Unlimited Power - The Arcane Path

Somehow, Hector left the house before the monster could burn it down with him inside. The explosion made them fly away for a few meters… when they got up, Hector's house was no more. The whole place had been burned to a crisp. Not even the walls resisted. Hector only got up to fall on his knees when he recognized the fact that his parents had been buried alongside his house.

"This is…" Leon muttered.

That Leon looked to the skies and saw a scene that came out from a horror movie: dozens of massive lizards were flying over the city and destroying everything that slightly picked their interest. It was the day where Leon was supposed to fall on the ocean, but for some reason, that didn't happen.

"… If I remember well, I had planned to return a few days before that date," Leon muttered. "However, there was no seat available for that date… so… why…"

Time moved forward again, and Leon saw himself in front of his house. Only half of it had been burned. The other half was the garage that had been semi-destroyed. With Hector's help, Leon removed the rubble, and they found Amanda there. His sister was half-dead, but Leon still carried her on his back, hoping to find the hospitals still running. However, soon after getting Amanda, the city began to be overrun by monsters. Goblins, Sahuagins, Pterodactyls, Killer Bees… Leon found them all.

"Is this an alternate version of the past?" Leon frowned. "What Ilyana hopes to accomplish by showing me this…"

Leon already knew that Mind Melding was a dangerous skill and, in the wrong hands, could have made the life of any person a living nightmare. Still, even though he wished for the end of it with all his might, nothing happened.

While carrying the unconscious Amanda, Leon and Hector tried to escape from the monsters that were swarming the city and killing those who survived the dragon's attack. In that chaos, Sasha joined their group alongside twenty or so other people.

After looting a gun shop, Leon, alongside his companions, managed to leave the city just in time to see a hydrogen bomb falling over it. The scene left everyone speechless. That sudden light made that Leon sweat cold. He barely had returned home after four years, and now he had lost his parents and even his hometown.

Leaving the city didn't solve their problems. Monsters were everywhere, and their numbers didn't stop from increasing. In just two days, half of that group members had died due to monsters' attack, and their ammo had also had been completely used. Amidst the despair, Leon found a single thing that changed the destiny of his life: the fireball tome.

"I guess this is really a vision of an alternate universe," Leon said. "There is no way I would obtain a tome at such a convenient time."

Things didn't become rainbows and sunshine after that. However, with Leon's spell, the survivors managed to fight back and little by little obtain items and coins that strengthened the group. That Leon found problems here and there when his group had to contact another survivor's group, but thanks to Hector's leadership, they managed to survive and keep moving. Eventually, Amanda recovered from her wounds and joined the fights. Surprisingly, she was quite skilled with the bow despite being a total novice, and she became a fine addition to the team.

It was hard to be sure, but it looked like that Leon and his group traveled from place to place, searching for survivors and supplies for two years while building their strength. Still, even though the group increased, many were already tired of walking with no clear goal. So, Hector decided to recover Las Vegas. It would be a good base for the group. After all, the city wasn't nuked.

Although they had to kill dozens of thousands of monsters, that Leon and his friends managed to take Las Vegas from monsters. That was good, but Leon was more interested as to why he was obtaining so many tomes. That Leon fought a lot, so he deserved it, but considering the bad luck, Leon had, he deserves something that wasn't enough for him to obtain it. Weirdly enough, nothing serious happened after recovering Las Vegas. The only serious thing that happened was that Leon punched Hector so hard in the face and made him lose some teeth when he discovered that his sister was pregnant and Hector's father.

"Why the hell that happened while I was around?" Leon frowned. "If I remember well, it was around that time William and his lackeys began to get famous, but that Leon didn't hear anything about them. There are no mentions about Makoto either…"

If that really were the events that happened in a parallel universe, it was only obvious that different things would happen. So, why Amanda and Hector still had a kid? After doing some basic calculations, Leon confirmed that everything matched with Maya's time, and Leon confirmed that when the baby was born. The kid was identical to Maya and even received that name…

In any case, by the look of things, that Leon had a life totally different from Leon. Although that one also became a mage, he didn't have anywhere near mastery as Leon. Regardless, Leon confirmed that things proceed relatively favorably to that one. Helping other survivors making his own camp grow, that Leon eventually also reunited with Betty… More important than that, the holy sword wasn't sealed! Leon confirmed that when that Leon eloped with Betty, and then Sasha and after a few months… he also found an astonishing foreigner beauty that joined his harem: Gisela.

"Seriously?" Leon asked in shock. "Another version of me married three times?"

Leon began to wonder if his lack of luck was due to the fact that his other versions were too lucky like that one… maybe fate just chooses one of them to pay for the lust and crimes of all others…"

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