Jason politely rejected the spar, with a vibrant smile on his face that caused Jennifer to feel even more provoked.

However, after forcing herself to calm down, she dropped the topic before explaining to Jason everything she knew.

While listening to her intently, Jason noticed in no time that Jennifer's information was not exactly unique. It just included the basics which he could have figured out on his own too.

'Next time, I'll read the basic information about Inheritance sites too'

After getting to know the amount of merit points he had procured, the reward system explained itself quite easily.

By touching something, one could find out how many merit points one had to pay in order to purchase it.

That was interesting and well thought of, considering that there was also the possibility of being rewarded with just anything, instead of being able to choose.

Being able to choose one big, or multiple small rewards that were suitable to the given situation to the respective individual, was extremely important.

As such, Jason couldn't help but feel satisfied with everything about the space that was more like a gigantic warehouse with a small town, of magnificent building structures inside it.

Walking around the town with Jennifer next to him, they were able to release the tension that had accumulated within them throughout the last few weeks.

Cultivating and becoming stronger was important, but without some time off, they wouldn't be able to live properly.

Spending time with others, and doing seemingly unimportant things was a necessity to relax even if Jason had never thought of it that way.

In the end, it worked wonders and walking around the small town as if they were casually strolling through a market, gave them the opportunity to talk a lot.

Both felt that their friendship was transforming into something new and different, but neither wanted to acknowledge it, feeling nervous and unsure of the unknown.

Feeling a little bit awkward in the beginning, they had overcome it and begun to speak about the items they found, and what the best rewards would be for Jason and Jennifer.

At the same time, they searched for the Immortal Eye, which Luna required for something Jason had yet to figure out.

In order to thank Luna for the Mythic Essence cultivation technique, procuring the Immortal Eye was the bare minimum he could do.

At least that was what Jason believed because the Mythic Essence technique was worth much more than the Immortal Eye.

Jason was of that opinion, and even if it was true, Luna required the Immortal Eye much more than the Mythic Essence technique that had lost some of its earlier importance to her because she had studied it for decades already.

As such, she knew every single word on each page of the book by heart.

Owing to this, the technique was less valuable to her than an Immortal Eye, in addition to Jason protecting Jennifer by all means.

Luna's assumption that Jason would prove to be a valuable ally to Jeniffer at the Inheritance site was spot on because he had protected her from the Preactors that would have killed her otherwise.

Thus, her investment in Jason was worth it, as he had lived to her expectations and saved Jennifer. However, her investment was even more worthwhile, when they found a translucent orb that was the size of a small child's head.

While the first layer was translucent, the inner parts were silver with a pitch-black emblem of an eye visible through the translucent membrane.

Looking at the eye, Jason felt as if he was drawn towards it, and only by inserting some mana into the Emperor Eyes, was he finally able to avert his attention.

After that, he was able to see the price of the Immortal Eye for the first time which astonished Jason.

"The Immortal Eye...is quite cheap, isn't it? Why did Luna make such a fuss about it?"

Right now, they were standing in the middle of an ancient-looking accessory shop, and Jason couldn't help but feel that the other items on display were more impressive, similar to their prices.

This caused Jennifer to look at Jason dumbfoundedly as if she wanted to ask, 'Are you stupid?'

Fortunately, she held back thinking that he was just too naive, and dazzled by his own strength and talent, making him forget how others would struggle to even finish the first trial.

"Those that choose to enter the Legacy trial, are unable to use their merit points because they're utilised to increase the time one has to finish the given trial. That's why Luna never procured the Immortal eye...furthermore, it was quite rare to get as many merit points as I, let alone you have.

Don't think that the other trials are easy like this one. We were just fortunate because the trial was never used. It's possible that the artificial intelligence of the trial lowered the requirements to find a new successor!"

Nodding his head, Jason understood what she said to some extent.

There were some things he was not sure of such as questioning the reason for the artificial intelligence, which was probably the robotic voice, to decrease the trials' difficulty.

If someone was searching for a suitable inheritor, one wouldn't want to find someone worse, but the best of the best.

As such, the time required to find an Inheritor shouldn't matter.

Yet, that was exactly what seemed to have happened.

'Is that why I received 1111 Merit points?' He wondered while looking at the relatively cheap price of 100 merit points for the Immortal Eye.

Pondering about it, Jason sensed that his performance in the five trials was exceptional.

That was if one excluded the talent trial because Petri and Spyro had been forced to solve the Pryr- and Spiral mastery orbs.

However, taking the help of his soulbonds didn't seem to have deducted his points.

Rather, revealing every single trait of his without shying away might have been the reason for him to receive that many Merit points, to begin with.

At the same time, Jennifer might be mistaken that everything was easy because she struggled in the maze trial, and the fourth trial was probably the most difficult for her.

It was just that the fourth trial ended abruptly without a given reason.

As such, Jason believed that Jennifer underestimated the mission, while he had only underestimated the prices, as he expected the Immortal Eye to be priced at 500 or even 1000 Merit points.

Grasping the Immortal Eye, Jason stored it inside his spatial ring without bothering about it further.

He knew a few characteristics of the Immortal Eye, and it was because of this that he believed that Luna wanted to create an indestructible weapon.

However, that was not something he could be certain of, yet.

Now, with the Immortal Eye procured, Jason tried to find something useful for 1000 Merit points.

In the end, with that many merit points left, he could choose nearly everything he wanted, but that was exactly the problem.

The wide variety of items he could choose from confused him.

Yet, just as they were about to continue walking through the small town, the robotic voice resounded in their head once again.

[The Portal to the Legacy trial will close in 10 minutes!]

Upon hearing the announcement, Jennifer bid farewell to Jason without having found a solution to the issue he might face once he left the Inheritance site.

Yet, that was not something Jason found to be problematic as he had already seen something that could help him.

As such, he waved at Jennifer with a bright smile, only to see concern in her eyes, which warmed Jason's heart.

'She is a nice girl.'

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