章 52: Last preparations!
Gabriella turned to Jason saying
"You can sleep in the guestroom today because we´ll depart before the sun arises."
Before Jason could reply, Greg cried out in joy while Malia´s face remained as calm as possible.
Mark grabbed Greg by the arm signaling him to calm him down and turned to Jason with a serious face.
"To prevent any problems, I would like to purchase the lesser elemental beast cubs from you before we set off tomorrow.
I have already counted them.
Because you've stated your condition, we will set up a proper contract, so you won't need to be worried about anything."
With that, a contract appeared in front of Jason and he only had to sign it.
The contract itself was pretty simple and similar to every other beast contract, with only a single clause added as per Jason's condition. The credits he would receive were also written on it.
While Jason looked visibly shocked, Greg whistled in amazement.
Jason knew that he would gain several credits because the number of these lesser elemental fox cubs was quite high, coupled with the fact that they were also relatively rare to find. Their high natural and powerful elemental ability caused their selling price to increase by a large margin, but the figures in front of eyes were beyond astonishing.
Mark counted 164 fox cubs and each of them was roughly worth 100,000 Credits in his opinion…
´16.4 million credits` >O.o<
`I´m rich!!!!` Jason thought, finding it hard to believe that he suddenly had tonnes of credits when a day before he barely had 12.
But when Gabriella saw the price she frowned slightly….
"HONEY..." She reprimanded her husband in an eerily calm tone as the kids suddenly fell silent.
"I think you forgot that Jason is almost a part of our family?!"
Gabriella was obviously displeased with the price and she continued, while Jason was utterly gobsmacked to hear her words and almost didn't believe his ears.
`almost part of our family??`
"Considering the age of the cubs, their low strength and soul energy with their futuristic growth to a low to mid awakened beast, adding their rarity and outstanding elemental ability, I don't think these lesser elemental foxes are only worth 100,000 credits, RIGHT? Their outstanding elemental ability alone would be worth that much for above-average families who can afford it and let's not start talking about hunter families, upper-class families, clans, big families, companies who provide their employees with soulbonds after a certain amount of time, and so on…"
Gabriella´s eyes were fiery and she was visibly annoyed… If her husband would rebuke her even once, she would throw a fit and Mark knew that.
Greg looked proudly at his mother while Malia felt slightly confused by her mother's tirade and seething reaction.
Jason could see where Malia got her temper from and smiled faintly.
He didn't mind getting paid less than he should by the Flers, but he had to note that Mark was more than a bit greedy.
"OK...honey… please calm down. I'll change it immediately!"
The holographic screen disappeared from Jason´s view and Mark tapped in a new number before showing them to his wife who was still displeased but not as much as before
`164 fox cubs for 130,000 credits each`
`Over 20 Million!!
Or more accurately 21,320,000 credits…. WOAH!!!` A radiating smile appeared on Jason´s face and it looked like he was beaming more than the sun as he looked at the Flers.
Jason signed the contract immediately, and even if Mark was a little displeased because he would make less income… he was still happy.
With the right customers, many companies, families, hunters, and so on would purchase these beasts for high prices as the first soulbond for their children, even if he had to avoid a few families.
Each fox cub was probably worth more than 200,000 credits in his opinion, and if he was honest, he hadn't done anything until now to deserve a single credit profit.
Considering the fact that a soulbond would live with someone for a whole lifetime, the price of 200,000+ didn't seem that high compared to equipment which had to be replaced after a while.
It had just been Jason's luck because most birthing places were somewhere in wild zones, deeply hidden and camouflaged with the foliage to prevent intruders from finding them.
Even if he himself were to search for these cubs without the special ability of his eyes in the one-star wild zone, he would probably not find them as he couldn´t sense such feeble mana fluctuations through the ground.
Who was even able to do something like that?!
Mark would never praise Jason for his luck but he was amazed about it nonetheless, which he acknowledged.
After business was finished, Mark opened a few shops to make online purchases and Greg showed Jason the room he could stay inside.
