Dimensional Descent

When night fell in the Void Palace, it just made the blacks blacker. It was already difficult to see ahead of you in the day, but the darkness of night made it impossible to even see your hand before your face.

This wasn't normally a problem during the modern day because the Void Elders had set up formations that allowed a perpetual dull light. Though it didn't help with the fog, it made the transition from night to day almost impossible to track.

However, in a Zone like this one, back before the humans had reclaimed their territory, there was no such luxury. But, that also left things in the perfect state for Leonel and Aina. It made them even more difficult to detect in the darkness.

Aina was surprisingly quite able to navigate in the darkness, but Leonel didn't ask about it. He assumed that it was related to her Life Force affinity. Unlike other Forces, almost everything had Life Force. And, the things that didn't really stand out by virtue of that fact alone. Using this sort of perspective, it wasn't hard to imagine how someone with Life Force could parse apart their surroundings without their eyes.

No longer worried about Aina, Leonel shot forward at a faster speed, weaving through the trees. Aina followed to his back, their steps in perfect sync.

Leonel knew that they still had to be careful even in this environment. Because of their culture, the Dwarven Race was very well adapted to seeing in dim and no light situations. While Leonel couldn't even see his hand without activating his Lineage Factor's eyes, they could probably see just fine, albeit worse than they would otherwise be able to do in the day.

But, he had already taken this into consideration the moment he saw that the castle's lighting situation was… less than optimal.

Soon, he and Aina made it to the last line of trees.

spatial ring to use, Leonel could only strap his bow to his back along with his arrows. He didn't make much of the latter, though. With so many

and Aina's Internal Sights linked as one. This time, the two of them were ready for the level of intimacy required and didn't flinch

was already seamless in the past. But now, they didn't need to waste energy calculating and using their instincts to understand the other's

bolted forward, practically cutting a line through the

appearing at the base of the castle in the blink of

Force to dig through the

than a fraction of a second atop the wall before falling down lightly on the other

slipping not the gate

and Aina had just fallen from, there were five gates or doorways. These five gates were actually

greeted by an enormous tunnel followed by yet another wall. This wall was the start of an underground city. However, they ignored it entirely, slipping around to the back of the tunnel and slipping into one of the many mining tunnels that

Dwarven Race liked to use the terrain when they were building their settlements but

Crafts was exactly what the Dwarven Race wanted. Any Pixie or Sparrow that wasn't a combat specialist or a Crafter, was likely a miner. But, this didn't

doubled as escape routes and bunkers.

'Trap ahead.'

Aina before

of the so-called dead ends but Leonel had