Apology?
Apology?
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The Flers were uncertain of what to think about Jason when he told them that he wanted to form another contract while Artemis was still evolving.
She would evolve into a higher species with a much higher demand for soul energy than before and now Jason wanted to bind another beast?
Wasn´t he desperately accumulating soul energy in order to maintain a secure soulbond with Artemis?
Nevertheless, Gabriella gave him the required credits.
Seeing Jason´s determined and ambitious expression, right after he returned home from school, looking like he was beaten into a pulp, she sensed that something must have happened to make him change his mind.
Jason pondered for a long time if he should just contract a lot of soulbonds in order to receive the shared strength of hundreds of beasts while accumulating soul energy for a single beast with high potential, but it felt wrong.
His soul world would probably be able to do that because the information humanity had about soul-awakenings and soul worlds was that one needed to have a two meters diameter soul world to hold at least an unblemished ranked beast.
Some humans had a smaller soul world and could still hold at least a wild-ranked beast while Jason´s soul world was vast, able to handle a huge quantity of beasts.
But that wasn't what he wanted as he would rather focus on quality instead of quantity.
However, after today's fight, he finally noticed that his plan was naive.
It was important for him to use all means to reach the strength of his classmates that were stronger than him in a head-on fight, by hook or crook.
Furthermore, Jason wanted to experiment with the Holy white bacuri fruit he had bought in Jiro-City, which was another reason for him to want another soulbond.
Previously, Jason had been anxious about picking another soulbond because he was uncertain about Artemis' growing speed, but even so, Jason estimated that she would probably need more than a month to finish her evolution.
In the meantime, Jason was confident to at least reach an innate soul energy of around ten units with his rapid soul energy reproduction speed.
Right now, his soul energy was already around 6.7 units large, while 4 units were used up by Artemis at the moment.
His innate soul energy, after deducting Artemis shared soul energy from his soul world amplification, would be around 5.4 units right now.
Today´s fight changed his mindset completely as he wanted to increase his soul energy as soon as possible to avoid getting beaten up.
Since the moment he had awakened his eyes and finished the soul-awakening, Jason had never been as close to death's doors as today... If he hadn't used his eyes [Abyss-Effect], he would have been either heavily injured or maybe even dead.
He wanted to use the holy white bacuri fruit for a non-potential beast to test his purity theory.
As such, he made an appointment to enter Cyro-city's Beast Pagoda's first floor.
Earlier, Jason believed that he would have to wait at least a few weeks to enter the Beast Pagoda, but somehow the first floor of the beast pagoda had many free dates left which were completely different from the second, third, and following floors, which had a long queue.
After thinking for a moment, Jason realized why this was the case.
In his old hometown, there were all kinds of beasts below the magical beast rank on the same floor, while this wasn´t the case for Cyro city.
Here, every rank had its own dedicated floor and Jason had obviously selected the wild beast floor which not many people in Cryo-city used for a soulbond.
In Cyro-city it would be shameful to form a contract with a non-potential wild beast and the Beast Pagoda itself did not have strong wild beasts with a high potential.
Even if they had, these beasts would be immediately sold to some big families with unfortunate soul-awakenings, where their soul energy was just too weak to contract higher-ranked beasts.
Jason decided to select the appointment for the next day after school and he immediately notified the others with a short message, so that they wouldn't worry about him like today when he had returned late.
After that, Jason was still not tired and he opened one of the books he received today, which was about magical herbs and plants.
It was relatively interesting and only after a few hours passed, Jason became tired due to the exhaustion of the battle.
He decided to go to sleep, not without forgetting to become excited about going to school and picking his second soulbond.
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Jason woke up a little bit later than normal and he checked the time to realise that it was 6 am already.
The first thing he did was his morning exercises before he washed up and went downstairs to eat breakfast.
Gabriella was placing the last dishes on the table when Jason arrived and it looked like Malia and Greg were either sleeping or getting ready.
They talked a little bit with each other but his Aunt didn't ask him what kind of beast he wanted to pick, which Jason found weird, as he expected her to be curious about it.
This was exactly the case and she wanted to know more about Jason´s sudden decision to pick another soulbond like, 'Why now and not later?' or 'how this sudden change happened?', but she didn't want to ruin his mood.
Jason wasn't sure what he would answer if she asked about what kind of beast he wanted to bind as he himself was quite unsure.
Minutes passed and the siblings too climbed down the stairs almost at the same time, greeting everyone heartily before they began eating breakfast as Mark was the last to arrive.
