Leonel honestly didn't expect himself to just figure it out. If he was that confident, he would have just done this from the very beginning without wasting his time thinking about so many other methods.
However, what he didn't expect was that he was more intelligent than he assumed himself to be.
This was rare for him, honestly. Usually, he erred on the side of overconfidence. Maybe this was part of the changes brought about by his new Dream Force Sovereignty Path.
But Leonel didn't think it was so simple. It wasn't really that he had underestimated himself. Rather, he just happened to have the exact set of information he needed to deduce exactly what was before him.
In a lot of ways, this was a huge coincidence.
If he were to describe the weak of the Sea Gods in a single line, it would be as follows.
They were trying to replace the function of Earth Force and had failed to do so perfectly.
