*False True Painting

"Oh, you finally finished your training today?" Caterina called out from the kitchen when she sensed Leonardo's magical wave signature along with Gaia's,

"Yes, father said he will be late tonight," Leonardo said before heading up the stairs together with Gaia,

"Late again? I wonder if something is going on" Caterina mumbled before shaking her head, "No if it's him, he will tell me if something is up."

Opening the door leading to his bedroom did not lead to your standard bedroom, instead, it was a junkyard filled with a variety of metal ore chips, magical beast cores, wild herbs and magical beast ingredients such as skins, bones and the lot. Only at the far corner is a single bed along with seven small beds forming a ternary plot with steps leading to the higher beds.

"Purrr" Gaia happily trots over to her bed that was the leftmost on the ground and the closest to Leonardo's bed, after gently pressing the cushion a few times, she flops down and rested after another day of intense training.

"Hehe" Leonardo laughed softly as he too felt tired like Gaia, however, he was currently taking a seat while opening a blue scroll which revealed a blueprint of a Golem he wanted to create.

After beating up Carol, Leonardo had been thinking for a while now that his only advantage back then was due to the heroic artefact he had. If he had to face Carol without it, he would definitely be killed in a few moves if he was lucky. At first, Leonardo considered training his close combat skills, however, after a month of hard work it could be said that he was only average.

Believing that his profession might have influenced his talent to lean more on the production side, Leonardo came with an answer when he remembered the Golem Creation skill which he had. Although he can easily create golems made from Mud, Stone or Wood these materials were not entirely flexible and made the movements quite stiff.

After using Inventor skill unconsciously he came up with an idea when a flash of inspiration struck him by combining his War Machine Creation skill, Weapon Creation Skill as well as Golem Creation Skill he could manufacture something akin to a robot that could fight for him.

Naturally, this was a plan in progress since he had to research on each part, and the most important part was allowing it to transform between a humanoid form and a marble for Leonardo to carry around. And the bracelet Gaia used was the complete product which took Leonardo a month to perfect, he knew creating a golem would be easy and he could experiment in creating the perfect golem each day, he focused on this imitated compression technology first.

"Well it's a good thing it succeeded, I will have to find a way to relieve the pressure is placed on Gaia's hindlegs when using it. It was a good thing her hindlegs were as powerful as I researched about her, however, we can't expect it to keep up if the pressure increases more than it can handle." Leonardo thought while nodding, he glanced at the ancient rune book he borrowed from his mother.

"Guess I really have to consider reading up on Gravity and Barrier Formation runes" He muttered, however, he shook his head "First let's start with project Adam and Eve #1"

Synthesizing bones of an Crazed ape, steelback wolf and stainless stell. The bones were of F Rank and the stainless steel was a common rank metal, shortly the new set of bones with a lustre of steel appeared before him. Leonardo nodded while glancing at the two mannequin his parents bought for him upon his request, one of them were the complete bone structure of a human body and the other one included the organs and muscle fibre.

Following the bone structure, Leonardo began to mould the new set of bones combining his transmutation and metallurgy. He added tendons of a crazed ape after it was synthesized with Iron Silicon which is a decade ago product made by combining strange metal ores with silicon, it had strong adhesives to keep objects connected but also flexible to the point it can't be twisted off.

"If I did not have the skills it might have taken me longer to complete this" Leonardo said with a wry smile, in front of him was a short humanoid skeletal at the height of 1.2 metre tall. This was the current best Leonardo could do with his current Mana reserve, so he took a break since the sun was down.

While he was recovering his mana, he opened the drawer at his desk to take out a silver pen and a small bottle filled with the glittering blue substance within, it was crushed magical beast cores and magical water which is the two main ingredients to create magical ink used to engrave runes although the runes are empowered by installing a magical beast core or pouring mana into it.

"Leo, it's time for dinner. Oh? What is that?" Caterina who entered Leonardo's room without knocking which was kind of a bad habit, however, since Leonardo had nothing to hide he did not mind it. He kept drawing runes which included Toughness enhance, flexibility enhance, alteration.

The Alteration rune is composed of variety runes such as Division, Dividing, Expansion, shrinking, form changing and such to allow the marble to transform into that of a Humanoid golem from its marble form. This was the research result Leonardo managed to secure after a month's of hard work with the bracelets he created for Gaia If others knew of his spead of learning Production skills they would problem kill him.

"This is Eve #1, my first Golem I intend to create. I will have to add some runes on it before I can start adding things" Leonardo said with a wry smile, he could not tell his mother that his idea of creating android golems came from his favourite television series Dragon Ball Z. Which was why he called it Eve instead of Android #18.

