Dimensional Descent

Leonel's breathing held steady. Ever since his magic and body became interconnected, it wasn't just his speed that gained a great boost, but also his recoverability. This was only to be expected. After all, his Light Elemental Force had awakened its Healing Branch and now it was one with his body.

Even though his current Healing Branch was almost like a glass canon, providing one massive heal in exchange for months of dormancy, it had gained a somewhat passive state as well thanks to Camelot's magic system.

The only shame was that Leonel had been so busy recently that he hadn't had the time to research more of this magic system. He felt that he definitely had to find this time in the future.

Leonel had already simulated the best path for him, and he felt that that was fusing his magic and spearmanship into one. As things stood now, he always either used one or the other, but that was almost like crippling himself. He would definitely have to do some more experiments.

'It'll be night soon.' Leonel sighed.

Nearer to dusk, the pace of the group had slowed considerably. This wasn't just due to the poor lighting, but also because of Leonel's orders.

In the afternoon, they had focused on speed, killing every beast they came across while dodging large dens. However, when the lights began to dim, Leonel became more cautious.

Every time a beast was killed, they would go out of their way to clean the scene and move the corpse elsewhere to throw the Oryx off course. In fact, Leonel had even gotten a few freshman with ice abilities to chill the corpses ahead of time as well so they would be even more difficult for the Oryx to find.

All of this caution led to their pace slowing down even further.

Though many understood why Leonel had chosen to do this, there were other anxious individuals who would have much rather focused on their speed. If they had, they might have already been half way there and just another four or five hours away.

But, Leonel had chosen to take the opposite approach, something Jaelis was greatly unsatisfied with.

to limit casualties and help the most people

the skies grew, the more antsy Jaelis became. He really began weighing his options for whether he should split

the group's opinion earlier in the day. He had thought that with his white belt status, many would listen to him. And in truth,

that the silent Senior Lu had

side. They weren't fools. If they could come to Valiant Heart, they definitely

was a bit overly cautious, there was nothing fundamentally

this, Jaelis' small stint at rebellion had

be paying attention to him in the slightest. He didn't seem to realize

was easily detectable. When had he ever run into one as

about

should be a mine network up ahead. As long as we have metals interfering with their sight, it will be even more difficult for the Oryx to find us. We can hide away here until

reached all their

Leonel really did have a plan.

knew that the mine network Leonel was speaking of was one from the map he had memorized on the day he launched an attack at the

toward Leonel's

everyday.' Her lip couldn't help

map of their progress atop of a map of Sarrieth's

through every so often, but

especially eye catching was

at a table together, taking swings of what looked like liquor and happily laughing amongst themselves. It was

widening when they