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

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

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

would be easier if we prioritized

easy missions was a good way to waste

For example, the duel Leonel just initiated. This duel had always been a

occurred within Valiant City. That way, one wouldn't be accused of breaking the rules like Leonel had been on

rule changes, it had essentially become a court system, not much unlike the Valiant Hall

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

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

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

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

Aina's opinion, it would make more sense to raise their status first even

Leonel smiled. "No rush."

being mysterious. I

but she seemed to be hinting at something that

is that

as they began to walk toward

know. What does

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

need him right? He can go act mysterious by himself."

nodded in agreement. "Yip!

say something, but he already felt as though

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