Dimensional Descent

Leonel's words seemed to come with an air of calm around them. Despite the fact he didn't explain any detailed plan, they somehow felt at ease.

If others knew of this, they might find it to be quite baffling. Leonel's words effectively amounted to telling them to wait patiently and nothing else, yet they gobbled it up like naïve children.

But maybe this was just a product of how broken their spirits were. Any small light of hope they could get was enough to calm their hearts. It might have been as the saying went, ignorance was bliss. Maybe by choosing to live in ignorance, they would stave off this pain for just a small bit longer.

"Do we really just have to wait?" Kaela asked softly.

Her eyes were still puffy from her tears, but she still gathered herself up for long enough to say these words. Unlike the others, she couldn't afford to just accept everything at face value. It was exactly this passiveness that she felt landed them in this situation to begin with.

Leonel smiled reassuringly.

"We just need to wait for the honeymoon period to come to an end. It might take a week, it might take a month. But once we hit that tipping point, it'll be time to make our move."

Kaela opened her mouth to respond, but she really didn't know what to say. At this point, she could only take Leonel's words at face value.

"Then what do we do in the meantime? We don't have any resources and our merit points became useless before we even got a chance to use them. All I managed to buy were some rations to fill up our empty fridge, but I didn't really expect that to last more than a month."

In this new system, even something as simple as good had be scratched and clawed for.

The so-called 'rations' Kaela bought in the past were only a result of her own quirks. She didn't like spending money, so she often bought dry rations that most only bought for the sake of missions.

Most of the time, the group would rather eat at the free lunches given by the freshman quarters or the Peaks, but now there would be no such thing. Even the freshmen would begin to starve unless they had the capital to trade large amounts of Urbe Ore. Either that, or they'd have to go hunting on their own.

Basically all freshmen perks had been stripped. The only 'benefit' they had gained was that now they were allowed to travel outside the mountain range on their own without first passing any Peak Exams.

good as telling them that

Leonel couldn't help but be keenly aware that Radlis was nowhere to be seen at the moment. However, he only spared it a fleeting

really one of us to begin with…" Kaela said softly as though

be even more useful when he

worry about it. I also plan to take no small number of missions quite soon. But as for

palm, secretly communicating with the Segmented Cube as he sent out one ore

"… How about train?"

Leonel grinned.

Leonel had a city's worth of low level ores he had yet to use, all of which he got

ores were too weak to build anything that could be useful to improving his strength. However, his strength wasn't what would need

With your current level of skill, you should be able to grasp them quickly and it should help solidify your foundations. After that, we'll be able to start

couldn't help but speak up in her

of her tongue. Even without her bluntly stating it, everyone else was already aware. Though they were happy to learn new Force

Peak system had been dissolved, only the naïve

Leonel only smiled mysteriously, not explaining

**

the shadow of Brave Peak and headed toward the former location of

and bustle. Compared to when he first entered Valiant Hall, it felt even rowdier. The excitement of the new changes still hadn't quite settled just yet so everyone was still hopping

but it wasn't exaggerated enough for everyone to stop what they were

one didn't need to go through them to accomplish their goals.

open a catalogue of missions, only for a large hand to slam onto the cover before

the end of it, he found a young man with a patchy

the matter?" Leonel asked