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.

of Khaled while he pulled out the dictionary, he realized that the effect 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

thing… These damned birds couldn't disrupt a Force Art that had already been shielded and definitely couldn't disrupt one too

could tell that something was interrupting his control and that this thing was

surrounded Leonel and were

when Leonel abruptly changed directions to, seemingly by coincidence, cross paths with

Leonel's bow disappeared,

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

'Chain Domain.'

was suddenly tightly bound in the sky, its wings pinned to body and its claws

Leonel's forehead, but he

He could see its enraged eyes trying to bore into his soul. One was

when it saw Leonel's cold, calculating eyes looking back toward it, the bird felt fear

a lot of ways, beasts were just more of what humans were innately but tried to hide. Their sense

superior to you,

if it meant

gaze

mincing the insides of the Predator Raven in an instant. But,

spear, blood spraying through the air as he thrust forth once more. But this time, his target wasn't the dead Raven but rather the crossbow machine strapped to

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

beast but latched onto the crossbow, causing it

in what felt like the blink of an

each outfitted with a

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

indifference, he used his Chain Domain to load the first bolt, his eyes locking onto Khaled once