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.

apocalypse, space was limited. So, though they could live in better luxury than the normal

said, it wasn't as

were perpetually open. After all, it was just

with their low standing, these officers had no right to enter the inner city. Since it was an easy method to gain some easy contributions, he had come. He had just never expected that the so-called prisoners

wrong, but I assume it has something to do with entering a Zone without first registering. But, considering the timing, you

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

the officers and led Leonel and Aina up the wide stairs

that he had just passed a misty rain. He blinked

left

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,

outside… There's even a sky here. What's going on? No,

Leonel. It was rare

to clear out the Ascension Province and restore its peak glory as quickly as possible, so not to

didn't leave us 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

ability, huh.."

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

about their technology, he was also worried about what

Invalid he had killed. Leonel's stats had still