Dimensional Descent

Jefrach was drenched in sweat.

In order not to lose face, he had kept up with Leonel's pace from start to finish. But the result made his lung scream.

Unfortunately, the pressure of the Gates had nothing to do with strength. Even a Fifth Dimensional entity would face a proportional amount of pressure. This was, of course, the same for Jefrach.

But, what Jefrach couldn't believe was that Leonel seemed unaffected. Let alone breathing as heavily as him, Leonel didn't even seem as though he had sweated a single drop. To make matters worse, Jefrach was certain that the reason he was in such a sorry state was because of the pressure of the wall, but rather because of the pressure from Leonel himself.

Finally, for the first time since their competition began, Leonel looked toward Jefrach.

"You don't look too good, baldy. You doing okay?"

Jefrach's gaze flashed with a bloody red. He glared at Leonel, his chest heaving.

At that moment, from atop the city walls, a few individuals looked down with curiosity. They all seemed like youths as well. However, whether they had gone through the same trials or not was unknown.

"Isn't that Black City's bald boy? He looks like he's in a pretty sorry state, what happened to him?"

The few on the wall chuckled. However, let alone hearing them, those below couldn't even see them. It was as though they were in a completely different world.

The only one who frowned, seemingly realizing something was off, was Leonel. However, even with his senses, he had no way of seeing through the Brave City barrier. He only felt a faint itching at the small of his back as though he was being watched.

"Which door do you think they'll be able to open?"

"Pft, aren't you just wondering if we'll have any competition?"

"Regardless, if they're anything below Royal it'll be too much of a disappointment. If that was the case, I would have gotten up to come all the way over here for no reason."

than this City Lord Gate. It's rare for anything meaningful to come

sister down there? Maybe the

looked at the young man who spoke

about anything related to his wife and his little sister. You better watch your mouth. I don't care if you

already entered the city. However, oddly enough, his wife and Syl's sister-in-law, Heira, didn't seem to

obviously wasn't because she was

Leonel wasn't privy to this information as

top of the city walls seemed to accept this

further and further behind the Powers at this rate. If they don't get themselves together and see the bigger picture,

It was clear they were all from Powers themselves, or they wouldn't be reacting

foremost while their foundations are economy and governance. To

only have themselves to blame

these young masters spoke easily uncovered the dark underbelly of Terrain without regard. Unlike the common people who had to tiptoe around

The group snickered.

to try? Huh? Is that boy really in the

own worlds that it was only now they noticed that the young man teaching Jerach his place was

never heard of a person in the Third Dimension even making it through the pressure of the Gates. Though the pressure was adjusted based on

secondly, anyone who could make a fool out of Jerach should definitely be

despite this was because the City Lord system was declining harshly. Though

about someone who was only beating someone they didn't care much about to begin with? Would you care about the power of someone capable of stomping

"He…"

BANG!

the tall doors, his robes

the dirt until

but they rebounded off his body like crossing