Dimensional Descent

"Hold on."

Leonel stopped Irolana just as she was about to release the flare.

"Hand the flare to me."

Irolana was confused but nodded in the end.

Leonel rolled the flare in his palm, scanning it from top to bottom.

"Let's move." Leonel said, gazing at the Titan Hyena's corpse.

The group quickly complied as Leonel continued to observe the flare.

If the Oryx could only see in red, that would be fine. But, according to Irolana and the others, they could also see infrared. This was a problem for two reasons.

For one, they'd be on a time crunch. Things would be fine as long as the sun was still in the sky. But, once it set, the Oryx would gain a decisive advantage.

During the day, the Oryx's red sight would interfere with tracking somewhat. But, at night, an Oryx might be able to pick out a human through hundreds of meters worth of foliage just based off their body heat.

The second issue was tied to this issue of heat. The signal flares Leonel was aware of were essentially controlled bursts of combustion. Even if it was masked with color, it might be an issue.

'Oh, so it's not the same. It works with a Light Prism Ore…. In that case…'

a blistering pace, leaving blurs in their wake. In the blink

"Little Blackstar."

"Yip! Yip!"

hopped down from Leonel's head and snatched the newly made signal flare. He

within the foliage and raised the signal

the dull nature of the sound was nothing compared to the tall light that suddenly pierced

laser had shot into the skies, only to be swallowed by the clouds above. The most shocking part,

flare?"

seconds. In addition, the color shot should have been red to blend in with the shades

it's much easier then to just copy the sky's color? In that case, no matter what shade they see in, it will blend

he had

Tolly sprung into action, rapidly helping Leonel form arrow tip after arrow

up into the skies, only now realizing that after taking their eyes off of the beacon for a moment,

could result in a completely different color. It was easy to hone in on a large group like 'red' or 'blue', but to nail down a specific shade required accuracy

this without measuring tools or even

it so difficult

even knowing why. Maybe it was because

they had missed an obvious flaw. If it was so subtle even for them, was this really conducive to gathering more people? How many would actually recognize the signal for help? Not only had Leonel changed