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.

to the apocalypse, space was limited. So, though they

said, it wasn't as though they were

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

an easy method to gain some easy contributions, he had come. He had just never expected that the so-called prisoners would

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

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

led Leonel and Aina up

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

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 remained unchanged was the fact that unlike the outside,

it was on the outside… There's even

it?" James grinned as he looked toward Aina and Leonel. It was rare that he could be aware of something these two Class A students

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

Governor Duke also has an S-grade ability. He calls it Illusion Mist. From the outside, this Fort only seems to be ten kilometers

S-grade ability, huh.."

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

exactly why Leonel hadn't rashly attacked those Tier 3 Officers. Not only was he worried about their technology, he was also worried about what

killed. Leonel's stats had still been better than it at the time, but its ability made