701 Chapter 698 (1/2)
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…”