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.

was filled with perforations as though it was

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 and displayed it in

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

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

through the silent city. In fact, the entire battlefield had

Leonel didn't seem

visage expressionless. Even seeing his own blood dripping from the latter's lips, he

beginning to slowly draw runes into the ground around the

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

on its ability at the moment... what use did

completed and the Forcd Art lit

scorching flame suddenly erupted

to scream, feeling its body being slowly

see a thing, the tip of Leonel's spear lit up with another flame, lightly piercing into the

deliberate, the muffled cries of the Variant freezing over the hearts of those who

were being charred. But, once again, he didn't seem to notice as he

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

appeared above the pile of ash. They were so

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

his palm, Leonel's spear vanished, a surfboard appearing to his feet before he slowly rose

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

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

arm to pat her on the head, his heart filled