There were only five Ifrytor and one Ifry with his soulbond left but Jason had to remain vigilant!
Before, he had killed the weaker opponents which had different now. The last five Ifrytor had liquefied between 50 to 100 drops of mana and their physical enhancement should make the strongest of them more powerful than Jason was currently.
Yet, instead of feeling threatened, Jason couldn't help but smile as he looked at his opponents that tried to figure out what they should do.
He was already rushing ahead but instead of attacking the Ifrytor or the last Ifry. Jason took care of the largest foe first.
It was not that important but the five-meter-tall bear prevented him from seeing everything behind him clearly.
As such, Jason jumped towards its head when he emerged a meter in front of the large bear.
He slashed out with Byakur, which was enveloped in a thin, yet compressed membrane of Solaris' flames.
At the same time, its runes to sharpen and increase the lethality of the blade had been activated by inserting mana in Byakur.
The bear tried to use its huge paw to smash Jason in the ground but its attempt was futile because it had been too late by a quarter of a second!
Jason was already in front of its head as the paw slashed through empty air!
Cleaving out with Byakur, Jason felt that an immense might had been released from it as the compressed black flame that was tightly laid around Byakur unleashed their might.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64ce79d606107d003c23ea27", id: "pf-5140-1"})With loud sizzling noises, Byakur slashed through the large bear's neck without any resistance.
From the way it looked, spectators might question whether the large bear had been a Lique stage beast with 80 drops of liquefied mana or an Unblemished beast.
It was a highly physically attributed beast with a strong defense, but everything this looked insignificant in front of Byakur that was razor-sharp and the ominous black flame Jason was able to control to his heart's content!
Jason hadn't expected that Baykur would be this sharp with Solaris' flames that augmented its lethality while nullifying some of the mana the bear had been circulating at the location he had been targeting.
Nevertheless, Jason was fully aware that the fight had yet to end and there were still five Ifrytor and one Ifry left.
Though his opponents were scared out of their wits when they had figured out that the black flame was not only a unique flame, like theirs but an origin flame, Jason wanted to finish the fight as soon as possible.
The weightless steps still exerted at the perfect mastery, Jason's speed that had already accelerated by 60%, increased further as he circulated even more mana through his body.
A moment after he had slashed at the large bear which caused a severe injury that would kill it within the next few seconds, Jason had already pushed himself from its body to continue his slaughter.
Targeting the closest Ifrytor that was next to him, Jason emerged in front of it as five whip of fire lashed out at him.
The weakest whip had the strength of a Lowest Lique with 50 drops of liquefied mana and Jason had to face four more, stronger whip attacks too.
This pressured him a little bit, but when he sensed Solaris' confidence, Jason couldn't help but smile.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64cc9e79c7059f003e4ad4b0", id: "pf-5109-1"})Both his and Solaris' stigma were fully unleashed and it was the first time they noticed how great of an advantage the stigma turned out to be!
Solaris, who was currently in his mana core and Jason seemed to fuse further and it felt like the function of manifesting one's body part had increased by a huge margin.
By using less than a quarter of his mana, Jason was able to summon huge flames that flickered in the surrounding five meters burning everything with Solaris unfolding its might.
The mana nullification, augmented by the stigma, burned through the fire whips, decreasing their strength drastically. This allowed Jason to evade them as he slashed out at the closest Ifrytor that had already begun to burn.
With one trust of Byakur, he ended the Ifrytor's life before he had changed his direction without looking back.
The weakened whips lashed out at the position he stood a moment earlier, burning long stripes on their already dead brethren's carcass.
With only five opponents were left, Jason was confident to win, however, it was not his plan to kill everyone.
As such, the moment he emerged in front of the last Ifry that slashed at him with the long broadsword in his hand, Jason couldn't help but use Byakur, amplified by Solaris' flames, in order to scrap the weapon in its hands.
After he had scraped the sword of his opponent, Jason moved Byakur smoothly around in order to utilize all his strength to strike the Ifry's head with Byakur's handle.
A thump sound echoed through the surroundings as the Ifry's eyes turned white.
However, now Jason had been forced to push him away in order to prevent both him and the Ifry from being lashed at by the remaining four Ifrytors whips.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "663633fa8ebf7442f0652b33", id: "pf-8817-1"})He planned to let the last and strongest Ifry alive because he might be able to get more information out of him!!
It would be weird if a weaker Ifry knew more information than the strongest one of their group, and Jason was confident that he would be able to figure out intel that might be useful for later!
Jason tried to do the same with the Ifrytors which was his reason to take care of the weakest opponents at the beginning of the fight.
This might have been a mistake, but after he had knocked out the last Ifry, the remaining four Ifrytor didn't seem like a huge problem anymore.
They were charging at him, even though he could see fear gleaning their bloodshot eyes, and Jason couldn't help but feel that they were more humane than the Ifry might have ever been!
Humans would also try to dominate everything weaker than themselves, only to fear the stronger!
As such, he couldn't help but sigh deeply before he exerted the weightless steps technique again. He utilized the petrification curse in order to forcefully halt the Ifrytors in advancing further.
At that moment, their movements were interrupted and Jason who could move freely was able to pierce Byakur through the closest Ifrytor before the others had pierced with their weapons at him.
However, what they didn't expect was that Solaris' huge flame that enveloped Jason and his surroundings was able to dominate their own flames!
This meant that they couldn't fully control and unleash their flame's capabilities which gave them another disadvantage.
As such within the following minute, Jason was able to exhibit the advantages he had in order to overwhelm the last four Ifrytor.
Using his eyes to instill fear and paralyze them to use the short moment their attack was interrupted in order to use Solaris, who was dominating the other flames, despite being weaker than them.
By simply looking at the strength of their flames, Solaris was less developed and weaker.
However, it was a Tier-1 origin flame, augmenting Byakur, while nullifying and burning everything in their surrounding that had something to do with mana.
This excluded Jason and Byakur because all of them were connected to Jason, and his soul that was one entity with the soul bound black origin flame, Solaris!
Thus, after Jason had killed the third Ifrytor, he didn't hesitate a moment to slash at the last and strongest opponent with 100 drops of liquefied mana in its core, in order to damage its mana core.
With a damaged mana core, the Ifrytor wouldn't die and the degree Jason had damaged its mana core was not severe, barely enough to prevent it from utilizing too much of its mana.
Now that the fight was over and everyone except the strongest Ifry and Ifrytor had been killed, Jason couldn't help but sigh deeply when he looked around.
He was aware that he had overwhelmed his opponents, but the fight felt extremely weird to him.
'Some of them should have been much stronger than me? Why are they so weak compared to the Shadow walker? It's not only the difference in their mana core rank but mostly combat awareness, combat prowess, and experience. It almost feels like they're younglings, gathering their first combat experience, but that can't be, right? That would be way too reckless…'
While Jason was already deep in thoughts, confused about how he was able to defeat his opponents, that should have been much stronger, so easily, Solaris had already left his mana core.
It appeared next to Jason and rushed ahead to the dead corpses that showed signs of being burned from the inside.
However, this was not Solaris doing but the weird flames the Ifry harbored. Meanwhile, the same, yet advanced flame could be found within the Ifrytor.
Solaris didn't care about either of that and it split up its body in order to devour every single weird, but also interesting flame that was about to dissipate!
Only after some time did Jason notice that something was going on with Solaris as he turned around to see huge black flames burning the dead Ifrytor and Ifry carcasses while a distinct sensation of greed had been directly transmitted to Jason.
"Solaris, what are you even doing right now?"
