After being teleported to the center of Kinra Island, Jason had the urge to take in a deep breath of fresh air.
However, the moment he did this, it was as if the air got stuck in his throat as he saw the crowd of several hundred beings roaming around.
This caused him to freeze in place before he took a look around to see thousands of mansion-sized tents, and even some newly built buildings and other complexes.
'Shock' was too light of a word to describe what Jason was feeling, and it was more like he was utterly dumbfounded.
He had assumed to encounter a few individuals in the Island's center, but to think that a large town of countless tents had been constructed, was extremely weird.
Jason couldn't believe it at first, and it took him some time to accept reality and the fact that more than a dozen races had met up as if they were just on Kinra island to have a gathering.
Initially, he believed Luna, who had told him that everyone would try to tear each other apart.
However, that didn't seem to be the case at all.
Whether it was because of the other races that had forcefully entered Kinra Island, or because of a different reason, Jason didn't know.
However, what he knew was that there were a few races he already knew of.
Amongst them were the Aeus, Devir, and humans of Manyr, but that was not all!
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64ce79d606107d003c23ea27", id: "pf-5140-1"})"Shadow walkers?" Jason mumbled, not sure if his eyes were deceiving him.
Yet, even after rubbing his eyes multiple times, he could see the bipedal race in front of him quite clearly. They were shrouded in darkness, except for their glowing, ruby-like eyes to pierce through it.
Seeing several Shadow walkers stroll around the area was a huge surprise to Jason, who recalled everything about them and what they had done to Argos.
They were just a common race, but that didn't make a huge difference because they were simply vile.
He was not sure about one of the Shadow walker in particular whom he still owed a favor for sparing his late master, but Jason knew one thing for certain.
'It was because of them that the Great Argos war started!'
This was not exactly the case, but one could say that it was only because one prodigious Shadow walker had seen him; a halfling after which they had begun to kidnap hundreds of humans, along with other races.
Through this, a chain reaction had been initiated, and somehow, the other races must have taken the Shadow walkers' actions as an offense, causing them to retaliate.
In the end, this had caused the Great Argos war.
Thinking about the Great Argos war, Jason felt anger flare up within him, which was immediately visible in his Celestia aura that began to fluctuate wildly. The joy and kindness that was normally intertwined with it had momentarily vanished.
Only a few moments after his sudden angry outburst, he calmed down before telling himself that he shouldn't mindlessly attack everyone just because they could be responsible for something that caused him great suffering and agony.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64cc9e79c7059f003e4ad4b0", id: "pf-5109-1"})That was because he himself was not without fault. He should have never existed, in the first place.
As such, he had taken responsibility for the world that had never given him anything good.
Instead, Argos had become the place he hated the most because he had lost so much on it.
Shaking his head, Jason finally calmed down as he distracted himself, averting his attention to something else.
Sensing strong energy fluctuations that were also intertwined with emotions like greed and anger, Jason turned in the direction, only to see that a large crowd of people was fighting against each other.
This astonished him a little bit because the majority of people were trying to beat a single individual, in order to obtain something.
The being had just emerged in the center of the island, thinking that he would be safe here.
Just like Jason, he too received a surprise when he saw everybody had the same thought and teleported to the center after receiving rewards.
This was the reason why tents had sprung up like mushrooms, because those who had completed the trials successfully had hoped to be secure in the center, which sadly, wasn't the case.
Jason was one of those beings who had thought the same, yet, he was glad to have altered his decision a little bit.
He didn't want to be teleported to the exact center.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "663633fa8ebf7442f0652b33", id: "pf-8817-1"})Instead, he was somewhere around the outskirts of the center, where only a few tents were located.
In the end, this was his fortune, otherwise, he would have been attacked and deprived of everything he had obtained.
That was, if they could even do that in the first place because the rewards Jason had obtained were majorly bound to his soul!
Despite his altered destination, a few beings had seen him appear out of nowhere, probably teleported from an Inheritance site.
However, even after seeing this, those few beings didn't attack him, which was something Jason noticed with a faint smile.
It was confusing because he didn't know why they hesitated to attack and rob him, but that was not something he was going to complain about.
Nevertheless, he was still intrigued about their reason to leave him alone. Driven by his curiosity, he had almost approached one of the few beings that stared at him but stopped himself.
Had he done this, the subconscious cover Jason had built up would have vanished.
That was because Jason didn't realise something extremely important.
Others might not have bothered about his Stigma and Celestia Aura for a very long time, but everything about the young man had changed after he had broken more than 20 of his minor seals!
Not only was it easily perceptible now that Jason's aura and Stigma were not artificial or created through a technique, but natural manifestations of his bloodline, they also indicated that Jason was a being of much higher origin than anyone else.
Jason didn't even realise that his Celestia aura radiated in a radius of more than 50 meters around him. Meanwhile, his fully activated Stigma, was further intensifying his aura's density, the natural suppression effect, and other characteristics of the Celestia aura.
All of it prevented most beings from attacking him, knowing that there were witnesses who would most likely report to their Ancestors that one of the descendants of a Grand race had been killed.
Through this, a war could break out, and the common lower, as well as higher races, didn't want to offend a Grand race.
As such, the most sensible individuals knew that they should back off from Jason, who belonged to a race that was at least considered a Grand race!
Meanwhile, even the less sensible beings realised that Jason was not to be taken lightly, even if they were to ignore his Stigma and Aura.
That was because Jason's mana fluctuations were on par with beings that had created 8 prismarine crystals, while he, in fact, possessed only a single solidified prismarine crystal!
If that was not enough to clearly demonstrate that he was superior to those at the same rank as he was, Jason's eyes were more than enough to make them fall into a trance for a second, without being able to move or do anything.
This sensation was created through the Chaos energy that swirled through the Emperor Eyes.
After annexing the chaos attribute, the best place to store it was the marble behind his eyes, which could store mana, and fortunately, the chaos attribute as well.
Thus, the chaos attribute was constantly enhancing his eyes without being used up, creating a gleam within them that was filled with mystery; something that was dark, and dangerous.
In the end, Jason's earlier worry about being attacked disappeared, and even if he didn't know why exactly this was the case, he was happy about it.
Not being attacked, Jason grabbed the opportunity to take a look at the other races.
He was interested to see if there were other races like the Preactors that had entered Kinra Island to retrieve something.
However, before he could even start his research, Jason's eyes widened in shock as he looked at someone.
"Don't tell me…is that?! How…can she be there?"
