Dimensional Descent

Leonel's breath came out in heaving swallows. His arm hung out, parallel with his piercing spear, his body not even having the strength to hold his other arm up.

Myghell should have been blown backward, but the Dark Ice Domain had forcefully kept him in place, forcing his body to take on the full brunt of the strike and tearing a hole the size of two fists all the way through his chest.

A wheezing cough left Myghell's lips, his body still being held up by shards of frozen space. Half of Leonel's spear had gone through his body, coating its sapphire scales with in a dense mass of thick, flowing blood.

Myghell's fiendish grin slowly faded, his gaze meeting Leonel's own.

"Maybe one day we'll have a real fight." Leonel said through his heavy breath.

Myghell didn't say anything in response, his eyes having lost their previous glow and expression going back to how it had always been. It seemed baffling that he had ever been that howling young man from before. But, even without more words than that, the two had come to quite a deep understanding of one another.

Leonel very much meant the words he had spoken. This Myghell he had defeated was maybe, at best, 20% of what his true strength was. In fact, according to Leonel's estimation, that was an overly positive view. This was probably closer to 10% of Myghell's true strength, most likely less.

surface, this seemed ridiculous. But, looking at things from Myghell's perspective, they likely

was something that no one could deny. He was born only a few months ahead of Leonel, so their ages were quite negligible

he didn't have the background to allow him to enter the Void Palace outside of their Selections like those from more prominent families could have, so he could only stall

this didn't mean that Myghell didn't improve at all. In fact, he had improved almost daily, leaping forward by unfathomable lengths… It was just that it was all reliant on Leonel's

eating enough of it, but why would he divert his attention when such a powerful Force was within his body? There was no doubt in Leonel's mind that

to understand the problem. Myghell's entire battle style and form was predicated on Scarlet Star Force. Even without using the Force itself, just the comprehensions of Destruction he had gained and the numerous techniques he had formulated around

had Myghell reached the same conclusion. Except, unlike Leonel, he had the constant guidance of experts so he had made this logical conclusion much

was battling a fish, and he had suddenly made that fish battle on land instead. The fact Myghell had pushed him to this extent while handicapped in this fashion spoke volumes not only about his talent, but also his deep seeded

tell him such a thing? Even if they ultimately agreed with such a decision, there was no need to run

battle prowess. For

with the backing of the Luxnix, he could have just been force fed all sorts of high level Light Elemental Crystals and Pure Crystals. By

his Innate Node, Myghell would have been able to build his combat prowess with a different foundation, and though he

so simple and wild was purely because

way possible, even now, Leonel could not defeat a full powered Viola family Patriarch. But… Myghell had