Dimensional Descent

BANG!

The first hit left Halgo in a complete daze. But, the second made his vision go black. The last thing he felt was a rush of heat to his nose before he collapsed to the ground.

As for everyone else? All they saw was a flash of light denoting the start of the duel, only for it to quickly end in a fountain of blood spraying out from Halgo's nose.

Yet, not only did the blood not touch Leonel, it didn't even touch the catalogue either. By some mysterious force, it shot back, splattering all over the falling Halgo's face.

Leonel blinked, looking toward Aina.

"Is that another cool vampire ability?"

Aina pouted slightly beneath her mask. "I'm not a vampire."

"Are you sure about that?" Leonel grinned.

Aina turned away and ignored him. How could she be a vampire? Wasn't she walking around in the sun just fine? Garlic was probably her favorite flavor to add to food. Plus, she never really craved blood… unless you counted that one instance.

Leonel was just teasing her.

As though the couple couldn't sense all the eyes around them, they bantered as Leonel flipped through the selection of missions.

"… A shame."

A while later, Leonel shook his head.

take missions allowed for

wanted to take more despite the penalty and time constraints placed on these missions, but he decided to hold back a bit. Plus… There might just be more

enough, it'll be easier to promote to white belt and open up

you think it would be easier if

Nibbling at these easy missions was a good way

rules that benefited them. For example, the duel Leonel just initiated. This duel had always been a part of Valliant Heart Mountain's culture, but

was only used to clear up grudges and essentially sanction battles that occurred within Valiant City. That way, one wouldn't be accused of breaking the rules like Leonel had been on his

to the rule changes, it had essentially become a court system, not much unlike the Valiant Hall Meeting that was called just three

it wasn't just for settling grudges, but could be used to battle for resources, decide contracts,

the only rule policing these duels was that those

there were still many other hindrances. Black belts, while

within the city they

more sense to raise their status first even if things might

Leonel smiled. "No rush."

keep being mysterious.

her tone, but she seemed to be hinting at something that made Leonel

what is that supposed to

gazed up at Leonel as they began to walk

don't know. What does it mean?"

out from the Segmented Cube, nuzzling up against Aina.

him right? He can go act mysterious by himself." Aina smiled sweetly beneath her mask,

little mink nodded in agreement. "Yip!

his mouth to say something, but he

ranked ones is just the first. For example… black belts might not be able to own ore mines or stores or even form factions of their own. But, they likewise don't have to report what they gain