In the end, Cassandra and the others eventually became bored with waiting for Leo to finish his cultivation, so they left and began their own cultivation instead, specifically they only left at the end of the day.

Because of that, Leo who was closing his eyes can't help breathing a sigh of relief since he could finally open his eyes and end his cultivation. To be honest, the moment Cassandra and the others arrived, he had already noticed them. At first, he thought of greeting them, but he quickly abandons such thoughts when he heard their words of beating him up. Rather than be beaten up, he'd rather continue his cultivation.

Well, who would want to be beaten up, especially by women? It would have been fine if he had done something wrong, but he didn't even do anything wrong to them. Though he did ditch them and left them to look for him for half a day, that is still not his choice. In the first place, did he even ask them to look for him? Obviously, he didn't, and he also wouldn't ask them to look for him unless it's something important, which is not his current case right this moment.

The moment Leo stood up after cultivating for more than a day, he immediately felt his body turning extremely numb. It was very painful to move a single muscle of his.

"I really need to quickly get used to my life as a Mage." Leo whispered to himself. He had always been telling this to himself ever since the beginning, but unfortunately, he just can't seem to find a chance to do it. In the past, he was busy with school, then what soon followed after was the trial competition that ended up in a tragedy at Floating Mountain, afterwards he has washed ashore to the Twilight Forest, and lastly, the moment he finally returned back to the Silver city he was right after greeted with an ongoing war in the Silver Kingdom with him quickly taking the responsibility of becoming a Commander. No matter what he does, his schedule was always so packed to the brim, to the point that after one ends another would quickly follow after. This was even worse than his training in the past because at that time he was at least able to have a week of rest before continuing with his training once again, not a single straight month or more of continuous hardship.

Well, he also hasn't tried yet and doesn't want to try being punished by his Master Olivia and be sent into a 1-month straight training in some wilderness. After all, the reason why he became her favorite discipline was exactly because he always follows and completes everything she would tell him to do, regardless of the consequences.

After adapting to the numbness of his body, Leo then quickly began stretching to minimize the numbness. Afterwards, he fixed himself before jumping down to meet up with the others.

At this moment, Leo was oblivious of everything that had happened yesterday because he had spent practically his entire time, from the beginning of the day till the end of the day, in cultivation. He didn't even bother stopping to eat or to drink, and there was also no need to because Mana was still nourishing his body at this moment due to the ongoing formation of the Star in his consciousness. Though right now he smelled so bad and black liquid had already drenched his body and clothes wet.

"Is this the so-called impurities?" Leo quickly confirmed while getting the feel of the impurities. But what quickly followed after was him becoming shocked because based on the books he had read before this process is called Consciousness Cleansing, or in simple terms, to cleanse the consciousness from the impurities in the Mana that the Mage had gathered. Though this was a natural process, so there should be nothing to be shocked about, but the thing is, this only happens every time a Mage breakthrough 5 levels, and right now he's still in the 1 Star level. And what's even more shocking was, he hadn't even breakthrough or something, he was just forming his Star, so there shouldn't be any Consciousness Cleansing.

Though he is not that knowledgeable about Consciousness Cleansing, he will admit that, but base on the books he had read before, there is absolutely no such thing as Consciousness Cleansing after forming a Star. In fact, what was mentioned in the books was, the moment a Mage breakthrough to 5 Star level they would undergo Consciousness Cleansing immediately, but when they start forming the 5th Star, it wouldn't be included in the first Consciousness Cleansing, but it would instead only cleanse once the Mage broke through to 1st Galaxy and undergone its 2nd Consciousness Cleansing.

Therefore, what is happening to him right now is unexplainable. Obviously, he can't also just say that this doesn't exist, because he has already experienced it right now, but rather he lacks any explanation for why it had happened. Though it didn't take that long for him to find out...

"This is definitely the doing of the Red Cube's!" Leo easily found out the cause of this Consciousness Cleansing. Other than the Red Cube, what else could have done it? He isn't even considered a genius amongst Mages or a once in a hundred or thousand-year genius, and the only thing he has is the Red Cube, so it's pretty easy to guess who's doing this was.

Leo was shocked, but he was more excited after finding out about this thing. With this Red Cube, one of his weaknesses, specifically he had just awoken his capability as a Mage in his 18th year, can now easily be fixed.

Just look at Elizabeth and Angel, although they have just broken through to the 1 Star level just like him, they have already learned a ton of powerful Magic spells, and had even developed them to the next level. They have also already familiarized themselves with a Cultivation technique and have even learned a lot of things about Magic related stuff. That's what he calls a good foundation. To be honest, he believes that if both Elizabeth and Angel really wanted to reach a higher cultivation level, then they could have done it easily in the past, or if they want to do it right now, then they can easily breakthrough in an instance. Not only because they have enough resources, but also because they have already established a good foundation for their cultivation.

Meanwhile, on the other hand, he had none of those, even some basic knowledge about Magic. In fact, the only reason why he was able to breakthrough to 1 Star level was due to the large Mana stones he has found before. Without those large Mana stones, even with the Red Cube's help, he would still be stuck at the No Star level right now.

Just look at him. Although he knows the general way of casting Support Magic spells, but that is still not enough because just like its name suggests, Support Magic spells the main function is only for support. Though he can still use it for attacking someone with the right opportunity, that still doesn't remove the fact that it's not enough and that it's only for support, not to mention it's not even that great. Why? Well, Elizabeth and Angel also know the general way of casting Support Magic spells, even Cassandra had already learned that just from basing on the past missions they have been together.

Aside from that, he only knows two Assault Magic spells, specifically Green Terrain spell and Fireball spell, in which the former is a half Support Magic spell while the latter isn't even considered by the majority of Mages as an Assault Magic spell.

What's even worse is, he doesn't know a single Defensive Magic spell yet. He can admit he has his Earth Elemental to rely on for defense, but as a Mage himself, he can't forever rely on the Earth Elementals, right? And also, and if only he knew this a bit earlier, he actually needs to learn Defensive Magic spells the most if he wants to touch the full potential of the Earth Elemental because what he had learned would also be learned by his Elementals.

In conclusion, what he lacks right now is a foundation similar to Elizabeth and Angel.

However, at this moment, there wouldn't be any need for him to worry about that anymore. With the Red Cube's help, not to mention his peers, even those Mages much older than him or have a deeper foundation than him, he would still have an absolute chance to catch up to all of them.

"If only I have enough time and Magical resources, then I can catch up to them in a month's time. No, even half a month would be possible." Leo thought to himself.

Unfortunately, with the current war going on right now, he can't fully focus on his cultivation just yet. What he needs to focus on now, especially as the Commander, is how to win this war against the Silver royal family. Only until then could he return back to his cultivation. It would definitely not be easy, but it would also not be that hard.

.....

Meanwhile, in a palace at the Williams city, Paul and Arvin Williams along with Timothy and Jacob Will were currently walking in the hallway towards the Patriarch Chamber while talking about how they can break the defense of the Blacksmoke city when suddenly the necklace Paul was wearing around his neck began lighting up in purple light.

Out of everyone's imagination, a beautiful woman with purple hair and covered in serious injury all over her voluptuous body soon after appeared out of Paul's necklace.

Seeing the woman, everyone was immediately shocked in disbelief.

"Vice-president Barbara?" Everyone exclaimed in shock the moment they laid their eyes on the woman's face.