Dimensional Descent

Leonel's pupils constricted. He felt his heart pump vigorously and his veins suddenly double in size.

Outside his control, his Dream Counter activated, pumping his body into a state of fight or flight. Without hesitation, Leonel blinked away.

BANG!

Leonel's eyes widened as he watched one of his [Valiant Seal]'s shatter into pieces beneath the might of a tentacle of blackish purple. Just like that, he was left with only two that he quickly brought to his side.

His expression warped as he laid eyes on the monstrosity before him. Had it not been for his Dream Counter, considering the strength behind that strike, Leonel felt that he would have most definitely died. However, the most shocking thing was that for his Dream Counter to activate, something must have made his mind go murky.

Leonel had many Dream Counters. One was to activate his instantaneous heal ability when he was on the border of life and death. A second one was the one that had activated just now. It was attached to a strand of Internal Sight that always monitored his surroundings and was detached from his conscious mind. This strand of Internal Sight's only job was to calculate the strength of an oncoming blow. If the blow was beyond what Leonel could handle, Dream Counter would activate and drive his body into an optimal state for escape.

However, under normal circumstances, Leonel was aware of this process from start to finish. But, this time he wasn't woken up until the moment his blood vessel dilated and his heart began to pump wildly. Thanks to this, he was snapped awake.

It made him realize that he had entered an odd trance just now, and it was all related to that golden scaled koi fish.

That said, Leonel didn't have the time to mind that koi fish now as this tentacle monstrosity before him was bearing down with a foul smell that he only just now registered.

Without hesitation, Leonel used Dream Sense, splitting his sense of smell to the point it was dulled considerably. Brandishing his spear, he swept it forward, his wrist flicking several times as he retreated.

tentacles were severed, flying about in a rain of purple blood that dripped down the sea below and revealing bowels that left Leonel

'It's defenses… are terrible.'

wasn't that the monster's tentacles lacked defense, but rather that his Spear Force had become too power for it to defend against. If it wasn't for Leonel's improvement, it would have taken at least three hacks to sever a single tentacle, but now a single sweep

'Hm?'

Leonel's eyes narrowed.

retreated, but it wasn't before Leonel could catch a glimpse of what was behind the curtain of

'A womb?'

his own face go weird. This was because the conclusion wasn't based on his own normal deductions, but rather the result of a spark within his Dreamscape. This was to say that what he had just seen ticked off enough boxes under the categorization of what a

'Eggs, warmth, nutrition, placenta…'

gaze suddenly snapped back toward the gold scaled koi fish before going back to the monster. He felt like he was on the verge of understanding something when the

golden light to form. It looked completely harmless and was just as beautiful as the fish it came from. But, in that instant Leonel

of Force that dwarfed anything that had come from

'This little b…'

a chance to

suddenly became like a pot of boiling water. The siren call of a what sounded like a dying whale sounded from all directions. It was so loud that

onslaught of Invalids suddenly did an about-face and charged