Dimensional Descent

Senior Lu slowly looked back, his head tilting up to see the massive, looming figure that had appeared. Just its weapon was larger than any one of them, let alone the Oryx itself.

Those that had been in Valiant Heart for a few years had all heard their fair share of Oryx Tribe horror stories. But, no freshmen had ever seen an Oryx personally… Or, more accurately, no freshmen had ever survived such an encounter to tell the tale.

Senior Lu's knees went weak. He fell to the ground, his eyes turning almost vacant as he looked up. At that moment, he along with every freshmen felt no different from those beasts who lost their minds to fear.

The foul smell of the Oryx was seared into their souls. It was the kind of memory they would never forget in their lifetimes.

At that moment, though, the Oryx looked into the skies. As though none of them even existed, he focused all three of his eyes into the clouds, training his gaze on something that seemed to be flying.

Leonel looked down from his surfboard, his gaze twinkling.

'What a monster…'

This was Leonel's conclusion after just a single glance. Compared to humans, if the measure was pure combat ability, the Oryx were superior in everyway. Their digitigrade legs made them faster than any human of similar stature could hope to be. Their muscle structure stored more than ten times more energy. Their bones were more than tenfold sturdier. And their eyes… There was something deeply unsettling about them.

As though this wasn't bad enough, those of Valiant Heart seemed to think that the Oryx weren't intelligent, but Leonel's dictionary hadn't said a word about their poor intelligence. Just looking at the eyes of the Oryx before him, Leonel didn't even need his dictionary to know that these Oryx were no less intelligent than any human.

Leonel held Aina in one arm, the three freshmen standing in a row to his back. It was difficult for the surfboard to fit all of them on, but they just managed it.

"Okay. I'm going now." Aina said softly.

With a leap, she plunged onto the other side of the wall, falling down heavily between Hallis and Arfire.

two seniors were stunned.

his survival from the very beginning. Had he used his flying treasure from the start, he could have already made it back to the mountain

freshmen who realized this felt a second wave of guilt assault

pulled out his bow, nocking two arrows. However, he didn't

it, Mr. Oryx? Why don't we both take

saying a word. But, it was at that

vibrating slightly. However, it was just for the

Aina had an ax at Hallis' throat. Senior? Since when did a mere white belt

wasn't feeling

that at Leonel's current vantage point, it was at a great disadvantage. Even someone as powerful as this Oryx wouldn't like to be used for live target practice. But, that was exactly what would happen if it couldn't find a way to deal with

hard to tell…. Leonel was certain this Oryx was smiling, the blood on its body slowly trickling to the ground

instant,

"Hold on!"

beam of red shot into the skies. It continued for

on, but Moos slipped, he hand only just managing to

was forced to swerve violently again, causing Moos to lose whatever hold

popping across it as it released its

'Little Blackstar!'

"Yip! Yip!"

little mink flashed, strong surges of black-green swirling around his body. An upswing of wind slowed the descent of

instantly became more