Unlimited Power - The Arcane Path

Leon was starting to get impatient again. Usually, he would erase his memories to get rid of his worries somewhat, but now that he really needed some battle experience, he couldn\'t do that. The situation wasn\'t exactly bad, but Leon wasn\'t someone who could do something for long while knowing that something far more important was happening somewhere else.

"I guess this is the moment where my patience will truly be tested…" Leon sighed.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Abyssal Blade.

Cost: 5000 mana

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Unholy Sacrifice.

Cost: 5000 health

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Chain Lightning.

Cost: 1000 mana per second

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Frost Barrage.

Cost: 1000 mana per second

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Hell Stone.

Cost: 1000 mana

You obtained 01 status points.

As usual, assimilating the experience of his replica made him focus for a while, but little by little, that trick was becoming less and less effective. In fact, it was making Leon grow even more impatient.

"If I return to Earth now, even if I draw the attention of other harvesters, things will probably work out as long as I pass some of the knowledge to my friends," Leon started to bit his nails. "They would need to train and level up some skills, but even at level one, the power of Rem, Shadow, and Sekundez should be useful to them."

Leon would have to convince his spirits first to give their powers to a lot of people without confirming if they were worth it… but in the end, that way of thinking made Leon conclude that his enemies probably had done the same thing. Although it was common to see lone super-villains. A smart villain would grant power to their minions… just like the shadowy figure did to Donan. They wouldn\'t even imagine that using such skills without properly learning might cause their doom, but his enemies didn\'t have to worry while sacrificing some of their pawns.

p "Shit… even if the number of harvesters that have all the spirits is low, I also have to consider that they might keep using Summon Zombie and create a near unbeatable army," Leon said, visibly annoyed. "In the end, making an appearance now without having the means to instant get rid of my enemies wouldn\'t solve anything."

That was one hell of a headache, but Leon didn\'t have much of choice. For the time being, his best shot was to level up Sekundez and train the spells he learned from her to its limits. The same thing has to be applied to Rem and Shadow\'s spells. Although Leon could increase the output of the power of those spells, he didn\'t want to keep training to do that.

"I have to calm down…" Leon said and then breathed in deeply. "I already messed up by destroying Sekundez\'s dimension… I can\'t mess up here in the real world."

Leon managed to calm down that he eventually noticed that his spirits were too quiet. Since he was worried about many things, the spirits weren\'t causing a ruckus like usual. Not even Sylph, who was currently absorbing his mana to evolve.

Even Leon couldn\'t keep acting like that when he was worried about the few friends he made over the course of four hundred years. So, this time he calmed down for real before resuming his training.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Sonic Wave.

Cost: 5000 mana

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Esoteric Spike.

Cost: 2000 mana

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Holy Spike.

Cost: 5000 mana

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Brutal Swing.

Cost: 200 stamina

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Land Smash.

Cost: 2000 mana

You obtained 01 status points.

"Mmm… Although now and then I learn a skill that doesn\'t consume stupid amounts of energy, those kinds of skills are rarely coming around now," Leon rubbed his chin. "No wonder the number of skills my replica can learn and train in just a single hour doesn\'t increase… it is all thanks to the mana cost."

It would be more efficient to train his first spells in order to gain status points. Although his replica doesn\'t have a target, Leon could always make the replica harm itself to train the skills faster, but he didn\'t want to do that. Although the replica was an exact copy of himself, Leon couldn\'t bring himself to cause such suffering to another existence. He was already going too far by constantly assimilating its memories, after all.

"Maybe I don\'t need to make my replica suffer…" Leon said. "Sekundez, if I store some mana in a soul eater, can you use my mana to summon a random dragon through Mind Summoning?"

"Yes, I can," Sekundez nodded. "However, to create the weakest version of any dragon, I will need ten million mana points. Well, considering that you just want to practice some weak skills, that should suffice."

In the end, Leon still hesitated in doing that since he was creating another life or at least bringing others from his memories to increase the speed of his training. However, Leon ended up summoning the monster because he couldn\'t make his friends on Earth wait for him any longer.

It was time to do the things Leon wouldn\'t be able to do… he just wanted to save his friends and planet, but even though his intentions were pure, Leon\'s methods weren\'t. Idealism was fine, and all, but Leon finally found the limits of his idealism. Humans were dying every minute. Even though he could handle the death of a few strangers, he couldn\'t bring himself to ignore the death of thousands. To save as many as possible, Leon decided to sacrifice some of his conscience…