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.

missions allowed

he decided to hold back a bit. Plus… There might

good rewards. Once we accumulate enough, it'll be easier to promote to white belt and open up more avenues

you think it would be easier if we prioritized

these easy missions was a

of things about the changes to the rules that benefited them. For example, the duel Leonel just initiated. This duel

battles that occurred within Valiant City. That way, one wouldn't be accused of breaking

the rule changes, it had essentially become a court system, not much unlike the Valiant Hall Meeting that was called just three days ago, except on a smaller

could be used to battle for resources,

was that

there were still many other hindrances. Black belts, while receiving these protections, were also restricted in

certain kinds of resources that black belts couldn't touch, certain establishments within the city they couldn't enter, and, as seen here, certain missions they couldn't

status first even if things might get a little

Leonel smiled. "No rush."

being mysterious. I can

but she

that supposed

as they began to walk toward the

What does it

moment, the little mink hopped out from the Segmented Cube, nuzzling up against Aina. Letting go of Leonel's hand, Aina began to play with

don't need him right? He can go act mysterious by himself." Aina smiled sweetly beneath her mask,

nodded in agreement. "Yip!

he already felt as though he had

just the first. For example… black belts might not be able to own ore mines or stores or