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

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 and displayed it

had been there, they would have been shocked and awed by the spectacle. If it wasn't for the blood and grime ruining the image, this would have maybe been the most beautiful Craft

afar, he truly seemed to have reached the very end of

played through the silent city. In fact, the entire battlefield had come to a grinding halt,

didn't seem to

Even seeing his own blood dripping from the latter's lips, he didn't even have the

spear beginning to slowly draw runes into the ground around the Puppet

Puppet Master struggled, its veins bulging along its neck. But,

effect on its ability at

runes completed and the

flame suddenly erupted around the

feeling its body being

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

cries of the Variant freezing

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

start to finish, Leonel 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 matters had nothing to

They were so large that they far outstripped even

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

palm, Leonel's spear vanished, a surfboard appearing to his

he could muster with just a single arm, he brought Aina down from his

she wanted to say, but of them seemed to want to make themselves known. She simply held onto him

one good remaining arm to pat her