A long time ago, Kayden rejected the divinity granted to him by the heavens. The path that everyone else followed held no attraction for him whatsoever. To become a god through heavenly assistance would have been to deny his entire life history, to betray every principle he held. It would have condemned him to become a mediocre god without a future.
Every step Kayden had taken up to that point had been driven by his desire to become something greater—to ascend above all others. He did not merely seek to reach the peak; he sought to go far beyond it, far beyond himself. This was not a competition with other people—Kayden only ever measured himself against himself.
Author's note: I changed it to trillions of years; I'll fix that in earlier chapters.