Jason couldn't help but keep looking at his bank account, as it was once again filled with a huge number with many figures and he smiled naively.
As he walked in the guestroom, Jason was shocked by its size.
It was probably larger than his whole apartment but it looked empty to him.
The room had little to no furniture that made it look even more lonely and gloomy.
But Jason didn't bother about that, and he tried to remain calm because he was way too thrilled right now.
He felt elated that he could earn credits while doing something good.
Jason was sure that if he hadn't done anything, the fox cubs would have been already dead by now because of the greater horned wolf and other possible predators.
And with him selling the lesser elemental fox cubs with his requirement to Mark and Gabriella, they had a better chance to live a good life, or at least it would be better than dying.
If Jason had to be honest, he wasn't sure what to do with over 20 million credits and he had to think really hard about it.
But looking at the online shops, he noticed that 20 million were nothing…
Thinking about credits, Jason asked himself how much he would need to be at par with his future classmates...or was he already close to them?
Looking through the shops he saw many high-graded weapons with amazing names and special effects but their prices were ridiculous...some of them were only able to trade against objects or materials he had never heard about.
Purchasing mana weapons or soul weapons? Nice joke….one would at most be able to purchase the lowest, gradeless mana weapons with his money...but thinking about it, this mana weapon would probably still be better than his grade-1 weapons.
But he wouldn't waste his credits for something like that.
Before he would purchase things for himself, Jason would always think about Artemis first.
She was in desperate need of more cores as the ones he provided were too low-grade for her and she nagged him all the time.
His hungry companion wanted to receive five-star wild beast cores at the worst.
Thinking about that, he decided to use some of his credits to purchase beast cores in bulk.
Jason wasn't aware of the difference between wild-beast cores and awakened cores and if he could somehow trick the system.
After searching through the official federation websites, he found a useful thread.
<If one observes the stored amount of mana inside beast cores, one can notice that five five-star wild beast cores are equivalent to the lowest awakened beast core.
The question which is normally raised after seeing this information is: `Why should you buy an awakened core if wild beast cores are much cheaper?` And, the answer isn't that difficult to figure out.
To operate some machines, we need mana and the amount needed in most factories is certainly large… Through long-term testing with certain machines, it was found that mana-operated machines and devices empowered by wild beast cores are subjected to a greater wear and tear and consequently break down faster and their performance is marred by frequent errors.
Why is that so? Because the purity of mana is also an important factor for almost everything.
The fewer impurities a core has, the better is the mana inside it, and once a beast core is used up, the impurities within are comparable to glue, sticking to the mana vessel, destroying them slowly.
This is also the reason why for most expensive mana-operated machines, mana stones are used to prevent the stagnation of these machines and to prolong their lifespan.
I hope my thread was helpful for most of you and don´t waste your money by purchasing wild beast cores. They will only accelerate the destruction of your expensive mana devices.
BYE <3 >
Jason was interested in this thread and liked it.
After reading the comments and a few other threads that popped up with the same result, he purchased a huge bulk of five-star wild beast cores.
He asked himself if the ratio of 5 wild beast cores to 1 awakened stage core was the same for Artemis or not….
Maybe Artemis would be annoyed by his decision but he didn't care about it.
Jason didn't want to splurge in the beginning, because he wasn't sure what kinds of expenditures the future might entail.
And even if there were only 5000 five-star wild beast cores priced at 2 credits per core, there wasn't much he could do wrong.
Five five star wild beast cores were thus 10 Credits and a single awakened beast wild core's price ranged from 30 Credits up to a few hundred.
After comparing the difference, Jason was tempted to purchase more wild beast cores, but he could do that later on if his stock was about to end.
Furthermore, Jason decided to purchase mana stones worth 1 million credits and 300 low-awakened ranked cores for 32 credits per core.
He wanted to take a few tests with Artemis and he himself also wanted to improve his level. As such, mana stones were the easiest way to enhance his mana core level.
