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…'

fingers began to move at a blistering pace, leaving blurs in their wake. In the blink of an eye,

"Little Blackstar."

"Yip! Yip!"

the newly made signal flare. He

canopy, the little mink hid his body within the foliage and raised the signal flare up, his little paws swiping at the

was nothing compared to the tall

the skies, only to be swallowed by the clouds above. The most shocking part, though, was the fact it didn't disappear. It hung there like a

blue flare?"

pillar of light a flare. At most, it should have lasted two or three seconds. In addition, the color shot should have been red to blend in with the shades of red the Oryx saw in. What was

the Oryx to guess what shades they see in. Don't you think it's much easier then to just copy

had already brought out the Titan

rapidly helping Leonel form

his simple explanation had fried the minds of the freshmen who followed him. They looked up into the skies, only now realizing that after taking their eyes off of the beacon for a moment, it took them a moment to find it

Light Prism type Ores worked, even a subtle tweak 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 on the order of a fraction of

had accomplished this without measuring tools or even a proper working environment was

to make it so difficult to find?" Ingkath couldn't help

followed Leonel without even knowing why. Maybe it was because all of

was this really conducive to gathering more people? How many would