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.

did. Even if her husband had been watching Leonel like a

many ways around them and they could only be enforced within its territory. And… Velasco had

different matter entirely, but there were several more ways for them to make things difficult. They knew Val's personality well enough to know that they would

the reality was that she had only gone so far because

was already lagging

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

feet beneath him once again, the world around

Wise Star Order over the past few months had made it feel like his horizons had been broadened beyond

no moon… The Void Palace was just an enormous obsidian mountain range, floating in the depths of space

for a normal human to fathom. The distance from its base to its lowest peak was taller than the diameter of three planets stacked on top of one another, and its highest

wrap his brain around just how such

even more glorious than the mountain range itself. Of course, this was partly due to the fact that the obsidian mountain that made up

Note: A Paifang is a Chinese style

their archways containing what looked like

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