Everyone had returned to the Shiabi clan headquarters that was slowly becoming too small to accommodate six big clans and two foreign races!

As such, they had to expand their camps a little bit.

However, other things had to be taken care of!

While Jason had begun to translate the body refining manuals, he noticed a few things he had not realized earlier.

Excluding the information about some races, there was also information about those that were eligible to learn the manuals he translated and those that were not compatible with the techniques!

As such, he was able to tell that the Ifrytor's body refining technique was not incompatible with humans as long as one was unable to procure life force through other means.

This was interesting, but even more so was the fact that the Doom Crawls had a neutral physical body refinement technique!

It was compatible with everyone which was interesting to know, and one was fortunately not required to be cursed.

With that in mind, Jason had begun to translate and copy his translations at a rapid pace.

If it was possible to strengthen everyone equal to a few drops of liquefied mana, this would be a great achievement.

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As such, the price for his translated body refinement techniques began to decrease and he had even requested help.

He wanted to hire someone copying his translated parts word by word.

They had to be bound by an advanced soul contract because Jason didn't want that his identity would be exposed, but that was no problem.

As such, with the manufacturing process of his weapon, the translation of body refinement manuals, forging, absorption of mana, refinement of his physique, and adjustment of his body to every single ability he had, Jason did not sleep a single minute.

However, that was not required and instead of doing something needless, Jason was determined to make use of every minute of the day!

Unfortunately, this was not enough to accomplish everything he had wanted to before news about the army from a small four-race alliance arrived in the Shandra country.

Initially, Jason and the others had thought that they annihilated the Doom Crawls, Thudra race, Ganasia race, and Malidar race!

Yet, that didn't seem to be the case and the army they had defeated had to be a small part of those that had fled!

Nevertheless, the news about the army of the small four race was not enough to shock Jason and the rest!

Instead, it was the news about the Drake clan, Myldra- and Burane race suppressing and annexing multiple big clans and races!

This was the worst that could happen and the whole Drake alliance seemed to have become a huge army with millions of soldiers!

Most of them were humans at the Lique stage, but they were not considered a threat!

The real threat were the foreign races at the Prismar stage!

Even though the Ariyor race was superior to the most common and even higher races because of their combat experience and prowess, there were too many opponents and the Myldra race was even stronger than them!

As such, the Ariyor race's morale plummeted while everyone started to become desperate.

Jason had even heard some Ariyor that started to debate whether they should retreat to their own world or not.

It was only obvious that they valued their life as every living being would.

Because of that Jason was able to understand that the benefits the Ariyor race obtained from the Shiabi clan were not worth the death of several tens of thousand Ariyors!

Yet, Jason was still able to see a ray of hope!

That was at least until Fasro had approached him as he said

"I..don't know what you want to hear right now, but it's a fact that we can't win against the Drake alliance! Even though we have six big clans and two foreign races, this would be barely enough to fight against the Myldra race and Drake family!

We, the Ariyor race, and the Lyran race might be strong enough to face the Myldra race together, but what about the Drake family? Are the six weakened big clans strong enough to fight them head-on?

According to the information we obtained, the Mlydra race utilized every means to support the Drake family and their equipment is on par with the Elite units of common races!

Furthermore, they have practiced Terra-Advanced body refining techniques to a high degree which means that they had prepared everything for a long time.

In the beginning, we were still hopeful that we might be able to help the Shiabi clan, but this war has already been lost!!

...If you want we can take you and everyone important around you with us...but I don't think the Ariyor race will stay much longer on Argos!"

Fasro's words struck Jason like thunder, and his last ray of hope seemed to shatter into smitherness.

Jason's mind repeated the words one after another, several times before he was able to look at Fasro as he said

"So...there is really no hope for Argos left?"

He had already felt that the Myldra race would be extremely difficult to defeat, but Jason never wanted to accept that their chances were that bad.

It had hit everyone hard, when news about the Drake family and the Myldra race colluding with another higher race, but the fact that this small alliance had even begun to suppress and annex the other races that tried to reign over Argos was shocking.

This was out of everyone's expectations and nobody of the Ariyor race would have thought that this might happen.

The Myldra race was arrogant and didn't title themselves as the strongest higher race only to accept the help of weaker races.

Because of that, the Ariyor race had already been confused that they colluded with the Burane race, which was deemed as weaker than the Myldra race.

Nevertheless, the Burane race was still a higher race and not one of the common races they had annexed!

This should have been a disgrace to the Myldra race and not something they would normally do in order to conquer a lowly planet that had yet to awaken its mana heart for millennia!

There had to be an instance that caused the Myldra race to change their mind about their behavior, but neither Jason nor the Ariyor race knew what kind of situation could have created this mind-changing behavior!

Jason felt gratitude towards Fasro because of his great offer.

However, he was sure that his masters wouldn't follow him to the Ariyor race's world!

Furthermore, Jason did not plan to leave them for now. He didn't want to lose someone important to him anymore, even if that meant that he had to become a Devil, massacring millions of living beings!

Solaris was his chance to become stronger and by utilizing enough mana, absorbing its opponents' life force, and digesting it, he might increase his chances to survive.

Nevertheless, they would remain infinitely close to 0!

Jason was fully aware of this and he was torn back and forth as he reluctantly asked.

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"When. Are you and the Ariyors departing?

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