Dimensional Descent

The next day, a large delivery of Star Core, Refractive Gold and Blazing Night Ores was delivered to Leonel.

By this point, Kaela and the others had already accumulated more than enough merits for Leonel to be able to trade for this much on his own. However, why spend it if he could save these merit points for something else?

Leonel felt that this was more than enough to push his body to Tier 9 of his Metal Body, something Leonel had to thank the tablet for allowing him to accomplish.

After sorting out the information the tablet had flooded him with, Leonel had come to a solid understanding of what it was and how it worked, though its origins were still a complete mystery to him.

Leonel's conclusion was quite simple, the tablet seemed to be especially tied to Life Elemental Force and Dream Elemental Force. If Leonel had to describe it, he might even say that it was a combination of the two Forces to create an even higher grade Force he couldn't fathom.

Unfortunately, this unnamed Force was too illusive. And, even if it wasn't, Leonel didn't have the Life Elemental Affinity that would be needed to control it.

This aside, Leonel felt that the Force itself was less important in this context. What was important was the fact the tablet could produce it and make of it to perform all sorts of amazing actions.

The first and most obvious was resurrection. However, from Leonel's understanding, this wasn't an all encompassing resurrection. Only 'spirits' the tablet had accepted into itself could be allowed to be rebirthed. And, even then, it would only be once.

It almost seemed too arbitrary and lacking in sense. Why would someone be able to be resurrected once but not a second time? And if Rollan, Elthor and the others were

think of an answer to the first question. But, he felt

an instance of time folding in on itself. If left alone, it could cause a collapse of the present. However, there were a whole host of time loop problems that were

in the Joan Zone, which timeline was real? Was it that one he learned

things was near impossible and it was simply easier to accept that time in the Dimensional Verse was not linear.

a somewhat educated guess, he would pinpoint that the difference between people like Rollan and Joan, versus say himself or Aina, was that the former two had been

if he had properly wrapped his mind around it. For instance, it might be better described as a twist or shift in causality rather than

not apply to others. And, it was this fundamental shift

Leonel found that it was easier to wrap his mind around and gave him a deeper appreciation

led to the second ability, which was tied to

was able to clear away obstacles usually presented by a body's lack of maturity or slow adaptation. In exchange for the energies it liked to absorb, the tablet could open up bottlenecks

that made Leonel feel like the stars were

this purpose. Rather, it was Leonel's Dreamscape that sparked and suddenly made a connection to another problem he hadn't

about Little Blackstar's fantastic ability to steal the powers of those he killed. The only shame about it was that the little guy could only take

this had been the fact that Little Blackstar could allow others to absorb these

in an increase in strength. For example, if Leonel tried to absorb the ability of someone else with a Dream Force affinity, the likelihood was that