Unlimited Power - The Arcane Path

Before starting training, Leon recalled how the battle against that human went. He got caught off guard two times because of the speed of his attack and because his magic projectiles ignored his Mana Armor and probably his mentality... but Leon couldn't think about his psyche all that much, since it wasn't high like his other status.

"Because I also don't fight using my fists all that much, I didn't cause much damage when I punched his neck. He messed up my stance when he activated Anti-Mana Field."

Leon decided to increase his health and stamina little by little, but he didn't expect such an event would happen so fast. He doubted that it would happen again, but he couldn't just rely on such possibilities. Until now, from the very moment, the monsters appeared, several things that Leon didn't wait for happened. Instead of imagining when that kind of thing may happen, he has to work and prepare himself for it.

"Still, prepare myself without relying on tools or weapons is difficult... that kind of problem will only disappear once I learn how to absorb mana from the ambient. But until then, I have to manage to solve the problems using my body and mana alone."

It would take a while before Leon learns or discover a way to counter Anti-Mana Field directly, so he decided to experiment with it to find its weakness. First, Leon created an earth sphere and let it float above his hand, and then he activated Anti-Mana Field. At the same time, he lost control over the sphere. Unfortunately, when deactivated Anti-Mana Field, the sphere didn't float again... Leon lost control over the mana inside of it.

"I can't use unless I put my mana inside of it... that means..."

Leon tested that using the Auxiliary Earth Swords, as expected, he lost control over them, but they didn't lose their shape. They fell to the ground, but Leon could control them with his hands.

"It isn't the best weapon... but it is better than my fists."

Unfortunately, the more that skill leveled up, it only increased the number of swords Leon could summon. It didn't increase their power or durability. That kind of strategy would only work against weak foes. Leon would have to think of another way to counter that spell while he trains. Although his hesitation helped, he ultimately failed because he wasn't strong enough to overpower that other human. He didn't feel like learning new spells the hard way, so he decided to buy some tomes.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Stone Rain.

Cost: 100 mana per second

Duration: 30 seconds.

Cooldown time: 10 seconds.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Ring of Fire.

Cost: 100 mana per second

Cooldown time: 10 seconds.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Ring of Ice.

Cost: 100 mana per second

Cooldown time: 10 seconds.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Ring of Thunder.

Cost: 100 mana per second

Cooldown time: 10 seconds.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Ring of Earth.

Cost: 100 mana per second

Cooldown time: 10 seconds.

You obtained 01 status points.

Maybe it was just a coincidence, or perhaps it was because he was in a bad mood, but the first tomes he found that could be useful for him were quite nasty. The first one was self-explanatory... Leon could make rain stones over an area. Getting on the head by dozens of stones wasn't something pleasant.

As for the other skills, they were quite nasty too. Leon could summon a barrier around the target, and after two seconds, the barrier would decrease the size and attack everything inside of it. It looked like some torture spells...

"I guess I need to work on my mood... I just spent ten thousand million coins without a second thought. Still, I can't understand how those spells can be more expensive than the ice meteor... is it because their cost is low?"

Time was of the essence, so Leon started to practice those new spells on Ilyana's ghost-swords. Some of them died, but Leon decided to ignore that. After training for a single day, Leon leveled up his new spells up to level fifty. However, at some point, the ghost-swords stopped leaving the castle, and a new monster appeared. Much to his surprise, the new ones were the mechanical spiders he faced before.

"Your golems probably can scratch those at least for a while," Ilyana said directly to Leon's mind. " Let's make our monsters fight. Since you can't create them at the same speed I do, you can absorb the mana of some. They will die once you do that, but they will obtain the experience as if they had fought, so it isn't a problem."

"... Alright." Leon said.

Leon couldn't help but wonder how Ilyana still could keep herself hidden when he, after a few months, she changed the monsters that she was making spawn in this world. It was probably because the big guns didn't have time to worry about smaller or the planets that got annihilated by monsters. Regardless, Leon had his own problems to worry about.

Although the mechanical spiders didn't have enough mana to grant Leon the chance to create an earth golem, two had. That being said, even though they had the advantage at the beginning, his level seventy golems so started to fall against the mechanical spiders. One hour after Ilyana started to summon them, they were already on the same level as them golems... and they had to fight for three days to reach that level. Leon had a long way ahead of him...