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.

herself. Worrying was what she did. Even if her husband had been watching Leonel like a

too many ways around them and they could only be enforced within its territory. And… Velasco had many enemies that had more than enough leeway to ignore these rules all

several more ways for them to make things difficult.

reality was that she had only gone so far because she needed to give her Little Lion every advantage he could get, because the

already lagging far

was far less subtle than his transportation to the Dimensional Cleanse Trial World and felt a lot like his body was being

him once again, the world around him was even more

more accurately, his talks with Wise Star Order over the past few months had made it

Palace was just an enormous obsidian mountain range, floating in the depths of

from its base to its lowest peak was taller than the diameter of three

hard to wrap his brain around just how such a construct could even have been formed. But, that was when his breath

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

A Paifang is a

containing what looked like a miniature blazing white star, providing the only sort

distance away, the Paifang were close, almost too close. They bore down with a haunting momentum that made the Valiant Heart Pillars