Dimensional Descent

When Leonel entered the village, he felt a shift in the Force. He could feel its density and its heaviness, but he could also feel the difficulty in grasping and forcing this Force to bend to your will. It was yet another great change from the region he had just been in.

The realization made Leonel wonder a few things. Could it be that the Void Palace was split into tiers like this with ever progressing density of energy? If that was the case, how far did it go? It was very possible that Leonel hadn't truly experienced the truth bulk of strength a world at the Pinnacle of the Seventh Dimension could exude.

Many still silently observe Leonel as he walked through the village and the density of people only grew as he got closer to the village center. Leonel stuck out not only because of what he had done to the previous young man, but also because he was the only one who seemed to be walking alone.

Likely as a sign of caution, most of the youths here moved in pairs at a minimum, but many more walked in groups of three or four, with four seeming to be the cap. There was a tense quiet that hung over the village and Leonel could imagine that it had been like this for a long while. None of these people would relax until they had confirmed their entry into the Void Palace.

Little did they know, though, that the true nightmare only began once this threshold was crossed.

Of course, Leonel was oblivious to all of this as well, but he could understand these people. 99% of them were Nominal disciples who had barely been able to scrape by and gain a position. There was only one Amethyst Token and three Golden Tokens to be given out, and even if you were the top four strongest in your Sector, you weren't guaranteed any one of them if you didn't meet a certain standard.

Knowing this, it was no wonder so many of them were nervous and on guard.

This year seemed to have far more participants than usual and that meant far more enemies. They all had to keep their heads on a swivel, especially when it came to new comers and unknown variables like Leonel and the others.

also wanted to see which of them

young man previously told him that just an outward showing of confidence wasn't enough to show strength. But, that also

level had suddenly become an absolutely useless metric for Leonel. Everyone here was either Tier 8 or Tier 9 of the Fifth Dimension. This was the case across the board. However, the strength level and variations among those who shared these Tier levels

felt that the lower Tier a person was in this place, the stronger they were overall, something that was

so many geniuses together. Leonel's own mother was still in the Sixth Dimension, just like the Luxnix family elders were, but wasn't the gap between them all still ridiculously enormous? And

to abandon it long ago… Now, though, he almost felt he would have to bring it back in some form or fashion

nothing more than a headache. There were simply too many variables to account

do you tell how much

Just

a huge taboo around using Internal Sight to just probe people like that and mine is no longer strong enough to

fault you're unskilled. I've already given you the answer you wanted, now leave me alone. I have to care for my

completely ignoring

'Would that really work?'

to the soul, but the soul is literally the soul itself, it can't get anymore important. Humans can't even