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.

octopus finally collapsed. That battle hadn't lasted for even a minute, but

frowned. '… Why aren't there any Invalids

his father's dictionary to see if it had

enveloping the octopus's corpse before forming

have intelligence of

didn't have the luxury. After putting it

he had learned to not modify them on a whim. It was impossible for him to change it into a technique suitable

if he could… What

asked the

most likely cause is related to the nature of Invalids. Invalids are 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

he was a distance away from the octopus now that he thought about it. It was just that the octopus

then why would

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 the time to

how do Invalids differentiate between members of their

that this likely meant that not all Invalids were humans, but he didn't have time

it depends. Low level Invalids mostly rely on olfactory senses. High level Invalids

The place he had skidded to a stop by was exactly the place he had sliced into the octopus's tentacle. There just

he made a

"Sorry about this, Aina."

**

night, the patrol unit

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

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

was a certain Tier 2 Officer Doran. He could only curse his bad luck. Had this happened just a day later, he would have been able to apply to enter an F-grade Zone and

didn't want to risk having to train inexperienced patrol units at such a dangerous time, so he could only swallow his grievances and continue on with his patrol