Dimensional Descent

Leonel's vision slowly cleared, only to find himself in a space of endless fog. However, what his gaze first locked on wasn't this eerily familiar setting, but rather the delicate feathers of white gold falling from an unknowable height onto his body.

The moment Leonel saw this sight, he sighed deeply. The sight of this meant that what he had experienced wasn't an illusion, it was every bit as real as any of the other Zones he had entered.

This much he had expected. He had already guessed that there was a better than 95% chance that this would be the case. If even the mere fairy tale of Camelot could become real, he really had no leg to stand on in hoping that these matters were fake.

Each and every one of those lives weighed heavily upon him…

How, then, was Leonel so sure…? It all went back to the fluttering white gold feathers and the gaping pain in his chest that was being closed even now.

Among the new abilities Leonel had formulated in these past two years, one was Dream Counter.

Dream Counter, if explained in the simplest terms, was like Leonel programming his body to complete an action without his input. By assigning one of his split minds to a task, he could trigger an ability, a set of actions, or any sort of response, for any given specific situation of his choosing.

Over these last two years, Leonel had been able to increase his number of split minds from less than a hundred to more than double that. This allowed him to 'sacrifice' one of his split minds for the sake of Dream Counter.

In this case, Leonel assigned Dream Counter to his Snow Star Owl Lineage Factor's Healing Branch ability: Instant Recovery.

Instant Recovery was an ability that Leonel could only use once every several months and could bring him back from the brink of death. With such a valuable ability, wouldn't it be laughable if Leonel died simply because he wasn't quick enough to activate it?

thing and assigned his first Dream Counter to activate upon

that he would eventually be able to split his mind so many ways that he could almost auto-pilot his body. Such a Battle State would be even more powerful than his Dreamscape Battle Sense because there would be no

why Leonel was so certain was obvious. The fact his Lineage Factor had activated now after Alexandre blasted a hole through his

touch and disappear into his body. It was an absolutely beautiful

I will

Leonel clenched his fists.

Elise, Gertrude, Goggles, Castello… They all ran through his mind. In fact, his near infallible memory

they all arranged themselves into their own Dreamscape, their smiling faces hovering in

a beat so

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swirled around Leonel. Even as his eyes remained closed, an undisguised majesty made the world

for much. He flew by the seat of his pants and followed a garbled together moral philosophy he probably couldn't express with any

he was? What did he want to do with his life? When he breathed his last breath,

just ignore them all. He didn't have the answer and with is personality, he never felt like giving a half-assed one. He felt that

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until even the final moments, Leonel still hadn't had an answer. Or, maybe he did

The weight he would have to carry would be astronomical. He would likely have to spend the rest of his life chasing after something he might never catch when, somewhere deep in his heart, he

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