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.

long. All of them had Beast Crystals that deviated 0.23 centimeters to the left of their skulls. They all had

they cloned?

found it all to be incredulous, and for good reason. If someone had the ability to clone this many Fifth Dimensional beasts, just what

the swordfish he had, but it had to

the more powerful they seemed to be. Though Leonel didn't

instead of cloning these small swordfish it was instead something far more dangerous than this… No, this wasn't even necessary, just these school of swordfish could probably blast a path

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

'These Beast Crystals…'

end, Leonel had collected as many as 238 of them. All of them still identical. However,

different from Spear Force and it

so intently it felt

Force. As far as he was aware, it just sharpened his blade. But, why was there a distinction between it and other blade weapon forces then? Why

pierced at empty air, causing a

the sound was even sharper.

seemed to vanish into the void. But, in the next moment, the ocean was split into two, forming