Unlimited Power - The Arcane Path

After a while, Leon noticed that the fourth one, despite the privileged information he was receiving from Tyrselle, wasn't that strong. His status and skills certainly were better than the others, but when Earth reached the fourth stage of assimilation, he wasn't as strong as Leon when he returned to Earth after defeating the galactical snake.

"I guess it is only obvious…" Leon shrugged. "This guy here invested a lot of time teaching others all kinds of spells and skills."

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Just like before, once Earth reached a certain point, several sapient races begun to attack humans. However, things proceed to favorably this time. Eventually, Crik and the mithril people also attacked them. Still, even though the fourth Leon couldn't defeat him in single combat, humans had more power as a race. They managed to defeat them after fighting day and night for several weeks… the fourth Leon finally concluded that after defeating such a powerful race, he would be able to rest a little, but things only got weirder after that.

"What have you done, Leon?" The fourth Leon finally heard Ilyana's voice echo inside his head. "Why did you make a contract with her… her from all people."

Leon was right. Even though Ilyana could reset the time, she couldn't carry all her memories alongside her. Something had to happen to trigger the event that would cause her to remember everything, and by the look of things, that happened just now.

Regardless, the fourth Leon had no idea who Ilyana was, so he only frowned after hearing another unknown voice that sounded extremely disappointed and sad. That Leon didn't have any reason to listen to another voice inside his head, so he decided to ignore her, but Ilyana wasn't someone who would give up that easily.

"I see… so that is what she told you," Ilyana said, and then Leon imagined her forcing a self-mocking smile. "Did you wonder who those people she wants to defeat might me, Leon? What would you do if, by any chance, you are one of the people she wants to defeat?"

When he heard that, Leon frowned why someone as powerful as Tyrselle made a pact with a man she wanted to defeat? That didn't make any sense… again, the fourth Leon decided to ignore Ilyana's words. Things were getting way too complicated, and even if that stranger was telling the truth, Leon couldn't just ignore the contract. That Leon felt that he and his family only survived until now, thanks to Tyrselle. If he betrays her, once they reach the future where she can influence him and the human race, he could easily imagine her wiping them out.

As usual, Leon's imagination was pretty wild, but since the fourth Leon was also him, he knew that that kind of thought was only his instincts alerting the other guy. The fourth Leon grew dependent on Tyrselle, and after surviving thus far, he couldn't risk everything based on the words of a stranger alone. He was responsible for millions of humans' lives, after all.

Without having any other choice, Ilyana decided to show the fourth Leon everything the others had lived through and experienced. The last thing that Leon needed was to watch everything again, but fortunately, he didn't have to. Time moved forward until the fourth Leon finally learned everything from Ilyana. As if everything wasn't crazy enough, Ilyana appeared before him.

"You must have realized now that she is just toying with you," Ilyana said. "I don't know how she managed to develop a spell that granted her the power to communicate with you in the past and succeeded in altering the past events of her reality. It doesn't matter. Her goal is solely to defeat you and me, who will become the only people who can survive against her in the future."

"Shut up…" Leon clenched his teen and fists and then said after lowering his head.

"Leon… you won't have a future by staying on her side," Ilyana added. "You already know what happened. Surely you understand that…"

"I said: SHUT UP!" Leon roared. "What do you want from me? If you want to show me it wasn't an illusion, then answer this question. Why did you make time move backward not once, not twice, but three times… why did I have to endure all this bullshit so many times?"

"You know why I did that…" Ilyana recovered from the shock and then said. "I did it for you… to let us reach the perfect future. I know that you always wished for us to have a normal life with our kids… this is the only way for us to-"

"Perfect future?" Leon laughed after saying that. "Don't make me laugh. Where is the perfection in a future where I'm the sole human alive? Are you so insane that you concluded that I'm insane as well? Even if you reset the times one hundred times, we will never reach the perfect future. Maybe for you, it will be perfect, but not for me. Not after losing all the people I cared about on Earth… not after dirtying my hands with my enemies' blood so many times."

"You are right… the future will be only perfect for me," Ilyana said. "Still, it will better than keep losing time and time again. You and I aren't perfect beings, so we can't develop perfect magic… we won't be able to create the perfect path that will lead us to a perfect future, but at the very least… we will succeed in crushing those who toyed with our lives and the lives of others we loved."