88: Surviving thousand deaths

Surviving thousand deaths

In the beginning, Jason didn't feel any kind of pain at all, and he thought that his teacher had been exaggerating the effect of the devilish valkyrie-shield fruit when a small silver shining membrane enveloped him from inside out.

After he had been completely enveloped and everything was sealed-off safely, his body began to itch lightly, which was only a little uncomfortable to Jason

This itching became more apparent as only a few seconds later it suddenly felt more like a sharp knife was stabbed in every cell of his body.

He couldn't focus on refining his brain or splitting it due to the searing pain that became even worse over time.

Not only it felt as if he was being stabbed continuously but also as if he was being skinned alive, burned, drowned, his nails torn out, eyes ripped apart, his brain thrown into a mixer, and additionally a hundred different types of killing methods that tortured him.

Jason could have never imagined the pain would be so much that he would literally want to embrace death instead.

"F***KKK." He cried out and bloody crimson tears began to pour out of his eyes, while Till saw everything from the outside pacing the room up and down, worriedly.

"FOCUS ON YOUR TASK!! THE PAIN WILL BE LESS LIKE THAT," his teacher shouted, but unfortunately, Jason couldn't hear him at all.

Half an hour passed and Jason had still not begun to refine his brain.

Finally, after gathering his thoughts under the unimaginable pain, Jason forced a marginal amount of liquid he had tried to control for an unknown time closer enough to his eyes, which he immediately absorbed.

Though his teacher had given him a fair warning, the pain was beyond his imaginationFortunately, he was prepared.

During his short spar with Leo, Jason had realised that the intensity of pain of his earth spiked calves lessened, the moment he had absorbed mana inside his eyes.

It had only been a quarter of a second or less, but right now liquefied mana was absorbed by his eyes. The bloody tears trickling out of his eyes lessened when a golden light radiated out of them, illuminating the entire magic circle.

Till noticed Jason's eyes brightening up as the light illuminated not just the circle but the entire room., It seemed like the pain Jason had to endure was lessened to a large degree, causing him to calm down slightly.

`He can do it!` 

Jason´s pain eased a little though he still felt the agonising pain coursing through his veins like fire and even if it was still hellishly painful, he could think calmly for the moment.

Continuing to absorb mana into his eyes, he only stopped after thinking it was more than enough to supply him for at least 24 hours.

After that, Jason began to follow the Splitting Mind´s first level description carefully.

His calm mind caused Jason to completely focus on the process of refining his mind and splitting it.

Hours passed and Jason felt that he had finally gotten over the worst part before the eased pain began to increase once again and Jason couldn't really do anything against it.

However now even with the increased pain, his mind was focusing on the refining process and stability.

The first ray of sunlight shone through the window and Till was still waiting for Jason, nervousness, apprehension, and worry chasing him at the same time.

He decided to tell the other teachers to look out for an instructor in order to teach some martial art techniques to his students over the next two days, without giving a reason for this decision.

Leaving Jason alone would be reckless, but that didn't mean it was needed to tell anyone about Jason constructing the first sub-area of the splitting mind technique.

If someone knew that, they would call him a devil, after finding out that he gave the devilish valkyrie-shield fruit to a novice rank, which was beyond crazy.

Maybe he would really be declared a devil and hunted for a bounty if something were to happen to Jason... Who knows, but that wasn't important right now, because Jason was struggling and barely hanging on to his focus due to the immense pain he had to endure.

Time passed slowly and to Jason, it felt like he was dying over and over again while only God knew how much time had passed as it was an eternity to Jason.

The only thing that made Jason stick until the end was his indestructible will to finish the creation of the first sub-area.

After what felt like an eternity, Jason finally finished refining his brain as he could feel his train of thoughts accelerate by leaps and bounds. This delighted him, but more important right now was that he could finally start the mind-splitting process.

If his mind was a pie, he would now slice around 1/100 of it and construct an independent system out of it.

This step was even more difficult than the first one, as the pain was becoming even more horrifying when Jason split apart his own mind.

Right when he was about to lose his mind, the golden light in his eyes illuminated the magic circle once again, calming him down for a second before the pain reappeared though it was slightly weakened.

He had lost track of time as he worked on fixing the larger part of his split mind. Jason finally relaxed a little before he could start constructing the sub-area.

Because Jason relaxed, his tension loosened up and the horrifying pain he had endured the whole time in a weakened state, rushed to him like a tidal wave as his head exploded in another fresh bout of shock and pain.

`Isn't it done yet???? My task isn't finished?? HELLO VALKYRIE FRUIT?!?!`

Jason could only grit his teeth and endure the pain, while he wasn't sure what was going on.

