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 for black belts. In that

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

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

you think it would be easier if we

these easy missions was a good

benefited them. For example, the duel Leonel just initiated. This duel

clear up grudges and essentially sanction battles that occurred within Valiant City. That way, one wouldn't be accused of breaking

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

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

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

certain establishments within

status first even if things might get a little bit prickly

Leonel smiled. "No rush."

mysterious.

said these words without much oddity in her tone, but she seemed

what is that supposed

they

What does it mean?" She

the Segmented Cube, nuzzling up against Aina. Letting go of

yes. We don't need him right? He can go act mysterious by himself." Aina smiled sweetly

nodded in agreement.

but he

is just the first. For example… black belts might not be