The impact caused by shooting Degar was enormous but his arm felt only numb for a few seconds.

Meanwhile, Jason was able to figure out that Kumo and the common bullets he used were enough to injure someone with a physique at the mid Lique stage!

Dala was his test object, and Jason couldn't help but feel ridiculous that he had been worried about fighting her before.

'With Kumo and Degar, I should be able to defeat even stronger opponents!'

However, before he was able to think further ahead, reality struck him.

'If my opponents are faster, with more powerful affinities, it will be too dangerous and I might as well die before I'm able to unholster them!'

His mana consumption by shooting Kumo was much lower than he had expected and by comparing the amount of stored mana that had been used up and what he had utilized before Mike had manufactured his weapons, Jason couldn't help but smile.

Shooting entire bullets manifested out of mana and Solaris' black flame through his fingers was a lot more difficult and had a higher mana consumption.

It was more painful, and the strength accumulated within the desert eagles was much higher compared to his fingers!

To put it simply, using Kumo and Degar was the perfect means in order to defeat opponents that were stronger than he was.

Jason knew that he had to stay vigilant, but in his opinion, fighting against the Ifrytor race in an open field wouldn't be as dangerous as it had been within the Yaslrn caves.

Recalling the incident in which Scorpio died was still painful, and Jason doubted that this would ever change.

Nevertheless, the thought of being able to take revenge allowed him to soothe his pain and guilt, replacing it with anger and the desire to kill.

After he had defeated Dala who was writhing in pain as her legs had been shot a total of five-time, while each arm was pierced by one of Kumo's bullets, Jason retraced his Celestia aura and the stigma's glow before descending to the ground.

Everything around him was eerily silent, and nobody dared to move, trying to digest what had happened in the entire fight that had taken less than five seconds to be concluded.

"Is there nobody with a healing ability? I have already extinguished the flames that were about to spread through her entire body and she won't have any permanent injuries.but I don't think that she notices this"

Only a moment after Jason had said so, the Nua clan matriarch emerged next to Jason and Dala who laid on the ground crying in pain.

Utilizing her water affinity, the matriarch manifested a ball of water within her hand which she slowly inserted into the wound Jason's desert eagles have caused.

Less than half a minute passed before a few bullet shells protruded out of the wounds followed by the matriarch's water that began to enveloped the wounds, sealing them to some extent.

After that, she called out for someone asking for help.

Jason had been unable to understand a name but he saw that a young woman with solidified two prismarine crystals stepped forward.

She released her mana and Jason's mana eyes immediately perceived that her mana was unique, with great healing characteristics.

As such, he retreated a few steps before leaving the open field as he turned towards Merl Arths.

"That's enough to demonstrate my strength, right? I'll deal with the Ifrytor below 1000 drops of liquefied mana, and the others can take care of the stronger Ifrytor and the runaways!"

With that being said, Jason wanted to leave the grand meeting to focus on absorbing more mana!

He had to increase his strength as much as possible before he would encounter the Ifrytor race.

At the same time, it was important to further improve his accuracy with Degar and Kumo.

He also wanted to see if there was a way to improve his physique to the extent at which his arm wouldn't go numb while shooting Degar.

Otherwise, Jason would have to wait too long before he was able to fire Degar a second time.

This was something he had to improve quickly in order to prevent incidents from occurring. As such, Jason didn't plan to slack off!

However, Merl Arths seemed to have a different idea as he mumbled

"So you don't want to discuss your payment for the translations of the neutral body refinement manuals?"

When Jason heard this he halted in his tracks only to let out a sigh.

"Was my hand sign that obvious?"

Merl just nodded his head without saying anything else as he sized Jason up once again.

He might have expected Jason to defeat Dala because his gut feeling told him so, but it was a different matter about how easy he took care of her.

It felt as if the number of liquefied drops of mana within her mana core was not higher by 900 but equal or even lower than Jason's!

"You could say so. But let's not talk about the hand signs but about business. However, before that. is your black flame an origin flame??"

Jason did not expect Merl Arths to ask him this question right off the bat because it was something nobody else had to know. It was simply his private matter!

As such, this question had nothing to do with the business they were about to conduct and Jason decided that he did not have to answer this question.

"Maybe it is an origin flame, maybe a flame similar to that of the Ifrytor race, but it could also be a mutated fire affinity from one of my soulbonds. Just choose the answer you like the most."

Merl merely smiled lightly when he heard Jason's answer before he said

"Alright. If that's the case, let's talk about business first. Follow me!"

While most big clan and sect leaders thought that Merl Arths wanted to figure out more about the guns and weird fire affinity Jason utilized, Shane and Dalia knew that there was more than one could see at first glance.

The fact that he was the translator of the neutral body refinement manual of the Doom Crawls was not special to Jason's masters.

However, it was something completely different than their gut feeling suddenly told them that something huge was about to happen that caused them to feel uncomfortable.

Jason seemed to advance and make ties with other bigshots even without their help and both Shane and Dalia couldn't help but feel that this was great!

Initially, they had been sad, but since they had encountered Jael Drake, and they had seen how cold his eyes were, without a single trace of empathy, their mind had changed.

Before they wanted to help Jason to grow with them, now, however, both Shane and Dalia wanted that Jason was able to live and become stronger even if it was without them!

They would use their utmost efforts to nurture Jason with everything they had, but not only did Jason advance extremely fast, but their time seemed to be running out too!

'Will we be able to witness Jason's peak, or will we be the reason for his doom?'

To Dalia and Shane, it was clear that Jason's mental state had suffered a lot when he had lost Scorpio.

It was only then that they recalled that their disciple was young and inexperienced with death, and how easy a loved one might die.

'He will overcome it...right?'

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