Dimensional Descent

The figure was enormous, just as big as the previously standing Gold Runed Rapax had been, and yet somehow far heavier.

Standing at four meters tall and with a body covered in hair and beast skin, he looked like a goliath straight from biblical tales. His waist was as wide as a barrel, his arms as thick as legs and his legs as thick as pythons.

He was covered in hair from head to toe, down to his legs and arms, and most definitely his chest and torso. His hair was a wild mane of white and his beard followed suit. But, what was the most shocking was the fact his eyes were nothing but orbs of white…

Immediately, everyone understood.

Variant Invalid.

The Variant Invalid took a breath and it suddenly felt as though all the air in the surroundings had surged toward it. Some of the weaker youths were forced to grab a hold of something before they were inadvertently sent flying toward what was clearly an enemy.

The Variant Invalid exhaled and patted its torso. However, the sound was a lot more like metal crashing against metal than flesh meeting flesh.

"This air smells like shit. How do you Rapax live here, have a little sense of pride. Ah, fuck it."

The Variant Invalid took another large sniff and its head finally locked in a particular direction before a wide, white smile plastered itself across its face. At that moment, the Variant Invalids white hair and beard looked almost ethereal. If one wanted to depict a perfect representation of Zeus, maybe there would be no one better than it.

"Excellent. EXCELLENT. EXCELLENT! EXCELLENT!!"

The booming voice of the Variant Invalid caused the cavern to rumble.

Sovereign!

gaze of

into a well of memories she wanted nothing more than to forget. That familiar feeling of weakness and helplessness, when her life hung in the balance and yet she could do nothing to take control of it… It all

no longer the Aina of back then. That crippling feeling

the Variant Invalid had laid eyes on her, her hair began to billow in the winds, her canines growing another length as

a crimson light wafting from it. She and it

gaze slowly looked up from the Gold Runed Rapax. All that had been left of it was its head, its

call me the Steel Beast Master! Come, tell me, my Queen. What

BOOM!

weighed no more than a feather would instead of being heavy enough to crush a Rapax

hadn't moved a single inch, but his Scarlet Star Phoenix most definitely had, sending another barreling beam of Scarlet

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Steel Beast Master crashed into the walls, surging out into

lapped at its body, beginning to dissolve it already. Soon, the Rapax would become much like its Ancestors before it,

scene silently, not saying a word and not moving in

have been for him to dehumanize them? There were countless lived experiences in a place as

no

BANG!

singed. In some areas, wounds as deep as bone lay. But, just as quickly as they had

eye, the Steel Beast Master had closed the distance, standing over the dissolved corpse of the Gold Runed