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.

arrogant these families were, it was simply impossible for 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

said, it wasn't as

a pure coincidence. The towering double doors of the mansion were perpetually open. After all, it was just the entrance to

these officers had no right to enter the inner city. Since it was an easy method

his hand. "I don't know what you did wrong, but I assume it has something to

rather not fall out with the Empire so quickly. He didn't have the means of dealing with them,

ignored the officers and led Leonel and Aina up the wide stairs and toward the

stepping through the doors that he had just passed a misty rain. He

day he left for school. Royal Blue City was back

once luxurious city. But what

abilities? This place seems bigger on the inside than it was on the outside… There's even a sky here. What's going

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

to clear out the Ascension Province and restore

any protection at all. The Junior Governor Duke also has an S-grade ability. He calls it Illusion Mist. From the outside, this Fort only seems to be ten kilometers in diameter, but the truth is that

S-grade ability,

even with his sensory abilities, to not even notice. He wouldn't be able to handle such a person in battle even

only was he worried about their technology, he was also worried about what abilities they might

Invalid he had killed. Leonel's stats had still been