Chapter 124 - [Information

Shane pondered how to begin, but he wanted to keep it simple, so he just started straightforwardly.

"You also want to know what I want, right? That's extremely simple..You! I want you! Not your body or something like that but rather than everything else, I want your talent which includes your mana eyes special trait and inconspicuous soul-awakening.

As you already know I'm far from being a samaritan but you´ll also change once you figure out how the real world works.

You are still too young to understand that.

Bringing you out to the Goblin tide was for you to see the cruelty from both sides, beasts and humans and I think this was partially successful, don't you think so?

I intended to bribe you a little bit to achieve my goal but you already figured it out and it's definitely true, that the incident with the Black Origin Flame was not planned.

In the end, one could say you are extremely fortunate because I wouldn't be able to make use of this Origin flame, even if I knew about it.

Otherwise I would be really pissed.

I think you already figured out that I'm kinda greedy and this is human nature and nothing to be ashamed of.

Without resources, you won't survive long enough on Argos or maybe even within some dangerous cities.

Staying weak will only harm you in the future if you don´t want to back off against stronger ones."

Shane finished and looked at Jason, waiting for questions but Shane´s answer only gave Jason more questions

"Why do you need me? My soul energy is extremely weak and it will take years until I'm able to contract a magical ranked beast, let's not talk about a higher-ranked beast. "

He said, aware of his lie about the soul energy.

Jason wouldn't need a few years until he could contract a magical ranked beast. With his current increase of soul energy it wouldn't take that long, because he received a ⅓ amplification from his soulbonds which in return causes the demand of soul energy for every soulbond to lessen by ⅓.

Furthermore with more soul energy and each practice with the Heaven's Hell technique would increase his soul energy exponential.

Additional to his exceptional soul energy replenishing rate, Jason was confident in Artemis' continuous increase in strength

"I noticed humanity's curelity a long time ago and we are no better than beasts.

However more important to me is, what exactly this Origin Flame is, that I apparently contracted?"

Jason was aware of the cruelty this world created and humans' inexhaustable greed to become stronger.

They would probably sacrifice as many lives as they wanted to become stronger and Jason could only sigh while thinking about that.

But with this thought in mind, he would rather think about the unknown Origin Flame in his soul world, that was bond to him

"Before I can explain why I need you, It´s definitely better to tell you more about Origin Flames... But before that DONT F**K with me !! I know about your soul awakening. How dare you tell me that your soul energy is weak? You have at least a soul energy of ten and it's increasing extremely fast.

With your mutated snowflake owl, you might be able to have a magical ranked beast in a year at most!

With your high soul energy reproduction, we can work hard to achieve the Five braided helix of the Heaven´s Hell technique for an additional boost in your soul energy training.

Maybe we can boost your soul energy increase to around 1.5% each day after I get to know how fast your reproduction speed is."

Shane said proudly. It was extremely hard for youngsters to achieve a five braided helix after having one soul only awoken for a few months but Jason´s next words shocked him

"Well thank you for your concern about my soul energy but I'm already capable of practicing the five-braided soul energy helix without your help...Furthermore, the increase of soul energy is around 2.5% per day with my reproductive ability"

Jason didn't have a reason to lie, because Shane would get to know it sooner or later and there was nothing to hide.

"See!! Only 2.5% in one.. ONE DAY? What did you say?" Shane thought he had misheard and previously he expected Jason to have a 0.5% increase of his soul energy in one day at most which would be considered ordinary for a common practice for Heaven's Hell at the second level.

Dalia´s eyes shined brightly and joy could be seen in her eyes but this was because of two reasons.

It had been a long time for her to see Shane losing control over his voice and him acting so flabbergasted at the same time but also the achievements Jason accomplished without anyone's help were a feat to be proud of.

`Maybe he is really the treasure we searched for` She thought and continued smiling at Jason.

Jason felt a bright smile piercing into him and he wasn't even able to look to his right as he would only feel awkward seeing Dalia smiling so brightly at him.

Shane took a moment to gather his thoughts before he continued with a slightly grim face

"Just forget what I said about your soul energy... Just continue working hard, alright?!

Let me explain to you what Origin flames are and why they are so special.

As you may have noticed, the Origin Flame is connected to your soul like every other beast you formed a soulbond with, right?

But their relation with each other is slightly different.

Beasts can provide their contractor with a certain amplification in mana, physical strength, and some even an affinity, while they can also be summoned and used in combat.

