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

on these missions, but he decided to hold

they have relatively good rewards. Once we accumulate enough, it'll be easier to promote to white belt and

would be easier if we prioritized

wasn't exactly wrong. Nibbling at these easy missions was a good

about the changes to the rules that benefited them. For example, the duel Leonel just initiated. This duel had always been a

was only used to clear up grudges and essentially sanction battles that occurred within Valiant City. That way, one wouldn't be

a court system, not much unlike the Valiant Hall Meeting that was called just three days ago, except on

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

was that

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

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

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

Leonel smiled. "No rush."

being mysterious. I

words without much oddity in her tone, but she

that

they began

don't know. What does it

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

go act mysterious by himself." Aina smiled sweetly beneath her

little mink nodded in agreement. "Yip!

he already felt

win." 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 might not be able to own ore mines or stores or even form factions