Unlimited Power - The Arcane Path

"Are you sure that only this much is fine?" Darya frowned.

"Yep, do you want to train something else?" Leon asked. "If you want to, you can attack as well. This is actually excellent to level up skills."

"No… I will just keep using my Telekinesis." Darya answered.

Leon thought he would have a hard time leveling up Magma Spear, but the only problem was to recover his mana. However, once he turned an ancient whale into a zombie, that had been solved. He could store several containers of mana liquid inside of its mouth, after all.

Leon and Darya were currently underwater hunting monsters like Kraken and ancient whales. Although Magma Spears didn't cause a lot of damage to them and even lost a lot of power while it traveled through water, that wasn't a problem. Leon wanted to level up that spell, not to kill monsters, after all. While Leon was shooting Magma Spears and hunting every colossal monster that lived in the ocean, Darya was using Telekinesis to move the mana liquid and restore Leon's mana.

Finding monsters was quite easy, Leon only had to use Haste on the zombie whale, and they could find a big-ass monster every five minutes. Although they also had to worry about the water of the ocean the moment the whale open its mouth, by manipulating some water, Leon could quickly solve that.

"The combination of two types of magic is even better than I expected," Darya said, watching several Magma Spears crossing the waters and causing a lot of damage to a Kraken.

"It is probably because while using this spell, I receive the bonuses of manipulation, transformation, and creation of both earth and fire magic," Leon explained. "Lightning is more useful, but even though it consumes less mana, Magma Spear is more powerful."

Despite that, Leon wasn't that impressed. He spent more than a year to learn that spell, so he expected at least that much of raw power. Still, the effectiveness of Magma Spear even underwater made Leon create a mental note to learn more spells that combined two elements.

Congratulations! The skill Magma Spear has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! The skill Spearmanship has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! The skill Earth Creation has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! The skill Fire Creation has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

For some odd reason, even Spearmanship was leveling up while Leon was using Magma Spear. It wasn't that unexpected that Fire Creation and Earth Creation were leveling up; after all, his mana was being consumed to create those. In any case, Leon was obtaining some extra status points, and he had no reason to complain about it.

"Still... it is kind of weird that the same things don't happen with Archery when I use magic arrows... is it because the amount of mana consumed is too small?"

The possibility was high; in any case, Archery would level up more if Leon uses his magic arrows a little more often. After killing more than twenty ancient whales and thirty krakens in a single day, Leon started to wonder if it wasn't a good idea to create a zombie army and use them to attack one of the harvesters. That certainly would make things easier for Leon, as long as he uses Gravity and Telekinesis, he was certain that the harvesters wouldn't be able to escape. But still... Leon had that feeling that Summon Zombie was a skill that would cause his downfall. So, he was hesitating a lot in considering using that kind of strategy. Leon couldn't even remember any time is his life; he felt so conflicted about doing something or not.

"You are making that expression again…" Darya said.

"… What expression?" Leon frowned.

"The expression that as if you are in doubt, and no matter what you choose, you will end up regretting," Darya answered. "I'm kind of relieved, even though you have some crazy ideas and never stop working to achieve your goals, sometimes you can't help but hesitate a little bit."

"Thank you for your insight, Captain Obvious," Leon smirked.

After patting Darya's head for a while in order to annoy her, Leon felt relaxed as if a huge weight had disappeared from his shoulders. In the end, Leon decided to forget that idea again. He would end up losing a lot of time to put his plans into action without relying on that kind of spell. Still, in the end, the only choice Leon had was too believe in himself that eventually that he would obtain the power that he needed. He also would have to trust his friends who are on Earth, they survived without him for four years, and Leon also gave them items to help them in their growth.

"Mmm… let's see if I can use Seal on the Steel Ring of the Liches. Maybe I can make a better version without returning to the liches' dungeon."

Leon tried to use Seal, but there was no response, in the end, he would have to return to that place... even though he didn't want to since the chance of some trap waiting for him there was high.

Regardless, Leon was aware that even though he could choose his methods, he couldn't choose his enemies. He wouldn't choose the easiest path, but he would choose the shortest. It would be dangerous, but it was better to get rid of dangerous opponents like the master of the undead Trent, instead of letting him do whatever he wants and cause problems later.