Unlimited Power - The Arcane Path

"I feel like I can understand myself with more ease..." Leon crossed his arms and closed his eyes while nodding to himself. "It looks like one week doing the same thing over and over again is my limit before getting bored out of my mind."

"That is rather impressive," Efreet said. "I doubt that I could do the same thing for more than a few hours without getting bored."

Congratulations! The skill Fire Arrow has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! The skill Ice Pillar has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! The skill Ice Arrow has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! The skill Earth Arrow has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! The skill Wind Arrow has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! The skill Earth Punch has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

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Since Leon spend four years doing nothing but training with a single goal in mind, and then when he became free, he traveled the world solving several problems. He became a workaholic. He already knew and recognized the fact several times, but just that wasn't enough to change anything.

"I wonder how many times this damn cycle will have to repeat itself... I hate training arcs..."

Earth didn't have many dungeons connected to worlds that were on the third stage of assimilation, so that cycle would eventually end in a few months if Leon decides to clean up most of those worlds for just one week. Although it was insane to hope for that to happen almost every week until the harvesters appear, he wanted to do things while others were on risk. Leon could only feel himself growing strong physically and mentally in that kind of situation.

"Maybe if I increase my willpower, I will also increase my patience regarding those kinds of things..."

It looked like a waste of time and points, but Leon decided to increase his willpower and test that hypothesis. In the end, Leon confirmed a few interesting things. His patience really grew, and he also could endure staying awake for twelve instead of ten days straight. However, that didn't make things less monotonous, only a little more bearable.

"Although I doubled my willpower, I didn't become two times more mentally stronger... I guess each status work and make progress in different manners. No, only my intelligence work in a more efficient way because I focused a lot on that in the past. Meanwhile, the other status is less effective."

Instead of increasing his willpower, Leon needed a hobby. He wasn't at the level of Ilyana when it comes down to the resilience to keep training skills day in and day out, but he was quite sure that was among the top one hundred humans that were 'grinding professionals.'

"Just what the hell am I thinking... in the future, dozens, maybe hundreds of bastards will come and attack Earth just for the fun of it, and I'm thinking about finding a hobby."

"I think that is a great idea," Undine said. "You are just a human. There is no way that you will last long only training in order to become and protect your planet."

"That is right," Volt nodded. "Unless you prepare yourself accordingly, you will fail, Leon. To achieve big goals, you don't have much choice but decrease the goal is smaller parts and achieve them one at a time."

"I already know that," Leon massaged his eyebrows. "The problem is, I am an idiot. I can't relax knowing that some bastards that messed with me and with my planet, but I'm not disciplined enough to keep pursuing power every waking moment for more than a few days straight in order to deal with them when the time comes."

"I think that is only obvious," Gnome said. "I would worry if you become or try to act like a battle freak like Efreet."

"Hey... I don't pursue power all the time, you know," Efreet frowned. "I don't think about that kind of thing when I'm sleeping."

Leon also frowned when he heard Efreet's excuse. It was also pretty weird that Gnome knew such a term... but given that the spirits could read his mind, it was understandable, and it wouldn't be weird if they had access to his vocabulary. Regardless, Leon stopped to think for a moment about his past self. For the first time in fourteen years, he recalled that he went abroad to study civil engineering, but never put to good use that kind of knowledge.

"Now that I think about it... I actually used that knowledge when I stayed on the islands." Leon nodded to himself.

At the time, he couldn't make anything much complicated since his magic was pretty rough, but he created a small pipeline in order to clean himself now and then to store clean water... He also built a house and walls using trees and steel plates. Now that Leon's mana pool was much larger, he could also do all kinds of things using Transmute.

"I wonder if that will work... I want to make a living being a civil engineer, it wasn't a hobby," Leon scratched the back of his ear. "My hobbies were... wasting my time doing stupid things with Hector and playing games with Betty. Although I want a hobby, I want a productive one, and I don't see the logic of playing games when I have the powers of several overpowered protagonists..."

Leon could create all kinds of materials using magic. He also could transform those materials in some pretty useful things using Transmute. However, to make things like cars, drones, or any other object that had electronic components, Leon would have to learn several things. Then Leon had an idea and smirked... if things go well, he will find a hobby and even solve several other problems.