"This is quite something, I saw how others create their golems as well. However, they use more metal to increase toughness so the golem will not break easily" Caterina said while glancing at the skeletal structure, just from a casual glance she could tell the end product would end up as an F Rank.

'Won't the family force my baby to stay holed up in a lab creating golems for them if they were to know of this?' Caterina thought before giving Leonardo a strange glare that was oppressive but not threatening, "Leo, you must not tell anyone you can create this"

"Huh?" Leonardo tilt his head wondering what his mother was saying, all he currently thought of was ensuring his own safety and later he could consider his family since weak strength and big dreams did not go hand in hand within this world.

"If the family knows you can create F Rank golems already they will force you to join their research and development team, although I and your father can suppress them, they might do sneaky things like kidnapping" Caterina warned her son, although she and her husband could easily flatten the family if the Old Patriarch is not present, she rather avoid unnecessary problems.

"Yes Mom" Leonardo nodded as he stopped his hand movements after finished drawing the runes upon the skeletal structure, since his mother was here it meant it was time for dinner so he had no choice to place down his enchanting pen down and head together with his mother.

"GRU!!!" Gaia roared loudly while running after Leonardo and Caterina with its mouth-watering,

"Fufu, she really is cute as a kitten," Caterina said as she gently scratched the chin of Gaia, if it was anyone else Gaia would rip them to shred for comparing her with a cat, however, Caterina was her father's Mother so that made Caterina her grandmother.

"Purrr" Gaia's ears began twitching from happiness.

"Did the Vollumn Family say anything about me? It has been a month" Leonardo asked,

"They won't since they are a family with exceedingly high pride, once he knows what Carol said about me he would keep silent. He knows, if he takes a step I will definitely use it as an excuse to flatten him" Caterina spoke with a bonechilling voice, even Leonard knew his mother was holding herself back for his sake.

"Hehe, that's good," Leonard said while scratching the back of his head, upon seeing the beautiful smile on his mother's face he froze for an instant. Slight shivering before he rushed off to his room, seeing this reaction Caterina could not help but place her palm on her cheek.

"Even after becoming an awakened he is still obsessed with painting," She said with a wry smile, "Don't you agree Gaia?"

"Grrr? Rrr rrr" Gaia tilted her head before nodding her head as if imitating Caterina's actions, she had been incredibly smart since birth and could already understand the language of the humans despite being unable to talk. And even to this day, her intelligence was evolving the more she became involved with the three family members, especially Leonardo.

After an hour, Leonardo wipe the sweat from his forehead glancing at the portrait of his mother's smile he finished painting, "Phew, now this is something much better compared to before. Have I become proficient in painting or is it my profession?" Leonardo asked,

[Ding! User has drawn a masterpiece for the first time, randomly levelling up a skill]

[Skill selected: Enchantment]

[Skill: False True Painting has been activated]

[Skill has been levelled up to Rank S]

"Huh?" Leonardo stopped his movement glancing at the notifications that appeared before his eyes, it took him a good few seconds to digest what just happened before his voice nearly shook the house.

[Title: Mad Creator has been awarded!]

[Mad Creator: Heroic Rank]

[Description: Granted to the one who creates something beyond his league instead of following the basics left behind predecessors and instead leaps towards the levels of the predecessors and exceeds them. Grants 20% successfully crafting an object without having a complete blueprint]

The sound of footsteps came closer with each second before Leonardo's bedroom door was flung open revealing Gaia who revealed her fangs ready to tear apart whoever dared to attack her father and Caterina who glared ahead.

Upon seeing Leonard with a dumbfounded look on his face and the complete portrait of Caterina's smile caused the mother to blink before her eyes teared a little, she knew her son had an obsession of painting beautiful things so when that trait emerges, Leonardo would become completely oblivious to his surroundings until he finished his painting.

It was only when he finsihed his paintian that he would regain his consciousness and be surprised at what he drew, she felt that this was a mysterious talent that Leonardo had yet to grasp how to control it which was why he would be dazed by his actions.

"Uh? Mom?" Leonardo called out,

"Why did you yell? It's not like it's the first time you painted right?" Caterina asked

"OH, that is because one of my skills ranked up after I finished painting this" Leonardo said simply,

"Haah?" Caterina was dumbfounded, even more so after hearing Leonardo's explanation. Her eyes widen before she sighed, 'It appears the day my son will get over his obsession is simply too far ahead...'