Dimensional Descent

Leonel pushed the broken doors aside, walking into the familiar dilapidated bar with a smile on his face.

When the white belted senior saw Leonel, he froze. He had only planned to give a casual look over to see who had come. But, what he hadn't expected was for this demon to suddenly appear again.

"Hey!" Leonel grinned, sitting at the bar. "Long time no see!"

The freshmen bar was quite full at the moment. Usually, most would be out on missions right now with the new rules that had been implemented. However, with the sudden danger of the Oryx now being common knowledge, few freshmen still dared to venture out.

Without a thing to do, and with even the most common of training centers now requiring merit points to operate, the freshmen only really had three options: risk their lives, go sleep in their dorms, or hang out here.

It was unsurprising, then, that most chose to come here.

By now, news of Leonel had spread amongst the freshmen and though many couldn't pick him out by his looks, there were still a good few that could. As such, it was no surprise, then, that his appearance caught no small amount of attention.

The bartender shivered under Leonel's gaze but did his best to regain his composure. Seeing how innocent Leonel looked now and comparing him to the monster he had seen before, it was really like night and day. He really had no idea who the true Leonel was.

"What's your name?" Leonel asked politely.

"My… I'm called Mernik."

Leonel nodded. "Mernik, I'm about to do something that will probably cause you a lot of trouble. But, in return, I'm willing to extend you protection should you need it. In addition, if you don't mind, I wouldn't have a problem if you continued to work here."

trembling. At that moment,

What do you

he really did feel a bit

I'm officially issuing a challenge. Your boss can come here to defend this

"Ah…"

shed tears at

belt come be a bartender at this place filled with freshmen? The answer was obvious, it was him who was tasked with maintaining order and

of their family. It might be shabby, but enough ants could even kill an elephant. The freshmen didn't spend a lot in this place, but there were so many freshmen and so few places for them to gather that this place made quite a sum even though it wasn't comparable to the best bars

to greatly benefit from this. But,

his strength, Mernik was actually above average amongst white belts. But, when compared to Leonel, he felt like a

sharper and more powerful despite the fact he wasn't enraged like he had

"I… I… Alright…"

plaque. With a pained look on his face, he erased a

brows, grabbing onto the plaque. After a quick sweep of his senses, he realized it was an ownership plaque that seemed to have the unique ability of

'Interesting concept.'

a mark, using the unique pulses of his Three Star Constitution that had yet

hidden formation beneath

DONG! DONG!

the air, forming a beautiful pink-red