Dimensional Descent

Leonel looked down toward Thetris whose mouth hung half open. The latter was so stunned by the sudden change that the swig of water he had just taken drizzled out from his mouth, falling down his chin and drenching his shirt completely.

Leonel's hand was like a snaking whip, shooting forward so quickly that Thetris didn't even have a chance to register its movement, let alone react to it.

Thetris keeled over, feeling as though every bone in his rib cage had shattered simultaneously.

His body seemed to lag behind the shot of pain he felt. Time dilated, his body convulsing in a fit of pain before, only then, shooting backward like a rocket.

He crashed into a thick pillar, his spine warping.

The freshman quarters fell into another bout of silence.

Truthfully, over the past two weeks, they had learned to live with Thetris' voice. They had no choice in the matter. It was either they accept it, or leave Valiant Heart entirely. None of them dared to deal with a person protected by a white belt, so how would they dare touch Thetris?

The pillar Thetris had just crashed into was just one of many surrounding a community meditation square. It was meant to be one of the many tasked with helping concentrate Force in this region. Though it was much worse than the personal meditation rooms, as freshman who couldn't afford anything, this was the best they could do with.

Knowing this, there was no surprise, then, that there weren't a small number of people present. Many of them had learned to ignore Thetris, so they hadn't seen the initial collision. But, they had most definitely heard the end result.

When they looked toward the direction Thetris had come flying from, they all felt their heart skip a beat.

Leonel was completely expressionless, but the energies around him seemed to be seething in rage for him. The wind around him was still, almost too still. But, it was as though the world refused to regain its normal color.

Leonel's figure blurred, appearing before Thetris in another blink.

"Hey, hey, hey."

someone else just as

him?" Gersan frowned, looking at Leonel as though he had lost his mind. "If you were going to vent, don't you think it's a bit pathetic to wait until the true culprits have all disappeared just to take out your rage on a pawn?

disdain for Leonel boiled over. He couldn't help but feel disgust when he looked at

why Sael had asked him to protect him, but if he had to guess, it was because Leonel's family

Leonel to have a family background robust enough for Sael to tiptoe around him, yet end up in Valiant Heart… Well, wasn't the

he came here to flex his talent, only to realize that Valiant Heart had its fair share of steel plates

little dorm room for weeks, only to come and bully someone far

that wasn't pathetic, then what

that many agreed with Gersan's words. The freshman remained silent in their places of meditation, but

expected was for Gersan to have hardly finished his words

'Huh…?'

before he felt his jaw rattle. It was as though a steel club had swept up and through him. If it wasn't for the fact he had just shut

his wrist

off the ground. Flames suddenly erupted on his knuckles, concentrating to the

BANG!

latter flew backward, a trail of smoke and crackling flames following his

had been before Leonel in one instant, but in the next, he had collided with another pillar,

sank down, violently

though, he didn't lose consciousness immediately. He landed on the ground, his face grimacing in pain, but the flicker of

member of Valiant Hall… it seems you really have a death

that moment, his

exploding forward with an