459 Chapter 457 (1/2)

Congratulations! The skill Summon Slime has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! The skill Summon Slime has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! The skill Summon Slime has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

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Much to Leon's surprise, things worked much better than he expected. His slime only shot a single Fireball and leveled up five times. However, the Ghost-Sword that got hit approached Leon's slime and split into two, killing the creature in an instant.

”I guess she is still mad...” Leon rubbed his chin while he was allocating his status points. ”Anyway, this might work faster than I expected.”

Leon summoned several other slimes, and he noticed that all their status grew around five percent... it was the effect of five level-ups. Although his slimes still couldn't scratch the Ghost-Swords, their attack power was visibly increasing little by little. Now and then, Ilyana summoned monsters would attack the slimes, but it was clear that she was getting less irritated over time.

”It is kind of impressing that she can control her monsters like that, the slimes are slow and only obey simple commands... I guess she also has some kind of skill to increase her control over them.”

Leon also noticed that his other skills weren't leveling up. So, even though they could use elemental magic and the same offensive spells Leon could, nothing aside, the skill to summon them would level up. The slimes didn't receive a bonus of attack of skills like Pyromancy or Fire Blessing either.

”I guess it can't be helped... I can't always have what I want. Still, it is kind of relaxing summon monsters and let them fight for me. Unfortunately, that isn't a feeling I should get used to it.”

Leon thought he would manage to level up Summon Slime pretty fast since they only needed to attack at a distance using magic. However, soon they ran out of mana. Although their recovery was increasing at a pretty good pace, it would take a while before they could fight for more than a few seconds. In fact, Leon soon understood that the slimes wouldn't be able to fight for more than a few minutes without running out of mana. Considering that they were periodically growing stronger, one percent every time they leveled up, their recovery wouldn't be higher than one hundred. Leon understood that when he finally noticed that their growth rate wouldn't increase over time... it was only one percent of his initial status.

”Well, it doesn't matter. It wasn't like I intended to use them in real combat, after all.”

A few hours later, Leon noticed that he had more than one thousand slimes, so he decided to leave it at that and make them train alone while he learns other spells. He wouldn't level them up at the same speed as Ilyana's, but hoping for that was a bit too much.

”Gnome, it is your turn now,” Leon materialized Gnome while he was preparing the mana liquid for the next training session.

”Yahoo! After you learn the spells, you have to let me increase the size of my labyrinth,” Gnome said.

Leon sighed, but it couldn't be helped. Gnome was creating an underground labyrinth under the area where Leon's plantation was. He was already having difficulties and wasting some time looking for Gnome in that labyrinth, and he wanted to increase its size even more... it looked like Leon would have to level up Electric Armor and Haste sooner than he expected.

Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Earth Bomb.