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 a

'… Why aren't

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

the octopus's corpse before forming back into the

seems to have intelligence of its own?

cube more, he didn't have the

Wind] again. Force techniques were too dangerous so he had learned to not modify

he could… What

Leonel asked the dictionary which

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

now that he thought about it. It was just that

a species limitation, then why would this octopus

me as a potential meal, and that reason may very well be related to

differentiate between members of

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

Responding to Seed, it depends. Low level Invalids mostly rely on olfactory senses. High

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

his teeth, he

"Sorry about this, Aina."

**

night, the patrol unit of Royal Blue Fort felt as though

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

had made what once was a fairly easy job to

round was a certain Tier 2 Officer Doran. He could only curse his bad luck. Had this happened just a

now, the superiors 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 job. At least he had