Dimensional Descent

"There's got to be a better self-cleaning spell than this…"

Leonel sighed, looking down at himself with a helpless expression. He really got taken advantage of this time around. Though he had already tried to cast several Water Elemental cleansing spells, his water affinity was so low that it hardly made a difference.

To make matters worse, in this Fifth Dimensional world, as someone who had yet to touch upon this barrier, affinity was even more important. The higher tier the world, the more it took to move its Force.

So, all of Leonel's attempts resulted in a light drizzle of water that made Aina sputter with laughter.

Still, this didn't stop the two from easily taking down the tenth beast.

"Now what?" Aina asked.

Standing over the massive deer with steel-like horns lying beneath them, Leonel pondered for a moment. With these tags, teleporting to the core of Valiant Heart Mountain shouldn't be a problem. Having them in their grasp meant that their task was basically complete.

However, before Leonel could answer, a rustling of leaves caught his attention.

Under normal circumstances, Leonel would dismiss it as passing wind. With his senses, it was unlikely for anyone to approach so closely without him noticing, least of all those youths who had chosen to come after these tags rather than challenge the mountain pass directly.

But, for the first time in a long while, Leonel felt a tingling in his spine.

He remembered this feeling well. It was the feeling he got whenever the primitive man's consciousness warned him of something.

By now, Leonel had lost count of the number of primitive male and female consciousnesses he had consumed the lives of. Originally, he hadn't thought it would have a great impact on him going into the future, but the more he absorbed, the sharper these instinctive reactions of his became.

style, these instincts were dulled considerably. But, whenever he was relaxed and

"Hm…?"

seemed to have noticed that something

with their senses, they could make out the battles that had been happening in the distance. Considering the number of young geniuses versus the land they had to work

moment, they heard

Leonel's lip curled.

seems we

to stroke. But, just as

can scare them off with

but this

an increase in the

person has an ability that can cut off

nor Aina was taking this matter very seriously. Or, rather, it seemed that they weren't. The truth was that both had

for the fallen youths. There was clearly an unspoken rule that anything went during these trials. Even if one or two people wouldn't

that moment, as though a veil had been undone,

individuals. They surrounded the couple from all sides… And though Leonel couldn't clearly see their faces just

here, hiding the actions of both he and Aina were

have been fine. After all, there were only two of them, so they obviously needed to fight two battles to get enough

them previously. But, after some thought,

so easily pinpoint the golden tags, it would have been obvious to anyone observing that he had great sensory abilities. In that case, how could they not come prepared to

into view, Leonel

Henorin. But, following her were several youths that had been flocking around Balthorn as though she was a

though, despite how rowdy these youths were, Leonel got the faint feeling that they were following Henorin's directive. It was an odd feeling indeed, especially considering the young lady was in the middle the group, lightly clasping her hands