Dimensional Descent

Leonel's skin pressed flush against his bone. Soon, it began to crackle and dry like a thin piece of paper. It even seemed like it just might crack like fine glass and perish into a pile of ash at any moment.

It was only then that something changed..

BADDUM! BADDUM!

Leonel's chest jolted so violently that it seemed like his heart might leap from his chest. The outline of his ribs were so clear in his current state that it was even vaguely possible to see the sudden activity.

His convulsing body shook once more. This time, a projectile of black blood shot out from his mouth as a familiar heat spread all through Leonel's body.

If Leonel was conscious, his mind would flash back to the days he spent with his father and a disgusting green smoothie he had to force down his throat everyday.

Leonel had believed that he already understood the purpose of his father's concoctions. They had helped his body strengthen faster than others after the Metamorphosis despite the fact he wasn't born with an offensive or physical ability. Yet, he could have never thought that these benefits were just mere lingering aftereffects. They couldn't even represent a single percent of what their true strength was.

At that moment, three things began to occur in Leonel's body at once.

In his left kidney, a large Force Node of 100 cells had connected with the rest of his body and began to shimmer in full force.

spin violently around itself, quickly forming a Third Star

it had begun to reform. And, it was much larger than any one of Leonel's other Nodes. In fact, it didn't seem like a

had been such a small portion that even when he swept his Internal Sight over it, he hadn't noticed a thing. It could

a heavy, swirling golden-red

a normal organ of flesh and blood to a

it had also strengthened by countless times compared to the past. But, what was most shocking was the fact it took the place of Leonel's Tenth Node, but

kidney might not have been a particularly large organ, but it was still formed of hundreds of thousands to millions of cells. Compared to the 100 cells that formed

usually swirled about Leonel's Nodes and Nodal Pathways, this energy was several levels above anything

seemed that Leonel's father had gone a bit overboard in helping his son to recover. By normal convention, Leonel would have eventually helped his kidney mature to this state over a long period of time, but it seemed like

to Leonel's body slowly

time, the golden-red energy of his right kidney seemed to connect with the rest of his body, causing a purification affect that even managed to match

design or coincidence, the golden-red energy of

turn back in the end, but that experience still left a small influence on him. This was why instead of a pure violet, when he

another. Soon, the slight redness of Leonel's Runes became more pronounced. At the same time, the bronze

gold as it actually managed to survive the

greatest changes occurred in Leonel's Ethereal Glabella. At that moment, the faint spirit of his Snowy Star Owl seemed to also be influenced. In fact, compared to Leonel's Metal Synergy Lineage Factor, it resonated with

not like the fact its insides

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