God´s Eyes

Even if it was uncertain that his second soulbond could reach the awakened rank with the holy white bacuri fruit, he was able to perceive at least some progress.     

It was enough for him to say that his experiment was a success.     

Yet, he was still shocked about the pain transmitted by Scorpio.      

Nevertheless, Jason could sense Scorpio's desire to get stronger and break out of its shell in order to reach a higher rank.      

Maybe this desire was inspired by Jason who wanted to become stronger by all means without backing down against anyone.     

Another reason could have been his innate desire to walk an individual path to the pinnacle without being held back due to its racial limits.     

Jason wouldn't know for sure, but it was definitely something good as he would rather nurture such an attitude than a lazy bum.     

Scorpio was only five days old, but he had already reached the middle realms of a one-star wild beast and Jason asked himself how long it would take him to reach three stars.     

Fortunately, it was not only Scorpio who had grown stronger over the last five days since his birth but also Jason´s strength had increased as well.     

Owing to his relentless efforts, Jason was already halfway through towards the 7th Novice rank.     

It would probably only take a week until he would be able to break through once again, which was exceptionally fast, adding the common hurdle between the 6th and 7th level.     

A day before, his whole body had suddenly begun to ache because Scorpio's shared soul world amplification slowly diverted towards him.     

This indicated that his mana core had grown in size, his physique had increased slightly while his soul energy had also increased.     

Scorpio was more of a physical beast than a beast with a high amount of mana or an affinity, except his natural poison.     

As such, Jason's physique, or rather the toughness of his skin, bones, flesh, and so on were tempered and refined.     

While his rank was at the 6th Novice stage, his mana core size which was already at the 7th level was getting closer to the 8th level while his physique reached the 7th level.     

Once Scorpio matured, his physique and mana core would be roughly at the same stage. This would be because Artemis provided him more mana than a physical enhancement while Scorpio was the complete opposite.     

While both his physique and Mana core size were at the 7th level, the biggest change came from his soul energy.      

Scorpio was still at the one-star rank and used up one soul energy while he provided ⅓ points, which would gradually increase with his soulbond maturing. As such, Jason´s soul energy was constantly increasing thanks to his soulbonds and his own efforts to refine his soul energy daily.     

Compared to the time he had only one soul energy, Jason´s daily increase in soul energy had already surpassed his expectations by a lot due to him practicing the Heaven's Hell technique thrice a day.     

He obtained around 1.32 soul energy from Artemis while Scorpio provided 0.33 right now, and only five days ago, Jason´s innate soul energy had been around 5.38, and6.7 altogether without considering Scorpio.     

But now, Jason´s overall soul energy had crossed 7 units already and was 7.2 units to be precise.     

For most soul-awakenings, this would be a bad start but comparing 7.2 to his past, almost non-existent soul energy, it was a vast difference and the change delighted Jason.     

It was Sunday and Greg was at home, looking at the homework they had to do.     

Jason wasn't interested in Greg´s homework, because he had already completed his own.     

Furthermore, the exercises Greg had to complete were not really worth his attention because he knew the answers.     

Even though Jason liked to obtain more knowledge, the information provided by his school was not really worth mentioning.      

Jason already knew most things as he had already read through most of the books included in the syllabus before.     

Meanwhile, Scorpio was playing with Jason´s hair while Artemis was still evolving inside his soul world.     

Normally, Scorpio would also be in the soul world, but he was like Artemis and liked being physically close to Jason, which was slightly weird for a scorpion with a venom-injecting barb, but Jason didn't mind it.     

He had been accidentally stung by Scorpio previously and noticed that he was immune to his poison.     

The sting had been more of an accidental graze of his pointed tail against Jason's skin. It hadn't been that deep because he had only been playing with Jason so it didn't hurt much.     

Time passed and Jason helped Greg with his homework so as to make him spar with himself as he wanted to practice the foundational martial arts techniques.     

Greg suppressed his strength to the 6th Novice rank and they began practicing all kinds of basic techniques.     

While Jason was nimble and used many different technique sequences, Greg was rather crude and rough as he still relied on brute force similar to the time he had used his tough physique to crush Jason in the past.     

But Jason knew all of that and was using that brute force to practice quick and lethal attacks with a wooden dagger, while Greg could use all kinds of weapons.     

Similar to Leo Heart, Greg used gloves.     

Somehow, Jason felt that gloves were popular weapons used by physical fighters.     

This however was really good for Jason who wanted to find out his flaws as they fought for 30 minutes until Jason had to give up as many bruises covered his entire body.     

Even if Greg suppressed his strength, he was still overwhelmed by Jason's physique and innate battle strength.      

Greg had learned better martial art techniques, furthermore, he was more proficient in fighting as he had received fighting lessons from a young age.     

On the other hand, Jason had regained his eyesight a little over two months ago, which was his real starting point for the real world.     

He was able to perceive each of Greg's moves, but after some time he wasn't even able to evade the attacks let alone launch a counterattack.     

He was still not experienced enough, but he felt that he was getting closer to Greg and would match him with the same rank and level shortly.      

If Jason would learn some more techniques instead of focussing on the basics all the time, he might be able to evade Greg's fast and lethal Tier-1 first martial art technique.     

