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.

only take missions allowed for black belts.

wanted to take more despite the penalty and time constraints placed on these missions, but he decided to hold back

take these ten, they have relatively good rewards. Once we accumulate enough, it'll be easier

be easier if we

easy missions was a good way to

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

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

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

but could be used to battle for resources, decide contracts, and many

the only rule policing these duels was that those of higher belts couldn't challenge their

benefit, there were still many other hindrances. Black belts, while receiving these

resources that black belts couldn't touch, certain establishments within the city they couldn't enter,

it would make more sense to raise their status first even if things might get a little bit prickly for

Leonel smiled. "No rush."

mysterious. I

in her tone, but

is that

as they began to

know. What does it mean?"

the Segmented Cube, nuzzling up against Aina. Letting go of Leonel's hand, Aina began to play with the

him right? He can go act mysterious by

nodded in agreement. "Yip!

his mouth to say something, but he already

Leonel laughed. "Being a black belt is restrictive, but it's also freeing too. There are quite a few loopholes in their new laws as well. The fact that higher ranked belts can't challenge lower ranked ones is just the first. For example… black belts