There were many other things he purchased for emergencies like a portable tent, long-lasting food, water, many clothes, boots, kerosene, several potions, ropes, and so on.
It was 10 pm when he was done with his shopping, and Jason went to bed after practicing the Heaven's Hell technique.
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章 53: Let´s go!
Jason felt something on his head move and unsurprisingly it was Artemis.
After waking up he stroked her a few times, before entering his soul world to practice the Heaven's Hell technique. He suddenly noticed that his soul world core has increased in size while the produced soul energy was much more than before.
Looking at the amount, Jason estimated that his soul energy has reached a minor threshold of five units.
The night before, it had been quite a distance away from five units and closer to reaching four than five.
Jason's first thought was that Artemis must have broken into the three-star wild beast rank and he was right.
This caused Jason to be overjoyed and his lips curled up.
He couldn't feel any noticeable difference in his body, but maybe, it was because he was still sleepy.
His soul energy depleted rapidly as he continued to practice the Heaven's Hell technique and after a while, he left the soul world to look at Artemis.
While Jason hurried to get ready, he began to feel slight changes within his body.
His body itched a little, but it wasn't unbearable so he tried to ignore it as much as possible.
Compared to earlier, his mana core was already close to the 7th level while his physique was also at the threshold of the 6th level.
And his core was almost at its limit and close to a breakthrough so he would be able to level up soon.
'And my strength has also increased quite a lot including my mana core.. Hahaha, Artemis and my soul are so nice…'Jason was happy when he heard a gentle knock on the door.
"Jason, are you awake? We have to leave soon...If you don't answer me, I'll wake you up in 3..2..1.." Jason heard a teasing voice that was familiar, but also unknown because this personality definitely wasn't suitable for the person he had known for the better part of his life.
"Stop that Greg.. I'm awake.. I'll come downstairs soon. Let me, at least, wash up and change my clothes."
Jason hurried to join the others after leaving the room and he was on his way down the stairs to the living when he came face to face with Malia. She was wearing a revealing white nightgown made of silk and Jason's eyes grew almost double in size to see her hourglass figure and so much of her skin on display.
`She is really beautiful!` Jason thought and gulped down his saliva.
Despite having gained his eyesight just over a month ago, he was still able to admire beauty and the feminine shape of girls….
He wasn't particularly interested in her but that didn't mean he couldn't appreciate the sight when Malia, who had been in her own world, noticed and looked at him with tired eyes.
Before she could greet him, she noticed his obvious gaze and looked down, only to see her revealing nightgown…
Horrified with herself, she shrieked before immediately disappearing into her room. She walked out a moment later with enough clothes on.
Her cheeks were beet-red and she rushed down to the living room without sparing a single glance at Jason.
He could only silently follow her thinking that she looked really beautiful, without having any hard feelings.
Rather than a potential lover or something similar, he thought of Malia just as a friend.
And Jason was way too young to think about love or romance, to begin with. At least, that was his opinion.
Getting stronger was much more important for now!
Climbing down the stairs to the living room, Jason noticed that everyone was already seated at the table, waiting for him.
He pulled back a chair and sat down before politely greeting everyone.
There was a wide variety of food on the table served in neat bowls and some dishes had glass cloches on them to keep the food warm. Jason looked at the food heartily and began to eat.
He even noticed that a marginal amount of mana was radiating from some dishes which surprised him greatly as his eyes widened a bit.
The whole breakfast was relatively quiet, and only Gabriella asked Jason if Artemis, who was perched on Jason's shoulder, was in need of food, which Jason declined politely.
It was uncommon for beasts to be so excessively affectionate and close to their contractor as Artemis demanded many caresses from Jason.
Most beasts would be close to their master, but they would still prefer freedom than getting confined to a house or being almost clingy to their master like Artemis.
Greg's first soulbond, the reinforced horned bull, for example, had already reached complete maturity and was at the mid-evolved rank.
But, contrary to Artemis, who would always hover around Jason, the bull didn't like houses and would avoid them, if possible.
