BXBX NOVEL Chapter 272 - Forceful Advancement
Walking out of the arena, he approached the Fler\'s and sat down next to them before he tended his wound at the shoulder, while Gabriella used her healing ability to help him.
Circulating his mana in addition to Gabriella\'s healing and recuperation potions, Jason\'s wound already started to heal after a few seconds, which was certainly good.
Fortunately enough, the wound on his shoulder was nothing major and would only need some time to heal, without creating a hindrance for his fights on the next day.
Replenishing his mana, Jason only heard Greg next to him mumbling.
"You only lead your opponent around and still sustained an injury…"
Upon hearing this, he couldn\'t help but smile because Greg\'s words were certainly true and if he simply threw several dozen fireballs towards his opponent, the fight would have been over in a matter of seconds, if the psychokinesis affinity his opponent used was not good enough to change the fireballs\' trajectory without consuming too much mana, which was most likely the case.
Controlling objects from far away was highly likely to require much mana and in the end, everyone with a high mana core rank was able to move around objects to a certain extent.
As such, the psychokinesis affinity had to be something more unique, otherwise, it would be entirely useless to contract a soulbond with such an affinity!
While Jason continued to think about his opponent, it was already Greg\'s turn.
His opponent had a mana core size of a 3rd Expert rank, while he had an earth affinity, that was most likely at the peak evolved rank.
Initially, Jason wondered why he seemed to be one of the only first-year students with multiple affinities, but after thinking about it for some time, it seemed logical.
Just because his soul world was unimaginably large, it didn\'t mean that others\' soul worlds were equally large.
It was already above average and considered rare to be able to contract five soulbonds, and with this fact, other students would be reluctant to contract a soulbond below the magical rank.
For some influential students, even a common magical ranked beast would be considered foolish to contract because everyone wanted to reap the most benefits with their soulbond.
In the end, most soulbond contracts would be formed with rare and unique beasts which had either mutated affinities or strong abilities, one could inherit.
This only included prodigies or wealthy families because such beasts were not only rare to find, but it was even more difficult to capture their offsprings or if necessary the matured beasts.
Thinking about this, Jason could only praise his own soul world because it was superior to every soul world he ever heard about, which caused him to wonder once again if his soul world was only so special because he was presumed to be a half-Celestia.
But there was no reason for him to think more about this because there was no answer for now.
It was better to watch Greg\'s fight which started with his opponent shooting several earth spikes at Greg, who only punched at them, wearing his gloves.
Being forced to retreat multiple steps because of the impact, it was obvious that the elemental affinity was stronger than Greg\'s physique, which was nothing surprising.
Noticing that Greg didn\'t utilize an affinity, the earth affinity user smirked as he manifested a dozen earth spikes which he shoots at him in succession, only to force Greg to retreat further.
Gritting his teeth, Greg pondered what he should do and without an affinity or higher velocity, he wouldn\'t be able to evade the earth spiked that were as fast as Jason\'s icicles, he couldn\'t evade too.
As such, Greg used his trump from the beginning and his skin turned red when his body enlarged, with his eyes turning red without losing their clarity.
Receiving a high amplification in his physical strength, Greg was able to evade the earth spikes without much difficulty.
However, rather than doing so, he just punched at the incoming spikes, as if they were nothing, shattering them into smitherness.
Exerting his movement technique, he pushed himself from the ground, creating tiny cracks below him as his speed accelerated.
Appearing in front of his opponent, who was shocked about the sudden change in Greg\'s demeanor and appearance he used his whole remaining mana in order to manifest a thick earth wall in front of him as he retreated several steps.
With the thick wall in front of him, the youth took a deep breath when he suddenly heard thumb noises.
*BOOM*
*BOOM*
*BOOM*
The whole arena resounded in several loud explosion-like noises, and Jason couldn\'t help but smile weirdly as he perceived that Greg forced himself a way through the thick earth wall that was rather crudely manifested without compressing it in order to create a stronger defense.
Everyone looked at the match in awe, as a two-meter-tall Greg broke through the whole several meter thick earth wall as if it was nothing.
Swiping away the dirt of his face in order to see clearly, Jason saw Greg smiling, as he continued his charge to his opponent, who gulped down his saliva, as his eyes quivered in fear.
Punching his opponent with all his might, Greg\'s hurled him out of the arena that was more than a dozen meters away, where the earth affinity user remained lying on the ground, without even trying to stand up.
Hearing him gasping for air with difficulties, everyone sighed in relief as it meant that he was still alive.
The AI announced the winner, and Greg\'s body shrank as he stepped out of the combat arena, where he looked at Jason who sat on his seat, giving him a thumbs up.
Returning him a peace sign, the two youths smiled foolishly, as both the Fler\'s and Jason stood up to walk towards Greg.
Talking with each other, they didn\'t even bother to continue monitoring the tournament, because their time together was running out.
Instead of watching the tournament, everyone wanted to spend more time with Jason as they would separate soon
Arriving at home, they ate something, played games, and talked about all kinds of things.
Jason also tried to hint at the Fler\'s multiple things about foreign races, and how overbearing some big families might be if Greg or Malia were to become too strong.
However, he felt as if they didn\'t even hear him at all or maybe they didn\'t want to, while Greg only looked at him, pondering about his words as if they were an alien language.
When Jason saw this, he wondered if he spoke in the universal language, the foreign races used, but nobody looked at him like Greg did, which told him that his friend was just confused.
In the end, he was reluctant to tell them everything because even his masters who were aware of most facts, were shocked about the truth, which told Jason, that it would be even more horrifying for normal citizen, who was not even able to enter the Lique-stage by compressing their mina into liquefied mana drops.
Sighing deeply, he only shook his head as he spent the whole day with the Fler\'s as they didn\'t have to go back to the arena because Malia lost the day before, which was not even that bad, considering their current circumstances.
It was already evening, when his quantum bracelet vibrates violently, which caused everyone to look at his wrist, as a holographic screen appeared in front of him.
Surprisingly it was Seron who called him and answering the call, he only heard him hesitantly asking
"Jason? Here is Seron, are you at home right now?"