Dimensional Descent

Leonel put his spear away and raised the little mink in his arms, observing the little guy curiously.

When he focused in on the blobs of black, Leonel realized something astonishing. Each one of them had a different character to them.

Those with stronger presences were larger while those with weaker ones were smaller. But, it wasn't just this either. Each seemed to have a different feel.

The largest of them carried a biting cold to them. There were two of them in total. One seemed to want to completely envelop you in an avalanche while the other was sharp like a thin, cooled knife slicing into your body.

Leonel felt like he remembered them from somewhere...

'Those 12 ice guards, two of them reminded me of this feeling!'

Leonel's eyes widened in realization. These blobs, they were the shadows of the enemies Little Blackstar had killed.

'Blackstar can't absorb them?' Leonel thought, confused. '... They're disappearing too.'

Leonel seemed to realize two things immediately after understanding what he was dealing with. The first was that Blackstar didn't seem capable of swallowing these shadows like he had the shadow of Simeon's numbered warrior. And the second was that they were slowly fading. The more powerful of them seemed to linger on for longer, but the weaker ones were already collapsing to the point Leonel could hardly sense them.

'There are two potential reasons for why Blackstar can't absorb them. It's either that he had an affinity limitation or it's that he can only take in one at a time. If it's the latter, then that means the only way he could take on a new ability is if he gave the one he has already...'

Leonel frowned, sinking into his own thoughts.

The ability Blackstar could mimic now came from one of Simeon's handpicked warriors. From Leonel's comprehension, it was an S-grade ability at worse.

That said, the ice guards were SSS-grade Invalids, so their abilities obviously likewise followed suit.

to Leonel. When he and the little mink worked in tandem, Leonel could gain an extension of this ability. This was what had allowed him to threaten Jilniya's life back then. Of course,

him from the side with a confused light coloring her eyes. It seemed that only Leonel and Little Blackstar could see these floating

'Huh?'

hand back, his

Aina finally couldn't hold back, a slight tinge of worry in

agitation. So, she had already appeared realizing she might have to calm Leonel down from doing something stupid again. But, this was completely out

"I..."

a deep breath and explained

felt as though something about myself would fundamentally change if I absorbed it into

saying others can absorb

then the value

look toward the little mink with a new light in

proudly on his shoulder as though showing off. Such a scene

think it's so simple." Leonel said slowly. "It's hard to explain, but I felt as though absorbing that shadow would take something away from me, almost

senses were incredibly sensitive. On top of that, his memory was impeccable. He was

'What if...'

him, he didn't have to

his Dream World, a new Dream Clone appeared. But, this time, it wasn't himself but rather a perfect replica of Joel.

within the Third Dimension had a 99% accuracy rating. He could practically reflect the world perfectly

minutes later, Leonel opened his eyes,

had been watching over Leonel this whole like looked to him with a half annoyed, half curious look. This really wasn't the place to suddenly be

one bit. To him,

He couldn't just casually take action without testing out every

that time, Leonel learned