Dimensional Descent

Aina felt a crushing feeling in her chest, her vision going dark for a moment. She wasn't quite sure how to breathe or even think any longer.

Her hands slipped from Leonel, her arms no longer seeming to have the strength to hold on. Her knees grew weak and an imbalance she would have easily been able to correct in her peak condition was her undoing. She fell to her butt, her vision blurred and her mind foggy.

The wind seemed to be sucked out of the arena, a response no one could have expected falling to their ears. However, the silence that followed didn't last very long at all.

"I'LL KILL YOU!"

The enraged roar shook the arena even more violently than anything Aina could have done. The golden barrier of Force directly shattered in one location, forming an enormous whole as a streak of crimson tore a path out from it, the furious howl of a father penetrating the skies.

Leonel didn't even have the time to turn his head in that direction. All he could do was stir his Lineage Factor, his Bronze Runes vibrating to life in full force and a halo wafting with violet fog appearing above his head.

BANG!

The fist threatened to collapse an entire side of Leonel's face.

His body went limp for a moment, his brain rattling around his skull like an unleashed pin pong ball before he shot out from his position

much of what remained of

even more powerful attack. Much

he didn't kill this boy right here and

BANG!

golden barrier, his entire body suddenly becoming wracked by a wave of pain. Wave after wave surged through him as he felt his bones snap one after another. Even after using his Runes to disperse the impact and spread it

forward, a frosty light hidden within them as

valley

time, though, an almost

IT

the slightest, even meeting Leonel's cold gaze over a distance of several hundred meters. He

hurt him again, I'll never forgive you…" Aina spoke with what strength she had left. "… Please take me away, I don't want to

in his wake. An entire side of his face had become a swollen monstrosity, but the other side maintained

rage. But, when he felt his daughter weakly tugging at his robes. He couldn't help but feel his own heart breaking. There was no

his gaze from Leonel, sweeping his daughter into his arms. He sent a glance backward, the crimson in his eyes

those moments, it felt like the reappearance of a War Lord. There was no doubt that had