Even without the fusion with Artemis, Jason's strength had increased by leaps and bounds.

As such, the Cyclops was unable to endure the freezing cold that had been further enhanced by Jason's aura, the fully activated stigmas, the fusion, and the moonlight affinity.

Dying a painless death of being frozen alive within seconds, the Cyclops' gravitation affinity was terminated only a moment later, allowing Jason to cross the hurdle much more easily than before.

The increased gravitational force hadn't really bothered him, as he didn't even have to move after using the ice affinity that had been highly strengthened through the fusion, and the moonlight affinity.

In the end, the Guardian of the 11th floor had just died without giving Jason a proper fight, which was a stark difference to the Guardian on the 10th floor.

Through this, it was evident how much Jason's strength had increased in a span of a few months.

Given that Artemis and his other soulbonds would still increase their strength while Jason could advance through the following floors, he simply entered the 12th floor. Now that he added the additional support of Artemis, he wasn't too bothered about the slight increase in difficulty he would have to face.

While Artemis returned to the soul world, Jason forced her to befriend Spyro, with a warning that if she didn't listen, he wouldn't fuse with her anymore.

When Artemis heard this, she felt she was being bullied, and it was, in fact, exactly what Jason did.

Nevertheless, he couldn't be bothered because he needed his soulbonds to be on friendly terms with each other.

They didn't need to sacrifice their life for each other, but in order to co-exist until death, accepting each other was the bare minimum.

Jason wanted his soulbonds to be like a close family, but he couldn't force them to like each other.

As such, he would accept occasional scuffles to a certain extent before intervening.

Seeing them quarrel was not a problem, but the worse it got, the more issues would occur in the future.

It took Spyro and Artemis a while to calm down, but after the initial reason for their dislike of each other was taken away, they accepted each other and even became friendlier.

Meanwhile, Jason had already emerged on the 12th Floor and began hunting all kinds of beasts.

Until the entire floor was cleared another 10 days passed, and Jason felt like clearing the floors of all beasts took the longest.

Yet, it also gave him the time to passively cultivate and comprehend the moonlight affinity, as well as the time to adjust to his constant increase in strength, while his soulbonds could focus on cultivating.

Even if it was not necessary right now, he would require their strength latest by the 20th Floor, and considering all of their advancement, Jason was sure that the period he spent in the previous floors would be put to good use.

Improving his combat prowess while advancing his strength was the best he could do, after all!

Using all kinds of tactics to pressurise himself, Jason advanced through the 12th Floor and found it to be much easier than the 11th.

However, this was only the case because Artemis' cultivation speed exceeded Jason's expectations.

He was not sure what exactly her evolution had caused because Artemis was essentially the same, but her cultivation speed caused even Jason to feel that his advancement was slow in comparison!

In fact, Artemis could absorb and liquefy between 500-1000 drops of mana every single day!

Thus, she was able to liquefy enough mana to reach the peak of the Lique stage in a week before she would start solidifying her first prismarine crystal!

This process would take her just a week, and Jason couldn't help but feel flabbergasted because it felt like Artemis was still adjusting herself to the evolution process.

As such, she had yet to understand her capabilities to the fullest and make use of them, causing her to have a lower mana absorption rate than her limit.

After defeating the 12th Guardian by fusing with Petri, Jason had no problems in advancing further.

His earlier worry about the Guardians' strength vanished and Jason became more concerned about the fact that his vessel might be unable to cope with Artemis' advancement if she would overtake him!

The Celestia bloodline was already bothering Jason, but now Artemis' speed forced Jason to adjust his approach towards passive cultivation.

'I should start actively cultivating while running through the floors, and I can clear the beasts off the floor in between'

Scratching the back of his head, Jason advanced to the 13th floor, followed by the 14th, 15th, all the way to the 19th floor.

Almost three and a half months had passed since Artemis evolved, and everyone was improving at a rapid pace.

Jason had solidified the fourth prismarine crystal despite being occupied with clearing the floors of all beasts while continuing to receive the speed and unscathed bonus for advancing the floors.

The Guardians from the 15th floor up had yet to reach the 2nd threshold of the Prismar stage, but their progression rate of solidifying the large rotating crystal increased exponentially with each floor.

As such, Jason knew that the Guardian of the 20th Floor was a being at the 2nd threshold.

Before, this would be something to be afraid of, but that was not the case anymore!

Artemis' tremendous cultivation speed shocked the other soulbonds, because she had not only advanced to the Prsima stage during the last 100 days but, in fact, she had been able to solidify a total of three prismarine crystals!

Jason was not sure where her sudden increment in potential came from, but the Frozen Lunarium she had devoured couldn't have been the sole reason.

In the end, he wondered if she had just compressed her body without any alteration in her potential, squeezing out every little bit, which decreased her form, but that didn't sound reasonable.

At least, Jason couldn't imagine her doing it.

However, other than that, he had no idea how evolution could make Artemis so strong.

She was a Mana eater according to the Dungeon of the Primordial Descendant, but how that trait influenced her evolution was something Jason didn't know.

Yet, rather than seeing her advancement as a disadvantage, he realised that it was obviously something good. Not only did Jason receive a tremendous increase in his strength owing to the 40% amplification of his soul world, but his other soulbonds were determined to not lose out to her!

Artemis inspired Jason to focus even more on cultivation, which was the reason he decided to alter his first sub-area!

Spyro's amplification enhanced Jason's brain functions by a large margin.

Thus, he began to modify his first sub area that was constantly absorbing mana.

This took a while and hindered him from cultivating actively with the Mythic essence technique version that allowed him to move around.

However, the results were extremely shocking because Jason was able to generate a miniature version of the Mythic essence cultivation technique within his sub-area.

As such, even without actively cultivating, his cultivation would slowly improve, and liquefied mana drops were constantly created.

To put it simply, this was extravagant, but at the same time, it was what he required to cope with Artemis' speed because she could cultivate continuously inside the soul world after he had customised it.

This hadn't been possible before her evolution, but now, after evolving, everything has changed!

As such, with a combined combat prowess that was comparable to owing more than 16 solidified prismarine crystals, without considering additional factors like the possible fusion with his soulbonds, his Emperor Eyes, and so on, Jason was finally ready to face the Guardian of the 20th Floor!

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