Dimensional Descent

The moment that group acted, it was as though a chain reaction had been set off. Several roars resounded and several more groups charged out, each claiming a path for themselves and cutting toward the perforated Nest.

Leonel chuckled. It seemed that his worries about being found out were unfounded. The cascading effect of the movement of one suddenly unleashed a barrage of assaults from all sides.

"Shall we?" Leonel asked.

"But we haven't found a doorway yet."

Leonel grinned. "You didn't know? Your boyfriend can fly, I'm basically Superman."

Aina hardly got to respond before she found herself squealing. Leonel swept her into his arms and rounded the corner once more.

He crouched into a powerful squat, his thighs bulging and calves compressing until they were as hard as steel. In that moment, his aura flourished, a blinding golden light enveloping his body as he was covered in head to toe by tiny white-gold scales.

BANG!

Leonel unfurled himself all at once, slicing through the air like a speeding bullet. Almost instantly, he appeared above the green lake, a singular dot in the skies amidst a commotion. But, even then, he somehow managed to be the center of attention.

Steam rolling into battle, a beauty cradled in his arms, and wings spreading to his back. In this bleak world, he was like the only ray of radiant sun, the majestic sight of his very being attracting attention from all sides.

Leonel soared, feeling his Snowy Star Owl blood rolling through his veins. He could feel it pressing against its very limits, the breakthrough in comprehension he had made in his Scarlet Star Force stimulating it all to the absolute extreme.

became fiercer and fiercer. In those moments, everything

Leonel's mind bloomed like a flower, stepping past the barriers of the Fifth Dimension and sweeping into the

Owl Lineage Factor had reached the pinnacle of perfection, unsealing all three Branches

BOOM!

a violent clap of wind shredding the air to his back as

BANG!

into the head of a Rapax and crushing their silver skull. He landed heavily on a winding platform, already having covered more than half the

Rapax crumpled beneath his feet, a heavy domain pressing down

seemed to sever the world itself, the Rapax in her path finding themselves

"SKKKREEEEE!"

through his Internal Sight, but through his eyes especially. He could see further, even the slightest bits of detail were laid

moment, things that Leonel would usually rely on his Internal Sight to pick up on suddenly didn't need it at all. And, just like that, the advantage the Rapax had had over him vanished in a

figure crossing tens of meters in a single bound. When he appeared again, he had seemingly already chosen the perfect position to dodge a coming kick, his makeshift spear stabbing outward and ripping through a gap

crumbled, but so too did Leonel's makeshift spear, combusting to ash in his palm. Leonel immediately knew why that was. It seems he had gotten the Spear Domain to acknowledge him enough to hold a spear without destroying it, but he still hadn't gained enough acknowledgement to be able to make it acknowledge one of his creations just

enough to make Leonel slow in the slightest. If he couldn't use a spear, then he would just use

'Dream Class. Speed Fighter.'

untouchable levels. He left afterimages in his wake. Whenever he appeared, another

and forth. It felt like there

in their weight, even the slight change caused by a