It was impossible for Scorpio to walk through the golden gate, while Artemis occupied his mana core, which was somewhat regretful because he was excited to fuse with all of them in order to become a mutant-like existence.

The only thing that wondered him was that his gut feeling told him that the whole limitations of his gigantic golden gate were neither difficult to understand nor complex at once, leading him to become even more confused than he initially was.

But even if his gut feeling gave him such a feeling, there was nothing for him to do which would change the current situation and he couldn't fuse with both Scorpio and Artemis at the same.

Considering his combat prowess, it would be the best to let Scorpio occupy his mana core while fighting with Artemis next to him, but if he were to fight alone in the 'Big-Three tournament', he might as well use his fortified soul conjunction.

'But if I use it, everything will be exposed, huh?' Jason thought but thinking that he didn't have to summon his soulbonds body parts, it could also stay hidden under the disguise that his soulbonds became stronger.

Nodding his head lightly, Jason decided to focus on the present, while trying to flap with the white wings at the same time.

In the end, it didn't work as planned and Artemis within his mana core had to guide him slowly in order for Jason to understand everything.

But even after the explanations, it was hardly possible for him to flap synchronized with his wings, as he sighed in frustration.

Suddenly he felt his wings flapping vigorously, as Artemis controlled them inside the mana core, only for Jason to notice that he was too heavy to even ascend a single centimeter. 

'In the worst-case scenario, Artemis might as well fly while I fight in the sky, huh?' Jason thought before he began to chuckle lightly while visualizing a magnificent fight in the sky against some vicious beasts.

Shaking his head, Jason knew that Artemis had to become larger and more powerful in order for him to manifest stronger wings, while his own strength was not enough for him to handle it.

Maybe he could already float if Artemis were to amplify him with her complete strength which instead of a smaller part, which he had to restrict in order to barely endure her being inside his mana core.

Experimenting many different things with Artemis and Scorpio, like the time they needed to switch their position within the mana core and to manifest smaller or larger body parts.

The biggest difference for Jason was the time he required to manifest a foreign body part was much higher compared to his soulbonds supporting him within the mana core, as they obviously knew how their own body worked.

While testing out many things with his soulbonds, he never neglected to replenish the high demand of nutrition and mana in order to manifest everything and after two hours passed, his whole body revolted against taking another bite of the dishes he stored within his spatial ring inside the preservation segment.

As such, Jason was forcefully interrupted to experiment and he could only sigh and store the dishes away once again.

'Aren't there any high-nutrition dishes in my storage device?' He wondered but Jason couldn't remember to have bought either high-nutrition dishes or supplements.

Regretting this decision, he would have to force himself to continue to eat the preserved dishes for the next two weeks, if he were to remain within the elemental crystal cave before venturing out.

Jason already made a rough plan of what to do and his plan involved staying within the elemental crystal cave for another week at the bare minimum.

His demand for star notes was frustratingly high and with his own expenditures added to his soulbonds' expensive demands, Jason could only make a rough plan to achieve the best outcome, without being locked within the four-star rift, or whatever would happen if he were to remain within the rift after it closed.

He already collected lots of elemental crystals and if his memories and perception were not completely in disarray, the elemental crystal cave should have all four types of elemental crystals.

Elemental crystals were classified into four sections also called, Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, and Unique!

Basic elemental crystals were crystals with wind, fire, water, and earth transmuted mana

Intermediate element crystals had ice, metal, lightning, and many more elemental transmutations, while Advanced elemental crystals transmutations like wood, darkness, and light.

Unique elements weren't necessarily better and valuable like the poison element, but other crystals had an astronomical price because of their blood, nature, fiendish, holy, and other unique elements.

The nature element was similar to the wood element but much superior. While the wood element barely controlled woods, nature controlled plants, wood, sentient plants, and if strong enough even beasts with a strong bond to nature.

To think that all four different crystal sections ranging from a rather cheap price to an astronomical height could be found within the elemental crystal cave made Jason curious about the origin of it, while his greed and joy overlapped.

Over the last few days, not a single beast dared to venture into the cave because the memories about the earthquake were still apparent in their mind, while Jason also didn't perceive a single human being coming closer to them.

At least that was what his eyes perceived but he might as well miss something, while he absorbed mana.

It was not like he observed everything consistently but he was still relatively careful because almost everything within the four-star rift might kill him.

As such, Jason stood up in order to start his journey through the cave, collecting the protruding and loosened crystals he could even see without his mana eyes activated.

Gathering one crystal after another, he sealed them in order to prevent the elemental crystals from leaking mana, while at the same time scanning through their complex mana veins in order to figure out how they were composed.

Since he began to forge, Jason was interested in all kinds of materials and how they were composed, while it was even more interesting to see how ores acted when they were heated up, because the mana veins seemed to come alive.

Even if he was interested in testing it out right now, Jason didn't want to waste any precious crystal until he amassed a large enough fortune.

Without him noticing, he already went deeper into the cave, while the crystals occurrences around him increased.

Not only increased the number of elemental crystals around him, but they also released denser mana fluctuation, which caused Jason to smile brightly.

If he had to estimate the cave's value, Jason's brain would most likely melt because what he saw within the tunnel was barely the tip of the iceberg, while the crystals his mana eyes perceived through the ground were much more in number and mana density.

But there were still a few that wondered him.

'Why is there not a single beast excavating these crystals? It doesn't seem to be dangerous and the earthquake as the sole reason sounds somewhat unreasonable…Furthermore, I can't believe the government doesn't know anything about the elemental crystal cave? It's barely a one to a two-day trip away from the highland plateau... Is there something wrong with the cave, which I haven't noticed?

It's really weird to see all four elemental crystal classifications at once because it is said to be rare to find an elemental crystal cave with a single attribute forming crystals over the course of hundreds of years with the surrounding transmuted mana, even less multiple types of elemental crystals at once with all kinds of elements.'