Unlimited Power - The Arcane Path

After leveling up Cryomancy once again while he was sleeping, Leon decided to test the power of Ice Beam. He wanted to spend only a second to freeze the magma creatures in order to have some peace of mind and train his other skills. However, Leon had to spend four seconds to freeze each one...

"It looks like in this environment, I will only be able to freeze them once Cryomancy reaches level one hundred."

That kind of problem could be easily solved if Leon increases his intelligence, but at the moment, he decided to focus on recovery. Without plants, items, or potions, aside from damaging himself to get status points, Leon needed recovery to increase the time he could spend training. Creating a weapon would solve the problem, but Leon would have even more of a headache if he loses his items and weapons again. Instead of relying on things he could lose, Leon decided to improve himself since only death would make him lose his powers… probably.

"Auxiliary Earth Sword probably can stop the magma creatures from harming me... the cost is relatively small, and the environment won't make the weapon lose power."

Although Leon could level up his skills against those monsters, a long time ago, he noticed that practicing spells against them or against the empty air was the same thing. Those creatures weren't part of the system, so they didn't even grant Leon a single coin… dealing with them was a massive headache because of that. So, Leon had to deal with them using the most efficient way possible.

"Although Mana Bullet is the spell that consumes less mana, the scope of the attack is rather small… since that is the case, I don't think it will make those annoying bastards fall back on the river… Regardless, why I always find only three of them every minute?"

The fact that they couldn't be analyzed was weird enough, but it was even weirder the fact that it looked like they spawned at the same place at certain intervals of time. In any case, since it wasn't part of the system, it was a waste of time thinking about it since that information wouldn't help Leon in any way.

Congratulations! The skill Auxiliary Earth Sword has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! The skill Auxiliary Earth Sword has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! The skill Auxiliary Earth Sword has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

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Leon didn't waste time and put the skill to use, as expected, only one of them wasn't enough to knock down a magma creature, but two was. Leon was forced two used the spell twice, but he got rid of them even without slowing down.

"It is weird... they don't use magic attacks, but they can fly here... I also can feel their presence when Mana Dominion is active. So, why they aren't part of the system?"

Leon thought of a possibility, but that was insane... but considering for how long he has been flying around in that hellish maze, it did make sense. Leon was indeed inside a monster, and the beast was so big that the magma creatures that were as big as Leon were the antibodies of a hell of a creature... that was really insane, but...

"I shouldn't think about this... there is only so much my head can accept and deal with."

Leon was pretty sure that he recovered a distance that would be comparable to flying around Earth three or four times. If a creature bigger than that could exist, finding it would crush the minds of any human being since defied almost every aspect of the logic humans knew.

Anyway, now Leon could sleep and fly around without worrying about enemies. Still, he couldn't see the end of that place. More and more, he was confirming the hypothesis that the only way to leave that place was going up. The only way to do that would be by creating a mithril weapon, and the only way to create a mithril weapon would be by leveling up Zen and increasing recovery. Both options would decrease the time Leon would spend, but not all that much. So, that was why Leon was still looking for an exit. Leon was already doing everything he could do that, but it looked like it wasn't enough... he had to take another step further.

Congratulations! The skill Fire Resistance has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! The skill Pain Resistance has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! The skill Poison Resistance has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! The skill Rage has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

"I don't have Soul Eater, and I can't use blue angel leaves... I can't buy potions, and I can't drain mana from my enemies... I can't level up several skills to a certain level to obtain status anymore. The only way left to obtain status without using mana is to learn passive skills..."

Leon had to be a lot more creative to learn those... the most obvious would be absorption and immunity to certain elemental spells, but it was clear those couldn't be discovered so easily. However, Leon soon had the idea of a skill he could use.

After Leon stopped for a moment, he created a steel sword. The blade wasn't that sharp because Leon's purpose wasn't to kill the magma creatures. The monsters jumped out from the river of magma, and Leon waited for them to get closer. Instead of getting nervous, he didn't react in any way. He only moved when the first one was about to grab Leon's neck. With a single swing, Leon cut off the monsters' arm. The second creature tried to hug Leon by behind, but once again, in a single swing, Leon turned around and split the creature in two. Leon grabbed the hand of the last one that almost touched his head, the magma burned Leon's hand, but he ignored that pain and destroyed the previous monster attacking and moving his sword using a single arm.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Steel Nerves.

You obtained 01 status points.