In two months, Jason had been able to become much stronger than before. Not only did he finally solidify his ninth prismarine crystal, but he had liquefied more than half of the mana drops he required to enter the 2nd threshold of the Prismar stage.
This was much faster than he expected, and Jason was sure that the next few months would allow him to enter the 2nd threshold.
Unfortunately, he couldn't tell if it would be before the grand attack wave of the Oceanfolk.
He sincerely hoped so, but it was something Jason had no idea about.
Fortunately, his passive mana gathering technique that had been implanted into the first sub-area was doing its work, absorbing tremendous amounts of mana before liquefying it.
Due to this, he didn't have to be worried about the number of liquefied drops he had.
Rather, he wanted to pay more attention towards convincing the Mewi that were scattered across the different villages to join forces in order to prepare for the Oceanfolk's attack wave.
He assumed that they would be extremely stubborn because each of the tribe chiefs was most likely eager to lead their respective village into war.
However, that was not something Jason could say for sure.
As such, instead of making assumptions, Jason decided to spend the next few days in order to visit all villages once again, seeing how they were faring. Now that the mana scarcity issue was solved he wished to know if all of them were against the idea of relocating elsewhere or even gathering the strongest force to face the Oceanfolk's army head-on.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64ce79d606107d003c23ea27", id: "pf-5140-1"})This was important to do because it was crystal clear that there were more than a few issues the village tribe chiefs created.
From what Jason had perceived, the tribe chiefs were somewhat possessive, territorial, and hard to please.
As such, only rescuing one of their own would allow Jason to be accepted into their tribe like the little girl he had saved earlier in the first village.
Fortunately, that was not something he wanted.
In the end, he simply released his Celestia aura as much as possible with a faint trace of the divine energy that was stored within his body.
At the same time, Artemis' wings manifested on his back and spread wide open, and Jason radiated the moonlight affinity around him.
As such, with the Stigma additionally activated, there was no problem at all.
Rather, the tribe chiefs were too easily convinced that Jason was a godsend who had arrived to rescue them.
They believed that Jason had also somehow fixed the issue with the deteriorated mana. It couldn't be a coincidence that the mana in the entire valley was becoming stronger, only a few days after he had first appeared. The scarcity had disappeared with the available mana reaching the old maximum capacity during the last few days.
This was great, but if they knew that the issue had been the mana vein's damaged state, they would probably be confused, not knowing that a mana vein even existed in the valley.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64cc9e79c7059f003e4ad4b0", id: "pf-5109-1"})Because of that, Jason decided that it was simply the best to remain quiet about the mana vein.
At least, for now.
Instead, Jason wanted to focus on gathering forces, but even after he had been accepted, doing this was much more difficult than he could have hoped for.
Exhausting himself by releasing the faint trace of divine energy from the inside of his body was not exactly something Jason found comfortable.
Nonetheless, he did everything in order to pass the trial with a high score and to make the best out of the Mewi race's rejection.
However, first, Jason wanted to see if all of the villages would deny joining forces in order to face the Oceanfolk. If they did as Jason expected, the entire trial would be easier to complete or turn it into a terrifying situation where he had no way but to do everything by himself, just like always.
He sincerely hoped that it would not be the latter, but he had a premonition. As such, Jason tried his best to show himself in the most harmless and approachable way before he flew to the next village in order to do the same.
Before leaving, he always asked the same batch of questions, trying to convince each village to help themselves and indirectly help him.
Unfortunately, all of the tribe chiefs were stubborn, but that was not an issue because Jason noticed something else, something that would make everything much easier.
While the tribe chiefs were outright rejecting his proposal, Jason realised that the villagers were eager to help him with every village that he paid a visit to. The ordinary villagers were eager to fight against the Oceanfolk, along with the other villages, even those that inhabited the mutated Mewi.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "663633fa8ebf7442f0652b33", id: "pf-8817-1"})Jason hadn't expected this first, but it made many things much easier because the only issue was now to convince all of the tribe chiefs.
Seven days had passed since he began to travel through the valley in order to find all villages and convince them that he could help them, and getting rid of the oceanfolk once and for all was possible. Alas, not a single tribe chief wanted to receive his help.
That was because they thought that he could be betraying them, disguised as the Oceanfolk's spy, which was something Jason found to be extremely ridiculous.
Nevertheless, that was how the tribe chief acted.
Fortunately, Jason had not only spent the last seven days in order to speak to the tribe chiefs, but he was also paying attention to the reaction of the other Mewi inside the village, in addition to the surrounding environment.
There was something that bothered him extremely, but he had yet to figure out what exactly the solution to his worry was.
'What exactly is the Oceanfolk interested in?' Jason kept asking himself the entire time, but despite seeing the valley's treasures with his Emperor Eyes, he didn't feel that could be the reason. The said treasures were not really something extremely special that would be worthwhile to initiate a war that would lead to the death of hundreds of beings of the Oceanfolk.
Maye, the death toll had already surpassed that number, and Jason was simply oblivious to that!
At least, Jason didn't think that the Lord of the Ocean territory that was adjacent to the valley required something that would lose its worth inside water, such as specific herbs that would simply drown or lose their potency underwater.
Of course, the entire valley was filled with many great things, and even the trees Jason had chopped in order to build the walls around the first Mewi village he had been to were rare and of exceptional worth.
However, for marine beings, there shouldn't be anything worthwhile on the land.
Yet, owing to his incapability to see everything through his Emperor Eyes clearly, some areas were either blurred or simply invisible owing to a perfect concealment, which even his Emperor Eyes couldn't see through.
Not yet at least!
With that in mind, he knew that something was well hidden in these specific areas and that he had yet to figure out what it was.
Nevertheless, Jason returned to the first village he had ever been to, where he was greeted with overly joyous Mewi.
They had not faced even a single casualty, and also clearly understood that Jason was the reason for the return of the dense and pure mana that permeated their surroundings.
As such, the Mewi villagers could tell that Jason was there to help, and when he tried to convince the villagers about joining forces to fight against the Oceanfolk, they could also easily comprehend what kind of issues Jason was probably facing with the other villages.
"You want to convince the tribe chief's to join you, right? If that's the case, it would be much easier to become a tribe chief yourself and forcefully convince the other tribe chiefs in the meeting that will be held soon!"
It was the mother of Lilia, the young Mewi he had saved before, who said this, and turning towards her, he couldn't help but stare at her while considering her idea.
Yes, out of a sudden, he heard another familiar voice, and the content of his words astonished Jason greatly.
"Yes, fight me as a member of our village, and after defeating me you should become a Grand tribe chief, and challenge everyone else too!!"
