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.

splintered, the bone beneath cracking and his eye on that side went completely blind. His body went limp for a moment, his

what remained of Leonel's shirt sheering apart beneath

coughed up a mouthful of blood. But, he completely ignored the feeling of his inner organs sheering to pieces as he prepared to launch an even more powerful attack. Much

boy right here and

BANG!

wave surged through him as he felt his bones snap one after another. Even after using his Runes to

to look forward, a frosty light hidden within them as

those pale violet depths could only be described as malevolent. A smoldering abyssal valley of darkness and destruction. Even as Leonel coughed up several

forward one more time, though, an almost

IT

caught Miel completely off guard. The fury in his gaze hadn't even waned in the slightest, even meeting Leonel's cold gaze over a distance of several hundred meters. He wanted nothing more than to tear this boy limb from

spoke with what strength she had left. "…

An entire side of his face had become a swollen monstrosity, but the other side maintained a cold indifference that continued to meet

But, when he felt his daughter weakly tugging at his robes. He couldn't help but feel his

the crimson in his eyes glowing and

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