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.

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

wasn't as though

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

some prisoners. Obviously, with their low standing, these officers had no right to enter the inner city. Since it was an easy method to gain

said with a casual wave of his hand. "I don't know what you did wrong, but I assume it has something to do with entering a Zone without first registering. But, considering the

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

ignored the officers and led Leonel and Aina up the wide

doors that he had just passed a misty rain. He blinked in shock, only to find that the scene before

in time to the day he left for

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

was on the outside… There's even a sky here. What's

was rare

the capital. Well, all Tier 6 officials and above were recalled. They want to clear out the Ascension Province and restore its peak glory as quickly as possible, so not to mention

He calls it Illusion Mist. From the outside, this Fort only seems to be ten kilometers in diameter, but the truth is that it's almost double that with most of

S-grade ability, huh.." Leonel

with his sensory abilities, to not even notice. He

rashly attacked those Tier 3 Officers. Not only was he worried about their technology, he was also worried about what abilities they

the same as that metal bodied A-grade Invalid he had killed. Leonel's stats had still been