CHAPTER 571: CHAPTER 571: HAVING FUN

Difference? In the past, Ethan would proudly talk about the advantages of his training method.

But after stepping into a new realm, his perspective on magic had changed.

"There are some differences in the process, but in the end, they all lead to the same place."

Ethan’s training method seemed theoretically capable of reaching very high levels, but this didn’t mean the other options were dead ends.

Look at Merlin, look at the Ancient One, were their strengths weak? Even the current Ethan couldn’t say he had caught up to these two.

Leah’s strength might have reached a certain bottleneck, but this was related to her personal talent and knowledge, and neither of these issues was a problem for Ethan.

So Leah could choose whichever path she wanted. Even if she reached a certain point and didn’t know how to proceed, Ethan could offer appropriate suggestions from a higher perspective.

After all, what mages pursue in the end is roughly the same, the easier application of various energies and rules.

Things like Ethan’s idea of creating everything with his own power did not fall outside this scope. It was a byproduct of pursuing this goal.

These things were still very far off for Leah, so the essential difference between the choices before her was merely the difference between gaining casting ability sooner or later.

"The same training method as Teacher."

After much thought, Leah finally decided to follow the path Ethan had taken. Although it sounded like a difficult path and she wouldn’t feel like a mage for a long time, it was said that her teacher, back then, didn’t act like a mage at all when fighting and developed strange habits. His first reaction when facing someone was not to cast spells but to draw his sword.

If she hadn’t later become Ethan’s disciple, Leah would never have guessed that Ethan was a mage. She had always thought Ethan was an existence like the Archangels, possessing great power while also being able to cast various powerful spells.

"Of course you can."

The path Ethan took was to first focus on improving mental power without rushing to control a certain energy, and not absorbing energy from the outside to convert into magic power stored within the body, but rather generating magic power from within oneself when mental power reached a certain level.

From a certain perspective, Leah herself possessed a very powerful bloodline, and her mental power was also stronger than that of ordinary people, so she could complete the initial training in a shorter time.

Ethan suddenly thought of Leah’s Diablo bloodline. Would this method of training by digging into one’s own potential stimulate the hidden demon lord bloodline?

However, at that time, Diablo was in foreign territory. Coupled with Leah’s period of training, which enhanced her mental strength and soul strength, and with Ethan protecting her nearby, this portion of Diablo’s mental power or soul fragments might instead become nourishment for Leah’s self-improvement.

"That would be interesting."

Ethan had originally been thinking about how to resolve this hidden danger, but now he wasn’t in a hurry. He wanted to see if Leah could resolve this issue on her own.

If she could achieve all of this with her own strength, perhaps Leah would achieve even greater accomplishments in the future.

Having decided what to learn, and with Sherry having already taught Leah the basic methods of mental power usage, coupled with her good innate talent, her progress was very fast. She quickly learned this knowledge, and the next step was long-term practice.

Besides this, Ethan didn’t teach her too much. Things like elemental properties could be slowly analyzed later.

Anyway, Artemis wasn’t counting on Leah quickly mastering combat abilities right now. She had ample time to quietly build a sufficiently solid foundation for herself.

After finishing teaching her the magic knowledge, Leah looked up, her big innocent eyes wide, and asked a question that made Ethan want to spit blood.

"Don’t I need to learn swordsmanship?"

"Why would you need to learn swordsmanship?"

"I thought if I followed Teacher’s path, I had to learn swordsmanship."

"..."

He briefly explained to the little girl that he had learned swordsmanship back then for self-protection when he didn’t have casting ability, and now Leah didn’t need to worry about her safety.

However, on second thought, there was no harm in Leah learning swordsmanship. At least it could be used for physical exercise. So his explanation gradually turned into a lecture on the basic points of swordsmanship.

Although Leah realized her teacher seemed to be going off-topic, being a well-behaved child, she wouldn’t question her teacher directly. Instead, she obediently continued to listen, and then dutifully followed Ethan to the practice room, picked up a small blunted practice sword, and practiced some basic movements.

Ethan’s swordsmanship foundation was learned from Arthur, belonging to orthodox knightly swordsmanship.

He had mastered the techniques for using weapons including one-handed swords with shields, two-handed greatswords, broadswords, and others. In fact, a knight had to master more types of weapons than just these, but Ethan hadn’t learned that many, focusing only on swordsmanship.

