First purification
First purification
Instead, he focused on improving the mana absorbing aptitude of everyone slowly, which brought them many benefits, as almost everyone's speed increased to a certain extent.
Jason was the most astonishing student of the small-batch, as he picked the best spot with the thickest mana flow every time they were supposed to gather mana, thereby increasing his already astonishing mana absorbing speed even more.
Because he was still growing accustomed to the mana flow inside Cyro-city that was extremely dense, Jason had some problems continuously absorbing mana.
It was taxing for him to focus on gathering mana, circling it through his mana channels, and absorbing it into his mana core at the same time for over two hours straight.
While the others were doing it slowly and steadily, Jason was growing more and more greedy.
He didn't even need to use mana stones in order to increase the mana in his surroundings because he was struggling to handle the mana around him.
Jason felt extremely motivated and determined while thinking about the first day of school where he had broken into the 6th Novice rank..
His mana absorbing speed had increased after he moved to an A-grade city with high-density mana and now his full potential was awakening slowly.
Others felt like he was a demon because Jason grew completely oblivious to his surroundings when he absorbed all the mana greedily as if he was the center of the world and nothing else mattered.
Becoming stronger was his ambition and he couldn't look after everyone around him, so they had to either step back or fight him for the spot.
Every single classmate of Jason maintained a safe distance of 3 meters from him because he completely absorbed the mana around himself.
As for fighting for the spot, 'first come first serve' was the rule implemented in the school, and fighting classmates was strongly forbidden with the exceptions of practical lessons and Class ranking battles.
Even their teacher was astonished to see Jason greedily absorbing the mana in the surrounding at a rapid pace. He wondered how a 6th Novice rank could be able to multitask so efficiently, without having practiced a technique that improved his mind and concentration.
Techniques to improve one's mind and brain were extremely rare and only royalty or higher-ups would be able to practice such techniques.
Seeing Jason being able to gather and absorb the mana so fast, truly astonished Mr.Greil.
He himself could only do something like that when he reached the Expert rank as his mind was continuously refined with each breakthrough.
Till Greil knew that Jason was somehow special but each passing day caused him to be more and more surprised about the young black-haired youth with his golden eyes.
There were also other things that Mr.Greil found weird.
Jason came to school on Wednesday with a one-centimeter small yellow-greenish newborn miniature Parascor in his hair. He would have completely failed to notice the Parascor, had it not been continuously radiating some of his mana.
Curious, Mr. Greil asked him about the same and Jason answered that it was his soulbond which caused the teacher to be taken aback.
A miniature Parascor was only a three-star wild beast once matured, and completely useless for Jason as he was already much stronger than most three-star wild beasts.
The amplification provided by the small three-star wild beast would be negligible.
Mr.Greil concluded that Jason had a combat prowess of a peak five-star wild beast or one of the lowest awakened ranked beasts while being at the 6th Novice rank which was more than astonishing for someone without great backing.
Maybe high nobles or children from the Kingdoms of Canir could do that but on the Archipelago, this was already seen as being a prodigy.
That's why it was even more astonishing for him to comprehend a reason, as to why Jason wasted precious space from his soul world on a beast without a growing potential.
For Till Greil, even evolved beasts were useless because his soul energy had been higher than 500 when he had had his soul-awakening at the age of 14.
He couldn't even remotely understand Jason's reasoning and was somehow disappointed about his promising student wasting his potential.
Even if Jason didn't need mana stones around him in order to absorb mana faster, he did it nevertheless due to a certain reason.
His new soulbond, which he named Scorpio, absorbed the pure mana around them greedily in order to strengthen itself, and accelerate the maturing process.
Jason noticed a big difference between Artemis and Scorpio's mana absorption..
Artemis was able to absorb and digest as much mana as she wanted to, even if it could be harmful to her. While Scorpio could only absorb a marginal amount of the mana stone before he had to stop as it was exhausting and harmful to absorb too much of it for him.
A week passed in a blur and it was the last day of the week when Jason finished the practice of his Heaven´s Hell technique.
Looking at Scorpio, he thought it was time for the first experiment.
Scorpio had almost doubled and was 2 centimeters long and it was time for his first molting.
He placed Scorpio on the table and nervously took out a graded syringe that was used for magical fruits.
He then took out the grade-2 perennial neoxid box with the two magical treasures inside and retrieved the holy white bacuri fruit and put the box away.
