Dimensional Descent

Force howled around Leonel's body. A towering aura surged from him, causing the octopus to hesitate. Its tentacles continuously twitched as though sensing something more monstrous than itself was standing before it.

From its vantage point, it could barely see Leonel. Its eyes were too high and Leonel was too short. Such a bug should have been all too easy to kill. So, why was it feeling like this?

Aina laid on Leonel's back, her breathing incredibly steady. Though every time Leonel made a sudden movement, she would feel a jolting pain rampage across her body, she hadn't had the slightest change in expression, nor had she made the slightest sound.

But now, she was surprised once more. This form of intimidation was so potent.

'... However... He isn't yet strong enough to boast such an aura... After a while, the beast will just be more infuriated...'

SSSSSSKKKRRRREEEEEEEEEEE

Aina had hardly finished her thoughts when the roars of the octopus shook the surroundings once more.

The two tentacles closest to Leonel slammed toward him. Due to the size of the octopus, Leonel could only stand between the two of them.

"Pour your Force into the ax." Aina quickly said. "It has one main ability that can be used now, you've seen it before."

Leonel hadn't needed Aina to tell him this. He was already prepared.

His Force surged, causing the red glow of the battle ax to grow several times. An illusory blade extended from the ax's edge, expanding the size of the weapon by several fold.

"Ha!"

A roar left Leonel's lips.

His body flexed as one. His Force was wild, but his muscles churned in a controlled rage as he swung down with all his might.

The extended blade pierced into the right tentacle by several meters, but failed to make it all the way through.

followed by the strike of its second tentacle

that would have allowed Leonel to let such a thing happen. After all, Aina was on his back and she was already injured. How could she suffer such a

he didn't have the strength to sever the tentacle in one strike, he immediately executed his secondary

hard, making use of the octopus's tough skin as an anchor to launch himself up and

on the top of the half severed tentacle, his steps faltering. He hadn't accounted for just how slippery the skin of the octopus would

BANG!

between them like pincers. But, the impact caused Leonel, who had just

'Dammit!'

roars of the octopus playing as the backdrop

striking range of its third tentacle, the maddened beast didn't

hard

don't blame me

dangerous, even if it was a tentacle that he had just severely injured. If this beast grit its way through the

knew how risky this would be before he did it, which is why he tested to see if he could sever a tentacle first. After he was forced to take such a risk, he wanted to run toward the octopus's head as quickly as possible. After all, even though this monster was large, it was still only 50 meters from edge to edge, and the distance from one tip of the tentacle to its head

be so slippery even to the point where he, who boasted maybe the highest

gaze was burning as bright as

once more, slicing into the already injured tentacle he was

ax as a hook once more, launching

the octopus was a surfboard and its body was an ocean, he slid across it, leaving afterimages in his

tentacle missed, lashing against

fly to death. It had yet to evolve to the point of understanding that hitting something going in a straight line with a predestined path was far easier than hitting something which adapted to

Leonel still had a price to pay. He needed

his body was already reaching its limits. He couldn't afford to stay here any longer.

to glide across the tentacle as quickly as possible. So... He left Aina's ax embedded into this

wasn't as weaponless as one would expect.

blood boiled, a seething excitement bubbling forth from its depths. But, Leonel couldn't afford to let the primitive consciousness possess him this time. Right now... Only he could

danger. It tried to lift its injured tentacle to launch Leonel away, but by the time it did, Leonel was already near the end of it. So... Though Leonel was sent flying... It