It was weird to be in serious discussion with a young girl that was less than two years old.

However, now that Anna was able to talk with someone normally, she was unstoppable.

Holding herself back with Mike and his sister around during the last 8 months had been arduous, but Anna had tried to pay attention to the surrounding mana.

As she was very young, she was unable to sense it, thus was trying her best in order to perceive it as fast as possible.

This shouldn't have been a problem because her entire being knew how mana felt like owing to her past life's experience.

Nevertheless, Argos' mana was much scarcer and impure than Anna had been accustomed to. As such, it was not as easy as she had expected.

While the others had left with only Mike and his sister staying behind, Anna had demanded to talk with Jason alone.

Her voice had been cute and sluggish at that time, as if an ordinary young girl was talking, only for Jason to realise that she had been acting all this time.

Anna's voice was still cute, and she was able to talk freely without any issues. Her command over the universal language was perfect, and Jason couldn't help but feel dumbfounded by the information she provided.

There were so many things she talked about, and memorizing all of it was already proving to be extremely tedious.

Thus, Jason asked her to skip the cultivation stages and related information because it was simply not necessary for him to know more about it right now.

Instead, he told her to reveal things about other foreign races.

Several hours had passed and both Jason and Anna had switched between asking and answering questions.

From what Jason got to know, Anna had been more than a millennia-old. She didn't want to tell him her exact age, but it was not difficult to comprehend that she had not only been strong but also old!

The information both of them exchanged was vast, and extremely helpful for the future.

However, other than exchanging information, there was a lot they had to do right now.

There were other things to pay attention to after all. They had established a bond with each other, but they also knew that now was not the time to speak with each other about all kinds of topics because this would take several days, if not longer.

Anna's knowledge was just too vast, one that she had accumulated over centuries.

With that being said, Jason ruffled the little girl's hair before he lifted her one more time, and handed her to Mike's sister, who was still unsure of how to act in front of Jason.

"Please take good care of her. I will come back in the future, once I'm strong enough, or when society accepts me!"

The last few words he had said were to lighten the mood, which was not really helpful.

Nevertheless, Jason bid them goodbye after a short discussion with Mike.

He was still responsible for manufacturing bullets. At the same time, he distributed the translated versions of the foreign race's manuals to the big clans.

"You can start selling the copied versions of the neutral body refinement technique from the Doom Crawls for a low price!"

By low price, Jason was talking about a price that was low enough so that ordinary families could purchase them as long as they were willing to save up a little bit.

The main purpose for this was to distract the citizens from the uproar that was destined to happen because of the book he was about to release while mentioning his name inside the extremely cheap body refinement manual!

This would allow his reputation to increase, despite some people that may call him a monster.

While he was telling Mike this, he had already used the Star notes he had received in exchange for selling the beasts he had killed to print his book and sell it.

At the same time, he had used an AI to release his book on every online website on Skynet for free, while advertising it heavily.

It was impossible to not see his book because the exposure was so grand that it stirred up an uproar in a matter of hours.

Nobody had read through it, but the first two paragraphs of the book were already grand enough to let everyone experience shock, and goosebumps that appeared on their entire body.

[What would happen if a being neither belonging to the human, or any foreign race, were to tell you the truth about Argos' insignificance and secrets nobody dared to talk about?

Where are the foreign races coming from? What is their goal? What exactly are rifts, and how is it possible to prevent another war like the Great Argos war from happening EVER again?

Every question will be answered in this book...]

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Since that day, a month had passed, and nobody had heard or seen Jason Stella, who had revealed the fact that he was a halfling to humanity.

Everyone had read the book he had written, but nobody could comprehend everything written within. Neither was the information they comprehended accepted by everyone easily nor did they want to believe it because what Jason had stated inside the book was simply too terrifying.

This caused them to shun Jason's book, whatever he had stated, and some even denied his existence.

Other than that, there were those who said that Jason was simply a transformed human, and not a halfling, who was trying to gain everyone's attention by instilling fear. Thus they called him names, with 'monster' being one of the less harsh ones.

However, there were also those that believed some words stated by him.

These people were those that had witnessed the Great Argos war, whether they had been supporters of the Argos alliance or the Drake alliance!

It was not difficult to perceive that Jason was special and anything but ordinary.

His combat prowess, his aura, the stigma, and most importantly, the appearance of the gates of hell, and a silver-colored divine aura during the last battle of the Great Argos war, spoke volumes about his persona and accomplishments.

Thus, they accepted Jason's words to some extent.

The big clans were a part of those people, and slowly everything began to make sense to them. Jason had been a cut above the rest since the beginning, and they had always been suspicious about him.

However, they hadn't expected him to be a halfling of a human and an unknown foreign race.

Nevertheless, instead of offending him in any way, they had decided to stay silent for the time being.

They wanted to receive the rest of the translated manuals after all!

Even if that was the case, some big clans had started to spread rumors through their subordinates, undermining Jason's sincerity to support mankind.

Almost every big clan was afraid of Jason, whether it was because of his cultivation talent, or combat prowess that was rapidly increasing.

Knowing that he was from a foreign race made them assume that Jason was no better than the other foreign races, who were just trying to annex Argos.

Yet, what they heard about the other continents on Argos, which Jason had also written about in his book, the big clans couldn't help but acknowledge that they had to be more careful.

If they were to conquer each others' lands for a century or longer only to gain more resources, the immigrated foreign races might as well start conquering Canir and the archipelago.

This was unlikely but still a possibility, the big clans had to include it into their calculations.

While everything had turned upside down from the moment Jason had released his book, a month had passed.

It was only then that the first news about his reappearance spread throughout the planet like wildfire.

He didn't know that his popularity had increased so much. Whether it was positive or negative, was not important, and everything that mattered to Jason was to become stronger, help mankind to survive on Argos before he could finally start his own journey without anyone holding him back!

It didn't influence Jason, but when he stood right in front of a world bridge that had just finished manifesting, he couldn't help but hope that nobody was recording him.

Otherwise, one might think that he had summoned the world bridge that was changing from its stable blue liquefied state into an unstable state as its color turned crimson!

This was a bad sign and Jason could only flap Artemis' wings several times in order to retreat, as multiple heads that belonged to one beast emerged from the world bridge.

After the first beast, hundreds followed suit, causing Jason's face to pale.

"F*ck!! Are those Chimeras??

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