Dimensional Descent

Leonel immediately shot backward, landing by Aina's side. He crossed the face of Rowan without even glancing his way, his eyes still locked onto the surging waters and flickering shadows.

These newcomers seemed to move slowly, but their speed was exceptionally fast. They almost instantly split into two groups, one converging onto the Rapax and the egg, while the others fanned out, clearly wanting to deal with the youths of the Void Palace.

Almost the instant they did, Leonel felt an odd shift in the atmosphere. Several heads turned in his direction, their faces obscured by the shadows to the point even their body shapes were hard to make out. Whether they were male or female, fit or slim, even their heights seemed to wildly fluctuate, making Leonel's calculations reboot every other second.

A chilling wind nipped at Leonel's neck, but his gaze only became colder. What was immediately obvious was that these individuals couldn't break the rules of the Rapax either. They were all most definitely either within the Fifth Dimension or the low Sixth Dimensional Tiers.

Leonel's gaze sharpened. He couldn't afford to use this as an experiment any longer. This wasn't the time to train. It was a time to focus on survival.

"Aina."

"Yes."

"Go all out."

BANG!

Both of their auras skyrocketed, intertwining in a blazing pillar. One side of blinding white gold and red. Another side of dense black and crimson.

appeared before them both, only to be met with two

BOOM!

What an unexpected find. Be a good little boy and tell me

morph, becoming two glistening bat wings that reflected hues of silver from time to time as

sneer. "I'm pretty interested in where yours

of them, its feet dug into the ground, its powerful legs pushing back without losing out in the slightest. However, it soon burst into a fit of laughter that grated on the ears,

met a boy so arrogant and ignorant in my life! Do you believe that even if you did know, that

attempts at forcing down and fighting back against the feeling failing. Without suspense, both he and Aina were forced back, their bodies

to unfurl from his back once more. He realized in that moment that there

white gold erupted across his skin, hiding

the golden blade of his spear shimmering with an added flare as he struck outward over a

and the black fog that came off of herself becoming all the

intertwining and leaving wild streaks of shimmering, sharp Force in the

erupting. Radiant light followed his

wild. Each movement carried with

she did it and Aina was able to instinctually react to every action Leonel took. Despite it having been over a year since the two fought with

as though he had expected exactly this much, he had already moved, his figure vanishing and appearing

and her battle ax swinging in an upward arc. The momentum of her string was so fierce that its polearm warped and bent, the crashing sounds

or if it had even bled once since this battle began. However, its lack of a word seemed to speak volumes all to