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.

But, whenever he

"Hm…?"

have noticed that something was off as

Considering the number of young geniuses versus the land they had to work

moment, they heard

Leonel's lip curled.

seems we have

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

can scare them

but this was just a nail in his coffin.

increase in the

cut off my senses, why is it that they've left

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

an unspoken rule that anything went during these trials. Even

veil had been undone, the surroundings

individuals. They 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

here, hiding the actions of both he and Aina were

only two of them, so they obviously needed to fight two battles to get enough tags. But, after the

But, after some thought, he realized that whoever

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

the faces finally came into

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

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 though she didn't plan on