Unlimited Power - The Arcane Path

Leon didn't know why, but Hammath was acting as if he was sure that Leon wasn't an enemy. Meanwhile, Ava didn't drop her guard for a second. Leon didn't have any intention of causing problems to those who could be of some use, but he also had no intention of believing in strangers so readily.

"Well, let's just see how things will work out…"

With so little light, it was too dangerous flying around and searching for dungeons, instead of finding something, Leon could end up getting lost since it was hard to find any recognizable landmark amidst that destroyed city.

"Come to think of it, what were you two doing when you found me?" Leon asked.

"Hunting," Hammath said. "Our stock of meat in the camp is running low, so we decided to look for some of it."

"There is no dungeon nearby?" Leon asked again.

"There is," Hammath answered.

"Can't you guys eat the monsters' meat?" Leon asked.

"No," Hammath answered.

It looked like the monsters the people from below had to deal with were mostly inorganic creatures like golems, at least that was the fact for Hammanth and his friends. Leon decided to stop asking and just see for himself. Suddenly, Hammath picked a stone knife hidden in his clothes, which were made of monster's hide, and threw toward his right side, Leon used a gust of wind to see what he had hit, only to find a three-eyed dead rat. It was like fifty centimeters long… so it had a lot of meat… still…

"I guess they can't exactly choose what they eat around here…"

Hammath and Ava's clothes were made of rustic rat's hide, even though they could speak well, with those clothes, they looked like cave dwellers. It looked like they just skinned the monsters and used some rustic sewing thread to stick the hides together.

It was kind of a pain to fly low due to the mist, but Leon decided to do so in order to give them a hand. Using Mana Dominion, Leon could feel the presence of anything fifty meters around him. Even without seeing, Leon could use Telekinesis to catch those big rats. Although they were in a city that got destroyed decades ago, the number of those creatures was quite high.

"Thanks for the help." Hammath smiled. "Are you hungry?"

"Nah, I'm fine…" Leon said.

Leon thought that he had a hard time on the island, but comparing his past situation to what those people were facing, he felt like he had been lucky. Eating fresh meat and delicious fruits every single day was a luxury that most people didn't have even before the monsters invaded Earth…

Although the gravity and having to use a gust of the wind to disperse the poison mist was a pain, Leon did so because he was very interested in the rubble around. Although everything was destroyed beyond recognition, he felt like he could think of something interesting seeing the destroyed remains of a futuristic city. He had no idea when he would return to Earth, so Leon had to take most of the situation.

"The chances of me finding technology that can be useful around here are low, but I wonder if the people above already are using electronics that use mana. It shouldn't be difficult to learn… that lizard isn't that smart, and he produced the choppers for William, after all."

Leon still had his railgun, but it would be great if he could create a small version since he didn't have enough mana to use that weapon. It was powerful, but it had its limitations. Besides, using only once every twenty minutes wasn't that convenient.

After walking for a while, Leon saw something unexpected. It started to rain over him and the others, but much to his surprise, even the rainwater got absorbed by the mist, and the water was kind of smelly…

"I don't like this smell…" Leon frowned. "Come to think of it, how do you guys find water down here?"

"We collect the water from the rain before the mist absorbs it," Hammath explained. "We know a decent spot where we can find and fill our reservoirs."

Leon would have to see that spot to confirm it, but he was pretty sure that it was just an end of the sewers from the city above… it wasn't a good idea to drink that, even after purifying, but then again considering their Poison Resistance level, they would suffer all that much. If those guys had steel-like muscles, their intestines were probably pretty hard to upset as well…

Leon had no watch, and it was kind of hard to imagine for how long they walked without seeing the sun, but after walking for what like seemed two hours, they found a massive pile of rubble. After Hammath moved a few plates of twisted metal, Leon saw a human-made hole. It looks like that was the entrance of their village since the hole was pretty large.

"Ava, you should go first," Hammath said. "I need to close the entrance, and if Leon suddenly appears, the villagers may attack him."

"… Okay." Ava said.

Instead of going down slowly, Ava jumped on the hole without care. The tunnel was quite dark, so Leon didn't know if that was a good idea. Regardless, after Ava disappeared, he followed behind slowly and carefully. In the end, he noticed some dark crystals in the walls of that hole, the darkness was unnatural… after flying down for ten meters. Leon finally saw Hammath's village. As expected, it wasn't fancy, and most of the houses were made of the things the villagers scavenged from the rubble above. Still, the mist wasn't that thick. So, Leon didn't feel that bothered by the air around. Instead of that, he was more interested in the inhabitants of that place. Just like Hammath and Ava, they had great physiques, and even the kids were more muscular than Leon. But they were looking at him as if he had come out from their nightmares.