Dimensional Descent

The swordfish all seemed to be identical. Even their Beast Crystals were all the same. It made Leonel feel somewhat speechless. How was this possible?

Logically, abilities should be random. He had already found it weird that all the swordfish seemed to be using the same ability but he had accepted it in the midst of battle for two reasons. The first was obvious, he simply didn't have the heart to mind such things while his life was on the line. But, the second reason was more satisfying, or at least he thought so.

Since humans could have Lineage Factors, why couldn't beasts? Leonel wasn't certain of this before, but he thought that the appearance of these swordfish proved that this was possible. After all, he couldn't think of any other reason why all of these creatures would have the same ability if not for this.

The truth of the matter was that being born on or near the water had no bearing on what kind of ability an ocean beast was born with just the same way being born near the coast had nothing to do with what Leonel's ability became.

Even the crocodile who Leonel thought had a water ability turned out to have something completely different. The black swan had a darkness related ability. The beaver had a physical boost ability… So on and so forth. None of it was related to water despite the fact many of them were fresh or salt water beasts.

The same should be true of the swordfish and yet all their Beast Crystals were identical. Not only were the identical, but they had the same size, same roundness, and were even located in the same part of their body. With what Leonel knew about the Dimensional Verse, this was ridiculous.

There was a reason his feat of killing those colossal squids was so impressive. The location of a beast's Crystal varied and this variation only grew as these beasts grew in size. Though their Beast Crystals did often grow in size along with them, it wasn't to scale, often resulting in one having to find a needle in a haystack.

These fish were quite small compared to their counterparts, but each swordfish was still between one and two meters long. After Leonel realized the oddity, he paid closer attention only to find that the eerie similarities only seemed to continue.

centimeters to the left of their skulls. They all had the same number of scales, the

cloned? What the

all to be incredulous, and for good reason. If someone had the ability to clone

might have looked easy for Leonel to deal with the swordfish he had, but it had to be

larger the beast, the more powerful they seemed to be. Though Leonel didn't know what this meant for Little Blackstar, this was what he had experienced at least on this

cloning these small swordfish it was instead something far more dangerous than this… No, this wasn't even necessary, just

that this creature had more power in its hands than it seemed, it just couldn't be bothered to use it against the Invalids and preferred to force the humans to deal with it. Leoenl was truly at a loss for how he should be reacting to

'These Beast Crystals…'

Leonel had collected as many as 238 of them. All of them still identical. However, he had already accepted this.

it still feels fundamentally different from Spear Force and it also feels fundamentally different from Sword

Crystals so intently it

he was aware, it just sharpened his blade. But, why was there a distinction between it and other blade weapon forces then? Why not just

out two fingers and pierced at empty air, causing a dull

again. This time, the sound was even sharper. It was

for a third time. This time, the Force seemed to vanish into the void. But, in the next