This swordsmanship wasn’t particularly profound, but it was very suitable for building a foundation, perfect for Leah to learn.

Leah also learned very seriously. After learning the basics of swordsmanship and methods for mental power training, she diligently practiced every day. In the end, Ethan had to set a clear training schedule for her to prevent her from overtraining and harming herself, which slightly reduced her training time.

But Leah didn’t become idle because of this. After Sherry discovered Leah was learning swordsmanship, she dragged her to learn how to use various firearms. Artemis had all sorts of weapons and equipment available for everyone to learn and master.

Not to mention various modern gunpowder weapons, even antique muzzle-loading matchlock guns were available. Besides serving as decorations, people could also use them to have some fun shooting when they were bored.

Now, Sherry had found a new use for them, helping Leah understand the evolution of weapons more intuitively.

After Leah’s training got on the right track, Artemis continued to sail steadily through the endless cosmic void. During this time, it didn’t encounter any planets, and there was still a considerable amount of time before reaching the next star system. He began to consider whether to take everyone somewhere to relax appropriately.

The advantage of having companions was that when he couldn’t think of a suitable option for a while, he could ask for their opinions.

He wanted to go out and explore, but he didn’t know what kind of world he should go to. Maybe he could ask his companions if they had any ideas?

"There’s nowhere I want to go right now."

"I’m still observing various data in the universe. This place is practically a treasure trove, so I don’t want to go anywhere for now."

"Boring idea..."

"I’d really like to go see, but I just used a strengthening potion, so it’s not convenient for me to travel around recently."

From Sherry to Hill, no one was interested in going out to play with Ethan. As for Leah, she felt she still had many things to practice and hadn’t considered going out to play at all. She didn’t even speak up.

Logan also didn’t speak. Under normal circumstances, he would have gone out to play with Ethan, but this time he didn’t feel like moving. He had had enough fun in Starship Troopers last time. Although the bugs were disgusting, the way they swarmed in overwhelming numbers, and then were gunned down by him, was indeed a very suitable way to vent.

After several battles, Logan’s strength was pretty much depleted. Although his body had regained youth, his mindset wasn’t as active as when he was young. Unless he was truly interested, he still preferred a calmer life.

"Maybe we could go see the past you, are you interested?"

"Not interested."

Logan casually lit a cigar for himself. He knew Ethan was fully capable of taking him to see Jean now. If it were the old him, he would definitely have asked Ethan to take him to see her, but the current him had figured out many things. If he accidentally stumbled upon that world, he might still go see his past self, but he wouldn’t specifically go there.

"Really..."

Ethan shook his head. He had originally thought everyone would be very interested, but he didn’t expect them to be so uncooperative.

"Maybe in another two months, everyone will get bored. When you suggest it then, there will definitely be a lot of responses."

"I’m bored right now."

Frankly, Ethan was just looking for something to do because he was too idle. He had had a much longer journey on the ocean back then, and at that time, he had to control the ship every day and deal with various weather changes.

Although space was more dangerous, it wasn’t as busy as it was back then. Plus, he had companions now, and the spaceship had a very high-end intelligent system, Luna, so he didn’t need to stare at the cockpit for long periods. He just needed to find a place to do his own thing.

Although it was said that mages were homebodies, they still needed things to do to stay home. The current situation was that Ethan’s strength had just crossed a major realm, and his strength was stabilizing but not completely stable, so he didn’t dare to use potions for further improvement.

There were no urgent research projects at the moment, and the few magic properties he was slowly studying had entered the stage of painstaking effort, which could only be achieved with time.

This led to him having nothing much to do recently, just waiting for this stage to be completed.

He could go find Diana. Perhaps spending time alone together was a good way to pass the time. However, Diana wouldn’t do things according to his wishes. She would only spend her free time with him, and if she had something busy to do, Ethan would be directly left aside.

So he could only find places to play by himself.

He didn’t know if his desire to find fun was too strong, but when he used teleportation magic to arrive at a new world and saw people of various shapes lying all over the ground, he knew this was going to be interesting.

"This is really a place suitable for finding fun."

Ethan was looking around when one of the people got up and looked at Ethan with a surprised expression.

"How did you wake up so fast?"

(To be continued.)