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.

She would often get that very same guilty look on her face whenever she felt she was being too harsh with him. So, he didn't

of the Wind] was an external technique due to its original nature,

this. There were far more pressing questions, even aside from how they would

but they also

of Leonel would think this was incredulous. However, the current him who was now aware that the future could apparently change

always this way? After all, even the Mayan Priest had a Force weapon that he had no business

this was big. Bigger than maybe his current self had any right

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

[Shadow Manifestation]

but a technique he

required etching the Art into one's skin with deep gashes to the bone. Pierre was most definitely a fanatic for

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

found out to Aina, causing her to frown. At first, Leonel thought she was just

Pierre should have been much weaker. But, his abilities were far

still defeated him easily, that said more about her abilities than it did about Pierre's. At the very least, she gave

it be that he maybe had more than one

a moment

his abilities seemed to fall under 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 the physical fitness of the person in question. With this person's level of constitution, it should be impossible for