212 Calming pain

Everything around him shook violently, and there was nothing around him to grip and hold his ground. Thus, he fell down and searing pain spread out from his shoulder.

Shouting out in pain, Jason cursed his decision to venture into the four-star rift more than ever.

'Why am I so uselessly stubborn?!' 

But in the end, there was no use in lamenting about his choice, because it had already happened and lamenting about the past was useless.

In order to enhance his body, he ordered Scorpio to enter his mana core once again, causing him to reach the physique of an 8th Adept rank.

With this, he could endure a little bit more pain as a few rocks loosened up from the ceiling, falling onto him and Artemis.

Jason hastily enveloped himself in a tattered exoskeleton as a 60-centimeter long stinger grew out of his coccyx, piercing straight towards the rock falling onto him.