Chapter 23 - Setting up a Foundation (1/2)
Jasmine: You've been continuously doing this these past few days?
She was standing beside Jean, who was soaked in medicinal liquid.
Jean: Yeah…
Jasmine: Are you not afraid of sudden death?
Jean: Hah, you need more if you want to kill me…
Jasmine: You overestimate yourself. Did you think that there will only be water in that waterfall? If a boulder somehow had gotten mixed in, fell and smash on your body, your body could snap into two halves… I want to know, for what reason, are you so desperate?
Jean: The reason, huh? Well… Reason may look stupid, but I want to achieve power and make a good foundation as fast as possible. My dream is to surpass everyone and become the strongest… Only then no one will ever think of doing something bad at me…
Jasmine: So you only want to be as strong as possible?
Jean: Yes, only when one has absolute power one can think of living peacefully, this is the world, it doesn't care about your status, if you have power, then you can do things… I never believed the phrase ”There is someone better than you”. If there was really someone like that, then who is the current strongest person?
First I conquest this waterfall, then the world…
Jasmine: Alright, then this princess will observe how long you'll need to conquer this waterfall. But before that… Immediately, go buy a new set of clothes for me! Including undėrwėȧr, outerwear shoes, and hair ribbons!
Jean: ...You are right, we need some change of clothes… About going somewhere, why were you in that mountain?
Jasmine: It was to find the five Evil God's secret grounds, mentioned in the memories of the Evil God's blood. Amongst them, one of the Evil God's secret ground's location was vaguely around the Blue Wind Empire's eastern area.
As I was searching for it, the acute poison became active…. The rest of the story, you should already roughly understand.
Jean: ...And when did you think to tell me about the secret grounds?
Jasmine: Uh…
She was unable to reply, indeed, it was really idiotic for her to forget about them…
Jasmine: Well, the Evil God's memories had mentioned that this Profound Sky Continent was created by the Evil God at that time; on this Profound Sky Continent, he had five places of refuge. Before his downfall, he left five ”Seeds” in these respective five places. It also clarified that only those who had inherited his power, would be able to find them!
Jean: I see…
He checked the time on his watch.
[15:03]
[9/10/1994]
[H: ”Heat”]
Jean: Well, I will go find some clothes, come inside.
Jasmine nodded and entered in the Sky Poison Pearl while he took out his Dodge Tomahawk before driving back at the Cyan Forest Town.
7 more days passed, and Jean got new clothes, however…
Jasmine: Don't want it! I'd never wear anything purple!
Jasmine: I'd rather not wear anything, than to wear something crude like this! I don't want any of these clothes!
...Not really a nice week, and the 7 powers he gained were:
”Iron: Ability: You can turn your body in iron, making your body stronger than you were before.
Effects: If unleashed in the entire body, it could lower your mobility to the minimum or even 0, except for flying.”