Unlimited Power - The Arcane Path

Leon frowned when he heard that. It looked like he was missing something or that woman was just insane. There was also a changed that she mistook him for someone else, but that was hard to believe.

Suddenly, Ilyana arrived at Leon's side. She didn't make a scene like the weird lady, but despite the fact that she fought with a god-like being, she looked completely fine. With the sole exception that she was glaring at the black-haired woman as if she was trying to open a hole in her with her eyes.

"It looks like you didn't solve things here, too," Ilyana said. "I didn't expect that you would be cornered by another human. Still, it wasn't that unexpected."

Leon summoned Sekundez and then moved away from Ilyana. He didn't know what those two were thinking, but he couldn't afford to trust them when they were clearly hiding something. When they noticed what Leon was thinking, both of them shrugged. They did so at the same time and that only made Leon frown because their movements matched so perfectly that if their physical forms weren't so different, one could have thought that one was the real and the other was a mirror image.

"Let's defeat them, Leon," Ilyana said. "After this, there won't be any more secrets between us."

"I will fight all of those who threaten this planet, I don't know if I will win, but I will fight," Leon said. "That includes you as well…"

"…" Ilyana silently lowered her head.

"How many times did you lie to me? How many times did you hid important things from me?" Leon asked. "How many times did you work behind the scenes to make me do something?"

"… All I did, I did for a reason," Ilyana replied after a few moments of hesitation.

"Of course, you did, people like you always think that you are in the right, no matter what happens, your actions are justified, right?" Leon smirked. "Hey, you… aren't you the same? You summoned dragons to Earth because you had a good reason, right? My parents died because of your dragons, but I bet that you had a good reason. Nope, you don't have to tell me, I understand everything."

After a while, everything begun to make sense in Leon's head. Yuki's power to heal curses and similar effects, the magic box that Makoto's son had, the dungeon breaks in South America, the voice he heard, that strange figure, the soul eater that the harvesters had… Ilyana was involved in those. Leon thought that it was utter bullshit when he heard that a god gave Yuki the power to dispel negative effects. Magic box was an item that had the power to space magic, so it was only obvious that those weren't suppose to exist in a world on the first stage of assimilation.

Thanks to the dungeon breaks, Leon got aware that weird things were happening behind the scenes, but the sole purpose of that was to make Leon not notice about Ilyana's real intentions. Perhaps even the fact that he survived the fall from the plane was something that her hand was involved. Based on those things, Leon concluded that Ilyana wanted him to become strong, for what or why? That he couldn't tell.

"Can't you trust me?" Ilyana asked. "I'm serious, after this battle, I will explain everything and then everything will make sense."

"Screw you," Leon said.

"I understand now…" The black-haired woman smirked. "You really are pathetic Ilyana, you always take your sweet time when he is involved."

"Shut up, your crazy bitch!" Ilyana shouted.

Something weird was going on, something that Leon had no idea what it was, but he couldn't care less about the things that were happening behind the scenes when those two monsters were involved. As far as Leon could tell, both of them were his enemies. Leon would use everything in his power to make them run away from Earth, or die trying.

"Since it is like this, I won't lose this chance," The black-haired woman said and then opened her arms. "Die feeling the same regrets you made me feel time and time again!"

The sky that was dark before turned red, Leon recognized that, the black-haired woman used the same spell the angels used to prevent anyone from escaping the planet, perhaps she used a more powerful version. It didn't matter, what was important was the fact that the crazy witch would do something with the whole planet.

"Master!" Sylas shouted. "What is the meaning of this?"

"I'm sorry, Sylas," The black-haired woman said. "We have to change our plans and crushed them before they stop my plans once again."

"But… this is my home planet!" Sylas said.

Sylas who looked before like a bored old man suddenly recovered his vigor. Perhaps he could keep more than a few thoughts once he transforms into his final form. Either way, it looked like he didn't expect that his boss would destroy the planet he was trying to save.

"Don't worry, once we deal with those two, we will reach the final stage of our plan and then we will have enough power to do whatever we want," The black-haired woman smiled sweetly and said.

Leon couldn't read the minds of those who were more powerful than him, but he honestly couldn't see any bad ills coming from that woman. More and more, Leon begun to feel that Ilyana only told him lies. Still, as far as he was concerned, the black-haired woman was still his enemy.

Suddenly, Leon felt his body being throw around to the side as if he had been hit by a large meteor. However, Ilyana grabbed him and stopped Leon from being throw around. She was still troubled by what Leon said to her, but something like that didn't stop her from helping Leon. Despite that, Leon teleported away from her and then saw what seemed to be a five hundred meters tall tsunami of dust coming toward him.