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.

…

"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.

less specialized, and also more expensive to use, it made up for it in

take the S-grade Training Room, then." Leonel

were three grades below this. And, unfortunately, the grades above this all require elder or equivalent status. So, this was the best

that Leonel hadn't seen them. A single day cost 1000 merit points, and that was only if you used the simplest functions

Yet, Leonel hadn't hesitated.

very few who didn't know

…

a deep breath, standing at the very

Training Room looked almost identical to the Exam room. It, too, was constructed of large meter long and wide tiles, each of which was a perfect in between for white and black.

was a hundred cubic meters large while the exam room was only

with fascinated lights. He was once again certain that this level of Force Crafting was beyond Valiant Heart. But,

need to work on my body's

on this long ago. Having a Metal Body was great, but he had

Lineage Factors would end up restraining one another rather than complimenting each

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

to this. The Morales Clan's Metal Body, a Lineage Factor they relied upon to reach the top of

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

cackling somewhere far off in the universe, his feet up on a table and a grin

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