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 lasted for even a minute, but Leonel felt completely

frowned. '… Why aren't there any Invalids

father's dictionary to see if it had an answer,

the octopus's corpse before forming

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

Leonel wanted to scrutinize the cube more, he didn't have the luxury. After putting it away, he broke out

would be difficult for him to use [Call of the Wind] again. Force techniques were too dangerous so he had learned

could… What Force would

no Invalids here?" Leonel asked the dictionary

creatures of instinct whose sole aim is to devour and evolve. However, they can only devour creatures of their species. Powerful creatures of a differing species are great deterrences to them as they are

to a stop. That A-grade Invalid only appeared after he was a distance away from the octopus now that he thought about it. It was just that the octopus could cover obscene distances

if there was a species limitation, then why

octopus didn't disappear, so it's unlikely to be an Invalid. There must be another reason it saw me as a potential meal, and that reason may very well be related to why the Segmented Cube acted on its own… Forget it, now isn't

between members of

all Invalids were humans, but he didn't have time

olfactory senses. High level

place he had skidded to a stop by was exactly the place he had sliced into the octopus's tentacle. There just so happened to be ghastly blue

he made

"Sorry about this, Aina."

**

day and a half later, in the depths of the night, the patrol unit

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

the residual effects had made what once was a fairly easy job

this happened just a day later, he would have been able to apply to enter an F-grade Zone

time, so he could only swallow his grievances and continue on with