Dimensional Descent

Lionel didn't say a thing for a long while. He continued to look at the ground, his arms strapped around his body beneath his straitjacket. For a moment, it seemed as though he hadn't heard a single word that was spoken.

However, a blood thirsty aura was slowly forming around him.

Lionel's head tilted upward. Through the strands of his hair, one could finally just barely make out one of his eyes. It was a vacant pale green that seemed to stare at nothing and everything at the same time.

The faint illusion of blood red wings spread to Lionel's back, the distorted image of a demon hanging around him.

In just a few moments, those red wings formed into the image of a female angel. Her red wings wrapped around Lionel, her arms holding onto him tightly.

It was just an illusion, but it seemed oh so real.

Tears of blood began to uncontrollably fall from the eyes of those around Lionel. With the exception of Escobar, they all seemed to be affected by the change.

"I see… Since she's dead, what reason do you have to keep living?"

Under the astonished gazes of many, thousands of Dark Cloud Prison guards suddenly turned their weapons onto themselves.

BANG!

The sounds of several gunshots rang at once. But, from afar, it sounded like just a single gun had been fired. The actions were so smooth and in sync that even the pulling of so many triggers seemed to come from a single point…

Escobar's gaze widened before gaining a tinge of red. In that moment, just as Lionel's words descended, he suddenly felt an overwhelming will to spear his skull through. If he hadn't bit his tongue, he really might have gone through with it.

trembled. Just what kind of maddening ability was

Lionel only seemed to grow more corporeal

her face as she lightly stroked Lionel's hair. No matter how one looked at her, it seemed like she was a proud mother… Or rather, she would have been had it not been for the fact her eye sockets were filled

the quiet air. In an instant, over half of a ten thousand man army fell into a pool of their own blood, their

a metallic stench soon

on his spear tightened. He could still see Lionel's singular eye through the strands of his hair, looking at him curiously as though he was wondering why it was he hadn't died when he told him to.

chance and spoke the truth. However, he had never expected for his moment

the baby in those photos, this was

"Die!"

encompass the world. Its point

before Lionel's brow. With just a half a foot

things really be

mirror suddenly manifested before Lionel. Escobar's spear tip hardly

wielding arm splintering in two. The horrid imagery of a forearm being split in

didn't seem intent on stopping. She looked toward Escobar warily as though she was the one who should fear him rather than the other way

indifferently. It was as though he couldn't tell that his life had been on

a deathly pale. He looked toward his arm incredulously, unable to believe what

spear arts could more than make up for this. With the

he suffered so greatly just

that there was

Aina led a charge out of the forest edge that surrounded Dark Cloud Prison. It had taken them several hours, but they had finally cleared out all the scouts and carved a path here. And, luckily, they had managed to avoid any casualties in huge

they reached the clearing of

in their attempt to climb its walls, and… over 5000 dead guards, lying