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.

in that instant. That obviously meant that their abilities weren't area of effect, but rather truly reliant on their sight. At the very

his second very important thing… These damned birds couldn't disrupt a Force Art that had already been shielded and definitely couldn't

didn't understand what Leonel's plan was. He could tell that something was interrupting his control and that this thing was most definitely the arrow still lodged in the Raven's eye.

all of which had long since surrounded Leonel and were waiting to taste his blood. What good was there to mess

again when Leonel abruptly changed directions to, seemingly by coincidence,

disappeared, only to be replaced

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

'Chain Domain.'

Predator Raven was suddenly tightly bound in the sky, its wings pinned to body

Leonel's forehead, but he

the air beneath his might. He could see its enraged eyes trying to bore into his

bird felt fear

humans were innately but tried to hide. Their sense

a being superior to you, beasts lowered their

if it

spear shot into the Predator Raven's eye, an undeniable callousness in his gaze as he felt his blade run deep

mincing the insides of the Predator Raven in an instant. But, it was what happened next that made Khaled's heart

pulled out his spear, blood spraying through the air as he thrust forth once more. But this time,

strap was severed in a single strike, separating out from the

the beast but latched onto the crossbow, causing it float before

in what felt like the blink of an eye, the entire situation had

were hundreds of Predator Ravens, each outfitted with a crossbow, but not a single one with the capability

just one man, but he had suddenly become

used his Chain Domain to load