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.

the octopus finally collapsed. That battle hadn't lasted for even

Leonel frowned. '… Why aren't there any

ask his father's dictionary to see if it had an answer, he suddenly felt his spatial bracelet activate on

and enveloping the octopus's corpse before forming back into

astonishment. 'This thing seems to have intelligence of its

have the luxury. After putting it away, he broke out into another

dangerous so he had learned to not modify them on

if he could… What Force would he do

there no Invalids here?" Leonel asked the dictionary which now lay

However, they can only devour creatures of their species. Powerful creatures of a differing

skidded to a stop. That A-grade Invalid only appeared after he was a distance away from the octopus now

why would this

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 the time to think about this. I need to focus on

do Invalids differentiate between members of their species and those that are

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

mostly rely on olfactory senses. High level Invalids have many more options,

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

"Sorry about this, Aina."

**

day and a half later, in the depths of the night, the patrol unit of Royal Blue Fort felt as though they were walking on

the number of Invalids had taken a sharp tick upward. According to the superiors, something big had happened in Perimeter 7, causing

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

this round 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

could only swallow his grievances and continue on with his patrol job. At least he