Dimensional Descent

Leonel was instantly at a loss.

If he continued saving those buried beneath the rubble, many of whom were unconscious, he would be allowing this attack to continue on smoothly. But, if he moved to stop them now, it was very likely that many of those he could save would die.

'Dammit!' Leonel roared in his mind.

"Leonel."

"Huh?" Leonel snapped out of his own thoughts.

"Just point out where they are to me and I'll dig them out. I can't battle in the skies like you can."

Leonel opened his mouth to reply but wasn't exactly sure what to say.

It would definitely be more efficient for them to be saved by him. He could use his Earth Elemental affinity to simply carry them out. But, Aina would have to physically dig them out.

"Just leave it to me." Aina insisted. "More people will die than those buried down if they're allowed to go."

Leonel's hesitation was broken when he heard these words. She was right. If they managed to make it to one of the Baronies, hundreds would die.

"I…"

Aina pushed off, breaking out of Leonel's embrace and landing on the ground.

"They can't see me on the ground through all the dirt clouds. Stop worrying about me."

Leonel blinked and nodded.

meters in that

shot into the

…

birds soared through the skies in perfect formation. They were split into groups

formed the outer structure of the formation. At the helm, there was one bird and following its wings there were three birds to each side for a total of seven forming this

first group formed an inverted

were tucked within the larger outer structure. This inner structure was formed of smaller, swifter birds

bird protected the commander to the

it looked as though numerous triangular formations were flying through the air. They looked no different from jets shooting through the skies, all of them exuding a

have been far beyond Leonel's means to deal with. The only reason Aina didn't stop him wasn't because she wasn't worried, but rather because she knew that trying to stop Leonel would have been useless. He was simply too fond of doing stupid things to

a close friend of his. If Camelot fell, it would be Mordred's family that suffered the most. How could

numerous smaller formations, a man wearing black robes accented by white flexible armor stood atop a predator bird of his own.

stood with his hands clasped behind his back, his hair shaved

face, but it was as though his skin was tightly stapled to

was one of City Lord White's White Knights, Khaled

…

array centered around him. The more he observed the coming tide of predatory birds, the more

on their backs, just the beasts alone

black feathers caused the light of the setting sun to rebound as though they were metal plates. Their eyes were a bright shade of crimson that exuded a bloodthirsty light as though all

though this wasn't enough, Leonel felt that the large crossbows fitted to their backs contained much more power than 23rd century canons. By his estimations, they were weaker than 25th century technology, but marginally stronger than 24th. And, unlike Earth's technology,

touch upon the humans that managed to command these beasts and control these machines.

just a single person facing almost

deep breaths, trying to calm

a moment, he closed off his senses. He

this moment. Leonel could

had already been turned upside down