Chapter 360

"...What?" Leon asked astonished.

Leon couldn't believe his ears, so he asked that on a foolish tone. He was making a face as if he was a kid who just learned that Santa Claus doesn't exist...

" I left two years ago..." Leon said. "What kind of joke is this?"

"What?" Anton frowned. "You left almost twenty years ago..."

Again, Leon couldn't believe his ears. That didn't make any sense. If that was a joke, Anton was going a bit too far. He knew that Leon's goal was to return home, and that kind of thing was bad for his heart.

"No, no, no..."Leon massaged his eyebrows. "You didn't say that twenty years have passed since I left... you said twenty months, right?"

"... It looks like the assimilation affects the worlds much more than we imagined," Anton said. "Most likely, time passes ten times more slowly. The higher the planet is on the stage of assimilation."

That was the last thing Leon wanted to hear, he considered the possibility that something like that would happen in different worlds, but he didn't consider that the process of assimilation would cause that, much less be so drastic.

"Three and a half years... it means thirty-five years..." Leon's face turned white. "two years there, was twenty years here... then two hundred years on Earth...

Leon started to tremble, that was a bad joke... that had to be a bad joke, it has to be. He couldn't, nor did he want to believe that two hundred years have passed on Earth since the time he left.

"Damn it... that fucking bastard..." Leon bit his lips. "I would kill him If he were alive."

"... What are you talking about?" Anton said.

"I'm talking about your dead fucking leader!" Leon shouted. "The bastard probably knew that, and he didn't tell me... fucking asshole."

The moment Leon said that the guards prepared themselves to attack. However, using Telekinesis, Leon sent them flying toward the walls of the research center. After that, he locked them there, creating steel rings.

"Try to attack me again, and the next time I will bury all of you alive," Leon declared.

Without waiting for them to resist, Leon flew toward the north, where he was hoping to find the building where Darya was. He still couldn't believe what he heard, but little by little, things started to make sense. That kind of time dilation was probably part of the system, even if a powerful being can't act directly on some worlds, he could send and train powerful minions to those places and do the dirty job for him. That time dilation was a means to help the inhabitants of the new worlds being assimilated to have enough time to grow stronger. Leon didn't know if that was a natural thing or not, but it was terrible for him nonetheless.

"While I was on Dasaliv or Celosie, a dungeon connecting this world to Earth could have appeared… Shit, shit… why my luck has to be so rotten…"

In the end, the damn lizard didn't act hoping that Leon would die on Miebos, he hoped that he wouldn't be able to help Earth's inhabitants for hundreds of years.

"That damn lizard bastard… I will kill him! I will kill him in the most painful way possible!"

It didn't take long for Leon to find another massive building, that was probably the place where Darya was. Since now he couldn't waste even a second, Leon broke the windows of the top floor only to find Darya talking with men and women. They seemed to be high-ranked officials, but Leon couldn't care less about that.

"All of you, leave," Leon said. "I need to talk with her."

"You!" Darya got up, annoyed.

"Give them the order to them leave, now," Leon ordered. "Or they will leave using the windows, and I will make sure that they won't be able to use Fly or Telekinesis."

Although those people were powerful, they hesitated to face Leon. They grew stronger over the last twenty years, but their mana still couldn't be compared to Leon's. In fact, some of them still could remember him and even remember the stated he brought Donan back to the surface. He wasn't someone they had any chances of winning, even by joining their forces.

Congratulations! The skill Mind Armor has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! The skill Mind Armor has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

Congratulations! The skill Mind Armor has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

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"I'm running out of patience here…" Leon said and then took out the Malahk's sword from his magic box.

"It is okay…" Darya said. "We will resume this meeting later. Go, he doesn't have any intentions of killing me."

Darya's tone was much different since the last time Leon heard her, even though her overall appearance didn't change all that much. In those twenty years, she didn't only inherit Donan's position. She became the true leader of that world. That was obvious since no one dared to disobey her. Leon was happy to see Darya, despite the unpleasantness she was showing in her eyes… Still, there was no time to chat.

"Did he tell you?" Leon asked.

"Who told me what?" Darya frowned.

"Your grandfather… did he told you about time dilation?" Leon asked again.

"Time dilation? He never mentioned anything like it…" Darya said. "Did you discover something about that subject?"

In the end, there was no point for that shadowy figure to say anything about the differences of time on different planets. Leon just went ahead assumed that was the case because he was too mad… that kind of information only interested Leon, because he was the only one who could travel between planets and was far away from his own planet.