In the end, Leon decided to keep his skills active and deal with those annoying feelings. It was much better than wasting time, in reality, accessing the memories of the shadowy bastard.
"Are you feeling this too?" Leon asked, visibly surprised. "Come to think of it… How can you exist in this world? I'm pretty sure your power is much higher than mine. So, you should be in the sixth stage of the assimilation."
"As long as you keep your power at a minimum level, you can ignore this rule to some extent," Ilyana explained. "That being said, it isn't something I would recommend since you feel even worse than you are. Besides, recovering my usual power takes some time, and that makes me vulnerable for a short while."
It was something risky, but the benefits were quite good… Regardless, after giving his report, Leon asked Ilyana if she could send some of her monsters to Earth. The connections between those worlds had disappeared, but Leon would use his magic to send those months to Earth if he had to. He needed to train those spells, after all.
"Very well, I don't think will help them a lot, but I will do that for you," Ilyana nodded.
The list of things Leon owed to Ilyana was increasing again, but at this point in time, there was no reason to worry about that. As long as he deals with other small fry harvesters and saves her some time, eventually, his debt would be paid.
Congratulations! The skill of Mana Reinforcement has reached the max level.
You obtained 01 status points.
Congratulations! The skill Lightning has reached the max level.
You obtained 01 status points.
Congratulations! The skill Magma Spear has reached the max level.
You obtained 01 status points.
Congratulations! The skill Fire Arrow has reached the max level.
You obtained 01 status points.
Congratulations! The skill Ice Pillar has reached the max level.
You obtained 01 status points.
"Mmm… it looks like my replica is finally having some difficulties finding memories of new spells," Leon rubbed his chin. "Just absorbing the skills using Skill Absorption would be easy, but I need to see if that guy had any useful information."
Just learning all the skills the shadowy bastard had wasn't enough, and since Leon could level up his own skills by accessing his memories, those chances were too good to lose. Unfortunately, even though his replica had read two hundred years' worth of memories, he didn't find anything useful. That guy only played with other people's lives for quite a while and then turned into zombies when he got tired of them.
"Although he learned spells like Mind Absorption and Mind Melding, he didn't learn Mindscape Transportation…" Leon frowned. "I guess a bastard like him wouldn't have the patience to save so many coins."
There was also the fact that he didn't have access to something like Ilyana's vault. Still, considering that he lived for thousands of years, the shadowy figure could have learned if he had put the effort in the right areas instead of tormenting people and dooming worlds.
Since assimilating the experience of when the shadowy bastard was practicing his spells was quite easy, Leon decided to use that opportunity to train his spells as much as possible. It was much better and convenient than thinking of looking for new spells, after all. So, he did that without a hint of hesitation.
Congratulations! The skill Ice Arrow has reached the max level.
You obtained 01 status points.
Congratulations! The skill Earth Arrow has reached the max level.
You obtained 01 status points.
Congratulations! The skill Earth Punch has reached the max level.
You obtained 01 status points.
Congratulations! The skill Ice Punch has reached the max level.
You obtained 01 status points.
Congratulations! The skill Wind Arrow has reached the max level.
You obtained 01 status points.
Although obtaining new status points became even easier, Leon felt like he was being pushed down to the deepest of the ocean of magma the more he allocated those status points. His body was getting strong, magically speaking… but it looked like that planet was beginning to repel his very existence.
"Although planets aren't sentient beings, they can understand that creatures like Ilyana and me are harmful," Leon nodded to himself. "Our presences alone are enough to harm the planet, so it can't be helped that we are being treated like viruses."
Leon wasn't as strong as Ilyana, so he couldn't afford to find methods to decrease the weight of his existence, so he could only endure it. Regardless, now that his replica could train one thousand times faster in that mindscape, Leon saw himself without anything to do. He was using Mana Magnetism, and other spells were active, but that was too damn boring. To make matters worse, he already learned most of the things he wanted to learn.
"Time magic, Telekinesis, Gravity, Manipulate Space, absorb mana from the ambient, summoning magic…" Leon muttered. "I already learned most of the things I wanted to learn. Now what?"
The only thing Leon could think of to learn that would help him was to how to bring people back from the dead, but he didn't want to step on that territory. Leon wanted to think that his parents, Makoto and Darya, were in a better place, but if they weren't and tried to bring them back, things could go very wrong. Instead of the people he knew, he would bring back beings that couldn't be recognized as humans anymore…
Since that kind of thought was too dangerous, Leon forced himself to forget that idea. He was determined not to become like his enemies. However, the more powerful he got, the harder it was becoming to maintain some principles.
"Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely…" Leon muttered.