Getting reminded of food, he looked at his notifications after they finished breakfast, and Jason requested for his parcel to get delivered immediately.
He went out and accepted his parcel which he stored away.
Jason wanted to break into the 5th Novice rank as soon as possible, but they would start their trip soon, so he had to wait until they started their journey.
Before their trip would start, they had some things to do.
Jason saw a large armored truck appearing at the entrance of the mansion out of Mark´s storage device.
The truck was covered in layers of metal and reinforced with magic circles and runes that shone brightly all over its surface, while the truck itself floated due to the magical, anti-gravitational circles.
It was a custom-made truck specially designed for off-road purposes outside the dome, and it would be pretty useful because the landscapes were uneven and full of obstacles.
Jason estimated that the length of the truck was around 25 meters including the hovering trailer.
While it was empowered by dense and thick mana, the easiest way to provide it with a constant supply of mana would be mana stones.
He didn't even want to think about the credits one had to shell out in order to travel through the whole island and he decided to not bother about it as he didn't have to pay the price.
While the greater storm eagle and the scaled wolf were already placed in front of the trailer, Jason assumed that the fox cubs were probably getting fed before they would start their trip.
After returning to the backyard, Jason saw a completely different beast cage next to his own.
While it was bigger than his cage and had a slightly blue color, the mana radiating from it was no joke.
The lower half of the cage was tightly sealed with bars, preventing the fox cubs from falling out or escaping the cage.
Jason inspected the beast cage intently, and it looked like the whole beast cage was one entity.
Such kind of beast cages were extremely rare and made of special materials, while it had many different modifiers, including the densely packed bars modification that was activated at the moment.
Inside the beast cage, Jason could see the fox cubs huddled around a big fancy machine.
There were several bottles sticking out of this machine, and the lesser elemental fox cubs almost fought to suck at them.
Apparently, the Flers bought an automatic feeding machine for cubs which included a heater and so on. This was to ensure that the cubs would stay well-fed for the better part of the journey and they wouldn't need to take frequent stops to get their formula.
The machine was operated by mana like almost everything, and could easily feed 10 beast cubs at the same time.
It was only 4:30 am when everything was loaded and checked twice before everybody entered the vehicle.
The truck's interior was spacious, almost like a futuristic vanity van. Greg, Malia, and Jason entered the back of it while Gabriella remained in the front with Mark who hopped in the driver's seat.
Closing the door, Mark turned the ignition on and they took off.
*Above the City*
An old man was floating in the sky, releasing a marginal amount of mana to defy gravity, while an old but elegant woman with silver hair was next to him, huge green ivory wings spreading behind her back.
The old man was looking down, and his gaze followed the treasure he had chosen inside the truck while a smile appeared on his face.
Previously, he had considered Jason useless because his soul energy was extremely weak and was almost non-existent, followed by his equally neglectable mana core rank. However, he had been keeping tabs on the boy over the course of the last few weeks and the old man had grown more and more astonished by the youth´s feats.
Not only was the snowflake owl, which he himself had deemed trash and useless, proved to be superior to all snowflake owl's he had ever seen, but also Jason´s weak soul energy could contain the snowflake owl. The owl had broken through its racial limit within a few weeks and Jason's soul energy had considerably increased.
After observing Jason for a few weeks, he was sure that his soul had to either amplify an enormous amount from the soulbond to the contractor, or something else was the crux.
Based on the vast knowledge the old man had accumulated over dozens of years, he knew that every soul was different, which included the soul energy, soul affinity, soul amplification, soul physical enhancement, and soul energy replenishing time.
A 24 hours replenishment period for soul energy was only the researched average and it was different for every individual.
"Is he really that precious?" the woman next to him questioned uncertainly.
The old man´s smile widened and his decision to get his hands on Jason was now affirmed, after what he had witnessed.
"I hope so! " He whispered while looking down.
"Show me some more of your potential, Jason Stella!" the old man said as both of them vanished into thin air.
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