242 Chapter 241 (1/2)
After the last wasp died, Leon and Darya headed to the purple crystal. Leon frowned when he saw that Darya also seemed prepared to see the other world.
”What? Are you not tired?” Leon asked. ”Ah... I forgot you slept during the most difficult parts of the battle.”
”Hahaha, you are right... It has been a while since I slept so well.” Darya said. ”I'm not that tired, and I kind of want to see the wasps' world.”
”Well, just don't leave my side,” Leon said. ”All monsters nearby the crystals are bosses. So, things may get messy if we are not careful enough.”
”All right.” Darya nodded.
Although he believed that there would be no connection between this world and his. He still needed to go to confirm his suspicions. Still, he had to confirm his suspicious anyway. After touching the purple crystal, Leon and Darya saw themselves in the middle of an abandoned city. The buildings around made Leon recall England during the Industrial Revolution; in fact, Leon even saw some chimneys that were still producing smoke. Although there were no cars, Leon saw some machines... machines covered in webs and cocoons.
”It is even worse than I imagined.” Leon murmured.
It was hard to find a single piece of wall or floor that didn't have webs, cocoons, or eggshells. It was another world where the sentient beings lost to the monsters. Most likely, due to their high reproduction speed. Just like the slimes' world, Leon also couldn't see any sign of vegetation. It looked like wasps could even eat plants to survive... or perhaps it was because he appeared in the middle of the city. Leon and Darya would never know since they returned soon after confirming that that city had been abandoned decades ago. Even if there were some sentient beings alive, they would never have the information Leon wanted.
”Another failure...” Leon sighed.
”Well... it is just the third dungeon you tried, right?” Darya said. ”Don't lose hope yet.”
”I will never lose hope because I know that the harvesters have the information I want,” Leon replied. ”But I'm wasting too much time... and I will lose even more time before I can obtain the power to defeat them.”
Five months have passed since the damn lizard summoned Leon to that world; he did improve his status a lot and obtained several convenient spells. Still, he couldn't imagine himself defeating creatures that would invade other planets just to become stronger. Unlike Leon, they not only had a lot of confidence in their powers and but they also were confident in their battle experience. If Leon had some time to prepare and had the chance to use all his skills, he was confident in defeating the soldiers of a city. He did that in Moscow, after all. But the conditions favored him. People of Earth didn't know many spells, and their magic attacks weren't that powerful. Plus, he had several convenient magic items.
Challenging all the people of a world that has been using and polishing their magic skills over the course of seventy years was totally different... the difference between challenging a city that had only a few survivors capable of using magic and challenging the inhabitants of a world like Mieabos was like the difference between challenging a slime and a dragon. Thanks to all that, Leon thought that he would be lucky if he manages to return Earth in less than four years...