Dimensional Descent

Leonel took a deep breath.

He managed to kill a Demon Lord without invoking his Metal Synergy Runes. This could be considered improvement, but he still wasn't happy with this result. He felt that dealing with Maugrier wouldn't have been a problem for him even half a month ago.

'I'm learning all these spear techniques, but chaining them together well is too difficult… I need a new direction…'

After steadying his breathing, Leonel looked up to find the remaining demons inching away from him. It was clear that if they weren't worried that Leonel would stab them in the back, they would have long since turn and run. They were all veteran warriors. They knew that with such a large disparity in strength, and especially since Leonel was a mage, they'd be finished unless they banded together.

However, what they never expected was for Leonel to do nothing to them. Even up until the point the first of them ran away, he didn't lift a single finger.

In Leonel's mind, he didn't benefit entering such a battle. Without a leader, these demons wouldn't be able to organize themselves to continue the chase. At best, they'd be able to regroup with another Demon Lord. But, by then, Sir Peirce would be in position and things would become much easier.

Instead of putting his life on the line fighting so many enemies alone, it was best to take advantage of their fear and allow them to run away. Leonel wasn't an invincible god. Fighting almost 50 opponents by himself was far too difficult.

Though he had feats beyond this in the France Zone, it had to be remembered that those were normal humans without special abilities. Leonel wouldn't play with his life like that in this place.

Leonel bent forward, picking up the bow Maugrier had dropped.

"Oh…?"

Leonel was stunned.

it that reminded Leonel of polished stainless steel. However, it was oddly both black and rough to the touch, almost

just how heavy the bow was. It weighed

it, a huge part of the reason Maugrier was able to shoot and reload so quickly was because

his mind. He clearly remembered that the cloaked Demon Lord's firing was almost like flicking a

he realized that the only explanation for this must be because this bow was just that powerful. Even with such a small pull, it could

always been good with long distance weapons. In truth, this was likely a large part of the reason why his Gene Assessment had set him as a star quarterback. He

part of the reason Leonel chose an atlatl as his first ranged weapon was because the throwing

long barreled pistols behind to the point he rarely used them in battle anymore. It couldn't be helped, they were at most C or B-grade treasures to begin with and he didn't like having

really thought about supplementing his long ranged abilities with a bow and arrow before. But now that he did, he realized it wasn't

to travel further than he could throw something. Though it sacrificed a bit of flexibility as a result, judging by how powerful this bow would be with just the flick of

guess. Even if I can't take it out of this Zone, since I'll be here for such a long period of time

away his spear and

"Ah…!"

realized in that moment that had he

was this bowstring

much strength to pull that it exerts too much strain on my fingers… but if

corpse and