270 Chapter 269 (1/2)
Three months passed in the blink of an eye, while Leon was practicing Magma Spear like a madman, he noticed it would take years before he could obtain the power to destroy the harvesters' limbs using a single spell. Maybe if Leon could learn something that had more potential than Magma Spear, things could be different, but he had no time for that. So, Leon developed another passive skill that could multiplicate the growing speed of his spells and even increase the amount of damage he could cause at the same time.
Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Multi-Conjuration.
You obtained 01 status points.
The trigger to learn that skill was to create two identical magic projectiles at the same time and fire both of them. The cost of mana duplicated, but just like that, Leon's damage output increased. The stronger the spell, the faster the skill leveled up, so soon, the skill reached level ten, and Leon now could shot three Magma Spears at the same time.
”The speed you learn new skills sometimes scares me…”Darya frowned. ”I don't remember seeing anything like that being show in any the footages that were revealed to the public in the battles against the harvesters.”
”Really?” Leon rubbed his chin. ”I guess I have some talent in learning and discovering ways to increase my powers… that being said, the people of this planet discovered this that I always wanted to learn but had no idea how to replicate. So, you shouldn't feel that impressed.”
That made sense, but the thing was, the people of that world had decades and resources to study many things. Meanwhile, Leon discovered a new type of skill just by himself. Still, because he wasn't that creative learning anything aside from offensive magic, he was stuck in that world.
”What type of magic the soldiers of this world exactly use?” Leon asked, wondering if now he could take down a small team of soldiers by himself.
”I guess it is evolved form of the magic you taught me at the very beginning,��� Darya explained. ”People here tend to focus on Pyromancy, Cryomancy, and skills like that. With that kind of skill, the soldiers here can learn new spells almost instantly. However, instead of doing that, they focus on strengthening those skills in order to stop harvesters like the fire titan.”
Leon nodded; he could see the logic behind that. That kind of thinking would truly make soldiers specialized in opponents that were also specialized in some types of elemental magic. Although soldiers wouldn't obtain that many status points, they would be able to react and do many things even without using offensive spells. It was the best way to raise an army that could do many things, but it was the most efficient way to stop the growth of some individuals that grow to become much stronger, even using the basic version of that kind of skill.
Considering that those seven were fake harvesters, they belong to at least to worlds that reached the third stage of assimilation. They had at least a few hundreds of years to grow stronger, even though they chose a world that had opponents that didn't pose much of a threat to them, Leon couldn't hope to defeat them without the surprise element. Instead, trying anything aside from that was close to madness.