Unlimited Power - The Arcane Path

In the end, Leon only bought thousands of potions to help with his training. He recalled that his skeletons could use Thunder Arrows, but he couldn't imagine them being faster than the mechanical spiders. He had to learn that himself.

"The most efficient way to do things here is to learn new spells and use them to obtain free status… Still, only electric attacks will give me the chance to attack the spiders before they cut me to pieces."

It would be great if Leon could control his electric projectiles and cause damage over time, but to do that, he would have to touch them… and electrocute himself in the process. Paralyze himself on the battlefield was out of the question, so Leon could only learn the active version of those attacks. His ultimate goal for the next few days was to cause a dungeon break and level up his skills as much as possible. But until Leon learns at least one electric attack that doesn't consume so much of his mana, that was just a crazy idea.

"Well… let��s start with the basics."

In the blink of an eye, Leon created a wind bullet. After that, he tried to strengthen the projectile. Much to his surprise, a Thunder Bullet soon appeared, but since its power wasn't his on control yet, Leon got electrocuted, and the spell dispersed.

"Ouch!" Leon said while his right hand was trembling.

Just a small spark hit Leon's arm, but since the difference of his intelligence and mentality was high, he lost twenty percent of his health, and his arm got paralyzed for five seconds.

"Holy crap, this is dangerous…"

No wonder it was so hard to control, the energy behind even the small thunder bullet was stupidly high. Still, Leon could clearly see the potential of that kind of attack. Besides, even though it wasn't his intention, he also would train his Thunder Resistance.

"Still… I don't remember being able to create electricity so easily on the island… is it because my intelligence is higher now?"

It was hard to recall. The four years Leon stayed on the island, he did nothing but practice his magic. In comparison, Leon did a lot of things in the last months, so he was having difficulties confirming that. Regardless, even though the spell was the size of a bullet, Leon had to practice his control for one week and the speed of the projection of the spell for another week.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Thunder Bullet.

Cost: 20 mana

You obtained 01 status points.

"I spent two weeks to learn a spell that it would take a few hours to master if it were made of earth…"

Leon couldn't help but sigh, even though his intelligence and control increased a lot, it looked like he wasn't that talented… despite the fact that everyone thought that he was a pretty good mage. In any case, Leon felt that he just lost time during those two weeks since he could have learned several other spells, practiced them, and obtained dozen of free status points.

While Leon was thinking of that, he felt something approaching from behind. It couldn't belong to the mechanic spiders, the dungeon was dozens of meters ahead of Leon, after all. Still… soon Leon recognized the presences that were approaching since they were walking as if they were in their backyard. They were Ava and Hammath.

"… What are you guys doing here?" Leon sighed.

"Hey, it has been a while," Hammath said. "We have been sent to investigate this dungeon… since we didn't find any spiders approaching our village over the last week. But I can see now why we didn't find them."

It wasn't a good idea to show his back to anyone, but since he kept Mana Armor activated 24/7, Leon did so. Although he had no bad feelings whatsoever to the people of that world, Leon didn't have any good feelings toward them either. If anything, it was better to ignore them and keep doing his own thing, if Leon involves himself too much with the people of that world, he could end up postponing his return to Earth.

"Sorry for before, Leon," Hammath said. "Grandfather didn't want to be that rude, but he can't control his feeling when he sees a mage, because the people up above used so much mana and made everything change twenty years ago. The new monsters killed my parents… that is why he blames anyone who uses mana indiscriminately."

"I don't need your apologies, and you don't have to apologize to me," Leon said. "Rather, I think it is weird that you don't hate me like your grandfather."

"I was too small when my parents died…" Hammath said. "Although I don't like to live down here and I dislike the people that live above us, I can't hate them, since hate alone won't change anything."

Leon wondered if he would feel the same in fifteen years, a few months have passed since he discovered about the death of his parents and he still wanted to hunt down the bastard who caused their deaths. According to Gurr, the appearance of monsters, dungeons, and mana was like a natural phenomenon, but dragons weren't. So, Leon felt even more eager to kill whoever summoned the dragons.

It was a pity what happened to Hammath's parents, but Leon didn't waste much time thinking about it. He had too many problems in his hand to care about the problems of others. In any case, a mechanical spider appeared, and Leon finally had the chance to test his new spell and test something else. So, without a hint of hesitation, he fired a Thunder Bullet.

Although Leon still had to use gravity ring to slow down the creatures, the result of the impact had been much better than expected. The mechanical spider trembled for several seconds until the paralyzes effect wore off. It didn't cause damage, but it left the monster completely defenseless… it was a success.historical