monster that had lived for thousands of years. Kayden was unlikely to get the better of him. Layers and scars of bones were raised, and seas of green flames rose against their attacks.
There was no winner on either side, it was practically a battle of absolute attrition. At least that would be it if Felix hadn’t been on one side. The cat was just waiting for the opportune moment.
The surprise factor of him being able to teleport through shadows could only be used once. After that, the lich would maintain even greater caution and would likely eliminate the shadows around him with a few simple light spells.
The right moment took a long time to arrive. The fight went on for over an hour with no sign of advancement on either side, but it was obvious that Kayden and the lich were still holding their own. There was just one push left for them to start fighting so that their own lives would be burned like fuel.
A day later, Kayden finally gave the signal to Felix. The lich had just summoned thousands more skeletons to face Kayden. The amount was frightening, many times greater than before, and the skeletons’ eyes burned blue.
"In 30 seconds, Felix, sacrifice something for our objective or we will die here," Kayden ordered, beginning to destroy his domain to form some ridiculously strong area attacks. He created several hexagrams to strengthen some reactive mana balls. As soon as Kayden threw them, they flew at high speed and, at the slightest contact with a hard surface, they exploded, destroying several meters around them. The skeletons were reduced to dust without being able to move forward.
This was a simple spell that Kayden had been learning. It was much more destructive than his lightning, as it worked based on collapsing mana until it exploded. The problem was that it was extremely taxing on Kayden and used a ridiculous amount of mana, even for him.
Instantly, Felix disappeared from Kayden’s shadow and appeared next to the lich. One of its legs disappeared entirely from existence and its mouth enlarged to a bizarre size. The cat swallowed the lich’s entire arm along with the green gem.
There were no screams or any reaction from the lich. His bones just fell to the ground without any life. The moment the gem fell into Felix’s throat, everything was destroyed and transformed into energy for the beast. The lich’s soul somehow reacted with the cat’s system, causing the missing leg to begin to grow at an accelerated rate, but not to the point of being completely restored. It would probably take some time yet.
"How long did I sleep?" Felix asked as he looked at the completely strange surroundings and saw a visually destroyed Kayden.
"I think it took a year or so," Kayden’s estimate was almost spot on.
"That was a long time," Felix commented as he stretched his paws. Before the two could say anything, the surroundings began to shake as if they were in an earthquake.
A few seconds later, they saw the top of the floor being destroyed as if a god was taking everything away to reach them. The moonlight and the sky outside were visible to the two, who were miles away from dry land. 𝒏𝙤𝙫𝒑𝙪𝙗.𝙘𝒐𝙢
What appeared was a being carrying two golden wings full of white feathers. Her skin was white as marble and her hair was blonde, practically a stereotypical perfect angel. Kayden couldn’t even feel his level.
What was even more ridiculous was that what was breaking through hundreds of meters was just his aura destroying everything around him. There was nothing else; it wasn’t even a spell. Just the aura of that being was able to devastate everything around it.
There was no noise as the matter was undone. The closer he got, the more Kayden and Felix were pressured physically and mentally. For the cat, it was complete torture; he couldn’t even face the angel.
When he arrived just a few dozen meters away and faced the two of them, it was as if Kayden had a planet on his back. Felix couldn’t stand the pressure for more than two seconds and completely passed out.
