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.

sounded as the octopus finally collapsed. That battle hadn't lasted for even a minute, but Leonel felt completely

Why aren't there any Invalids here

it had an answer, he suddenly felt his spatial bracelet

the octopus's corpse before

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

wanted to scrutinize the cube more, he didn't have the

use [Call of the Wind] again. Force techniques were too dangerous so he had learned to not modify them

even if he could… What Force would he do it

Leonel asked the dictionary which now lay in his

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

octopus now that he thought about it. It was just that the octopus could cover obscene

there was a species limitation, then why would this octopus come

be another reason it saw me as a potential meal, and that reason may very well be

Invalids differentiate between members of their species and those

likely meant that not all Invalids were humans, but he

*Ping* Responding to Seed, it depends. Low level Invalids mostly rely on olfactory senses. High level Invalids have many more options, too

was exactly the place he had sliced into the octopus's tentacle. There just so happened to

he made

"Sorry about this, Aina."

**

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

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

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

a certain Tier 2 Officer Doran. He could only curse his bad luck. Had this happened just a day later, he would have been

patrol units at such a dangerous time, so he could only swallow his grievances and continue on with