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.

we can only take missions allowed for black

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

good rewards. Once we accumulate enough, it'll be easier to promote to white

easier if we prioritized being

wasn't exactly wrong. Nibbling at these easy missions

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

to clear up grudges and essentially sanction battles that occurred within Valiant City.

a court system, not much unlike the Valiant Hall Meeting that was called just

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

that

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

certain establishments within the city they

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

Leonel smiled. "No rush."

you keep being mysterious.

words without much oddity in her tone, but she seemed to

is that supposed to

at Leonel as they began to walk toward the

does

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

go act mysterious by himself."

little mink nodded in agreement. "Yip!

he already felt as though

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 of their own. But, they likewise don't have