Dimensional Descent

Leonel's palm flipped over, revealing a snowglobe. Within, the half dead body of Monkey, the third Savant, lay. A sort of Internal struggle took hold of him, but he eventually shook his head.

'Little Blackstar still hasn't woken up yet… This is a decision I'll be forced to make later.'

Shaking his head, Leonel pushed this thought away. He knew that there would be a lot of tough decisions he had to make on his road into the future and he had to be mentally prepared to make them. For now, though, he still had time to think about this one.

Instead, he focused on the less morally existential issues.

'Energy Purification will make things much easier on me.'

Energy Purification was exactly what it sounded like, it was the process of cleansing Force into a higher form. This pure Force was not only easier to absorb, it was marginally more powerful than Force of normal kind.

To understand how this worked, one needed to understand how Force worked normally.

After a Metamorphosis descended, physics would gain a new law not present within the Third Dimension and those new laws would revolve around Force. This new law was why Leonel had gotten so lost in the weeds when he was comprehending his first offensive technique back in the Joan Zone.

He used his understanding of these intricacies to understand the nuances of techniques, but it

up the existence of everything. Everything in existence beyond

great on the ocean and why James was so shocked that Leonel was able to gather up Earth Force so quickly in a region it shouldn't

Force in an environment that wasn't conducive to it at all spoke volumes. Often,

were there not countless particulates that made up its being? Setting aside the most obvious in salt, there was oxygen content within water,

Force was the most abundant of any

and it took effort, affinity and power to separate this

could it separate out Neutral Force into its individual parts, but it was also capable of producing Pure Neutral Force, the pinnacle

easy enough to understand, but Pure Neutral Force was a somewhat novel concept but

stable and less perfect fusions. These forms of Neutral Force were everywhere, they had reached a 'good enough' balance, but there would definitely be clashes within its structure that would lower its power. This imperfect Neutral Force could

Force and help it to enter a perfectly

this useful? What good was this Pure

Neutral Force was worth maybe a hundredth of Pure Neutral Force, and that was at the lowest

addition to this, the energy that Invalids released upon their deaths was actually a form of Neutral Force a step above impure Neutral Force but a step below Pure Neutral Force. It had already been seen by Leonel long ago that this Force was able to loosen and undo bottlenecks one might experience in the future… So just how much

released upon its death! Thanks to that single Variant Invalid and single absorption of Pure Neutral Force, Leonel's bottlenecks in his Metal Body had loosened by three