Inserting the syringe inside the holy white bacuri fruit, he extracted the fruit's juice that he wanted Scorpio to drink.
There were multiple reasons for Jason's decision. The most obvious reason was that the two-centimeter-long Scorpio wouldn't be able to gulp down a fist-sized fruit. While the second reason for Jason to do so was that the juice within the fruit radiated the feeblest black color he had ever seen, indicating its lower purity effect.
He hoped that it would cause his second soulbond less pain as he emptied the syringe's content in a test tube
The Holy white bacuri fruit was now damaged and would decay faster than before.
As such, Jason repeated the process thrice to have three completely filled test tubes.
Storing the holy white bacuri fruit and other tools away, he only had one test tube in his hand while the others were safely packed in a box. He ensured the tubes were neatly placed in the box with enough cushioning to prevent accidental spillage or breakage and stored it inside the cooling freezer.
The cooling freezer temperature was perfect for the test tube to prevent the rapid decline of the magical effect over the next few days.
Jason estimated that it would take less than two months for the holy white bacuri fruit to completely lose its cleansing effect even inside the grade-2 perennial neoxid box.
In his opinion, this was more than enough time for Scorpio to finish the fruit.
With each passing day, the cleansing effect would lessen. Jason wasn't even sure if the cleansing effect would retain its potency for the entirety of two months to cause his miniature Parascor to cleanse his core in the initial phase in order for it to reach the awakened rank.
That was why Jason decided to speed up the process.
If today´s experiment would be successful, he would feed Scorpio with the holy white bacuri juice every day until he would be large enough to eat small pieces of the fruit. The pulp would definitely provide his soulbond with more nutrition and magical effect than the extract.
Even if Scorpio´s race was called miniature Parascor, in the end, it was just a very small paralyzing scorpion.
He would grow to a size of 10 centimeters with his race's inherent characteristics, at the least.
However, Jason was sure its size wouldn't remain 10 centimeters at that time when it would reach higher ranks.
He was confident about this experiment on the outside but his whole being was worried on the inside as he ordered Scorpio to sit on his open palm.
Picking up the syringe with his other hand, Jason filled it with some holy white bacuri juice before he dropped two drops into his palm, right in front of Scorpio.
Jason didn't dare to order Scorpio to drink the two drops in front of him as soulbonds couldn´t decline orders if their soul energy was weaker than their contractors.
He knew that the instincts of beasts were particularly strange, and they would be attracted to something which benefited them. He had seen the same thing happen with Artemis as she picked out the cores of beasts, before eating them without receiving an order from Jason.
Scorpio crawled slowly towards the two drops and sniffed the aroma before he drank it greedily, licking Jason's hand dry.
After that, he looked up to Jason greedily.
At first, Jason felt weird, but he could sense that Scorpio asked for more, which made him extremely happy.
Drop after drop was consumed by Scorpio and almost a whole test tube vanished in his tiny body. Jason had been momentarily happy when he suddenly saw his small soulbond writhing in pain, throwing his body around.
His mana eyes witnessed the whole process and his eyes widened with worry and pain due to their shared emotions.
Jason felt suddenly apologetic about doing something so stupid and reckless as he had fed Scorpio more and more potent holy white bacuri juice.
Worry led to anxiety when Scorpio completely stopped moving after a few minutes of squirming and twitching around in pain.
There was not a single mana fluctuation emanating from Scorpio and Jason was extremely worried.
If he wouldn't have been able to feel that his soulbond was still alive, he would have been devastated, thinking that he had killed Scorpio.
An agonizing thirty minutes passed before Jason noticed mana fluctuations spreading from Scorpio as he began to flinch violently. His outer shell was expelled forcefully which was yellow-greenish with thick black dots on it.
Scorpio was now three centimeters long and Jason noticed that the exoskeleton turned slightly greener compared to its initial color.
Inspecting its core, which was still at the one-star wild rank, Jason noticed that there was still no color radiating from it.
The only thing Jason noticed was that the mana inside Scorpio was slightly stronger compared to before.
`Did it work or not?` Jason didn´t know but it was obvious that Scorpio grew in strength, even if he was still a one-star beast.
The color of his exoskeleton had changed slightly after a single dosage of the cleansing juice and it had grown in size.
There were small signs of Scorpio abandoning the predetermined path as a weak three-star miniature Parascor, and instead of creating his own that would lead to a prosperous future.
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