Dimensional Descent

The Puppet Master froze and looked into the skies. But, by the time it wanted to move, it was already too late.

Its thoughts were maybe just as confusing as the situation itself.

"... A city?"

Before the stunned gazes of those watching on, the ground around Leonel and the Puppet Master glowed for just a moment.

A strong seal of space locked down the region, rendering the Puppet Master completely immobile. It could only stand in place, its eyes fixed onto the skies.

A city appeared, but it didn't fall. It hovered in the skies as though it too was locked in space.

The spatial fluctuations of the two cities, one above and one below, pushed and pulled against one another as though they were magnets, sealing an entire expanse of tens of kilometers.

Leonel coughed, his body moving with incomparable slowness. However, the fact he could move at all made Anared and the Puppet Master's eyes widen.

No matter how hard they pushed and pulled, they couldn't move a single inch. This situation made Vice's ability seem like nothing more than child's play.

As though this alone wasn't bad enough, those outside this two cities couldn't seem to approach either. It was like a massive barrier of space had completely locked the region down. Even Anared, who stood on the city walls, just a few meters from freedom, couldn't seem to cross the final steps.

However, it was only after one looked at Leonel that they realized something was off.

On Leonel's chest, a crude breast plate had appeared. In fact, one would be hard pressed to call it a breast plate at all.

though it was chain mail rather than a true breast

it had to be described, it was like someone cut out all the veins of the human body and displayed it in its usual three dimensional

for the blood and grime ruining the image, this would have maybe been the

quite weak. He even swayed, seemingly about to fall over any time now. From afar, he truly seemed to have reached

grating sound of metal played through the silent city. In fact, the entire battlefield

didn't

his visage expressionless. Even seeing his

spear beginning to slowly draw runes into the

neck. But, nothing it tried to

effect on its ability at the moment... what

runes completed and the Forcd Art

flame suddenly erupted around the Puppet

wanted to scream, feeling its body

Leonel's spear lit up with another flame, lightly piercing into the

were slow and deliberate, the muffled cries of the Variant freezing over the

emit from Leonel's lips as though his inner organs were being charred. But, once again, he didn't seem to notice as he pressed into the Invalid's body with

didn't speak a single word. Even when the Variant Invalid had been burnt to ash, leaving nothing but a pile of black soot, he remained completely indifferent as though these

pile of ash. They

seemed to stand at the center of the

spear vanished, a surfboard appearing to his

could muster with just a single arm, he brought Aina

wanted to say, but of them seemed to want to make themselves known. She simply held onto him with all her might, her small hands clawing at his exposed

good remaining arm to pat her