Leon immediately tried to transform the other elements. However, they worked in different systems. Strengthening water was making it colder, and then it would become ice. With wind, with enough mana, Leon could even create electricity. As for fire… it only makes it hotter.
Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Water Transformation.
You obtained 01 status points.
Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Wind Transformation.
You obtained 01 status points.
Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Fire Transformation.
You obtained 01 status points.
"The cost to use those skills is stupid… but I'm sure those will be useful. I will have to train them."
Leon felt that it would be easier to train Earth Transformation before trying anything more complicated. However, he had to confirm what of those would be more efficient to use. It took a while, but eventually, Leon managed to produce a single grain of sand.
Congratulations! You have learned the skill: Earth Creation.
You obtained 01 status points.
Much to his surprise, when he tried to make a single steel grain, he ended up using the amount of mana he used while obtaining control and change a single grain of sand. It was so small and looked so pure that it seemed to be a small crystal.
"So, I guess the mana used doesn't change. The only real difference is that by transforming, I don't have to create the material… it is less troublesome, and since there is earth everywhere, it is more convenient. The same applies to wind… the problem will be how to create fire."
That being said, even though it was convenient to learn how to produce fire, Leon didn't need it. Now that he could create steel, he didn't need fire to harden the earth anymore.
"I should eventually learn it, but it shouldn't be my focus…"
Leon already could imagine several uses for those skills, now that humans could use magic, the possibilities were endless. For a second, Leon begun to visualize himself doing something, he saw in a TV show a long time ago. A guy combined earth and water to create wood and using it to create several structures. It didn't look impossible for him to learn, but it would take a long time since Leon needed a huge deal of concentration to transform regular sand into metal.
"Ah… I should try that… use wind as a propulsor under my feet."
Leon wanted to test that possibility, but he decided to take things slowly. He only tried to create wind after he learned how to create water, and surprisingly, it was much more comfortable, and less mana was used.
"It is probably thanks to the density of the elements…"
The number of options was increasing, but Leon was aware he couldn't forget the basic skills like Earth Manipulation. Now that he had a lot of options, he just had to train until he has the power to put all of them to good use.
Two months passed, and Leon kept training his skills vigorously, and even though he still wasn't satisfied with the level of his new skills, he decided to make his first attempt to escape that island on the first day of his sixth month on that place. Leon barely could create a knife made of steel, so he decided to cross the ocean in a boat made of earth.
Leon did a few tests in the previous days, and those fish couldn't even scratch the boat with their attacks, they tried to jump and attack Leon, but they died in mid-air before they could do anything since Leon exploded them with a blast of wind. The boat's design and shape were also much better than the first one Leon made, it was good enough that one could barely feel any unpleasantness while sitting in that boat made of earth.
"Here goes nothing…"
Leon jumped in the boat and made a blast of wind hit the sail, the first try, the boat didn't move much, but with the help of the momentum, the second blast of wind made the boat move quite fast. Leon made gusts of wind hit the sail several times, and then he began to eat the blue angel leaves that he had stored in the several backpacks made of earth. He was moving to the west, toward Asia. In no time, the island was getting smaller and smaller, and Leon's heart started to race. Barely one minute had passed, and he had traveled more than one kilometer… at that pace, he probably would reach the continent before the end of the day, but then it happened.
Suddenly, the boat was hit by something. Before Leon could understand what had happened, he saw himself in mid-air, and the boat split in two falling to the ocean. Then Leon saw it… the terror of the oceans that had been extinct thousands of years ago, The Megalodon Shark.
The damn thing had twenty meters of length, and it was five meters wide. Its mouth was so big that it could eat Leon in a single bit, the monster was looking at Leon waiting for him to fall and Leon froze when he saw those vicious red eyes, but soon he recovered because he wouldn't die there. Using the same blast of wind that he used to move the boat, he hit himself to fly back to the island. Leon's bones started to break like sticks, but that was nothing. The fear of that damn thing made him ignore the pain. Fortunately, his body was much lighter than the boat, and a blast of wind made him fly for dozen of meters.
The monster followed Leon hoping that his mana would end before he could escape, but eventually, it gave up. When Leon fell on the beach like a broken puppet, the Megalodon give up since it was too big to approach… That was Leon's first attempt and his first failure.