Dimensional Descent

James' boisterous laughter filled the night sky.

"You dog." James punched Leonel's shoulder. "You actually disappeared for half a month with my sister-in-law, since when were you two moving so fast?"

Leonel laughed and shook his head. It seemed that James was still the same old James.

"We had to save your ass. Who asked you to be so useless." Leonel rebutted.

James stumbled backward, putting a hand to his chest as though he had truly been hurt.

Leonel's banter with James was light hearted and fun, but it made the officer's break out into another cold sweat barely moments after surviving through their first bout.

Though they didn't know who Leonel was, they definitely knew who James was.

Beneath the Governor Duke's family, there were several other supporting families of great, albeit lower, standing. James' Bennett family was one of these forces, or how else could he be coming out from the Governor Duke's mansion?

The truth was that this place looked like a mansion from the outside, but it was more accurately described as an estate or maybe even a castle. It looked like one massive home, but the inside was separated into the living residences of several prestigious families.

them to share space like this. Unfortunately, due to the apocalypse, space was limited. So, though they could live in better luxury than the normal citizens within the walls, they still had to

as though they

towering double doors of the mansion were perpetually open. After all, it was just the entrance to an

enter the inner city. Since it was an easy method to gain some easy contributions, he had come. He had just never expected that the so-called

even worry about it." James said with a casual wave of his hand. "I don't know what you did wrong, but I assume it

sighed a breath of relief. He really would rather not fall out with the Empire so quickly. He didn't have the means of dealing with them, even if he wouldn't be chased with the full brunt of their power. Plus, Earth was his home. He would rather not escape

Leonel and Aina up the wide stairs and toward the

he had just passed a misty rain. He blinked in shock, only to find that the scene before him was completely different from

had gone back in time to the day he left for school. Royal Blue City was back and

true. At best, this was a small replica of the once luxurious city. But what still remained unchanged was

it was on the outside… There's even a sky here. What's going on? No,

as he looked toward Aina and Leonel. It was rare that he could be aware of something these two

the Ascension Province and restore its peak glory as quickly as possible, so not to mention Tier 6 and above

it Illusion Mist. From the outside, this Fort only seems to be

S-grade ability, huh.."

scope and power of an S-grade ability left Leonel feeling cold. To hide such a city right beneath the eyes of so many, and for him, even with his sensory abilities, to not even notice. He wouldn't be able to handle such a person in battle even if all of this Junior Governor Duke's

technology, he was also worried about what abilities they might have. Even if his stats destroyed them in

Leonel's stats had still been better than it