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.

was in his cold and calculating battle style, these instincts were dulled considerably. But, whenever he was relaxed and not expecting much, exactly

"Hm…?"

seemed to have noticed that something was

been happening in the distance. Considering the number of young geniuses versus the land they had to work with, it was no surprise that the next closest group wouldn't be

this moment, they

Leonel's lip curled.

seems we have

moment, Leonel wished he had a beard to stroke. But, just as always, his face was as bare

think you can scare them

cool moment, but this was just a nail in his coffin. Where

giggled underlaid an increase

If this person has an ability that can cut off my

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

unspoken rule that anything

had been undone, the surroundings

surrounded the couple from all sides… And though Leonel couldn't clearly see their faces just yet, there was no doubt their intent wasn't to exchange

he and Aina were almost impossible. There was no doubt that

battles would have been fine. After all, there were only two of them, so they obviously needed to fight two battles to get enough tags. But, after the tenth, only a fool wouldn't be able to catch on to what was

only thing Leonel was actually disappointed in was not sensing them previously. But, after some thought, he realized

been obvious to anyone observing that he had great sensory abilities. In that case, how could they not come prepared

finally came into

who had been by Balthorn's side, Henorin. But, following her were several

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 together