Chapter 429 - Torrential Energy

"Good-bye...FOOL!"
The moment the Ifry had said this, Jason had already started to move.
Yet, instead of rushing back to leave the cage, he pushed himself forward as Solaris had already entered his mana core.
Releasing his entire stored mana in addition to Solaris' mana at once, huge, yet, highly compressed flames shot out of Jason's hand that had pierced through the Ifry's chest straight into its mana core.
The Ifry's mana core was also the place where the Creato flame, that was about to erupt, was located.
The Creato flame had absorbed the Ifry's life force that was not sealed and it was unable to devour the high quantity of nutritions it received, at once.
As such, it was about to unleash its full might, when Jason's hand had pierced through the Ifry's chest, straight into the mana core, that was already damaged and about to crumble.
"Devour everything!!" Jason shouted and Solaris, whose greed had been revealed, screamed out in joy as the crumbling mana core had already been fully enveloped by the black origin flames.
A moment later, they infiltrated every little space of the mana core, and the Creator flame that was being overwhelmed and suppressed.
However, it was still not enough to prevent the Creato flame from imploding, which it was about to happen at any moment, when Jason forced Solars, who reject Jason's plan, to utilize the devoured energy to enhance its mana nullification ability!
As such, within the next few moments, the suppressed Creato flame that was about to be unleashed had been fully repressed, while Solaris devoured it without showing any mercy.
The smile one the Ifry had stiffened the moment Jason had pierced through its chest, knowing that its suicidal attack had been useless.
Yet, before it was able to do anything the Ifry's eyes had turned dim.
Solaris was still devouring the Creato flame until the very last strand.
Meanwhile, the surrounding temperature had increased significantly and Fasro, who had also understood what the Ifrytor had said, was about to charge outside the other cage to help Jason, only to notice that it was not necessary.
'How does he have so much mana? Didn't he have only 4 drops of liquefied mana in his core? And is that a mana nullification ability, the black origin flame has?'
Fasro was astonished about both Jason and Solaris. Jason had more mana than the Ariyor race had with the same amount of liquefied drops of mana, while the black origin flame was something he had yet to fully comprehend.
Nevertheless, it was great that Jason had survived and that was everything that counted!
He was talented, and it would worsen the relationship between the Ariyor race and Shiabi clan if a great talent would die because of their negligence!
As such, Fasro was glad to see that the black origin flame devoured the enormous energy that had been released from the Ifry's mana core.
Yet, Jason was not as happy as Fasro because he felt that the torrential energy Solaris absorbed was wreaking havoc within its mana core.
Solaris transmitted him that everything was fine, but Jason could tell that this was not exactly the case.
The torrential energy was not even made out of flames, but a weird energy that was similar to mana, yet, completely different!
Jason was unable to comprehend it and he could only estimate that it had something to do with the drop of lifeforce he had seen before!
Suddenly, Petri, who was able to sense everything as Artemis and Scorpio could too, transmitted Jason a weird thought.
'Why would Petri want to absorb the torrential energy? He has barely liquefied three drops of mana! How should he be able to endure such compressed energy waves??'
It was unknown how Petri was so sure that the life force that had been forcefully liquefied was beneficial for him.
However, Jason could tell that his youngest soulbond was confident.
As such, he released Petri, who had already reached the length of six meters and the width of Jason's tights.
He had ordered Solaris to divide the torrential energy from the Creato flame it had already devoured.
Only pure energy was left behind!
Solaris had already left Jason's mana core and appeared in front of Petri, whose eyes were gleaming in greed as he opened his maw widely.
A moment later, the energy Solaris couldn't contain was released and the blood-red drop of compressed life force emerged.
Its size had shrunk a little bit, but the Creato flame had been unable to make use of the complete life force it had been provided with.
The moment the blood-red drop of liquefied life force emerged from Solaris, Petri lunged towards it and devoured it without hesitation.
Only seconds later the drop of life force dissolved and Petri's whole body began to heat up.
However, what happened afterward was astonishing. The torrential energy that had been ravaging in Solari's mana core was becoming calm as it spread through Petri's body.
Jason was not sure what happened, but Petri told him that he had to hibernate for some time to digest the energy it had absorbed.
At the same time, a faint, white hue had begun to envelop Petri, and Jason could only stare at his youngest soulbond flabbergasted.
'Is Petri evolving??' He had seen the same scenario already once, and it had been Artemis, his first soulbond, who had already broken through her racial limits at that time, only to evolve at an unexpected time.
The same seemed to happen with Petri, but Jason was not sure what exactly the life force could be used for, when Fasro had already appeared behind him.
"You humans are certainly special. This soulbond is lucky too! To think that it could absorb the pure life force of several dozen individuals from the Ascron race….but why was that within the Ifry…"
Jason didn't understand what Fasro, who had turned to the Ifrytor, had said
"What did the Ifrytor race to the Ascron race?? Why is there a compressed life force of several dozen Ascron within such an insignificant existence as the ifry was??"
Fasro was visibly shocked, but the same could be said about the Ifrytor.
"H-How...HOWW did you survive that??" The Ifrytor was enraged and not sure what was going on as Jason, who had taken Petri and Solaris within his soul world, turned towards it.
His eyes were eerily cold as he walked outside the cage to enter the Ifrytor's cage.
Fasro followed suit, not sure what Jason was about to do as he saw a long scimitar appearing within Jason's hand.
However, before he could even do anything, Jason had already slashed at the Ifrytor, severing one of his arms as he asked
"What is that energy and why was it within the Ifry??"
He could barely refrain from speaking in the universal language and it was only when Fasro translated Jason's words, that the Ifrytor who was screaming out in pain understood him.
Nevertheless, it didn't answer anything and was about to mock Jason, as their eyes met.
Jason's killing intent was fully released within his eyes while the golden-silverish eyes had been activated by the energy stored within the separate mana storage.
With his killing intent release, his mana eyes abyssal ability utilized, and the petrification curse activated, the Ifrytor that was about to mock him, turned quiet in an instant as Jason repeated his question.
There was no translation required because the Ifrytor knew what Jason wanted to know..
"We...abducted several hundred Ascron and draw out their life force while barely keeping them alive!"
Jason didn't know what race the Ascrons were, but he was sure that Fasro would tell him if he asked.
After the Ifrytor had answered, Jason didn't wait for Fasro to translate everything as he asked
"Where is your hideout and how many of you are there??"
Once the question had been translated, Jason noticed that the mana within his eyes began to be used up to fast, and it would only be a few seconds before it would be fully used up.
As such he slashed out with Byakur again, severing the last limb the Ifrytor had left.
While screaming in pain he shouted out.
"Yasl?rn caves….SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND!!"
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