Now that he had to wait for someone to become his employee before he could open the Golden-Soul shop, Jason couldn't help but feel satisfied with its appearance even if it might be a little bit small compared to other shops.
In his opinion, it was more important to have a high-quality shop that might be smaller than others than owning a large shop with low-quality items but a high quantity.
Since he began concocting himself, his whole mindset about potions changed because he couldn't believe that he drank low-quality potions with many impurities inside them.
It was disgusting to even think about the impurities he could see inside normal potions, which was only possible thanks to his increased mana core rank and the proportional strengthening of his eyes every breakthrough gave him.
Jason didn't even want to know how many people had issues breaking into the magus grade because they used too many potions.
The thought was already enough to let him shiver lightly.
Thankfully, he could purify potions perfectly now and if he required help, Dalia was there to help him out.
She even showed him how to mass-produce potions, which was extremely difficult but quite helpful if he wanted to supply the Shop without hiring someone else to provide more goods.
Initially, Dalia only demonstrated this technique to him, so that he could increase his proficiency in concocting without the need to jump from peak-grade-1 potions to grade-2 potions as the cost for the ingredients would increase by a large margin.
Furthermore, the profit would be higher with a huge bulk of peak-grade-1 potions than a few grade-2 potions, which was the most important reason to mass-produce lower-ranked potions!
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At least, that was after seeing his expression every time he talked about credits and star notes.
On the other side, she was still unable to understand Jason fully because he was adamant in earning his own fortune, which was the reason for him to reject most offers to give him an allowance and even more resources.
While Dalia was pressuring Jason to accept everything she gave him, Shane was rather reluctant in doing so because he was not only greedy and stingy but it was also important to become independent and not a spoiled child.
Under their current circumstances, it was unavoidable for Jason to required their support but if they gave him too much, he might take it for granted which was not something Shane wanted to support.
As such, they had to find a compromise!
The compromise they figured out was that they gave him a certain amount of resources that would help Jason to become stronger with an accelerated pace, but not enough to help him skyrocketed in his mana core rank and body refining.
However, in the end, this compromise was also nullified when Shane and Dalia heard about Jason's pain and the reason for it being his weak body and high soul world amplification.
Even if they didn't want to spoil Jason, his life was more important which both Shane and Dalia agreed on without the need to even think about it.
Both were still glad that Jason wanted to be able to achieve everything without their help but it was more important to fix his issue which all three of them knew.
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Three hours later his soul energy increased by more than 160 units after a single sitting which caused Jason to smile lightly, thinking about the first few months after his soul-awakening where it was already extremely difficult for him to receive one soul energy unit.
Sighing deeply, it was as if several years passed since that time, even though it had only been 9 months.
So much changed and the most important to Jason was that he could finally see and that his peers couldn't trample on him as if he was an ant.
Once he left his soul world, Artemis followed him and only Scorpio had to stay back because of his large size of more than 3.5 meters in length.
Jason was sorry for him but only Artemis could adjust her size to a 1-meter long owl even if she already grew to a size of 3 meters under normal circumstances.
He didn't know how it worked but it was definitely an advantage and it would be stupid to complain about it.
Suddenly, he heard a commotion outside the shop which attracted his attention.
Looking through the window, he saw a small group of men riding on their canine soulbonds, pursuing a girl around his age, embracing something emerald-green colored.
However, what his mana eyes perceived was something completely different which caused him to rush out of the shop as he summoned Scorpio without hesitation.
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From his mana eyes, he figured out that the canine soulbonds were at the mid-unblemished rank, while the small group of men pursuing the girl on the canine beasts, were at the Master rank.
Seeing this, Jason was confident in defeating them with his soulbonds' help, otherwise, he might be beaten up if he were to help.
Under normal circumstances, he wouldn't just help anyone who needed help if it could make his own life worse, but from the things he perceived through his mana eyes, there was not even the need to ponder whether to help or not which was also the reason for him to act so fast.
The girl who desperately ran away from the group of men was already crying because of her helpless situation when she saw something from the corner of her eye which ignited a small ray of hope within her.
Meanwhile, Jason and Artemis used their ice affinity together to manifest a huge wall between the young girl and her pursuer, before he shouted
"Come here, fast!!" Hearing this, the young girl that was around Jason's age changed her direction without thinking much about possible dangers because her current situation couldn't become worse.
She was only astonished to hear such a youthful voice from the black-masked man with his two exotic-looking soulbonds behind.
Artemis was currently in her large form and swung her wings to levitate in the air several meters above the ground where Scorpio with his equally large body was situated.
They looked powerful and she sensed that the man behind the youthful voice was her only way out of her current situation without losing everything.
Rushing towards Jason, Emily, the young girl already began to shout helplessly
"Please help me! I'll do everything you want if you can help me!! PLEASEE!!"
Seeing how desperate the young girl was, Jason figured out that the group of men he obstructed for a very short time were either behind the small emerald crystal she embraced or her body.
With her long black hair, green eyes, long eyelashes, and slender body, she was definitely considered beautiful.
However, what Jason was more interested in was the crystal inside her hands because his mana eyes saw something, others might not be able to see without looking at it more intently.
Nodding his head, Emily sighed in relief and thanked him multiple times, when she noticed that the small group of men who pursued her noticed her, the black-masked man and his two exotic-looking soulbonds in front of her.
Seeing this, they ordered their canine soulbonds to approach the black-masked man carefully because they couldn't sense his mana fluctuations or mana core rank which either indicated that he was a Magus rank or had a concealment technique.
In the end, either one would be bad which was the reason for them to be more careful with their next steps as their leader said
"Hello Sir, the young girl behind you is my niece and ran away from home. We don't want to bother Sir more than necessary and only need to take her back with us"
Emily was trembling behind Jason, who also noticed this because she tucked his robe in fear that he would believe their words.
Thinking about a good answer for a moment, he smiled behind his mask when he said
"How can that be true? She's my employee and never talked about such a weird-looking uncle!"
