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.

times, with how 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 still

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double doors of the mansion were perpetually open. After all, it was just the entrance to an inner city of sorts and no one dared casually offend so

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

don't know what you did wrong, but I assume it has something to do with entering a Zone without first registering. But,

quickly. He didn't have the means of dealing with them, even if he wouldn't be chased with the

up the wide stairs and toward the

should have been no different from crossing another threshold, but Leonel felt that upon stepping through the doors that he had just passed a misty rain. He blinked in shock, only to

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

At best, this was a small replica of the once luxurious city. But what still remained unchanged was the fact that unlike the

Leonel's brows furrowed. 'Spatial abilities? This place seems bigger on the inside than it was on the outside… There's even a sky

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

officials and above were recalled. They want to clear out the Ascension Province

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

S-grade ability, huh.."

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

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 the time,