Unlimited Power - The Arcane Path

After one month of training, Leon felt like it was time to study some other types of magic instead of offensive ones. Thanks to the presence of the hulky warriors, the number of physical skills increased, it looked like a good idea to study them. Still, considering that Leon destroyed his arm in a single punch against Donan, it was clear that only some evasive skills would be useful.

"Did you guys manage to develop some kind of spell that can make a person split in two?" Leon asked.

"Is that supposed to be some kind of joke?" Darya frowned. "Of course not... You went to the harvesters' world, right? You didn't find anything like that there, and you think you will find it here?"

"I think that my luck stat is bugged... I spent almost two years there, but I didn't find a single tome there myself. By the way, how high is your luck? Mine is forty-two. If I am using a ring, it is eighty-four."

"I didn't ask..." Darya frowned. "Mine is pretty high; it is two hundred fifty-five... while the average on the people of this world is one hundred and ten... my soldiers don't increase their luck because their value is around that and they obtain plenty of tomes when they hunt."

Leon nodded, in the end, he was an abnormality in many senses. His luck wasn't that high, but it didn't make sense for him to be so unlucky… he was probably cursed or something, and that would explain why the holy sword was still sealed.

"What about summoning spells," Leon said. "Did you guys made some progress in that area?"

"No, after you and the harvesters left, we started to explore other planets and found some runes in several places," Daria explained. "We tried to use those runes to combine them together, but we didn't learn anything. We hoped that those runes would help us in that area, but that wasn't the case."

"Did you guys develop any non-combat spell that could be useful at all?" Leon asked.

"You talk as if we are a bunch of brutes who enjoy fighting against monsters..." Darya glared at Leon. "We have some spells that fit those criteria... Dense Fog, Sharp Eyes, Sonic Scream..."

"Now that I think about it, your grandfather obtained the power to create the Poison Mist down below, right?" Leon asked.

"Yes... we don't have any need for that anymore," Darya answered. "However, that power was obtained thanks to a relic... we can't replicate such large scale spell yet."

"I see..." Leon nodded. "Well, I guess I should look for the most useful spells since they seemed to be quite complicated..."

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Dense Fog.

Cost: 50 mana per second

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Sharp Eyes.

Cost: 30 mana per second

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Sonic Scream.

Cost: 50 mana

You obtained 01 status points.

Dense Fog was the easiest spell to learn, the fog that appeared was naturally thicker, and as it levels up, the range of the spell would increase. It was just a combination of wind and fire, after all.

"Sharp Eyes will help me to increase the distance I can cover using Transfer... but I guess even if it reaches the max level, my eyes won't be better than a telescope..."

It was just a small detail, but Leon only learned Sharp Eyes when he focused his mana on his pupil. Little by little, his eyesight increased, but Leon only noticed the difference when it reached level ten. Like other skills, it only increased the power and efficiency by one percent. However, eventually, even at that pace, it would reach a very useful point.

Although Sonic Scream couldn't cause a lot of damage, it could stun most targets... as long as it reaches a decent point. Even better, it couldn't be countered by Mana Armor and Mana Shield, even if the target covers his ears, the sound would be absorbed by their skin.

"What about spells that can stop magic?" Leon asked.

"Why would we research that?" Darya frowned.

In the end, Leon could only shrug. It was a waste of time for the inhabitants of Miebos to research that kind of thing... it was like creating a weapon that could cause their doom.

"Well, it isn't like a mage wouldn't have counter-measures against that. Even if I manage to seal his magic powers, it doesn't mean that I can win in a close combat fight... he certainly has a few tricks up his sleeve."

It was kind of hard learning new techniques when Leon's sole goal was to return to Earth, and his enemy was probably a ten thousand years old creature... Everything Leon could think of sounded childish against someone so long-lived. The more Leon thought about it, the more it made sense that the only way for him to return home was to overpower a being that probably was considered to be a deity on his own planet... it was insane.

"What about a spell that can suck the mana of a target from a safe distance?" Leon asked.

"... We are researching how to drain the mana from monsters," Darya frowned. "But only someone like you would think of such a convenient trick could be learned so easily and fast."

Leon could only nod. He thought that if he alone couldn't learn something in a few years, a group of people could discover how to replicate that in a few weeks... Regardless, Leon still had some time to see how things would work out. He didn't know how much time he has, but he had to wait for some things while he prepares himself. One of them was the massive telescope made of mithril he asked Darya to build.