Dimensional Descent

Leonel really did feel like an unlucky star was following him around everywhere.

The reason he dared to jump into the skies like this despite knowing the octopus might make an all out last assault was because he was hoping that it would disappear after it died just like Invalids. In that case, there would be nothing to worry about.

But, who could have guessed that not only would it not disappear, but the final momentum of its dying embers of life were enough to threaten him to this extent?

Even though the tentacles had lost the power backing them, thus making them far weaker than when the creature was alive, they were still falling toward Leonel and Aina. Considering the size of the octopus, Leonel didn't even want to calculate the weight each of those tentacles carried, or else he might pass out in shock before he even had a chance to resist.

Suddenly, Aina's voice called out.

"Catch the ax!"

Her voice snapped him out of his thoughts. He turned quickly to find that the ax he had left embedded within the octopus's limb had pulled itself free and was now flying toward them.

Leonel understood Aina's intention immediately. If an ax that heavy soared toward them fast enough, it would be able to knock them off the path of trajectory the tentacles were aimed toward!

Leonel twisted his body in the air, catching the flying ax with both hands.

"Oof…"

Though Leonel felt his arms go numb as a strong force rammed into him, he couldn't have been more happy. This was enough!

Their direction was forcefully altered, sending them flying through a gap in the octopus's limbs and crashing toward the remains of a collapsed building.

Leonel braced himself, circulating the last dregs of his Force into his legs and landing heavily.

finally collapsed. That battle hadn't

'… Why aren't there

dictionary to see if it had an answer, he suddenly

apart and enveloping the octopus's corpse before forming back into the size of Leonel's palm

in astonishment. 'This thing seems to have intelligence of its own? How else do you

he didn't have the luxury. After putting it away, he broke

difficult for him to use [Call of the Wind] again. Force techniques were too dangerous so he had learned to not modify them on a whim. It was impossible for him to change it into

could… What Force would he do

Invalids here?" Leonel asked the dictionary which now lay in his

devour and evolve. However, they can only devour creatures of their species. Powerful creatures of a differing species are great

A-grade Invalid only appeared after he was a distance away from the octopus now that he thought about it. It was

species limitation, then why would

reason may very well be related to why the

differentiate between members of their species and those that are

this likely meant that not all Invalids were humans,

to Seed, it depends. Low level Invalids mostly rely on olfactory senses. High level Invalids have many more options, too variable to list.

the place he had sliced into the octopus's tentacle. There just so

his teeth, he made

"Sorry about this, Aina."

**

depths of the night, the patrol unit

of Invalids had taken a sharp tick upward. According to the superiors, something

the Fort, but the residual effects had made what once was a fairly easy job to gain Ascension Points to become

curse his bad luck. Had this happened just a day later, he would have been able to apply to enter

time, so he could only swallow his grievances and continue on with his patrol job. At least he had gotten off better than