Breakfast was the only meal everyone ate together and the mood was relaxing for the mind.
Nobody asked Jason any questions even if they were curious and Jason was curious about Greg´s first day in school.
Apparently, Greg was in class 23 out of 50 and that was solely because of his soul-awakening.
Greg´s ranking fell somewhere in the middle portion of his class, thanks to the high physical amplification he received from his soul world, which frustrated him, but there wasn't anything he could do about it.
He could only train hard in order to increase his ranking over time and Greg knew that his determination was more than enough to help him achieve that.
His mana core rank was only at the 3rd Adept and almost all of his classmates were at the 7th Adept rank, which shocked even Malia.
Back when she was in her junior year, she was in class 5 with her 3 ½ star soul-awakening while her mana core was 8th Adept and now everyone in class 23 was almost at the same mana core rank as her? Wasn't that too exaggerated? And if that was true, what about the classes above it? Were there 14-year-old experts already?
Malia was shocked to learn about such talent because it would be extremely strenuous for 14-year old students to enter the expert rank. She herself had only reached this rank when she had been 14 years and three months old which was already considered to be extremely early.
She wouldn't brag about her mana gathering and absorbing talent in public but she was extremely confident in it, thus it was much more shocking to her than anyone else.
Jason was more astonished that Greg was ranked in the middle area of his class, because Greg's mana core rank was supposedly the worst in his class, even though his combat prowess was exceptional coupled with the physical boost received from the reinforced horned bull.
It was unusual that Greg had such a high ranking and Jason wondered if either Greg's talent in martial arts was superior or if his classmates were just below average in fighting against humans.
By the time they finished eating breakfast, it was 7:20 am and Jason changed into his second school uniform as his first set still carried the weird stench.
He sent it to a special cleaning company before the shuttle arrived that would take him to school.
The shuttle reached school when Jason finished practicing the Heaven's Hell technique and there were still a few minutes left before school would start when he entered his classroom.
Upon seeing Jason, everyone fell silent, causing him to hesitate slightly as over 200 pairs of eyes stared at him with question marks and doubtful expressions.
As he pulled his chair and occupied his seat, he saw Leo Heart walking up to him with a straight back. Jason couldn't spot any anger or arrogance in his eyes, as Leo cleared his throat and spoke,
"Hey, Jason...I think I have to apologize to you about yesterday...I was too impulsive and it wasn't my intention to seriously injure or kill you. I thought the teacher would stop our fight before something happened, but apparently, that wasn't the case.
I don't know what you did to me yesterday, but after I woke up, I could clearly think about many things while being reminded of the endless darkness I saw.
Sorry again and let´s not hate each other, okay?"
Leo turned around and sat down in his seat as their classmates stared at Leo in shock.
Some of them had attended the same middle school as him and it was extremely shocking for them to see him apologize. And to top it all off, he had apologized to the second last rank with a mana core of the 5th Novice rank in front of the entire class??
Unbelievable?!?!?
Wait!! 5th Novice rank… Some students released mana threads and scanned Jason´s core because they noticed something different.
6th Novice rank!! He broke through?? When?
Unbeknownst to them, Jason broke into the 6th Novice rank before the class ranking battles had even begun.
But for Jason, it was relatively shocking to see that Leo was completely fine after he activated the [Abyss effect] of his eyes with his highest capabilities.
`Leo was completely fine and he even fixed his bad attitude because of it? Weird...` he thought as it definitely was an unexpected reaction for him.
Jason asked himself once again, what exactly his eyes were as normal mana eyes couldn't do things his eyes could do.
But before he could continue the train of thoughts, Mr.Greil walked inside to impart the day's theoretical lessons.
Theoretical lessons were the most annoying thing for some muscle brains who only wanted to learn martial art techniques and they demonstrated their unwillingness to pay attention.
But Mr.Greil didn't mind their attitude, as long as they didn´t interrupt the lessons with their noises.
Time passed in a blur and Jason didn't realise that it was already 4 pm when school was over for the day.
Jason had learned many new things and his mind was like a sponge, absorbing everything provided without distinguishing between important and useless information.
During his lunch break, Jason practiced the Heaven's Hell technique.
Somehow, he began talking to a few students in his class, about school lessons. Slowly, the students began to realise that his knowledge was distinct, while even Leo approached him with doubts.
He wasn't sure how the tables had turned, but after being an outcast for a single day, Jason was surrounded by his classmates.
If he would have known that his eyes were partially responsible for this scenario as people felt comfortable around him, many more questions would torment his mind.
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