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.

the apocalypse, space was limited. So, though they

as though

doors of the mansion were perpetually open. After all, it was just the entrance to an

Since it was an easy method to gain some easy contributions, he had come. He had just never expected that the

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

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

the officers and led Leonel and Aina up the wide stairs and toward the looming double

doors that he had just passed a misty rain. He blinked in shock, only to find that

the day he left for school. Royal Blue

was a small replica of the once luxurious city.

the inside than it was on the outside… There's even

isn't it?" James grinned as he looked toward Aina and Leonel. It was rare that he

while his father was recalled to the 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

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 only seems to be ten kilometers in diameter, but the truth is that

S-grade ability, huh.."

even with his sensory abilities, to not even notice. He wouldn't

was also worried about what abilities they might have. Even if his stats destroyed them in all areas,

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