Dimensional Descent

Leonel's eyes flashed open.

His reaction was impossibly quick. With swift movements, he darted to the back of the shuttle, swooped Aina up, and jumped from the opposing door.

Their free fall would have led to the deaths of even evolved humans who had awakened their abilities. After all, the shuttle had a maximum elevation of 20 meters from the ground. But, Leonel was prepared.

"Aina, your rope."

Even as the fell from the skies, Leonel's gaze held a hidden sharpness. Falling from a tall height? That was what he feared the least. How many times had he done this exact same thing just on a single journey to school?

With a heavy boom, Leonel landed on a fallen building. Due to his preparedness, the fall was barely five meters.

At that time, the tentacle viciously whipped against the shuttle, crumbling an entire side of it with unstoppable momentum.

Leonel's pupils constricted.

As though a ball accepting the swing of a bat, the shuttle deformed and rocketed away at a speed almost faster than its forward momentum.

Leonel felt his teeth getting itchy. What the hell kind of power is this? If he assumed the shuttle weighed a few tons, that was still a vast underestimation. If that was taken into account with its forward impetus... Just how much strength did it take to make it deviate like that?

Luckily, the forward momentum wasn't entirely disrupted. The shuttle spun and flew into the distance, missing Leonel and Aina by a large measure.

It was only now that Leonel got a good glance at just what had attacked them.

The tentacle was massive. Just the portion Leonel could see was over 20 meters in length. The rest of it was hidden behind the building it had attacked from the back of. However, this alone was enough to make Leonel's heart quake.

A strong fishy smell came from it, marring the air with a combination of a salty sea smell and a disgusting, rotting odor. A sticky, viscous liquid dripped, hitting the ground in intermittent intervals.

Every inch of the bottom of the tentacle was filled with suction cups. They were each more than double or even triple the size of Leonel's head. They all vibrated in a rhythm that made it seem like they were breathing. And, judging by the destruction they caused to the shuttle... they definitely weren't as soft as they seemed either.

on the ground. The resulting explosion was deafening. Even

air blasted into Leonel, making him feel as

then that Aina finally handed him the rope he asked for, the very same rope they had made use of to climb the castle walls in Paris.

was far stronger than a horses. In that case, since a horse could carry one and even two passengers at times, how could

we're in the shuttle, which also means that its vision is either poor or obscured '”

that it locked onto us using my Force as a

now knew that the recovery of spirit wasn't uniform.

this worked in his favor. As long as his spirit wasn't below

a run after handing the Metal Spirit to Aina to hold. At the moment, the only things in

look back to know that whatever monster that thing was had definitely knocked the building in its way over to get to the shuttle it had knocked

if he did, with Aina's body and her ax in his way, he wouldn't be able

SSSKKKKRRRRREEEEEE

to pay to them. He focused entirely on increasing his efficiency, on tapping into the mind of the primitive man and controlling his body

was due to finding out that its prey had escaped. If he

there are

to its figure, making it look

in his heart. It looked like it would only survive a few more exchanges. He didn't want to waste them on an A-grade Invalid. To others, an A-grade Invalid already meant death. But to him, the current situation

my ax." Aina suddenly

suggestion without hesitation. He put the primitive spear away into his spatial bracelet,

aura erupted from Leonel. Though he didn't think much of

I would have to suppress it so

his hands than it was in Aina's. In addition, it wouldn't smoothly accept his Force either, or why else would Aina

Heirloom didn't resist Leonel

Either it trusted Leonel unconditionally or it had accepted him as its inheritor just like it had Aina.

since that was the case, there was only one explanation: it meant that

when her

His expression remained calm, almost cold. He was completely unlike the primitive man who loved battle. To Leonel, there was nothing but objective

A-grade Invalid roared, wildly beating its chest before raising its fists high in the air and