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nAfter eating, Jason went to his room, where he decided to calm himself down by reading through the Weightless Steps manual.

nIn the beginning, he was still thinking about his scarcity of soul energy but after reading the first few pages of the tiered movement skill in front of him, Jason felt like he was bewitched.

nTo his surprise, the Weightless Steps skill seemed to be a sub-form of the Floating sky skill Jason had copied.

nReading through the manual within a few hours, Jason was certain that he would be able to reach a terrifying speed with this skill, once he reached a certain degree of mastery with it.

nMaybe he would even be able to use the copied mana circulation with some modification into the `Weightless Steps` technique, but that had to wait for some time.

nFirst, Jason had to practice the original technique and he would have left to the combat area if his soul energy wasn't close to being completely replenished

nOnly around one hour was left according to his estimation.

nAs such Jason, he to enter the video uploading platform Celetube to watch some videos.

nHe was slightly embarrassed when he clicked on the videos... If anyone saw him right now, it was very likely that he would be laughed at.

nHe was looking at brading videos because the Heaven´s Hell technique alone couldn't give him the visible support in order to understand how to braid.

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nOnly the descriptions alone were way too complex for Jason to understand and comprehend as his hair was relatively short without him being able to practice brading.

nJason watched multiple videos and even rewatched some to imprint the details into his mind when his soul energy was completely reproduced.

nNow, his concentration would have to do all the work as Jason steeled his heart before he entered the soul world.

nOnly a short moment later, he stood in front of the stable floating soul world with the soul energy liquid buzzing around vigorously.

nTaking a deep breath he divided his soul energy into five equal sections.

nThis alone took Jason already three minutes to forcefully calm down the vigorous soul energy that buzzed around.

nLuckily Jason´s mind was already refined and his will strong enough to hold out the strenuous work.

nNumbering the sections in his mind would help him keep the track of the whole process before he even began.

nThe strand at the leftmost was his number 1 while the one next to it was number 2 until he reached section number 5.

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nJason placed the soul energy strand 1 over strand 2 and under strand 3, while strand 5 was placed over strand 4 and under strand 1.

nThis was just the first step and Jason was already confused if he did the right thing but doubting himself would hurt him more than helping himself.

nNow the soul energy strand 1 was at the sideways angle, near strand 5. After passing strand 5 over strand 4 he passed it under strand 1.

nJason smiled lightly seeing the ground fundament of a braid forming while sweat poured out of his pores.

nAfter foolishly smiling, Jason placed strand 2 over strand 3 and under strand 5.

nIt looked like strand 5 was now the second to the left and Jason repeated the same basic process with strand 2, that he used at the beginning of the braiding.

nHe made sure to pass a strand over first and under second, as it was said to be the pattern of the five-strand braid.

nAfter taking a deep breather, Jason felt mentally exhausted.

nHe placed strand 4 over strand 1 and under strand 2 and it is now closest to strand 1 and strand 2. Moving strand 1 to strand 2, Jason made sure to weave strand 4 over and under.

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nJason continued this pattern until he reached the end of the soul energy strands and he wondered how the hell he finished it without failing a single time.

n(Author Note: Should be right xd)

nBut somehow it worked and Jason smiled bitterly.

nIt was much easier for him to control the single Five-Strand after he finished braiding.

nThe soul energy five-strand helix was roughly 10 centimeters long but at least three-times thicker compared to the commonly used helix.

nHis mind was racing and he could hear his heart thumping loud, while he forced himself to inject the five-strand helix into his soul world core.

nThe pain of forcing a thick and more solid soul energy strand into his soul world core was multiple times more painful than the mosquito bite, the common helix gave him.

nIt was a shorter process but definitely more painful.

nA few seconds passed before the searing pain in his mind lessened considerably, while Jason was forced out of the soul world.

