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.

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

"Hm…?"

to have noticed that something was

the land they had to work with, it was no surprise that the next closest group wouldn't

moment, they heard

Leonel's lip curled.

seems we

had a beard to stroke. But, just as always, his

you think you can scare them off

this was just a nail in his coffin. Where

an increase in

an ability that can cut off my senses, why is

this matter very seriously. Or, rather, it seemed that they

rule that anything went during these trials. Even if one or two people wouldn't

been undone, the

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

didn't seem too surprised by this outcome. There were too many people here, hiding the actions of both he and Aina

only two of them, so they obviously needed to fight two

But, after some thought, he

able to so easily pinpoint the golden tags, it would have been obvious to anyone observing that he had great sensory abilities. In that

faces finally came into view, Leonel raised

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

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 at her waist as