Unlimited Power - The Arcane Path

Although the monstrous eagle ray was big, it only could carry so much on its back. After a few seconds, Leon eventually found the end of the cave and the spirit of the water's temple. Everything inside was dark, but Leon found the path because the spirit itself was glowing and showing the path.

Again, the spirit had humanoid form, but it was impossible to know if the spirit of water was male or female... if Leon memory could be trusted, he was pretty sure that Ilyana said that the spirit was female, and it also made sense considering the lore that Leon obtained in some games.

"Mmm... Hello?"

Leon tried to use his mind to talk, but as expected, the spirit of water just stared at him. He didn't know Telepathy, after all. Leon tried to move his hand and tried to use signs, but then again, the spirit of water didn't react in any way.

"Come on, guys. Give me a hand here."

"I can't," Sylph said.

"Don't want to," Celsius said.

"I hate wet and depressing places like this," Efreet said.

Leon let out a long sigh. In the end, he could only rely on the spirits for small things. However, suddenly, the spirit of water became a sphere of light and entered Leon's body... that had been way too easy.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Hydromancy.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Water Armor.

Cost: 50 mana per second

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Summon Undine's Fragment.

Cost: 30 mana per second.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Water Blessing.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! The skill Underwater Resistance has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! The skill Underwater Resistance has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! The skill Underwater Resistance has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

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"Hello, it is nice to meet you," Undine said inside Leon's head. "It's nice to find some other fragments here too."

"Hello... is it fine for you to help me without a test or trial?"

"You already did what I was going to ask you," Undine explained. "You killed a lot of those monsters. Lately, they have been actively hunting my friend here, but now that you decreased their numbers, they will become my friend's meal for a while."

Undine's voice was pretty sweet, and Leon felt a motherly feeling coming from her. Maybe it was because she sounded wise and, at the same time, pretty laid back.

"You knew what I did," Leon frowned. "So, why didn't you say anything?"

"I was trying to mess with you," Undine said.

Leon learned another lesson; he can't judge a book by its cover. In some sense, even Undine was a pain in the ass. Regardless, Leon was running out of the air and decided to get the hell out of that place, but then he recalled that he had no idea where the purple crystal he used was...

"I totally forgot to mark in some way the place I appeared..."

"You are quite the airhead, Leon," Undine said.

Leon wished that he could deny that with all his head, but he couldn't. Regardless, the number of voices inside Leon's head increased by one.

Despite Leon's worries, he found the crystal he used just after a single day. He just had to follow the path of corpses that he left behind, and he also hurried because of those corpses had only bones left... Although Leon decided to practice a few skills and the Summon Undine's Fragment, he chose to ask Ilyana a few questions that had been bothering him as of late.

"Hey, Ilyana..."Leon hesitated. "You confirmed that the dragons had been summoned by one of the harvesters to destroy a good part of the assimilated planets. The same applies to earth dragons and T-Rexes?"

"No, even though you can obtain dragon hearts from them, they are the weakest type of dragon," Ilyana explained. "Let��s see... putting in simpler words... they would be like cats, and the real dragons were like tigers."

"That is a terrifying comparison..." Leon frowned. "What about three-headed earth dragons?"

"They are a mutation of earth dragons, that is why their dragon hearts are far more powerful," Ilyana explained. "Did you find them on your planet? They rarely appear in worlds that are on the first stage of assimilation. By the way, the effects of a real dragon heart are five times stronger than the ones you can obtain from earth dragons on T-Rexes."

"I see... wait a minute," Leon said, surprised. "Doesn't that mean that the bitch who can create dragons and killed my parents can created dragons and eat their hearts?"

"Yes, she can," Ilyana answered.

"Isn't that really bad?" Leon frowned.

"I don't consider that a problem," Ilyana shrugged. "Even if that makes her stronger, it only increases her status. It won't give her real battle experience or level up her skills."

Leon nodded, but still... if he could eat one of those per day, he would obtain half of the status he can currently obtain by training.

"Can you create them?" Leon asked.

"I could learn, in fact, I have some skills that create simple living beings, but I won't use them," Ilyana answered. "You can understand why right?"

Leon nodded, killing enemies was one thing. Creating living beings just for that wasn't something Ilyana would do; it didn't matter if that was a convenient way to grow stronger. It was... immoral. Even if they were living on a planet that they were the rulers, they still had their own sets of things they could do and couldn't in order to get stronger. If one day they decide to follow their path, they wouldn't be much better than the bastards who destroyed worlds and civilizations just to satisfy their own selfish desires.