Dimensional Descent

Leonel didn't have an answer to his question. And, unsurprisingly, neither did the dictionary. But, Leonel didn't mind. Even if this ring led to a dead end, he could still accept it.

Leonel knew that Variant Zones only appeared when a world was on the verge of collapse. According to Kaela, Valiant Heart managed to use a treasure they earned participating in the Morales family's Heir Wars to maintain this Zone and continuously benefit from it.

Other than these facts, everything else was too variable to make any conclusions on. So, Leonel didn't waste any brain power on things he knew he didn't have enough knowledge to reach a logical conclusion with.

Instead, Leonel stood and began to make his way to Valiant Hall.

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"Hello, I'd like to take a look at the training rooms you have available."

Leonel soon found himself on the second floor of Valiant Hall once again. In fact, he could even see some black belts getting ready to take their own Exams and the receptionist he spoke to was the very same dead-eyed man whose disposition hadn't changed a single bit.

Without a word, the man pushed a booklet to Leonel.

With a quick look, Leonel realized that the training rooms of Valiant Hall were different from the ones you might find on Hero Peak.

Rather than having specialized rooms, Valiant Hall had their training rooms separated into grades. The grades decided the intensity of the setting within the room, or more accurately, the range the settings could be used within.

specialized, and also more expensive to use, it made up for it in convenience. For the

Training Room, then."

below this. And, unfortunately, the grades above this all

very detailed, so he didn't believe that Leonel hadn't seen them. A single day cost 1000 merit points, and that was only if you used the simplest functions of

Yet, Leonel hadn't hesitated.

was quite the recluse. There were very few

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breath, standing at

wide tiles, each of which was a perfect in between for white and black. And, it also

only different aesthetically was that the S-grade Training Room was a hundred cubic meters large while the exam room was only

with fascinated lights. He was once again certain that this

things first, I need to work on my body's

decided on this long ago. Having a Metal Body was great, but he had noticed during his run-in with the Oryx that

this, his Lineage Factors would end

great speed. But, if his joints became a rate limiting factor, then what good would that

to this. The Morales Clan's Metal Body, a Lineage Factor they relied upon to reach the top of the Dimensional Verse, wouldn't have such a glaring weakness. At least not so early,

though, was that while Leonel's father had left him any and all techniques he would ever need with regard to Force Crafting, when it

in the universe, his feet up on a

his father was good at, it was being really stubborn about arbitrarily drawn lines. If he wasn't like that,