Dimensional Descent

'You really don't want to listen, huh?'

Leonel chuckled as he looked down at the spear in his hand. If the elders of Valiant Heart knew he had such a treasure, who knows how they'd react. They'd probably, rightfully, get a bunch of satisfaction out of the fact Leonel couldn't control it very well.

By Leonel's estimation, if not for his spear fighting back against him, he would have been at the Sand stage at worst, destroying the rock into fine dust particles. Unfortunately, he didn't manage to reach that threshold.

But, Leonel was fine with this. Mastering these techniques posed little to no difficulty for him. He hardly had to try, he just needed to perfectly copy what he saw before him and use his ability to replicate it. If he wanted, it would take no more than two or three strikes to reach the Ash stage. Without his spear fighting back, it would almost be too easy.

Of course, Leonel had this training room to thank for this. At the same time, he got the idea for a new ability.

Just then, he had decided to split his mind across his body on a whim, just trying to make sure the technique was fine tuned. But, he hadn't expected the feeling of absolute control it gave him. In that moment, Leonel felt that even if he wanted to control how fast his heart beat, he could do it.

'I'll store this at the back of my mind. I'm sure there are many potential applications…'

Though Leonel thought this nonchalantly, what if there was one day he could split his mind trillions upon trillions of ways, allowing him to fine tune every cell of his body…?

Of course, Leonel didn't even know if such a thing was possible. He was already at the peak of the Fourth Dimension with his mind and though he was still incrementally becoming stronger in this aspect even without breaking through… There couldn't be much more room for growth, right?

Leonel shook his head and focused once again.

…

wheel of fire whistled through the room. Leonel's hands passed over one another, his twin bladed

beaded down Leonel's face, but the cold

SHUU SHUU SHUU

out from Leonel's spear, rolling along the ground like death traps

to the ground, exploding

spun his spear around his waist, the speed of its spin accelerating as an arc of fire shot through the air. It looked as though a wheel of flame followed every spin, encasing Leonel in a

'Explode, explode, explode…'

Leonel came up against was immediately blasted apart, sending bits and pieces pelting around the

strength of [Infernal Cyclone] was undeniable and it was more relentless than [Meteoric Impact], albeit much

this wide sweeping and spinning spear technique. It only became more potent when two blades as opposed to just one were involved,

enemies to face, but this was exactly why Leonel hadn't chosen

of stages, [Infernal Cyclone] didn't have any. Rather, it had move stances. These were broken down into the 'Forward Spin'

important, though, was that when mastered to a certain degree, these wheels of flames could jet out from the spear, leaving devastation in their wake. This was considered to be the ultimate form of mastery for [Infernal Cyclone]

and the wheels weren't as compact and powerful as he would like.

…

around him, making

seemed to be particularly slow. Yet, somehow, his spear left afterimages in its wake. These afterimages were so clear that they

feet, sweeping his spear backward and using

another, making it seem as though Leonel's blade was twice as long as