Towers Of Heaven - 57 Book 3 Chapter 52

Shenlong’s team gathered outside the haven after Peter’s announcement, except for Amara and Carly, who already set off independently. Like Jason, Shenlong and Dubaku learned from Fox and gained the Domain skill. Shenlong already had a similar skill, though the much weaker. It fused with Domain, slightly increasing its range.

“Have you unlocked telepathy yet?” Jason explained some of the tricks he learned from experimenting. For example, if you focused Domain in one direction, the distance you could sense increased drastically.

Roy groaned from hearing the three discuss their new abilities. “I meditate every night before bed, so why haven’t I awoken my soul yet? Domain sounds kickass!”

The silent Olivia turned to Jason and confirmed, “So commander Fox teaches soul techniques?”

“Yep,” Jason saw Olivia had a queer expression. “What’s up?”

“What a coincidence. We found a soul teacher the day I reached the fourth realm,” Olivia spread her hands. After confronting her father with her own beliefs, her shoulders felt lighter, and her thoughts brighter. That night she mediated as usual, and with her refreshed mentality, she heard the voice of the world.

“Whaaaat?!” Roy turned to his fellow companion in disbelief.

Jason and the others were similarly surprised and quickly congratulated her. It was great news to have another fourth realm ascender. Alas, it was just too hard to reach and required talent, hard work, and enlightenment. Take Cheslov, for example. He was born with a particularly sensitive soul, yet even he couldn’t take the next step.

“Am I ever going to advance?” Roy started feeling upset, which was rare for him. Olivia was similar in age to him, only a few years older, so he compared himself to her all the time. Over the past few months, both he and Olivia reached the third realm’s peak after tremendous effort, yet now she took the next step.

“Hahaha,” Jason thought it was the funniest thing in the world to hear Roy doubt himself regarding the fourth realm. “Bro, I didn’t tell you before to prevent you from feeling stressed, but only a single person in my timeline reached the fourth realm. You!”

“Really? I was?” Roy was both surprised and delighted to hear that.

“Nobody even knew it existed and thought the third realm was the highest you could go. Meditation was a skill only for mages back then.” The Jason of before usually avoided recalling the past. Now, he could think and talk about it without getting depressed.

Curious about her alternate self, Olivia asked, “What about me? Did I do anything special?”

“Uh,” Jason paused and turned to Olivia, “are you sure you want to know? It isn’t a happy story.”

Olivia’s expression darkened briefly before returning to normal. “I do.”

“Okay,” Jason sighed, “I didn’t know you very well. Nobody did. Only years after Cay became a demon did I meet you. You seldom spoke and were emotionless. Eventually, a raid formed to kill Cay, and you traded your life for his. Back then, he was the most powerful ascender by far, yet he was alone.”

“Sounds about right,” Olivia could easily imagine going down that path. Not this time. Now she had companions and a place to belong.

Shenlong coughed to change the topic, “Anyway, I want to hunt solo today.”

“Me too,” Dubaku added. Both wanted to experiment with their newly acquired skills. Who could blame them?

“I guess I’ll head to Fox,” Olivia voiced her thoughts.

Roy slammed a fist into his other hand and declared. “I’m going to meditate!”

“Alright, good luck,” Jason inwardly sighed in relief. At least he didn’t have to make an excuse to hunt alone.

After the party split up, Jason picked a random direction to travel in as he fell into thought. The blood moons were manageable for now. The alliance could fight them on their own with the haven’s support, and if things got bad, Jason could make a move. The only problem was if the demons found their base. A doom hydra with fifteen runes was too much to handle. However, they could only hide for so long. How much time did they have? A few weeks? A month?

In that case, Jason needed to increase his strength as fast as possible. If the demon king’s general came personally, Jason wanted to be strong enough to handle it himself. If Lavos or the other tribes heard this, they’d think he was crazy.

There were several ways to improve Jason’s power. First was his legacy sword. It gained stats or skills with every kill. Unfortunately, kills through his Domain didn’t count. The sword had to be the direct cause of death. Otherwise, Jason was confident he could grow the weapon to its original strength, which could probably kill the demon king by itself.

The second method was to increase his Willpower. If it was high enough, he could just directly wipe out the demon king’s soul. There were a few problems with this route. Firstly, if there were methods to attack souls, there were probably defensive methods as well. Considering the tower placed increasingly greater importance on souls, then this was likely the case. Secondly, stats raised slower the higher they were. Jason couldn’t hope his Willpower increased indefinitely. That was a gamble he wasn’t willing to take.

The third method was to raise his battle physique to the next level. Alas, the process of doing so was unknown. Jason had a hunch the next level was different than the rest. There had to be something so powerful that even the tower didn’t give a clear explanation.

The fourth method was to form more runes. Not only did it give new skills, but it also increased various stats.

Of the four methods, Jason crossed off the third. It was too unreliable. The same went for the second. Since he didn’t know of any ways to increase Willpower, he’d just let it grow passively. Of the two remaining methods, he didn’t have to pick one over the other. His plan was simple: use most of his soul force to massacre monsters, then hunt with his sword while it regenerated.

While he could use his time meditating instead of raising his sword’s power, he couldn’t help but remember how mighty Roy’s divine grade sword was in the previous timeline. Not only that, Jason could still recall the god-like power when he killed Hector with a single swing. Aros’ legacy sword was something special, and he couldn’t let it go to waste.

With his thoughts settled, Jason set off into the wilderness.

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