Bab 19: Preparations!

It was 8 am when Jason was woken up due to a small movement in his hand.

The hand holding his beast-egg shook slightly and Jason's facial expression changed drastically.

He sprang up from the bed as all sleep was driven out of his eyes. He was instantly fully awake and frowned deeply.

"Buddy, can you please wait for a day? You'll face some problems if you hatch now. Please... okay?"

Jason said in a desperate voice and thought of it at the same time as sincerely as possible.

Due to the connection between their souls, the egg somehow understood Jason and stopped its movement.

Jason felt the small owl's impatience and desire to break out of its prison. But it waited because it knew that once it hatched without getting help beforehand, many problems could occur, and listened to his master

Snowflake owls were in fact not smart but the mutation Jason's snowflake owl underwent includes every single part of its body! This seems to include its brain too.

This was something Jason knew and he hoped that his soulbond would listen to him which it luckily did.

Sighing in relief Jason looked at his bracelet to check if his parcel had arrived.

After he saw a notification saying that the parcel was ready to be delivered, Jason immediately requested it.

Only a few minutes later, Jason received another notification telling him that his parcel had arrived.

He rushed towards the apartment door and opened it hastily to find a drone with a small package bound to it.

The drone scanned Jason's ID, loosened the package, and flew away.

There was not much time left for his soulbond to hatch. Jason closed the door and carried the parcel inside, opening it without any delay before noticing the huge amount of mana inside the package.

Jason had been too focused on his beast but now when he focused on the contents of the parcel, he saw a huge amount of mana inside the mana stones.

Compared to the natural mana around the city, these three small mana stones were like a huge ocean concentrated in a small area.

It was said that the mana present within the cities was extremely thin and weak, whereby the wild zones were categorized by two factors.

One factor was the amount and density of natural mana around the wild zone and another factor was the rank of the majority of the beasts inside the wild zone.

The amount of mana Jason felt radiating from the small three mana stones was roughly as much as the mana radiating from certain materials used by the Beast Pagoda, a fact that astonished him.

When his fingers closed around the three mana stones to pick them he immediately felt a tickling sensation.

He was tempted to absorb the mana to strengthen himself but he resisted the urge because there was someone who needed it more desperately.

Jason laid the small egg down on a pillow and formed a triangle with the small mana stones around it.

Each mana stone was in touch with the eggshell and Jason saw through his mana eyes that small threads of mana flowed into the egg.

The whole egg was flooded with mana and it flowed inside the egg from all sides, absorbing it slowly.

Considering the slow mana flow and the upcoming hatching, Jason calculated that three mana stones were enough for the time being.

The egg stopped moving and Jason had now some time left to search for more information about snowflake owls and other things he didn't know.

He was unsure if his soulbonds mutation would change its eating habits or cause any other change, so he had to prepare all different kinds of food.

Thus, he purchased some vegetables, meat, and milk with different kinds of cub formulas and Jason felt that he was prepared.

After he finished his purchase, Jason decided to look up some other information while lying on his bed.

His knowledge was vast compared to his peers, but considering the fact that he couldn't see previously, Jason lacked many things.

He knew many beasts by their names, characteristics, and habits but he couldn't classify them if he only saw a picture.

Furthermore, his combat prowess was awful as he remembered the Azure feisty Ape martial art but only a single sequence at that.

It was like Jason opened one page of a whole book which he had re-read hundreds of times.

The page's content would provide him with any information which he could apply straightforwardly.

However, the issue he would face was not understanding what the content means. It would be like studying without being able to apply the learned formula with marginal changes.

Though Jason had understood the Azure feisty Apes' fist sequence including the Mana flow inside his body, he had never fought with anyone before.

His body was also on the weaker side as he was still malnourished and only a 2nd Novice rank.

There were many things to overcome for Jason but he had to take it one step at a time. Thus, the first thing he did was open the holographic screen of his quantum watch to continue reading the beastarium.

Instead of randomly looking at beasts and their characteristics, Jason chose the section about a one-star wild zone next to Artes city.

Wild zones ranged from one star to four stars while each rank represented one beast rank.

One-star wild zones were mostly infested with wild-ranked beasts and two-star wild zones mostly had awakened beasts.

A level above the wild zones were magic beast zones but they didn't really matter to Jason right now as these zones were far away from him.

One-star wild zones were also called training zones for most high schoolers as almost no human would be endangered while fighting against wild beasts.

The youths around Jason's age on average had the strength to defeat one-star awakened beasts. Their rank was around the 8th Novice with a one-star awakened beast cub as soulbond on an average which gave them nice strength, thereby increasing their combat prowess.

With a slightly decent comprehension ability and decently learned combat techniques provided by a good instructor, wild beasts would be an easy pie for them.

But to learn about the characteristics of beasts, how much pressure their bloodlust can cause and their wild instincts one had to face the fear of dying.

Killing a living organism was completely different than ordering meat or something comparable and the stress of fighting a life and death battle couldn't be handled by every youth.

Some people had no problem killing wild beasts while others fainted or peed their pants even if they had a big advantage in combat prowess.

Jason, however, had a huge disadvantage against most wild beasts like his low rank, the non-existing amplification of his soulbond at the moment, and his lacking combat abilities.

He wasn't sure how high his amplification would be from his soulbond in the future but even if his beautiful soul had an extraordinarily high amplification, it wouldn't be useful as the snowflake owl was a one-star wild beast.

Thinking about his shortcomings, Jason frowned while he continued reading the beastarium.