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.

battle hadn't lasted for even

frowned. '… Why aren't there any Invalids

dictionary to see if it had an answer,

enveloping the octopus's corpse before

in astonishment. 'This thing seems to have intelligence of

scrutinize the cube more, he didn't have the luxury. After putting

were too dangerous so he had learned to not modify them on a whim. It was impossible for him

could… What Force would he do it

asked the dictionary which

Calculating… 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

from the octopus now that he thought about it. It was

a species limitation, then why would this octopus come

as a potential meal, and that reason may very well be related to why the Segmented

Invalids differentiate between members of their species and those

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 have many more options,

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

his teeth, he

"Sorry about this, Aina."

**

day and a half later, in the depths of the night, the patrol unit of Royal Blue Fort felt

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

wasn't the Fort, but the residual effects had made what once was a fairly easy job to gain Ascension Points to

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 able to apply to enter an F-grade Zone and dodge

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