While continuing to walk through the city, their small group interacted a lot.
This allowed Elder Ben to clearly understand that Jason didn't plan on finding his way back to Manyr.
Nor did he hope to procure Soa crystals in order to support other races in any kind of way.
That was reassuring, and made him think of a proper solution for Jason's request.
There was something the Elder was interested in as well.
As such, they ended touring through the City after a few hours, once they had shown Jason some important places.
These included the mission hall, the dojo in which he could procure techniques, the training hall used by cultivators to train using all kinds of weapons, and many more.
By the time the tour was concluded, the Elder came up with the solution for Jason's predicament which he revealed to him.
"How about I give you one Soa crystal? Just test whatever you want, and if you feel like you've figured something out, you can try accepting missions.
I will provide you with a permission certificate so that you can also be rewarded with Soa crystals just as its possible for Yinars. That way you don't have to purchase them directly, but you help the city by completing missions in exchange for the crystals! "
Jason didn't expect to get that kind of offer, but he liked the idea nonetheless.
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However, he couldn't help but doubt what the Elder wanted to achieve as even Lars looked at Elder Ben in confusion.
The Elder's earlier reaction was just too big of a contrast to the way he reacted now!
"Why would you do that? Earlier, you doubted me, but now you want to help me? You don't know me and you? suspected that I would use the Soa crystal for something evil, didn't you?"
Even if it might be deemed as rude to talk back to Elders of the Yinar race, Jason couldn't help but blurt out his concerns.
He had half-expected Elder Ben to reprimand him or not bother answering him at all. But, the answer he received was somewhat unexpected.
"Well, to be precise, we need strong people, and I think you know more than what you are letting us know, so my bet is on you. You can also say that I'm gambling on your success, and hope that you don't betray the trust I place upon you!"
All of this sounded nice, but Jason was still feeling a bit odd.
Not just him but even Jennifer was beginning to see some red flags which caused her to intervene.
"Why would you need strong people? Isn't the Yinar race far stronger than the Agran? And the territories of most beasts are relatively safe due to the borders they share with stronger beasts. Maybe, I'm wrong, but there shouldn't really be many issues for the Yinar race…"
On one hand, Jennifer was correct with the majority of her assumption, but even Lars could only smile dryly when she uttered her last line.
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But before anybody could react, the Elder answered her doubts, distracting Jason and Jennifer.
"As you have already heard a short while ago, Soa crystals allow beasts at any kind of stage to turn into wandering souls.
And, the same goes for intelligent races. They can turn into wandering souls with the use of Soa crystals.
What use does this have? To be precise, I have no idea what kind of advantage would the Yinar race possibly receive by abandoning their physical body as we already cultivate with Soul force.
Nevertheless, it was not too long ago, when a group of Yinars that became wandering souls used to exist.
But after becoming wandering souls everything that made them human disappeared.
Their kindness, joy and other emotions seemed to have vanished into thin air as if they had never existed within them.
Following that, they left our race, and established a new settlement in the Ninad beast realm.
Their strength increased by leaps and bounds, and some of us even suspect that they started to take over many sources of Soa crystals, which they use to cultivate their body.
Thus, our researchers think that wandering souls can absorb far more energy that is stored within the Soa crystals than our body can otherwise extract from them.
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It's related to our talent, preventing them from becoming stronger just like that.
Speaking about the issue of having enemies, the wandering souls formed out of the people from our race…seemed to lose their rationality.
They started to attack our Soa crystal mines three years ago, and even if I don't like speaking about it like that, the situation quickly spiraled out of control.
It is far more dangerous than anyone could have ever expected!"
After being bombarded with a lot of information, Jason tried to digest everything at once.
Despite that, it took him a few minutes to get his act together.
'So…wandering souls that have been bound are restricted from absorbing too much of energy, while that's not necessarily the case for wandering souls? But that doesn't really make any sense. Otherwise, all wandering souls would attack the mines, and not just the wandering souls of the Yinar race! Could becoming a wandering soul as Yinar have more advantages?'
As conflicting thoughts raked his mind, Jason believed that Elder Ben and numerous other Yinar had reached the same conclusion.
However, in order to keep this a secret, nobody spoke about it.
This was not exactly the best solution, in his opinion, but Jason knew that he shouldn't poke his nose in others' business too much.
All of them were elderly to him, which meant that their life experience was much higher.
Thus, he hoped that they were also intelligent enough to weigh the pros and cons of revealing the truth about their race and not just the advantages, but also the disadvantages of turning into a wandering soul.
In the end, Jason was just happy that Elder Ben trusted him enough to reveal bits of the whole truth to him.
After all, it indicated that Jason had won the Elder over despite not knowing him for a long time.
"In that case, I would like to experiment a little bit with one Soa crystal. How long will it take for me to get the permission to apply for a mission that rewards Soa crystals?"
In Jason's opinion, there was no need for him to waste anymore time.
As such, he should just advance ahead, and try procuring a large quantity of Soa crystals which would be enough for him to undergo his true soul awakening with them.
Unfortunately, he knew that a true soul awakening required more than just one ingredient.
Because of that, Jason could only hope to find a few more ingredients, if not everything he required to undergo his true soul awakening for his Agran bloodline.
As for the true soul awakening for the Celestia bloodline, Jason didn't have the slightest clue of what he required to undergo it.
In fact, he was pretty sure that he had yet to undergo even a normal awakening with the Celestia bloodline because it had been sealed when he awoke his soul world core.
However, the given situation was something he was completely fine with as he felt that everything might become a bit less rushed.
He wanted to stay in one place, for at least a few months, hopefully longer than a year.
This was owing to the fact that Jason had yet to enter the Ascendion stage, which was one of his tasks in his never-ending to-do list.