On the outside, almost 30 hours had passed and Till expected Jason to finish soon, which made him happy when he noticed Jason going limp a little as the coiled tension in his muscles began to recede.

  A radiant smile appeared on his face before he let out an ear-splitting scream as his body twitched violently..

`What is going on? Hasn´t he finished forming the sub-area??`  He was as clueless as Jason, but his knowledge was more profound than Jason's, causing Till to come up with many theories within a short amount of time.

Seeing the liquefied mana floating inside the mana circle, a bad feeling arose within him.

Jason didn´t know what to do and he had to concentrate really hard in order to think of a solution while enduring the endless pain.

`Is my task not finished, yet?` That was the only question in his mind and as he willed himself to think of a solution, he felt that he had to completely construct his sub-area before the pain would lessen...probably?

He wasn't exactly sure how to instruct his subconscious to practice the passive mana gathering and absorbing technique, because he wanted to do that after forming the sub-area.

This however changed now as he had to experiment with all kinds of possibilities while he was dying a thousand deaths.

An unknown amount of time passed with dozens of failed experiments before Jason finished a rough and crude construction of his passive mana gathering and absorbing technique, which immediately began to work.

While mana was gathering and being refined into his mana core, Jason felt the pain lessen by a marginal amount but even so, it was still apparent and tormenting his whole body.

`Why is the pain still apparent?` Jason asked himself, not knowing what was going on.

Did he do something wrong? He was unsure but other than the pain from the devilish valkyrie-shield fruit, he felt nothing else!

Right now a long time must have passed and Jason had done everything possible to finish the task.

He forced himself to open his eyes, which had been sewn shut for a while after some time as Jason felt it was easier to endure the pain when a golden light illuminated the room for a second before it vanished once again.

During this second, Jason could see Till standing right in front of the magic circle, looking at him worriedly.

Jason knew that his teacher was helpless and couldn't save him.

If Till interrupted his task, the pain he was enduring right now would be permanent and it would be like knowingly pushing his student into the pits of hell.

Noticing Jason look at him, Till´s mind was hurtling down the speed of a trainwreck as he exalted some of his liquefied mana in order to write a word in the air.

Jason could only read the first two letters, before the pain reappeared, forcing him to instinctively shut his eyes once again.

´Ma?` What's that? ARRRGHHH It hurts.

Minutes passed and his sub-area was refining mana diligently while Jason felt that he had momentarily lost the ability to think when a sudden thought flashed through his mind.

Ma? MANA?!

What about the mana? Is that my task??? Why?! I don't get it!

But it didn´t sound unreasonable… the more his passive mana gathering and refining technique absorbed, the less the pain became, even if it was almost not perceptible.

At least, he now knew of a new way to lessen the pain and Jason began to actively absorb the mana greedily while opening all his pores, which caused his pain only to increase.2

If that wouldn't work, Jason didn´t know what else he could do as he absorbed the mana with all his might, which couldn´t be said to be much.

Hours passed and Jason was oblivious to the fact that he had broken easily through the 7th Novice rank.

Another few hours passed and his mana core was already consolidated but his cultivation was still increasing at a steady pace, while the liquefied mana in his surrounding didn't seem to lessen by much.

He would normally be overjoyed to increase his mana core rank and it was a miracle that his mind hadn't exploded to pieces as Jason didn´t know how many thousands of deaths he had already endured.

The torture he endured began to slowly kill him from the inside, frightening Jason even more.

It felt as if he was absorbing mana way too slowly because he couldn't endure the pain anymore after he broke smoothly into the 8th Novice rank without noticing it.

Suddenly a thought reappeared in his mind when he was about to give up.

My EYES!!... With the appearance of his last ray of hope, Jason began to gather his mana inside his eyes, which began to release a golden, soothing light inside the magic circle and the pain began to lessen around him.

There was still a lot of mana, but the pain was much easier to endure and Jason was about to cry out in joy.

Instead of crying, Jason forced himself to focus on gathering mana inside his eyes which would be more helpful.

The more liquefied mana gathered within his eyes, the less was the pain Jason received as he seemed to go almost crazy to have finally found a way to tackle the pain.

The golden light cleansed his mind to a certain extent.

While his recently constructed sub-area consolidated his 8th Novice rank mana core, Jason´s eyes greedily absorbed the surroundings mana.

More than 60 hours had passed since Jason began with the procedure of constructing his first sub-area when the pain completely vanished.

Without the will to hold onto the lord-ranked mana core anymore, his grip loosened up.

When the mana core fell to the ground, Jason's wet eyes could only see his teacher running to him.

Jason began to cry… as he gripped his teacher's clothes not letting him go, when his teacher held him into his embrace, with guilt shining in his eyes.

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