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.

space was limited. So, though they could live in better luxury

said, it wasn't as though

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

enter the inner city. Since it was an easy method to

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 it has something to

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 power. Plus, Earth was his

ignored the officers and led Leonel and Aina up the wide

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 find that the scene before him was completely different from

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

of the once luxurious city. But what still remained unchanged was the fact that unlike the outside, this place had no restrictions

on the inside than it was on the outside… There's even a sky here. What's going

looked toward Aina and Leonel. It was rare

to the capital. Well, all Tier 6 officials and above were recalled. They want to clear out the Ascension Province and

without any protection at all. The Junior Governor Duke also has 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

S-grade ability, huh.." Leonel

even with his sensory abilities, to not even notice. He wouldn't be able to handle such a person in

why Leonel hadn't rashly attacked those Tier 3 Officers. Not only was he worried about their technology, he was also worried about what abilities they might have. Even if his stats destroyed them in all areas, what could

stats had still been better