Chapter 192

When Leon heard that, he couldn't help but frown. It was shocking that India and China combined had six times more survivors than the rest of the world. It wouldn't be weird if they had a few individuals like Leon, who managed to learn by magic by themselves over the course of the last years. Although they were using the dungeons the Russians couldn't watch, they weren't causing trouble to his allies. So, there was no need to hurry up and negotiate with them.

"What else do you know about them?" Leon asked.

"Unfortunately, we don't have all that much information… even though their population is numerous, infiltrate and spy their countries isn't easy. Most of the allied nations already lost several spies to them."

"I see… have they tried to negotiate in some moment?" Leon asked.

"To two nations negotiate, they must be on equal grounds economically and military. Only the Russians managed to negotiate a few times with the Indians, but not with China."

Leon sighed, it would be hard to negotiate with them since they had the numerical advantage, and since that they had the confidence in surviving by themselves. In any case, Leon couldn't leave them alone, even though they had bigger numbers. It was too dangerous to leave any blind spots when the subject was making all the survivors in the world work together. Sarah already informed the other nations about the monsters who gave William, Sanchez and Alisson, powerful magic items, technology, and even knowledge on how to produce magic items to some extent. If they are not careful, that creature will do the same again, and this time it would lure the Indians or the Chinese with sweet words for a trap… the result would be disastrous.

"Well, if something changes, just call me," Leon said. "I want to stay focused on learning my new trick, but I will stop to help my friends if they need a hand."

"I understand, Mister Shounen Protagonist."

After hearing Yuki laughing, the call ended. Leon sighed, he was a bit too old to act like a kid who says the word friend in every sentence, but he couldn't help it. The world became a place which he could travel in just a few days, yet he couldn't solve all the problems by himself. So, he had to rely on his friends to help him as much as possible. Leon was trying to have as many allies as possible, but he couldn't trust in all of them. The only thing he could do was to keep safe those who deserved his trust.

"I guess Heal won't be enough to turn India and China into allies… I should hurry and learn this technique already."

Leon was still on the first stage of the process of learning how to create magic items, but since he already knew what he had to learn, it was only a matter of time before he obtains that power. Although Leon's offensive capabilities stopped growing a little bit in the past months for the sake of learning utility spells, he didn't feel all that bad about it because he was looking forward to the items he would create. Leon barely could contain his excitement imagining what kind of effects a ring which he seals the soul of T-Rex would have.

"The possibilities are endless, but everything starts once I learn the spell."

Two weeks passed since then, Leon and his friends already got used to the weight of the steel weapons, so they asked for heavy ones. Although Leon had planned to let them rest their muscles for one week, he ended up creating the new weapons since they were so eager for them. It was all because their strength increase by ten points in just a few weeks, and that was something that only happened a long time ago.

Around the time Leon upgraded the steel weapons, he finally managed to create an even layer above the test subject number three's skin. Unfortunately, two desert wolves died while Leon was practicing since they refused his food and water… it was kind of weird seeing a monster dying of thirst because it was too prideful to receive water from a human. Either way, despite the success, nothing happened probably because Leon was too slow in creating the layer of mana.

"Well, it doesn't matter. Progress is progress."

Leon thought it would take a few weeks before he could cover a body with his mana fast enough, but it only took him a few days. He just sent his mana as if he was filling a small cup with water. In his body, he had a massive torrent of mana, but by controlling that torrent and emitting it at the same pace, he managed to do it as fast as the time he emitted his mana to learn Mana Armor. Still… nothing happened.

"I'm making a mistake somewhere again…"

Leon tried to move the desert wolf spirit, but once he did it, his mana dispersed. As expected, just covering a beast's body with mana wasn't enough.

"I must do something else… I must become something else… I always wanted to say that, hehe."

Putting the silly jokes aside, Leon was pretty sure that he didn't do anything wrong, he just needed to do something more… something like fusing his mana with the monster's mana.

"Now that I think about it when I sucked the mana of the cursed ring, it lost its powers. So, Mana-Eater absorbed the spirit of which was put in the ring… so mana and spirit are directly related. I can't just cover the target's body with mana; I also have to touch their energy."