Dimensional Descent

Leonel breathed heavily.

His body was still fine, not having suffered any wounds just yet. But, anyone who had been watching him battle previously would notice quite a striking difference: you could actually see the skin tight black fabric that wrapped around him, making his arm sling and useless right arm all the more obvious.

Leonel had been right. By the end of the seventh floor, he had run out of flying daggers and needles, making his life a living hell on the eighth. It had taken him almost ten minutes to clear the whole of the eighth floor, and the ninth floor started off even worse.

The beasts from the fifth floor to this point had all been in Tier 1 of the Sixth Dimension, however they had all been relatively weak and easier to handle. If Leonel had to describe it, it wasn't quite like what fighting Sixth Dimensional experts from the Milky Way would feel like, but it was only barely a step above.

The difficulty of these towers obviously wasn't in quality, at least not for this version. It was more so in quantity… Until the ninth floor, that is.

Leonel was suddenly faced with a horde of blue furred, four armed apes. Runes flickered about their bodies, giving Leonel a sort of stifling feeling, as though no matter how hard he attacked them, he would never be able to break through their defenses.

Leonel didn't quite understand where these Runes were coming from, if they were similar to his own Destruction Runes, or something entirely different. But, once he stepped into the God Path, he would understand what these Runes represented and exactly why it was Conon had said stepping into the Sixth Dimension would help them all to close the gap between themselves and Leonel's Innate Node.

These were indeed Runes similar to Leonel's Destruction Runes, and they were, indeed, primed toward defense. And yes… That did mean that Leonel's task had suddenly become another living nightmare.

'… Shit.'

…

Leonel's record breaking streak had come to an end, they could all see it. But, they could also see the reasons why this was. No one knew the details of this year's True Selection, but it

clear that the both of them had taken

to shine brighter. Leonel had done the bulk of the work when it came to battling in the Rapax Nest,

was quite literally endless. And, even if she somehow ran into a wall,

your Life Force and the Life Force of others whenever you pleased, 'physical limitations' wasn't something you would ever face, at least not when

her into was almost always the reason she spiraled out of control and over extended herself. Now that she was healed, that was nothing more than

…

corner, unable to dodge as a fist half the size of his body crashed right into his

mitigating much of the damage. But, this was

from his lips, his ribs threatening to crack as he was sent barrelling away. Maybe the worst part of the situation was that the only reason his ribs had managed to survive was because his right arm was slung across his body, forcing it to take

in his flesh and Leonel's mind threatened to go blank for a moment. If not for

the ground, managing to use the momentum to spring up and flip to his feet, his heel still

minute mark, but he wasn't even

That's the only

deep breaths, wiping the blood from his mouth before

red-gold star appeared above his head. He pointed two fingers

entered a mad charge, barreling

tall star, quickly forming the tip of a drill that spun

breathed heavily, pushing his Universal Force to its limits as the

the sky,

"Die."