Jason was astonished to see that Malia had reached the 2nd Master rank which was definitely not something commonly seen at the young age of 16.
Thinking about Malia's feat, Jason scanned his own mana from the inside and found out that both the passive mana gathering and absorbing techniques were definitely working well. It made him feel confident that he would probably be able to break into the Adept rank in two weeks at most.
He knew that the passive mana gathering technique he used was only a basic technique because everyone with enough credits would be able to purchase it.
There were probably much better mana gathering and absorbing techniques out there but he just didn't know any of them.
However, he didn't mind that.