Contrary to Alf Nas' statement, their journey took almost two months before they had reached Lanro.

This was mainly because Jason and his students had spent most of their time sparring with each other, with a result that was more shocking than initially expected.

By letting Petri or Artemis enter his mana core, Jason's strength increased drastically, allowing him to make use of his ice affinity, and mana eyes to defeat his opponents.

It was not difficult for others to determine that his eyes were a special trait, but that was something nobody really bothered about.

Apparently, special traits were not as exotic and super rare as they had been on Argos, which was interesting to know.

They were still rare, and it was only mana eyes, or other unique traits that could be said to be extraordinarily rare.

Despite that, there were also races with unique eyes, which could be the race Jason hailed from.

As such, nobody asked him about his Emperor Eyes, let alone his soulbonds as he never showed them, to begin with.

In the end, Jason refrained from exposing too many of his abilities.

He gave his new comrades the bare minimum amount of trust, but Jason had learned that being overly trustworthy from the beginning might be the wrong way to approach a balanced partnership.

Without revealing his soulbonds, he let them enter his body to enhance his physical strength or mana core size, while only his ice affinity was revealed to the others.

There was something Jason wanted to test out, and the others had already seen Artemis' wings when he had approached them.

Because of that, there was no need for him to hide certain things about Artemis, thus he could experiment with the fusion process right away.

Controlling this procedure was extremely difficult, and Jason wanted to see whether it was possible to only advance his ice affinity by merging Artemis' ice affinity's proficiency with his. But, it seemed to be harder than expected.

Using his ice affinity as he had been able to during the liberation tournament was something Jason wanted to achieve in these two months.

At the same time, he cultivated a lot, while transferring some of his absorbed mana to Artemis to allow her to cultivate too.

Jason even forcefully absorbed primordial energy to transfer it into his soul world, giving it to Petri in order to make it possible for his youngest soulbond to advance too.

The others frowned upon Jason when they noticed that he was trying to absorb and cultivate with primordial energy, but seeing that nothing went wrong, they simply ignored it.

Initially, they assumed that Argos, the planet he came from, had awoken all three cultivation energies, and that it might even be a larger place than Manyr because Jason's combat prowess wouldn't make sense otherwise.

However, that was not the case at all, and by trying to use Artemis' fusion to enhance specific characteristics, Jason was even able to fight head-on against the weakest of Alf Nas' students.

This was a great achievement for Jason, and even the others couldn't help but praise him.

Jason had only reached the late 4th Lique stage, but his brute force was already approaching the Prismar stage!

If that was not shocking, the others weren't sure what exactly could be labeled a shock anymore.

How could they know that Jason had yet to reveal his strongest soulbond, the full fusion with his soulbonds, or the abyssal effect of his Emperor Eyes?

Despite his earlier caution, he had decided to reveal his petrification curse.

Jason had even decided to test how powerful the race specific weakening curse was on the Manyrs as it could differentiate between the different cultivation veins one awoke.

This was interesting, and Jason had to acknowledge that spending two months with humans that were not pushovers like almost everyone on Argos, felt great.

Comparing Argos with Manyr was simply not possible, and Jason smiled at the huge difference the two human races on the respective planet had.

During the last two months, he had asked many questions, concerning the Devir and Aeus race, the human race's stance in the territory that was formerly ruled by beasts, and even more importantly, what kind of cultivation stage the strongest beings on Manyr had.

Unfortunately, even Alf Nas was not sure of the last question's answer because he had only seen and heard of beings at the Specta stage that followed after the Ascendion stage.

Apparently, the city lord of Lanro was at the Specta stage, and nobody dared to offend her. As such, she was simply a mighty force to reckon with.

Other than that, Jason found it even more interesting, that most beings were unable to enter the Ascendion stage because their soul was too weak!

Merging the soul including every trait that had been awakened with the soul-awakening of the body's vessel created a perfect resonance.

However, at the same time, it was an extremely painful process with the final result of the soul and vessel becoming one, leading to the origin of the Sona seed!

Jason had yet to understand everything about the Ascendion and Specta cultivation stage, but what he'd understood so far was truly shocking.

Not only was it said to take an eternity to advance in the Ascendion stage, but the Specta stage was something only heavenly prodigies of common races could reach with one being in 100,000 years.

For higher races, this requirement was a little bit lower due to their innate higher talent, but even heavenly prodigies of higher races were unable to simply nurture a Specta stage prodigy!

Through this knowledge, Jason knew what stage, or rather combat prowess he had to reach before he could take revenge on the Ifrytor, Burane, and Myldra race!

Even if it would take hundreds or thousands of years, Jason had finally found a goal to achieve.

This was by far the best news he had heard during the last few months, making him extremely happy.

The others had already noticed that Jason was a weird fellow, but that was exactly what made them like him.

He was genuine and even if it was obvious that he was hiding things from them, they couldn't hold it against him.

They were doing the same after all, without an ulterior motive exactly like Jason.

Trust was hard to acquire, and even more so in the world of Manyr, where humans were forced to turn against their own brethren the moment their cultivation vein awakened.

Three sides were erected for everyone to choose one from.

Those that awoke the Pryr cultivation vein could become followers of the Devir, while those who had awakened the Spiral cultivation vein were supposed to become followers of the Aeus.

Both sides were at war against each other, however, at the same time, they were facing a third opponent that acted in the shadows.

In the end, there were humans that awoke both cultivation veins, which was an extremely rare sight and beneficial for both Devir and Aeus.

On the flipside, it was a bad sign for the race the double awakened wouldn't choose.

Due to this, double awakened humans were often hunted, and there were only rare circumstances in which that didn't happen.

Fortunately, there was a hidden, third party that intervened in the persecution of the talented beings that were hunted just because of a double awakening!

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