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.

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

said, it wasn't as

a pure coincidence. The towering double doors of the mansion were perpetually open. After all, it was just the entrance to an inner city of sorts and no

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

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

means of dealing with them, even if he wouldn't be chased with

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

that upon stepping through the doors that he had just passed a misty rain. He blinked in

to the day he left for school. Royal Blue City was back and the Paradise Islands hadn't

that this couldn't have been true. At best, this was a small replica of the once luxurious city. But what still

This place seems bigger on the inside than it was on the outside… There's even a sky here. What's going on? No, it's impossible for an ability to have such a large

James grinned as he looked toward Aina and Leonel. It was rare

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 with S-grade abilities

this Fort only seems to be ten kilometers in diameter, but the truth is that it's almost double that with most of the space being taken up by this

ability, huh.." Leonel

the eyes of so many, and for him, even with his sensory abilities, to not even notice. He wouldn't be able to

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

still been better than it at the time, but its ability made it