Dimensional Descent

The WHOOSH sound of a formed portal caught everyone's attention. It swirled about with a radiant dark violet and looked like a rotating nebula.

Alienor cast a glance and released her hold on Leonel's forearm.

"It seems it is time to go."

Somewhat reluctantly, Leonel released his grip on Rychard's throat. The latter fell to the ground heavily, coughing and wheezing. It took several moments for the color to return to his face and several more for his light headedness to vanish.

Rychard grit his teeth hard but he restrained himself, relaxing his body in the next instant. If it wasn't for the somewhat vacant look in his eyes, one would have never guessed that something had happened. Well, that and the fact there was already a clear bruise in the shape of a hand around his throat.

He rose from the ground slowly, but steadily.

"Follow me." Alienor said lightly.

There was a certain heaviness in Alienor's tone right this moment. It wasn't because she feared for herself, but rather because she wasn't naïve enough to believe that her actions would have no effect on her son. In fact, she was certain that it would be the direct opposite.

help herself. Worrying was what she did. Even if her husband had been watching Leonel like a hawk right this moment, and even knowing the kind of strength he had, she would

they could only be enforced within its territory. And… Velasco had many enemies that had more than enough

were several more ways for them to make things difficult. They knew Val's

she pleased to save her son, the reality was that she had only gone so far

was already lagging far

Cleanse Trial World and felt a lot like his body was being stretched into a thin string, as though all his

and he could finally feel his feet beneath him once again, the world around him

talks with Wise Star Order over the past few months had made it feel like his horizons had been broadened beyond the scope of even his previous imagination. However, the scene he saw before him now still took his

planet, no moon… The Void Palace was just an enormous obsidian mountain range, floating

than the diameter of three planets stacked on top of one another, and its highest was more than five. As for its width, it

astonishing enough, enough that Leonel found it hard to wrap his brain around just how such a construct could even

more glorious than the mountain range itself. Of course, this was partly due to the fact that the obsidian mountain that made up the Void Palace's territory seemed to be covered by a thin veil of protection,

Paifang is a Chinese style

one of their archways containing what looked like a miniature blazing white star, providing the only sort of contrast to the

with a haunting momentum that made the