701 Chapter 698

You obtained 01 status point.

Congratulations! The skill Fire Blast has reached the max level.

You obtained 01 status point.

Congratulations! The skill Purification has reached the max level.

You obtained 01 status point.

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"This is enough, right, Leon?" Ilyana asked on the day of Serena's twentieth birthday. "We will hunt her down now."

"… I guess it can't be helped," Leon said after a long sigh after they finished another training session alongside Serena.

While that Leon and Ilyana mastered several other spells, Serena finally was powerful enough to make her body stop aging. Serene was virtually immortal, or so to speak… Although it was weird that she had too much affinity with Time Manipulation, Leon and Ilyana could only shrug at it. In any case, Serena understood a long time ago how serious her mother was about hunting a certain harvester and, without thinking too much about it, decided that she had to help.

That Leon was the only one who didn't feel like hunting anyone or anything anymore. Even though he could use millions of mana points per second, he didn't want to risk his current life for something as petty as revenge. Instead of letting Serena experience a life of never-ending battles like he did, that Leon wanted to have a normal life… Although that was difficult since he could control time in a manner that no one could explain.

"Mmm… now that I think about it," Leon frowned. "Earth was already on the fifth stage of assimilation… is that why Serena was developing so fast? I wonder why there isn't some counter effect on beings that are weaker in comparison to the planets they were in…"

Ilyana and Leon's bloodline couldn't be the only thing that granted Serena her powers… then again, just like their parents, Serena was also a training maniac. She didn't lose a single day of training since the very day she managed to use magic for the first time.

After thinking for a while, Leon concluded that the whole Sekundez he knew was just a persona. He already had thought about her many times and wondered why, as a spirit, she would be so different from others. Even more so, it made sense when Leon recalled the first thing she did after suddenly canceling one of his replicas. It was a reference from a sci-fi movie very famous. Something that she wasn't supposed to know… even if the spirits could see Leon's memories and read his mind, that Sekundez wasn't supposed to say something like that.

"I also can't compare Serena and Sekundez's behavior…" Leon rubbed his chin. "Still… it would make sense if the act differently since Serena is much younger, and who knows how old Sekundez is…"

Before those three could find any trace of the black-haired woman, they mastered Mind Summoning, Omnilingualism, and even the power to create spirits by copying a part of their minds. It was a bit unsettling and weird, but given that they were using their memories as a medium, they didn't feel so bad about it.

"As expected," Leon said. "Things could have developed a lot faster if I had found some mages like them, but based on my experience, only those two could have become allies. All the others who had comparable powers turned and followed the dark path…"

It was only natural, but good people are always the first ones to die in apocalyptic scenarios. Why? Because they are decent and perhaps crazy enough to risk their well being for others. That Leon saw that happen time and time again…

Congratulations! You have become a Level one Shadow Blade!

Your speed and intelligence will increase by twenty points, your mana, health, recovery, and control will increase by ten points whenever you level up your class.

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Congratulations! You have become a Level Max Shadow Blade!

Your speed and intelligence have increased by twenty points: your mana, health, recovery, and control have increased by ten points.

Once that Leon learned Teleport and started to use to assassinate monsters in the blink of an eye, Leon obtained those notifications, but things didn't end there. Once Leon buffed his attacks with dark magic, he obtained several classes: Dark Knight, Shadow Stalker, Ninja, Shadow Ninja, Fallen Knight were a few of those. Although that was interesting and all, Leon felt his back getting itchy by seeing those classes… it made him recall the time of his adolescence, where he passed through his emo phase.

Such thoughts disappeared when that Leon, Ilyana, and Serena finally found the black-haired woman destroying all the inhabitants of another planet. However, she didn't look surprised at all. Instead, the black-haired woman looked as if she had been waiting for them.

Ilyana madly rushed at her only to see herself in the blink of an eye surrounded by four massive meteors. Ilyana was caught off-guard, but the meteors suddenly stopped when they were about to hit her. Not only that, they soon disappeared as if they never existed in the first place. Serena reacted on time to protect her mother, but she used all the mana she could reunite in a full minute to do so.

"So, she is the one who Mother wants to kill," Serena forced a smile. "This will be difficult…"

"I told you two that we are not ready for this," that Leon sighed in exasperation. "Too late to notice that…"

Despite all that training, despite adding Serena's power to their routine… Leon couldn't feel as if the distance between them and the black-haired woman had got smaller. Despite that, she didn't think of running away… she would fight because he won't let Ilyana and Serena die. No matter what…"