Dimensional Descent

Leonel, who had still been thinking about the best method to get out of here, blinked and looked over toward Aina. He caught the hefty black book in the air, surprised by its weight. Just what could make a seemingly normal leather bound book so heavy?

"I can't understand what's written in it." Aina said. "But I do feel a sense of familiarity from the diagrams. They feel like Force Art."

Leonel's brow raised. "Force Art, are those different from Force techniques?"

"Force Art are a type of Force technique, so not really…" Aina explained lightly.

Seeing that she didn't seem to be in a mood to talk, Leonel didn't ask more questions despite having them. He just made the assumption that what separated these Arts from normal techniques were these diagrams Aina mentioned.

Leonel had seen diagrams in [Dimensional Cleanse], but they were of the human body, nothing like the diagrams Aina was speaking of now.

Aina struggled a bit seeing that Leonel was having trouble getting anything out of what she was saying, so she couldn't help but say a bit more.

"Force techniques are split into internal and external. Your [Call of the Wind] is an internal technique. Force Arts are external techniques. The difference is that one originates from the body before it can be projected out while the latter can be formed outside of the body. Force Arts are rarer and more difficult to learn and control… I don't know why something like them would appear here, it doesn't make sense."

Leonel couldn't help but smile when Aina continued to explain unprompted. He could tell that she wanted to keep her distance from him, so he hadn't pressed her in the last several weeks.

of her he was quite fond of. She would often get that very same guilty look on her face

of the Wind] was an external technique due to its original nature, but I guess this is a case of

his mind around this, he knew that this wasn't the time for this. There were far more pressing questions, even aside from how they would get out

only did they know that he and Aina were from their future, but they also had access to Arts

was incredulous. However, the current him who was now aware that the future could apparently change matters of the past was much more interested in just what

history was always this way? After all, even the Mayan Priest had a Force weapon that he had no business having. Or, was there maybe some other unknown reason Leonel didn't have enough information

was big. Bigger than maybe his current self had any right to even think about, let

opened the front cover of the black book. Every second here counted, and if he was correct, it actually counted for ten times what it should. There was no time to waste, or else they would fail this quest and be stuck here until

[Shadow Manifestation]

ability but a technique he

more Leonel read, the deeper his frown became. This technique, or rather, this Art was gruesome. It required etching the Art into one's skin with deep

was no wonder he had seen multiple shadow figures. Each of them probably had an Art etched

Aina, causing her to frown. At first, Leonel thought she was just grossed out by the methods, but

describe, this Pierre should have been much

about her abilities than it did about Pierre's. At the very

had more than

for a moment

the same umbrella and were all related to the shadows. In addition, external Arts that fall under the Body Art category like this are still limited by