Dimensional Descent

Leonel came to a pause, his gaze sharpening. His makeshift spear was gripped in his hands and his senses were primed.

Their journey through this hive had been too smooth. Remembering back to the map Little Blackstar had gotten them, there was only one more hive to go through before they could escape this part of the Void Battlefield. But, it was all too convenient.

Little Blackstar had managed to move fast enough to avoid the initial lock of senses that could have gone poorly for them. However, he had still ended up being detected by the Shadow Sovereign Rapax. Knowing this, the fact that they had only been hounded by a single Tier 9 Runed Rapax was too odd.

Then there was something else to consider. From Little Blackstar's memory, the Shadow Domain of the Shadow Sovereign Rapax had been far smaller than it should have been while deployed. In fact, it was only two or three meters in diameter, a size when compared to the scope of this network of Nests was like a needle drifting through the ocean. If it wasn't because Little Blackstar was trying to blanket everything, it would have never been a problem.

One might not understand why this was so odd. Given the fact that maintaining a Shadow Domain was so taxing on the user, wouldn't it make sense to keep it as small as possible to begin with? Since the Shadow Domain followed its deployer as its epicenter, it was much more convenient to maintain a small Shadow Domain, especially for a hand to hand combat race like the Rapax. So long as they were fighting an enemy, three meters was more than enough to keep their target within frame.

Leonel had, of course, thought of this as well. But, he still felt that something was off.

For one, a Shadow Domain wasn't under constant deployment. It required active thought and action to use. That meant, if one was focused on maintaining your stamina, you wouldn't deploy it at all.

were very few instances where you would. One such instance was

Neither of these reasons made sense. Why would a Rapax be fighting in their

to say considering they had been invaded by the likes of Leonel and the others, but the problem here was that

too dangerous to begin with. Thrusting us all into enemy territory like this without an easy way to come back just makes no sense. This feels like a stealth mission, but Void Palace isn't a

Battlefield itself and it was just a matter of survival. But a Rapax

to step onto the Void Battlefield until she became a Galaxy Ranked disciple. And even

that I'm being targeted? Or is it

the difficulty by a margin, was it necessary to react to this good news by throwing us into a

to point toward this matter being a special event of sorts. If he was correct, then

explained his

think that the Rapax are occupied by something, which would explain the

this Shadow Sovereign hasn't come after us yet and why we've only run into manageable enemies. In fact, the only Sixth Dimensional Rapax we ran into was due to the fact I forced us to teleport together. If we had teleported individually like was intended, I have a

said, then there's two possibilities. The first is that we're supposed to take advantage of this lull in security to escape

to go to the center of the Nest to