Dimensional Descent

Khaled's expression changed.

He had already commanded that Predator Raven to man the perimeter, but it hadn't listened.

'No, it's not that it wasn't listening, something's making it not listen… This boy!'

Leonel had realized long ago that Khaled's commands could be interrupted.

For Khaled to have been sent to command this aerial assault, it was likely that other than gaining City Lord White's trust, it was also due to his ability. By virtue of this, it was easy to extrapolate that Khaled had likely been the one in command of the predator birds from the very beginning.

After Leonel realized this, he already had all the information he needed. The fact that his horn could disrupt Khaled's control, even for a moment, meant that it was very much possible for external sources to do so.

So, the simple question was… what about pain?

This much was easily confirmed. Though it was just for a moment, the Predator Raven completely disregarded Khaled's commands, almost completely disrupting the formation with its erratic flight in those moments just after Leonel pierced its eye.

Though Khaled managed to regain control of the Predator Raven, there was one thing he didn't notice. Or, rather, two things packaged into one.

The first thing was that Leonel had hidden a secondary damage spell within in arrow. And, the second thing was that Leonel had hidden a smaller version of the Force Arts drawn onto his horn as well.

The instant he realized that his hypothesis was correct, he activated the secondary damage spell, causing the Raven a surge of pain once again. And, right afterward, he activated the beast taming Force Arts to disrupt Khaled's second attempts at controlling the Raven.

When Leonel's [Light Refraction] spell was influenced, he realized a few things.

For one, the influence of a single Raven's pupils were exceptionally weak on him. If it wasn't for 500 disrupting his spell at once, it would have never distorted in the first place.

the Ravens had on him were much weaker in that instant. That obviously meant that their abilities weren't area of effect, but rather truly reliant on their sight. At the very least, they had to have a line of sight to the Force

birds couldn't disrupt a Force Art that had already been shielded and definitely couldn't disrupt one too small for them to lock eyes

interrupting his control and that this thing was most definitely

all of which had long since surrounded Leonel and were waiting to taste

abruptly changed directions to, seemingly

his palm, Leonel's bow disappeared, only

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

'Chain Domain.'

Predator Raven was suddenly tightly bound in the sky, its wings pinned to body and its claws pressed flush

out across Leonel's forehead,

could see its enraged eyes trying to bore into his soul. One was a blood red while the other dripped with crimson, its precious life dripping

the bird felt fear for the first time in maybe its life.

were innately but tried to hide. Their sense of strict hierarchy was even more

facing a being superior to

it

in his gaze as he felt his blade run deep into its skull and through its

insides of the Predator Raven in an instant. But, it was what happened next that

the air as he thrust forth once more. But this

was severed in a single strike, separating out

beast but latched onto the crossbow, causing it float before

in what felt like the blink of an eye,

outfitted with a crossbow,

there was Leonel. He was just one man, but he had suddenly become the center of

his Chain Domain to load