God's Eyes Chapter 159 - Small Steps

Hours passed and Jason′s clothes were completely drenched in sweat, as he gazed lovingly and with pride at the jade iron bar in front of him.
He forgot how many times he failed to expel the impurities within the jade iron ore and only the small mountain of scrap to his left could tell Jason the answer.
But he didn′t care about that as the jade iron bar in front of him shimmered lightly, revealing a faint black color, even if it was only barely visible.
Shane looked at Jason oddly, as he questioned himself if Jason′s eyes were made for forging or if the Origin flame he possessed was the cause of his superiority in exhaling the impurities out of the jade iron bar.
Inspecting the Jade iron bar in front of Jason, Shane was baffled to figure out that it was an almost perfectly purified jade iron bar, shocking him extremely.
He was jealous of Jason′s mana eyes and origin flame but on the other side, it was a huge advantage for both of them, as Shane reduced the set time to teach Jason how to forge perfectly purified bars from all kinds of ores by a few months in an instant.
Previously he was already sure that Jason would be much faster than him in learning how to perfectly purify bars, due to Jason′s mana eyes and origin flame, but he underestimated his disciple's capabilities by a lot.
If he knew that Jason could see every single particle of impurities within the ores, Shane would definitely be enraged and overly jealous, but fortunately, that wasn′t the case.
Even Jason was astonished that he could control his flame relatively well after a few hours, as the temperature was relatively stable after experimenting some time.
He decided to use a moderate temperature between the highest possible temperature to purify jade iron and the lowest possible temperature in order to have a small range for "accidents".
More problematic than his control over the black origin flame was rather injecting his mana into the jade iron mold, expelling the impurities forcefully by leading them around without bumping into the mana veins, damaging them.
The detour Jason had to take sometimes was through the whole bar and would take dozens of minutes which he had to concentrate on maintaining the perfect heat of his flame, in addition, to accurately leading around the impurities towards the surface.
Even if the perfectly purified jade iron bar in front of him was his first success, Jason was lucky as the impurities were on the outside and not deep within the jade iron mold, like it was often the case with the other molds he tested.
A single mistake would damage the mana veins, and decrease the efficiency of a perfect purification if it wouldn't even destroy the mana veins within.
In the beginning, Jason was extremely frustrated, but as time passed, he was becoming more relaxed, focused on the task in front of him, without caring about anyone′s existence.
It was already lunchtime when Jason finished his first try and he initially wanted to continue practicing even more when he noticed Shane and Dalia behind him with Artemis further away standing on a table.
He hadn't even noticed that Artemis and Dalia followed them and Jason wondered why they were gazing at him so oddly, which was noticed by them.
While Shane shook his head in denial, Dalia laughed, before she told Jason to change his clothes to make himself ready to go to school.
Previously she wanted to teach him about alchemy and how to make perfect inscription solutions, but once she saw Jason′s determination while exhaling the impurities within the ores, Dalia was sure that Jason would do fine, even if she teaches him later.
Socializing and being among peers was important in her opinion and She wanted Jason to live his youth as well as possible without any worries, even though they forced a huge responsibility on him.
Jason could follow this responsibility later if he wanted to and it was no use to isolate him from his peers.
Rather than that, it would most likely harm his growth and turn him less humane which was the last thing they wanted to do.
The thing they wanted Jason to do was to lead humanity into a more prosperous time and in order to make that possible, he would need to have superior socializing skills and not social distancing.
Jason himself didn't even know what he wanted, but he just nodded his head.
Artemis was extremely bored throughout the last few hours and spectating what Jason did wasn't really helpful as he repeated the same thing over and over again.
She couldn't even enter Jason′s soul world because the soul energy she required was too high for Jason to handle and standing too close to him while he worked was also not helpful, even more than that, it was uncomfortable for her due to the heat she didn′t really like.
When Jason glanced at the clock, he stored away his perfectly purified jade iron bar, before he left the forging room and entered a secluded room to change into a new set of clothes.
Shane transported him out of the underwater bubble back to the surface and Artemis flew through the treetop to greet the fresh air and sun that shone on her white plumage.
The sun′s heat wasn't uncomfortable for Artemis, only the black flame Jason had, was, even though Artemis didn't know why that was the case.
There was an odd feeling that Jason′s black origin flame was the most dangerous existence she had ever felt.
As such, Artemis told herself to either overpower the flame's heat or flee as far as possible in order to never meet this flame ever again.
Unfortunately, as both Artemis and the black origin flame were Jason′s soulbond, the latter option wasn't possible and Artemis could only strengthen herself in order to ease her worry against the black origin flame
Outside the small lake, Jason looked around if someone saw him jumping out of twisted space, but Shane had most likely done the same by releasing his mana, easing up his tension.
Running towards the combat arena, Jason figured out that there were more students challenging them than a day before, while their strength increased only slightly.
Unfortunately, there was still not a single student from the main school and most likely not many high-ranked students from the remaining affiliated schools, turning Jason′s mood slightly down.
He wanted to have some exciting spars that would cause his adrenaline to soar, but it looked like he would only again be disappointed as not many high-ranked students would challenge him.
There was still some time left before the special combat lesson would start and Jaso undecided to practice the Heaven's Hell technique to increase his soul energy.