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.

like this. Unfortunately, due to the apocalypse, space was limited. So, though they could

said, it wasn't as

was actually just a pure coincidence. The towering double doors of the mansion were perpetually open. After all, it was just the entrance to an inner city of sorts and no one

Since it was an easy method to gain some

casual wave of his hand. "I don't know what you did wrong, but I assume

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 to some unknown

Leonel and Aina up the wide stairs and toward the

had just passed a misty rain. He blinked

day he left for school. Royal Blue City was back and the Paradise

city. But what still remained unchanged

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

as he looked toward Aina and Leonel. It was rare that

is managing this place while his father was recalled to 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 Tier 6

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 it's almost double that with most of the space being taken up by this hidden

S-grade ability, huh.."

Leonel feeling cold. To hide such a city right beneath the eyes of so many, and for him, even with his sensory abilities,

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

Leonel's stats had still been better than it at