Chapter 154

Leon's mind went blank for a second, but soon he recovered himself. He couldn't stay there, but he also knew that he wouldn't be able to scape the damage caused by the railgun. Even if he doesn't take a direct hit, he will die. The last thing he needed to do at that moment was to try to run away and show his back to the enemy.

"Crazy bastard..." Leon murmured.

Leon activated Mana Armor and created several layers of earth between him and the railgun and tried to strengthen it as much as possible, but before the first layer of earth could become steel... the railgun was used.

Leon certainly got physically and magically strong; those four years on the island certainly made him stronger. Despite that, Leon knew that he was far from being unbeatable. With magic, he was confident that he could block an attack of a tank. With some preparation, he could repel the attack of tactics missiles like he did before. But humanity created certain weapons that Leon knew that he wouldn't survive against no matter what. Nuclear bombs were one of those types of weapons; the other… were railguns.

Leon didn't even notice what happened. When he woke up, he was buried under the debris of random building feeling like crap, and his whole body hurt like hell.

"Ugh… damn it."

Leon didn't have to see to confirm that he had broken more than a few bones, his left side hurt like hell, and he could tell that he broke several bones of his ribcage. Fortunately, Leon didn't feel much pain on the right side… rather, he didn't feel anything; only some burns. Leon tried to move his right arm and leg, but he didn't feel them. Using earth, he managed to leave the debris only to feel shivers when he saw the burn mark on his right side. His right arm and leg had been burn to a crisp.

"Oh, shit… shit. That bastard… I will kill him!"

Leon almost gave the order to destroy the building, but Leon remembered Yuki. When he heard her voice, it sounded like she wanted to die. Leon failed, but he couldn't cause Yuki's death. It was the least he could do for Makoto.

While Leon was trying to calm himself and use his mana to mend his bones, he felt some noise coming from the streets. It looked like his skeleton army was being attacked, things worked so well in the beginning that Leon totally forgot about Alexei's presents…

"He only sent a few cannon-fodder to stop me, he hid his best soldiers near his building to attack after using the railgun…"

It was a pain to admit, but Leon only survived because that railgun was a small version of the real deal. If he had been hit by ones that were installed in ships, he would be dead by now. Still, he suffered a lot of damage. Enough damage that a few potions and the recovery couldn't help him.

"At least I can fool him just like the way he fooled me…"

Leon paid the price, but he would make sure that Alexei would pay much more. He was so stupid that he didn't know that Leon's skeletons would disappear if he dies. Alexei didn't even consider the possibility that Leon could have survived, and that would be his downfall. Leon decided to hide on the top of that building until night. He had a hard time trying to heal himself, but after a few minutes, the recovery did its magic, and most of Leon's pain disappeared. His broken bones healed, but the burns were still there.

"It's probably because the burned flesh is considered dead… something that is dead cannot be healed naturally."

Still, Leon had sometime before sunset, so he decided to try to heal those burns. He also wanted to change his clothes since his current ones were in tatters, but he would have a hard time doing that with a single arm.

"Ugh... it burns too much."

As expected, stimulating the mana of his body to heal the burns wasn't enough. It looked like the principle to heal ordinary wounds and burns were different. That being said, the gloves he had lent to Makoto could heal burns, so Leon was sure that he eventually would discover how to do it. Still, he would have to do it later, because the night was coming.

Leon's skeleton army was quite powerful, but since they were only archers and wizards, they weren't that durable. The railgun killed a lot of them, and after sunset, the soldiers destroyed all of them. Leon observed the floor where the railgun was for quite a while; the lights stayed on for a few hours showing that Alexei was still working with his underlings. But soon, he turned the lights off, even though the rest of the city was still working to repair the damage Leon caused.

Anyway, Leon flew and approached the windows of that floor. As he had expected, it was bulletproof glass. Alexei was a cautious son of a bitch, after all. But something like that couldn't even be counted as an obstacle to Leon. He created four steel spears and made them spin before he attacked and destroyed the glass. However, he couldn't let an even single piece of glass fall on the streets, so, caught those with another earth platform. Leon had arrived just on time to see Yuki tied up in the bed and Alexei taking off his clothes. Although the lights were off, Alexei recognized Leon and then become pale as a ghost.

"Surprise, motherfucker..." Leon said. "Your torment begins now."

Alexei ran toward a certain table where Leon saw a stone; he didn't know what that was, but it was something that Alexei wanted very much in that situation, and that was enough to make Leon stop him. Without much resistance, Leon destroyed Alexei's arms and legs. He screamed and trembled a lot, but that didn't even make Leon flinch. That was just the opening act for what Leon had in store for Alexei.