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.

instincts were dulled considerably. But, whenever he was relaxed and not expecting much,

"Hm…?"

to have noticed that something

number of young geniuses versus the land they had to work with,

at this moment, they

Leonel's lip curled.

seems we have

he had a beard to stroke. But, just

think you can scare

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

an increase in the shuffling

off

seriously. Or, rather, it seemed that they weren't. The truth was that both had already gone

participating had already 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

been undone, the surroundings were filled with hidden

Leonel counted the movement of at least 30 individuals. They surrounded the couple from

too many people here, hiding the actions of both he and Aina were almost impossible. There

so they obviously needed to fight two battles to get enough tags. But, after the tenth, only a fool wouldn't be able

But, after some thought, he realized that whoever planned this was

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

came into view, Leonel raised an

been by Balthorn's side, Henorin. But, following her were several youths that had been flocking around Balthorn as

directive. It was an odd feeling indeed, especially considering