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nHis whole concentration was used up and Jason was lying in his bead, sweating severely.

nThe only thing he had to find out right now was how long the whole process took him.

nGazing at the clock of his holographic screen around 90 minutes seemed to have passed, which was shorter than he expected for his first try.

nAfter getting to know that, Jason couldn't control his body anymore as his mind entered the dreamworld it longed for.

nThe sun was already up when Jason woke up.

nLooking at the clock it was already 9 am.

nIt took him quite a while until he remembered what he did the day before at night.

nOnce he remembered Jason immediately entered his soul world.

nSensing the reproduced energy, Jason thought for a second before a smile appeared on his face.

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nOne single practice of the Heaven´s Hell technique brought him slightly more than 0.1 soul energy.

nPracticing the technique three times a day would give him at least 0.3 soul energy, and this was for the first week.

nMaybe he could push it up to 0.4 for the second week.

nIf Artemis waited for two whole weeks, Jason´s soul energy would increase from 11.2 units he had now to 15.9, which was a huge difference.

nWith the amplification from Artemis's evolution, Jason was confident in reaching the needed requirement for a low-awakened beast.

nJason could endure the pain from the five braided soul energy helix because of the devilish valkyrie-shield fruit´s torture.

nComparing these pain of both was unnecessary as the result was obvious.

nOnly Jason´s concentration would need time to adjust to controlling five strands at once but that would be fine after multiple tries.

nHe was confident in doing so.

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nNow with his completely reproduced soul energy, Jason wanted to practice the Five-strand braided helix once again.

nSlightly less than 90 minutes passed and Jason was again on his bed without enough strength to stand up.

n*Grumble*

nHe was craving food but he was unable to stand up.

nIt took him almost 20 minutes until he could barely stand.

nStaggering down, Greg greeted him, while Jason´s mind was solely focused on the fridge as he lamented about his empty spatial storage.

nOpening the fridge, Jason took out a few sausages and Jason sighted some toast next to the fridge and picked the whole package up.

nJason scarfed down everything, while Greg looked at him with astonished eyes.

n`What's wrong with him??` He thought when he remembered that he was about to practice his combat skills.

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"Hey Jason, let's spar again!

" Greg asked Jason, without letting him gulp down all the food he prepared.

nJason was joyful about his successful second try in practicing one of the most difficult helix´s of the Heaven's Hell technique´s second level and it was a feat to be proud of when Greg threw him out of his train of thoughts.

nBefore he could even answer, he was dragged out by Greg, like he himself did only a few days before.

nIt felt like a deja vu and Jason´s eyes looked longingly at the sausages and toasts that were still on the table, close, yet far away.

nBut there was nothing, Jason could do about it and he was also expectant to test out his newly acquired movement skill.

nMaybe he could overwhelm Greg with it and win his first fight!!!

nBut almost immediately after Jason thought that his mana eyes detected something different on Greg.

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"D-Did you break into the 4th- Adept rank?

" Jason asked slightly hesitating.

n`What if he doesn't restrict his mana core rank anymore?... Ahh nevermind that`

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nJason was comfortable with Greg and he believed his friend wouldn't kill him or heavily injure him.

nFrom what Jason knew about Greg, he was rather guys with Fairplay principles who wanted to improve his technique rather than bullying the weaker opponent.

nAs such, Jason was confident that Greg would at least restrict his mana core strength to the 9th Novice rank or at most the 1st Adept rank.

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"Ohh..haha... Yes, yesterday!

" He said, not even trying to cover his pride expression.

nSuddenly the two boys saw Malia absorbing mana in the backyard with her soul beasts around her when Jason´s eyes detected yet again something.

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"G-Greg!!! Your sister also broke through... She is already at the 2nd Master rank...and only 16 years old. Woah... Her aptitude must be extremely good.

" Jason praised and he already forgot that he hadn't praised Greg, who looked at his sister jealousy.

nHe swore to himself, that he would be stronger than her in the future while thinking about the first soulbond that was better than Malia´s

nLaughing inwardly, Greg continued to drag Jason to the combat arena, before he could avert his gaze.

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