The new system messages appeared in front of Jason, and Jason calmly stared down at his raised hand with a grin on his face as he felt an intense amount of power flowing through his entire body. Jason had already felt the intensity of becoming a TITAN the first time he rose through the ranks, but at this moment, it was almost like Jason was stepping into a completely different realm from where he had once been! The power of a Rank II TITAN couldn’t even be compared to that of a Rank I TITAN! Once Jason’s power level had finished rising, Jason could feel a cold aura suddenly flowing out from his body in a constant wave that sent a massive chill through the world around him. Jason wasn’t affected by the cold aura since it was created from his own mana, but he could see how the sea of lava began to solidify just from being close to it! At this rate, Jason was sure that the combination of the cold aura from both him and the Beast of the Apocalypse would freeze this world over in no time.
Jason attempted to reduce the cold aura flowing out from his body, and he felt it reducing in intensity until it was barely 1% of its full capacity. At this level, only those who were directly around Jason would feel the aura at all, and Jason wouldn’t be able to use it to affect the world around him. This was a lot better, so Jason decided that he would keep the aura at this level until the moment when he truly needed it.
’And I lost a lot of mana just from using the skill for a short time. It costs about a thousand mana points a second to use the skill at a hundred percent. I’ll have to keep the skill dormant until I really need it.’
Jason watched the drop in his mana level, and he frowned as this thought crossed his mind. Thankfully, Jason could see that the skill didn’t take any mana from him when it was in a dormant state, so he didn’t have to worry about bleeding mana all the time.
BUOHH!?
The loud bellow of the Beast of the Apocalypse came from above Jason, and Jason looked up to see the creature crouching in front of him and looking down with curious eyes. Jason raised a brow at it, and he then grinned when the beast brought a finger forward like it wanted a handshake. Jason grabbed the finger, but he wasn’t even able to wrap his whole hand around the finger since it was so large, but he still gave it a good handshake with a grin and said.
"Try to get along with the others, alright?"
The beast released another low bellow and nodded obediently before Jason sent it into the Alternate Dimension.
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[The world of Yortsed]
[A Few Minutes Before Jason Woke Up]
A long blue line ripped through the air, and it slowly widened until it had formed into a wide Dimensional Circle, and the Skyking flew out from the Dimensional Tear and soared over the frozen city below. On the Skyking’s back, Gina felt her eyes widen in shock as she looked over the city, and she let out a cold, foggy breath as she felt an intense chill seeping into her body! Gina immediately knew that there was only one creature that could create a snowstorm powerful enough to freeze an entire city like this! The Beast of the Apocalypse was still alive!
’And Jason had been fighting it. That was why he didn’t want me to come help him. He knew I couldn’t keep up with the beast, so he decided to face it alone.’
Gina felt some anger rising from deep inside her heart when she realised that Jason had chosen to face off against this beast on his own again! Even though Gina understood why Jason had done it, that doesn’t mean she liked it at all, and the fact that Jason had decided to leave her out of the fight because he knew she wasn’t strong enough to handle herself just made her feel useless. If she couldn’t help her king when he needed her the most, then what was the point of having all this power? And the fact that Gina didn’t know where Jason was right now only added to the anger in her heart.
Jason wasn’t responding to her through the link, and even though she was certain that he was alive, Gina knew that he could be in a very dangerous situation that prevented him from responding. Gina let out a hard breath of cold air, and she looked around with narrowed eyes for any clues of where Jason had gone. There were signs of a massive-scale battle that happened in this town very recently. Some of the buildings and the land had been broken or torn down, and Gina knew that it was the battle between Jason and the Beast that caused this destruction. As Gina flew over the land, she saw some of Jason’s Phantom subordinates that had been frozen in silver ice, and Gina felt a terrifying thought pass through her mind.
’What if Jason had also been frozen solid?’
"Urk!"
It felt like a tight rope had suddenly wrapped itself around Gina’s heart and squeezed, and Gina nearly fell off the Skyking from the sheer intensity of emotion that passed through her! Gina didn’t know that she could feel this much fear! The mere thought of Jason leaving her behind terrified her far more than anything else in the world! If something like that happened, then she would be better off dead! Gina quickly shook her head to get rid of that thought, and she refocused on the search! There was no way Jason had been frozen solid! If Jason had been frozen, then she would know! She would have felt it if Jason were dead! Gina decided that she couldn’t allow ’what ifs’ to stop her, so Gina had to figure out what really happened.
Caw!
Gina heard the Skyking cry out in an exhausted tone as it tried to continue flying over the city, but it was obvious that the intense cold was starting to get to it. The Skyking was only a Rook Rank II beast, so it was nowhere strong enough to withstand the beast’s aura! The only reason it managed to keep moving for so long was because the beast had already moved on from this world, but Gina knew it was only a matter of time before the cold would force the Skyking to the ground. Gina patted the Skyking’s neck thankfully, and she flew off its back and told it to fly out of the city and wait for her there. The Skyking let out another cry in gratitude before it began making its way out of the city.
Gina let out a small sigh as she looked around once more, and she finally shook her head and began to follow the trail of destruction towards the other side of the city. There were large footsteps across the city ground moving away from the city and towards the north, and Gina coated her body in mana to make sure she kept the cold out before she began following the footprints.
Doon!
But before Gina could go very far, she was forced to stop when she felt an intense surge of mana travel across the air behind her! Gina turned around sharply and narrowed her eyes as she watched a Dimensional Circle slowly opening in the air, and Gina was surprised when she saw a petite, beautiful woman floating through the Dimensional Tear and appearing on Yortsed. Gina wasn’t usually the sort of person to comment on the beauty of other women, but at this moment, she couldn’t help but think that this was the most beautiful woman that she had ever seen. The woman had long hair made up of different colors that flowed behind her like a cape, and she wore a long black tunic that covered her modest build. The woman’s eyes were closed, but Gina had a feeling that the woman was watching her every move like a hawk. Gina immediately prepared to escape from there.