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.

perforations as though it was chain mail rather than

that these perforations were actually intricate and delicate patterns. If it had to be described, it was like someone cut out all the veins of the human body

have been shocked and awed by the spectacle. If it wasn't for the blood and grime ruining the image,

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

fact, the entire battlefield had come to a grinding

didn't seem to

his visage expressionless. Even seeing his own blood dripping from

beginning to slowly draw runes into the ground around the Puppet

veins bulging along its neck. But, nothing it tried to do seemed to

ability at the moment...

and the Forcd

flame suddenly erupted around

its body being

he couldn't see a thing, the tip of Leonel's spear

the Variant freezing over

emit from Leonel's lips as though his inner organs were being charred. But, once again, he didn't seem to

burnt to ash, leaving nothing but

appeared above the pile of ash. They were so large that

moment, they swept into him, giving the young man who seemed to stand at the center of

a surfboard

movements as nimble as he could muster with just a single arm, he brought Aina down from his back, a light smile gracing his

buried her head into his chest. She had so many words she wanted to say, but of them seemed to want to make

her on the head, his heart filled with warmth and