Right now, Solaris was still occupying Jason's mana core, but Petri was already fully prepared to replace Solaris once the time was ripe.
By actively replenishing his mana, he was able to have a full mana core for the entire time, which made it much easier to initiate his plan that was rather simple.
The Cheetah of the Golden Sun was trying to extinguish the black flames that were scattered all over the ground.
They were spaced in a way that at least one of them occupied every square meter of space, however, that was easier said than done.
In the end, the Cheetah had to envelop the entire flame with its spatial affinity before transporting it to a faraway place where Jason could hardly reach it.
Other than that, the black flame could sustain itself as long as enough mana was around. It was just the flame's strength that would adjust according to the environment and Jason's will.
As such, the flames were currently the size of tiny sparks so they didn't demand much.
Yet, instead of trying to make them flare up all of a sudden as huge flames, and possibly injure the Cheetah, Jason had a much better plan.
Because of that, he finished the remaining steps of his plan with no hesitation while trying to stall for some time.
Meanwhile, the Cheetah had begun to use its spatial affinity to prevent accidentally stepping over the black flames on the ground while running away.
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In fact, there was not much to know because the reaction speed of the Cheetah was lightning fast. The time it required to create a normal spatial portal was not important, only the accuracy of where they opened mattered for Jason's plan.
As such, while the last few minutes before everything had been put into the correct location passed, Jason focused on the spatial affinity's accuracy.
He intently observed to what extent the accuracy at which the portal was placed prolonged the manifestation procedure.
In the end, he figured out that it was not much but Jason didn't really expect anything great, to begin with.
Because of that, he smiled lightly, thinking that it was barely enough for him to act. Thus, he couldn't help but smile foolishly, while staring at the Cheetah of the Golden Sun that seemed to have entered the Ascendion stage just a few days or weeks ago.
This meant that it was not in full control of its strength yet, that it had to adjust itself to the changes first, which made things much easier for Jason.
Nevertheless, he was at a disadvantage if one were to look at him and the Cheetah individually.
Fortunately, Jason was not alone, and he had more than enough soulbonds to rely on for the current mission.
With that in mind, he made use of his Emperor Eyes that detected the creation of a spatial portal just a second before it happened.
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This was much easier than expected owing to the mana fluctuations as well as the fraction of a second Jason was able to see in the future owing to the foresight ability.
Owing to that, he had a slight upper hand using which he was able to charge at the Cheetah before it had even emerged at its targeted spot.
With that advantage, Jason wanted to overwhelm the Cheetah of the Golden Sun, forcing it to make a silly mistake. It would likely prevent the beast from leaving without rushing to use the spatial affinity in an inaccurate manner in order to teleport itself farther from Jason.
That was his hope, and also something that was not further problematic to achieve if everything went according to his plan.
Thus, the moment he perceived his opportunity and gauged that the spatial portal would emerge only a hundred meters away from him, he smiled brightly.
A quick swap replaced Solaris with Artemis, who occupied his mana core before instantaneously starting the fusion process.
Jason's demeanor changed in an instant, as his hair turned silverish-white, two horns grew out of his forehead, a second stigma emerged above the first one, and his aura that was suddenly unleashed, transformed.
By circulating a huge amount of moonlight transmuted mana through his body, his physical capabilities were momentarily enhanced. It was followed by the exertion of the Floating Sky movement technique that allowed Jason's speed to double his current speed.
Only a fraction of a second later, he catapulted himself ahead with his aura that was fully released.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "663633fa8ebf7442f0652b33", id: "pf-8817-1"})The two stigmas on his body were activated, further increasing the speed at which he could circulate mana through his body.
This allowed him to increase the effects of the Floating Sky movement technique and his normal mana circulation effects that were already enhanced by the moonlight affinity.
Even with all of this, Jason knew that he would still lose out against the Cheetah of the Sun, who had just emerged from the Spatial portal.
It would require a quarter of a second to realize that Jason had left no stone unturned to attack with full power, or possibly less. But, in order to evaluate the situation, a fraction of a second would pass.
As such, Jason knew that he had half a second to initiate his attack from a distance that had decreased to less than 90 meters in an instant.
Because of that, Jason did something for the first time in his life.
He actively inserted the painstakingly accumulated divine energy into his eyes!
Even though he had never used the divine energy in order to actively fight before, there was a huge difference between it and the chaos energy.
While the chaos energy belonged to the Chaos Emperor and not to him, the divine energy originated from his body and belonged to him and nobody else.
After slowly circulating the divine energy into his eyes, Jason felt them ignite with distinct and vibrant energy that flared through every millimeter of his eyeball.
Thus, given the terrifying amount of energy, he didn't hesitate to exert the abyssal effect, the petrification curse, and the race specific weakening curse.
While the curses were enhanced and slightly altered owing to the different energy that had been supplied into the curses, the abyssal effect was relatively unaffected by the divine energy.
However, what Jason didn't know was that the divine energy was actually changing the entire abyssal effect, replacing the endless void of darkness with a bright shining light.
This dazzling light swept through the Cheetah of the Golden momentarily blinding it.
Following that, something else that was extremely huge was about to grasp the Cheetah, only for its mind to be released from the abyssal curse's effect.
At that moment, it realized that Jason had disappeared from his spot that was 90 meters away, and had emerged in front of it.
Before it could react, he released icicles that had been manifested out of moonlight transmuted mana.
Shooting it towards the Cheetah, it evaded them, only to realize that Jason was closing the distance between the two of them way too fast.
Thus, it tried to move backward, but before it could do so, the black flames behind it erupted, turning into a huge wall of fire.
Attempting to avoid the black fire, the Cheetah of the Golden Sun quickly utilized its spatial affinity. Yet, before it could jump through it, realization struck the Cheetah as it noted that it took a quarter of a second longer for it to manifest the spatial portal.
Owing to that, it had to choose between jumping through the black flame wall, being touched by Jason, who was not far away anymore or swiftly manifesting an inaccurately placed spatial portal.
As such, it chose the latter, thinking that it was the best choice.
Thus, it jumped through the portal that emerged in front of it.
However, what awaited the Cheetah of the Golden Sun on the other side was not something it would have ever expected!
