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.

in that direction and

shot into

…

perfect formation. They were split into groups of

of the formation. At the helm, there was one bird and following its wings there were three birds

first group formed an inverted 'V'

was likewise in a 'V' structure, but they were tucked within the larger outer structure. This inner structure was formed of

single bird. This bird protected the commander to the back of this double

from afar, it looked as though numerous triangular formations were flying through the air. They looked no different from jets shooting through

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

would be Mordred's family that suffered the most. How

man wearing black robes accented by white flexible armor stood atop a predator bird of his own. Unlike the others, he was

back, his hair shaved down until only the

tightly stapled to his skeleton. His stern expression never distorted, nor

one of City Lord

…

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

their backs, just

blades of a polished spear. Their black feathers caused the light of the setting sun to rebound as though they were

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, they

to command these beasts and control these machines. Leonel was

just a single person facing almost 500. Any

trying to calm

off his senses.

this moment. Leonel could almost

already been turned upside down once, but