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.'

…

suffice to say that 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 had caused a major commotion that

was clear that the both of them had taken

by contrast, Aina only seemed to shine brighter. Leonel had done the bulk of the work when it came to battling in the Rapax Nest, much

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

the Life Force of others whenever you pleased, 'physical limitations' wasn't something you

out of control and over extended herself. Now that she was healed, that was nothing more than a problem of the past. If she needed to battle for months or even years without rest… she could do

…

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

Bronze Runes first, mitigating much of the damage. But, this was just yet another stamina drain that he

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 the

was like a fire lighting in his flesh and Leonel's mind threatened to go blank for

momentum to spring up and flip to his feet, his heel still grinding into the ground

certain that he had already shot well over the ten minute mark, but he

That's the

deep breaths, wiping the blood from his mouth before his aura

of an enormous red-gold star appeared above his head. He pointed two fingers toward the sky,

mad charge, barreling toward Leonel on

the concentrated Spear Force began to swirl about the three-meter tall star, quickly forming the tip of a drill that spun faster and faster

to its limits as the ape entered a ten

sky, pointing right at

"Die."