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.

allowed for black belts. In that

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

it'll be easier to promote to white

be easier if we prioritized being

these easy missions was a good way

lot of things about the changes to the rules that benefited them. For example, the duel Leonel just initiated. This duel had always been a part of Valliant Heart Mountain's culture, but now it was

it was only used to clear up grudges and essentially sanction battles that occurred within Valiant City. That way, one wouldn't be accused of breaking the rules like Leonel had been on his first

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

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

these duels was that those of higher belts couldn't

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

certain establishments within the city they couldn't

make more sense to raise their status first even if things

Leonel smiled. "No rush."

you keep being mysterious. I

much oddity in her tone, but

what is that

up at Leonel as they began

What does

against

act mysterious by himself."

mink nodded in

he already

few loopholes in their new laws as well. The fact that higher ranked belts can't challenge lower ranked ones is just