Even without an affinity, Jason's physique alone was already stronger than his opponent's, who only realized this, as they clashed upon each other.
Being able to overwhelm his opponent with his physique alone while only having a 6th Adept mana core rank was extremely terrifying and clearly indicates that the soul world amplifications Jason received were horrifyingly high, or that he might even have multiple strong soulbonds.
However, neither Jason nor the athletic youth in front of him bothered about this at the moment, as Jason slashed out with his daggers multiple times in succession, as his velocity increased, only for the youth in front to barely deflect him while retreating.
He was not even able to continue his charge, while Jason was forced to slow down in order to accurately slash at his opponent's vital spots.
'He is slower than I expected?!' Jason suddenly figured out before he decided to end the charade, as he exerted his weightless steps technique once again while leaning forward to evade his opponent's slash, as he emerged behind him.
Piercing his daggers into the athletic youth's calves and other vital spots, Jason twisted his body in order to kick him firmly, which pushed the youth two meters away, as he slumped on the ground.
Trying to stand up, the youth cried out in pain thanks to the several cuts Jason inflicted, as he felt cold metal on his neck, and his eyes trembled involuntarily.
[Victory, Jason Stella!] the AI announced, and only then did Jason retrace his dagger.
Cleaning them from his opponent's blood, he sheathed them before walking out of the arena, without bothering to care about the youth on the ground who stared at him in fear.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64ce79d606107d003c23ea27", id: "pf-5140-1"})'How can a 6th Adept rank be so terrifying?!' He asked himself in shock, without being able to understand what was going on, as he was enveloped with a healing sensation from the medic team that was hired to take care of the injured students.
Sitting down on the bench, Jason decided to ignore the strange gazes locked on him, as he used his mana eyes in order to figure out everyone's mana core rank and their amplification.
With this, nobody could hide his or her affinity from Jason as well as their mana core amplification, which helped him to figure out what student in his group he could see as a pushover and who he should be careful about.
However, in the end, the 100th group he was placed in, couldn't be described as extraordinarily powerful, with only two stronger students in it, who Jason was already expectant to fight
Their mana core rank was at the 2nd Expert rank and one of them received an amplification, which allowed him to reach a 3rd Expert rank mana core size, close to the 4th Expert rank, while the other student had a slightly lower amplification, who similarly reached a mana core size at the 3rd Expert rank
Meanwhile, Jason's physique and mana core size were barely at the 3rd Expert rank, which was already shocking enough, yet still slightly lower than the two youths'.
As such, he couldn't help but feel overjoyed with his opponents, which he expressed with a bright smile.
The other students around him were astonished about his combat prowess and some of them started to think that he had a physical soul because his physical amplification was extremely high.
Some other students, however, added an affinity into their calculations when they saw Jason because they already started their research about some students before the tournament even started, as they heard many rumors.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64cc9e79c7059f003e4ad4b0", id: "pf-5109-1"})News about a student with an extremely low mana core rank yet high combat prowess spread far and the diligent researching students already figured out about his two affinities!
In the end, they found his combat prowess shocking and asked themselves if they were able to fight him head-on after estimating his physique to be on par with an average 3rd Expert rank.
The next rounds passed quickly and Jason who initially wanted to observe a few fights, decided against it, as he actively used his passive mana replenishing technique in addition to his two known affinities at the same time.
He already expected that some students would know about his fire and ice affinities, which caused him to reveal this fact if someone were to seize his mana fluctuations right now.
Circulating both his fire and ice affinity at the same time through his body, Jason tried to find a state where he could utilize them because they innately repulse each other, which was not something he wanted for his affinities, as it might be disadvantageous for his future fights.
As such, he practiced with his two repulsing affinities within his body and after several weeks of hard work, it seemed to work much better and more efficiently than before.
With this, his combat prowess increased by a small margin, which overjoyed him.
Since Scorpio finished his evolution, Jason also experimented with the advanced poison affinity, but it was harder to cope with it than expected because he had to understand the composition of the poison he wanted to use, as Scorpio knew multiple different types of poison which he integrated with his poison affinity when establishing an affinity seed and enhancing it.
This was extremely advantageous because he could utilize different poison's with all kinds of perks and usages, even though it was not easy to understand everything at once, due to the complex composition of the different types of poison Scorpio integrated.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "663633fa8ebf7442f0652b33", id: "pf-8817-1"})In the end, Jason decided to turn his poison affinity into his hidden trump card simply because he had no other affinity to hide, while he wouldn't use his fortified soul conjunction if it was not necessary.
If he were to win against the two strongest opponents in his group, Jason was sure, that there were no other opponents he couldn't face before entering the top 100 because these two were already the cream of the crop.
A 14-year-old 2nd Expert rank was extremely terrifying and not something everyone was capable to reach at such a young age.
The two youths in his group that were so powerful probably received lots of cultivation resources from their family, which indicated a certain degree of wealth.
However, Jason didn't really care about this, and he was just excited to fight them.
More than 6 hours passed until Jason barely finished his 6th battle, as he noticed that he had a two-hour break, which allowed him to barely practice his Heaven's Hell technique, which he choose to do after reassuring that he didn't see anything wrong in his schedule.
Taking out a huge bulk of dishes after the practice, which took barely less than two hours, he forcefully stuffed the high-nutrition dishes into his mouth in order to replenish his used-up nutrition to fight decently.
But even if he were to fight with an empty stomach, his next opponent was none of the two strong youths in his group.
Jason wasn't even forced to utilize any of his affinities, as his physical strength, combat experience, and martial art techniques were more than enough to cope with everyone until now.
The two youths, which Jason labeled as the strongest in his group were both from the Miral academy and apparently friends.
Without caring about anyone else, they just wanted to compete against each other, which was however disrupted by Jason's appearance because they figured out that he was as strong as them, if not even stronger, which shocked them as they already knew that their strength was comparable to the Top-students from all three Big-schools.
Above them, there were only a handful of students from the Miral academy, who were stronger than them, and if they had to estimate their combat prowess with the other 3000 tournament participants, they were sure to enter the Top 50 if not Top 25.
Nevertheless, the youth that stuffed food into his mouth as if they were small candies had a powerful aura around him, which caused the two friends to feel threatened.
Looking at each other, they smiled drily, as one of them said lightly
"I think we have to add an irregular in our calculations...It looks like he practiced the Heaven's Hell technique for two hours if the golden hue around his head is his soul world's signature sign.
Considering that he is eating a bulk of high-nutritious dishes right now, immediately after his practice means that he is most likely already at the 3rd Level of the Heaven's Hell technique… His soul energy should be higher than we imagined if he took two hours to practice the third level, yet he doesn't sweat which means he is already proficient in it!"
Nodding his head, the tall youth next to him could not help but praise his friend's perceptions, as he smiled foolishly, without caring about his friend's detailed analysis.
"I hope so! With such an interesting guy in our group, we won't be bored!"