The amplification percentage is correlated to your soul, which you should be aware of.

The Origin is completely different, from the moment they awaken, they provide their contractor with a baptism which will exhale a huge pile of impurities, which will in return increase one´s mana gathering, refining and absorption talent.

Due to the exhaled impurities, there won't be great obstacles while breaking through and you´ll increase your mana core rank extremely fast.

Furthermore, the baptism you underwent most likely provided you with a huge increase in your mana core's size and strengthened your whole body.

In addition to all of that. you´ll look much better and the aging process will slow down to an extreme, as the impurities inside your body are washed away giving mana the chance to rejuvenate your cells much easier.

Last but not least, you´ll gain the affinity for the Origin Flame, which is most likely more powerful than most fire abilities from beasts.

There are two disadvantages for Origin Flames, one is that the Origin Flame uses up a spot for soul beasts, that not many humans have left, once they find an Origin Flame.

This is unfortunate but they can sell unawakened Origin flames for unimaginable prices because the baptism is just too valuable.

Another disadvantage is at the same time an advantage.

You have to nurture your Origin Flame with soul energy by letting it annex more of it.

RIght now your Origin Flame shouldn't be that large, while the soul energy it occupies is most likely less than 1 unit. It will increase in size and become stronger the more soul energy it annexed.

Once your Origin Flame reaches a certain threshold, it will evolve into a higher grade, providing you with another baptism, which will cleanse another round of your impurities and strengthen your body.

Origin Flames are divided into different Ranks from E- to S-rank , while their evolution grade is divided into Tiers.

Right now your Origin flame is tierless and after the first evolution it would be called Tier-1

There are dozens of Origin Flames we found until now but the most common one is a common red Origin Flame, which is labeled as E-Rank, the impurity cleansing, strengthening, and strength of it, is not really great, but the ability to evolve makes it worthwhile for most humans to try to obtain even the worst one, while even old geezers want them to live longer and regain some of their youth.

Higher ranked Origin Flames provide a qualitative higher baptism with a larger increase in all kinds of aspects."

Shane ended giving Dalia the chance to say something. Trying to console Jason because she thought he was still shocked about being burned alive

"Jason, you don't have to be scared about the baptism as it will only happen once you want your flame to evolve after reaching its demands.

If the first baptism was too scary for you, you can just leave the Origin flame behind, but you should keep in mind that the chances to obtain a Origin Flame are miniscule and probably less than 300 humans have one, while most of them have below-average ranks.

This is because Origin flames only appear within the most concentrated volcanoes with a overwhelming amounts of mana, which can only be found in special rifts and on the main continent through unique incidents.

It's extremely difficult for flames to achieve sentient and create a crystal layer around their body to stay sentient.

Without this crystal layer they would be flooded by the overwhelming mana currents and lava before they could even nurture themselves, which would take an uncountable amount of years without the support of soul energy."

Saying all of this a silver flame appeared on her hand, floating around her hands as if the flame was playing with her and Jason activated his mana eyes out of curiosity.

`Light-gray?`

Jason saw the radiating color and wondered what that meant and his mind was rattling violently.

"Miss Bl…" He sensed a glare from Dalia and corrected himself "Dalia, is this silver flame an Origin flame? If that's the case, is it a tier-2 origin flame?"

He was only guessing but seeing Dalia´s face, his guess seemed correct.`How does he know?`

Before she could say anything Jason continued.

"My eyes are special and I just guessed it. Please don´t mind my rudeness..I´m sorry.."

Turning to Shane he continued asking questions

"If I let my Origin flame occupy more soul energy, will there still be the shared amplification of soul energy from my soul world? Or is this occupied Soul energy completely used up? Furthermore, what is the rank of my black Origin flame? Apparently it has only awoken but my strength and mana core increased by a whole stage through the baptism… It feels like the black flame affinity's power is comparable to the strongest fire affinity from evolved ranked beasts."

Previously, both Shane and Dalia thought they would overwhelm Jason with information but it seemed as if the youth in front of them could adapt faster than they themselves. The information Jason provided was more shocking than their information.

Jason´s eyes could detect what tier Dalia´s origin flame was? The baptism provided Jason with a boost of a whole stage? Comparable to the strongest fire affinities from evolved ranked beasts directly after awakening…

This had to be a bad joke and Jason looked at Shane and Dalia expectantly, while they didn´t know what to think about the youth in front of them.