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.

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

as though they were

perpetually open. After all, it was just the

officers had no right to enter the inner city. Since it was an easy method to gain some easy contributions, he

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

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

the officers and led Leonel and Aina up the wide stairs

felt that upon stepping through the doors that he had just passed a misty rain. He blinked in

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

this couldn't have been true. At best, this was a small replica of the once luxurious city. But what still remained unchanged was the fact that unlike the outside, this place had no restrictions on

outside… There's even a sky here. What's going on? No, it's impossible for an ability to have such a

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

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 and above officials, even those monsters with S-grade abilities and above were

From the outside, this Fort only seems to be ten

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

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

same as that metal bodied A-grade Invalid he had killed. Leonel's stats had still been better than it at