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.'

such a thing, he could only speechlessly shake his head. He had said to protect everyone, how had this little runt interpreted things that

Blackstar wouldn't sit idly by if any one of

ground, causing several beast

energy from the atmosphere, though. It would have been much faster if I

time to break and the few days Leonel had had weren't enough. Luckily, with the Control Tier of his ability slowly coming under his

had used in forming the spider beast construct he had prepared for Aina's

Leonel turned toward the village once more, strolling forward. However, he had only made it to the line of the outer borders when he suddenly found that his road forward was

being a head shorter than Leonel himself. He had a broad and stocky build and made his shoulders appear to be quite strong and his irises seemed a bit blacker than would be natural, but considering the low light of the surroundings, it could have just

stood before Leonel quite confidently, his expression not really giving

seem to be in a rush at all, standing in place and meeting the gaze of

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

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

of their own, but it was very obvious that Leonel was alone. Taking him out would only be a matter of a small effort. Once he was dealt

fell into thought

didn't particularly want to start off his days in this place on the wrong foot.

the village and though he hadn't said anything to Leonel, there were too many oddities about