Dimensional Descent

Leonel turned his gaze away from the youths before him. He couldn't just leave them here, but it seemed he would have to if he wanted to find out what was going on in this place. There was no way he could trust these people who had a vested interest in having as little competition as possible with the wellbeing of his people.

"Blackstar, you stay here and protect them."

"Yip! Yip!"

"If anything goes wrong, you can just reach out to me. I will return immediately."

"Yip!"

Little Blackstar leapt out of Leonel's arms and softly landed on Aina's lap. The little guy scurried around in a state of half familiarity and half hesitation.

Though Little Blackstar couldn't speak like a human, his thoughts were no less complex and his connection with Leonel was very deep. Because of this, the little guy was aware of a great many things though its summation couldn't be articulated.

In the end, though, Little Blackstar's tense body relaxed and his hesitation drifted away. Scurrying up Aina's arm, he found a resting spot on her shoulder before giving Leonel a reassuring twitch of his long whiskers.

Leonel immediately got the gist of Little Blackstar's thoughts. They were something to the effect of 'I won't let anyone touch a single hair on her head.'

thing, he could only speechlessly shake his head. He had

Blackstar wouldn't sit idly by if any one of them

his foot on the ground, causing several

here. I'm still a bit too used to snatching energy from the atmosphere, though. It would have been much faster if I relied on

Leonel had had weren't enough. Luckily, with the Control Tier of his ability slowly coming under his wing more and more everyday, Leonel

constructed Leonel formed were practically invisible to the naked eye and relied on a lot of the concepts he had used in forming the spider beast construct he had

had only made it to the line of the outer borders when he suddenly found that his road forward was block by

his shoulders appear to be quite strong and his irises seemed a bit blacker than would

confidently, his expression not really giving

the three hour time limit, he didn't seem to be in a rush

them shifted ever so slightly from time to time. Under such pressure, it was very much possible that the

shifted his gaze away from the young man, looking past him and seeing that many of the youths who had stepped out of their cabins had yet to return. Their purpose wasn't entirely clear, but if there was a simple method to get rid of competition and variables, why

be a matter of a small effort. Once he was dealt with,

fell into thought for

hand, he didn't particularly want to start off his days in this

village and though he hadn't said anything to Leonel, there were too