But during the whole week in which Jason attended school,  there didn't seem to be any signs of martial art training or new techniques for the students to learn. It disappointed him a little, even if he was able to improve his mana absorbing speed by a lot.     

What was the use of having a high mana core rank when one couldn´t use the received strength to the fullest potential?     

With this thought, Jason continued with his daily workout, before he switched to reading the herb and magical plants books until Jason fully memorized them.     

Jason never forgot to practice the Heaven's Hell technique thrice a day as it was already imprinted in his bones.     

**     

As he entered the classroom the next day, he saw many of his classmates gossiping with each other. He overheard one of the students saying something about an assignment while walking towards his seat.     

This made Jason curious but before he could ask anyone, the front door opened.     

Mr. Greil entered the room when he dropped the news everyone was waiting for, immediately after they greeted each other.     

"Some of you have already heard the news, and yes, the first school assignment is out. Because I could decide which one to take, there will be some fun for everyone.     

As I know everyone is longing to learn a new and mighty martial arts technique, I´ll teach a martial arts technique for the remaining week to everyone who passes the assignment.     

If someone can't fulfill my demand, there will be no reward and he or she will be punished.     

That means the faster one submits the assignment the longer would be the duration for which he or she can learn the chosen martial art technique from me.      

After this week is over, I´ll never explain anything about the chosen technique again, except for when I would give another assignment and it would be submitted on time."      

Somehow this sounded a bit wishy-washy to everyone and it was difficult to understand their teacher but the meaning was somewhat understandable.     

Submitting the given assignment as fast as possible would give one the chance to learn a new martial art technique from their teacher until the end of the week.     

`Isn't it the job of our teacher to teach us martial art techniques?!?` That was the thought in almost everyone's mind, but the next words struck everyone like a bolt of lightning.     

"If someone is wondering, I´m not talking about peak tierless or common tier 1 martial art techniques… You´ll be able to choose any technique that I have learned until now, which includes some tier-3 techniques, special and unique techniques, also called skills by many.     

I think that should be encouraging enough, right?"     

The whole classroom fell silent for a minute and erupted into a thunderstorm of roars and cheers that echoed through the whole room, while Jason was only silently looking at his teacher.     

`Tier-3 skills?? Who the f*** are you?? I don´t believe you're a normal teacher…. `     

Tier-3 techniques were considered to be the treasures on Astrix and they were even considered rare on Canir, causing Jason to suspect his teacher.     

`Talking about unique or special techniques?? Please... What are you doing on the Archipelagos.. Shouldn't you be on Canir, leading some sect or residing in a castle as a prince of one of the kingdoms?`      

Jason was more than dumbfounded and he wanted to question his teacher about it but he remained silent.     

The other students were all way too happy to hear something like that, to notice anything amiss.     

There were always exceptions, as a few smarter youths understood the meaning of a Tier-3 technique.     

But their teacher wouldn't just give them such a technique and the next sentence instantly soured the mood.     

"The first assignment for everyone will be to kill 10 beasts that are two stages above your rank.     

My conditions are simple. You have to do it with your own strength without the usage of mana guns, mana/soul weapons, other instant killing weapons, or something similar I didn't name.      

Soulbeasts are not allowed for this assignment, so don't use them.     

Teaming with other classmates is also forbidden.     

You have to hunt these beasts alone!     

Other than that you may use everything you want. You can use a little trickery or brute force to assassinate them. I don't care about that.     

Another requirement is that you have to record everything with the video braces I'll hand out.     

There is a button on the side and once it starts blinking, it will start recording.     

The device is already filled with mana and the battery can hold out for more than a week.     

For the first assignment, there won't be a punishment but it will never be as easy to receive bountiful rewards like today, EVER again.     

As such, give your best!"      

While video braces came flying to all students with the help of their teacher's mana, everyone's face looked gloomy.     

Defeating ten beasts two stages higher than oneself without a team or one's soulbonds?      

Was their teacher kidding them?     

Each rank was divided into three stages, with 1st to 3rd counted as the beginner stage, 4th to 6th was the intermediate stage and the 7th to 9th was the advanced stage.     

It meant that if one was at the 3rd Adept rank like most students in this class, they would have to defeat a late awakened beast which was a vast difference in strength.     

If one could have used their soulbond, it wouldn't have been considered problematic because most students that were accepted at the school had a late awakened beast as the worst soulbond, except Jason.     

Leo Heart, for example, was at the 5th Adept rank and he would have to defeat a low-Evolved beast… How should he do that?     

It was definitely a huge challenge but even after getting to know that it was extremely difficult, the benefits one could receive were huge enough to give it a try.     

Without further ado, everyone began to rush out of the classroom after Mr.Greil was done explaining the rules.     

Only Jason was left behind in an empty classroom with his teacher.     

Mr.Greil noticed Jason looking at him and Jason finally asked the question that had been bothering him.     

"Is it really okay for me to use everything except the weapons described, and a team?"      

He had a rough idea of what he should do, but he wanted to be sure before implementing them in his actions.     

"Do as you wish" The teacher replied and Jason recorded it as evidence because he didn't trust his teacher. He then proceeded to walk out of the school with a faint smile on his face as he browsed through the online shop.     

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