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.

at things from Myghell's perspective, they likely began to make

was born only a few months ahead of Leonel, so their ages were quite negligible

Myghell had made it to the Quasi Sixth Dimension years ago. However, 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

In fact, he had improved almost daily, leaping forward by unfathomable lengths… It was just that it was all

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 Myghell's comprehension of Scarlet Star Force was

was predicated on Scarlet Star Force. Even

too had Myghell reached the same conclusion. Except, unlike Leonel, he had the

best analogy was that Leonel 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

doubted that Myghell had even known the Innate Node within him wasn't his own until recently. Why would the Star Order Elders ever tell him such a thing? Even if they

course, there were probably benefits Myghell had gotten from the Scarlet Star Innate Node that couldn't be completely divorced from his current battle prowess. For example, he had likely only graduated from the Snowy Star Owl Lineage Factor so quickly because he could gain the affinity boost from Leonel's Innate

backing of the Luxnix, he could have just been force fed all sorts of high level Light Elemental Crystals and Pure Crystals. By then, the result wouldn't have been as exaggerated, but it would still be comparable.

build his combat prowess with a different foundation, and though he would also be weaker than if he used Scarlet Force, he would still be able to beat the

obvious. The reason why Myghell's sword swings had all been so simple and wild was purely because all the techniques he had were

the most blunt way possible, even now, Leonel could not defeat a