81 Chapter 80 (1/2)
After hiding his equipment with the exception of his amulet, Leon started to walk toward the city. Dragons had destroyed the bridges, but it looked like someone repaired them with earth magic. It looked like Leon soon would find some mages like himself. Regardless, the only way to enter the city was by air or by crossing the bridges. Surprising the number of people leaving and entering the city wasn't small.
Considering that he would say that he crossed the whole distance on foot, Leon destroyed his improvised cape a little bit and dirtied it with water and earth, and he also dirtied the amulet. The number of soldiers protecting the bridges wasn't small, even though the number of travelers was also relatively high, they were inspecting and examining almost everyone.
”Good… they can't use magic to access the survivors' abilities.”
Although Leon knew Analysis and that skill could inspect magic weapons and a few other things, it didn't work on humans. He was hoping to learn that eventually, but Leon's hands were full, trying to absorb the mana of the slime's core.
When Leon got inspected, the soldiers didn't do anything in particular, after confirming that he had no big weapons with him, they lowered their guards.
”What is your name? Where are you from? What do you intend to do in New York.” A random soldier who was wielding an ax asked.
”My name is Leonard; I'm from Chicago,” Leon said. ”Some friends and I hoped to find better jobs here, but then we got attacked by a horde of monsters… I'm the sole survivor.”
”You don't look like someone who recently fought for your life.” The soldier frowned. ”Where is your weapon? How did you escape?”
”I lost my weapon in the battle…” Leon slowly approached the soldier and whispered. ”I learned magic by accident and blinded the monsters.”
Another thing that Leon learned from his sister was the fact that those who learned how to use magic were also hiding their knowledge there as well.”
Leon didn't know if Makoto knew about how one could learn magic alone, but it was hard to believe that he didn't. The motives… there were plenty. Although Ren got mad when he discovered that Leon could only see Makoto as someone prudent, if there are too few people with power, the humans can't survive, but then if there are too many people who have power, monsters wouldn't destroy humanity. Humanity would destroy itself…
Things wouldn't probably get so complicated in Las Vegas since even ordinary citizens were ready to fight when Leon threatened Hector, but it was hard to believe that everywhere else would be the same.
Regardless, when the soldier heard that, he looked at Leon suspiciously and then gave the order to another soldier to take Leon to the city. He imagined that he would take prisoner, but the soldier didn't do anything. It even opened the door of a car they would use.
”That is weird… did I make a mistake already?”
Leon had planned to make his skills famous little by little until he draws William's attention, but it looked like that happened a little too soon. In the end, Leon was taken to a brand new building. It looked like it had been made by earth magic, so it wasn't tall like a skyscraper, but it was like forty meters tall.