Dimensional Descent

Leonel settled his breathing. Since he had to go, he would go.

Numerous gazes flooded toward Leonel. Compared to the interest the previous candidate had, the curiosity toward Leonel was several levels greater. This could only be expected, after all, Leonel was the beneficiary of a Minor Opening. He was definitely among those who would last to the very end of these Trials.

At the same time, he was a target. As for the reasons why… only those who entered the Merlin Trials before would be aware.

The skill tree appeared before Leonel the moment his platform connected to the large stage. Seeing it upfront and personal like this, Leonel realized there was a lot he had missed before.

The skill tree actually had three 'roots'. These roots were the starter Basic Skills that didn't have any prerequisites to unlock. Among these roots, there was the weaponry root, the physical root and finally the special skill root.

From what Leonel could tell, the weaponry root were all related to his bow. The physical root was related to movement techniques, use of Force, defensive techniques, and another broad range of matters. It seemed to have the greatest variety. Finally, the special skill root seemed to be universal in its use, meaning that Leonel's special skill tree was likely the same as everyone elses.

The special skill root was indeed unique. The more Leonel looked at it, the less it seemed to conform to the previous rules he had come to know.

For one, it took more than just skill points to unlock them. You seemed to need to pair them with rewards for trials that had been cleared. In addition, there were sometimes less stringent prerequisites and sometimes more.

For example, the Silver Skill 'Force Burst' could explosively increase the strength of Force attacks for a time. However, it required the unlocking the Bronze Skill 'Force Burst' three separate times.

However, there were also some Gold Skills that had no prerequisites whatsoever. It didn't seem to have much rhyme or logic to it.

That said, Leonel took a mental note of this. He didn't believe it was without reason.

Leonel turned his attention back to the weaponry root.

the demon's 'Single-handed Bash' it allowed him to fire one arrow every

was pleasantly surprised for a moment

confirmed this. Some even seemed to be urging him to hurry up. After all, Leonel had been standing for

Leonel turned a blind eye to these people. Since there wasn't a time limit, he would imprint this skill tree in its

'Wait…'

suddenly flashed as his mind nearly exploded with blinding arcs

skills into his Dreamscape, in the midst of battle, would his ability be able to deduce

so he could deduce the optimal path for

put into use. It's too freeform, so it's

reason Leonel never thought of using his Dreamscape like this. Real life wasn't a game, you couldn't just breakdown a person's abilities into 'skills' they could use at any

abilities into their simplest

these Trial grounds as

for Leonel to test whether or not his idea was viable. In here, he really could only use skills provided by Merlin. What better place

well. To now, he had yet to be capable of fluidly linking all the spear

hitched slightly. If this worked, his ability which had always been lacking in direct combat might allow him to become

Dreamscape in this way, he had to raise his battle sense to obscene levels. Only by being able to read his opponent would he be able to perfect

comes down to

bright. These Merlin Trials would be

made this decision, he blocked out the entire world. He didn't care about the impatience