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.

considerably. But, whenever he was relaxed and not expecting much, exactly like he

"Hm…?"

to have noticed that something was off as

of young geniuses versus the land they had to work with, it was no surprise that the next closest group wouldn't be more than a few hundred

at this moment, they heard

Leonel's lip curled.

seems we

stroke. But, just as always, his face was as bare as

you can scare them

this was just a nail in his coffin.

an increase in the shuffling

person has an ability that can cut off my senses, why is it that they've left

seriously. Or, rather, it seemed that they weren't. The truth was that

seen the disregard the elders 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 be difficult to deal with… What

veil had been undone, the surroundings were filled with

least 30 individuals. They surrounded the couple from all sides… And though Leonel couldn't clearly see

the actions of both he and Aina were almost impossible. There was no doubt that they had been sighted jumping around the forest many

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

only thing Leonel was actually disappointed in was not sensing them previously. But, after some thought, he realized that whoever planned this was quite clever in their

tags, it would have been obvious to anyone observing that

into view,

namely the young lady who had been by Balthorn's side, Henorin. But, following her were several youths that had been

indeed, especially considering