Money is external, but cultivation is not; Leon must choose a good object to transfer power to, or else he would rather give up.
"What can I do for you, master?" Pella slightly lowered her head, her long hair falling down.
Leon noticed Pella's slender fingers, marked with several small cuts, presumably from daily training. He asked, "How many years have you been here?"
"Five years," Pella answered, not uttering a single extra word.
Leon left the desert during his youth and settled on Volcanic Island, now it's been over twenty years. The first batch of Tiefling maids trained to work for Leon mostly were dispatched elsewhere. Pella has only been here for five years, clearly part of the second or third batch of recruited Tiefling maids.
