God's Eyes

Jason clearly recalled the small favor he owed the Elvyr race as they had helped him in the past.

It was a rough time on Argos during the period of the Great Argos war.

They had struggled to survive and overcome the never-ceasing attacks of more than a dozen of foreign races.

At that time, only a few races were on their side, including the Elvyr race that had rushed to their aid when they needed help the most.

However, even after their arrival, there had been issues, forcing Jason to sign a soul contract with them stating that he owed the Elvyr race a small favor.

He had never expected the Queen to ask him about the favor in the first message she sent to him.

As such, he stared at the letter for a few minutes with an incomprehensible smile on his face.

The Queen's way of communication was a mixture of informal, formal, and a bit friendly as if she was writing to someone she had known for years.

This was amusing to Jason but instead of minding it too much, he thought that it had to do with the cultural differences between the two of them.

It was only obvious, but due to the existence of countless races in the vast universe, countless cultures with different traditions had come into existence as well!

Clearly understanding this, Jason put away the letter before looking at Jennifer for a moment.

She was caressing Artemis' soft plumage and appeared to be deep in thought.

Since Jason had bound another soulbond, one that was able to fly like her once he was old enough, Artemis had sought comfort with Jennifer.

From a nemesis in the eyes of the oldest of Jason's soulbonds, Jennifer had become Artemis' greatest ally.

This was something that caused Jason to smile in amusement when he noticed the change in Artemis' behavior for the first time.

However, even Jennifer seemed to act a little bit different from Jason as she believed that he shouldn't bind too many beasts to his soul.

At least, not, if he didn't want to hurt the feelings of his other soulbonds as it made them feel useless.

It was not as if Jason couldn't understand that, but the biggest issue at hand was simply that he was too weak.

He required powerful soulbonds, affinities and unique abilities in order to survive and fight the existences that he had just encountered.

If he didn't do so, Jason was sure that he would soon encounter an opponent who would simply tear him apart!

His road ahead was filled with numerous obstacles, and Jason could already guess that he was bound to fight Primordials in the future.

Thus, in order to protect all of his soulbonds that were dear to him, and were as important to him as a real family, Jason required strength…far more strength than he had right now!

Jennifer also understood this, but she simply felt bad for Artemis.

Her rationality was overwhelmed by her emotions and Jeniffer felt pity for the owl.

Under normal circumstances, this wouldn't happen to Jennifer as all her life she had been trained to become powerful in order to protect herself as well as Luna who had been more like a mother than a senior to her.

However, right now, she was an oddball herself, siding with Artemis as it was her firm belief that more soulbonds meant that she was bound to have less time with Jason alone!

In her opinion, Jason's soulbonds were already one of the major reasons for the two of them to have limited time alone.

Concluding how much time she were to have once Jason would bind ten more soulbonds, Jennifer could only feel like she was suffocating.

Fortunately, Jason didn't seem to understand the struggle of Jennifer and Artemis as he would call them out for being unrealistic the moment he were to find out the truth behind the change in their behavior.

Having been deep in thoughts while trying to find the most efficient plan to become stronger, it was only obvious that he wasn't aware of the true feelings of Artemis and Jennifer.

Even if he knew about it, this wouldn't change anything in his plans as he did everything for Jennifer, and his soulbonds, to begin with!

It was just at this moment that Jason's soul world core began to twitch.

A familiar sensation crawled over his body as he turned towards Jennifer.

"By the way, Jen…did you sense any kind of pulling force towards a specific direction? For example, to procure some ingredients for your True Soul awakening?"

His gut feeling told him that the capital which they had entered not too long ago, had several materials he required for his True soul awakening.

However, this time both his bloodlines had reacted, indicating that something they required was in the city.

This was great, and Jason was eager to leave the house for the first time since they had arrived.

He didn't want to wait for Kiat to arrive and remind him of the favor and do something for the Elvyr race, right off the bat.

Sensing that an ingredient for the Celestia race's True Soul awakening was close, Jason had to find out what kind of item it was at the bare minimum.

It would make many things easier if he were to know the names of the ingredients he required for both bloodlines, but this was not something that would happen so easily.

Thus, after picking up Artemis, and placing her gently on his shoulder, Jason grasped Jennifer's hand.

"Let's go out! We were holed up long enough here without actually cultivating or doing anything productive!"

The moment he said this, Artemis' eyes flicked from Jennifer to Jason, who winked at Jennifer.

During the last few days, none of his soulbonds had been able to leave the soul world, and neither had they been able to see, hear or sense anything that had happened outside the soul world.

However, even after being questioned, Jason had remained silent about what had actually happened in those few days.

In the end, only Jason and Jennifer knew about that and seeing Jennifer's beet-red face, the answer was obvious.

This caused Artemis to look at Jennifer as if she had betrayed her.

Screeching out, she showed her discontent, before the golden stigma on her horns lit up like a torch.

A moment later, Artemis had vanished as she returned back to the soul world, leaving Jason and Jennifer alone.

"Was that really necessary?" Jennifer asked, sighing deeply once she had calmed down.

Sometimes, or rather, in most cases, Jason's behavior was simply incomprehensible to her.

He was certainly adorable and loved her, but he seemed to be moody and eccentric.

This confused her sometimes, and had she not known how reliable Jason truly was, she would think that he was unable to take things seriously.

In the end, there might be quite a few people that thought of him like this.

However, most of them were people he trusted to the extent at which he was able to show them his true, carefree behavior.

Otherwise, the vast majority of beings that knew of him were either scared, curious or neutral around him.

Yet, everyone was fully aware of the fact that he was the type of character that one shouldn't underestimate by any means!