Dimensional Descent

Leonel was tempted to start with the most complicated, but in the end, he chose to pick up the calligraphy pen. It had an odd extra joint to it that made the nib off angle to the rest of the pen. If Leonel recalled correctly, they called this an oblique calligraphy pen. It was supposed to make it easier to match the aesthetic necessary for calligraphy.

FORCEFUL. SUBTLE. SWIFT. GENTLE.

The words flashed in Leonel's mind.

Since he already decided to start with the easiest of the three, he also chose the easiest approach and just copied everything his uncle had done.

However, Leonel was only a single stroke in before he realized that he already lacked the same flair.

'Huh… Interesting…'

Everything was the exact same, Leonel was certain of it. Everything from the angle of his arm and wrist, even down to the speed at every point of attack. It was all exactly the same.

Leonel smiled, this confirmed one thing. This was definitely not a useless exercise, there was something else that he was missing, likely a comprehension of sorts.

This was a good thing, because it was clear that the old man planned on locking him in here until he made some progress. If he was stuck here doing something useless, Leonel would rather ram his head against a wall.

he couldn't make any progress, he knew it would

then. Since this is a

outside the range of his Starry Spirit Domain, so unfortunately Leonel couldn't rely on that. Truthfully, that was an oversight on his part. But, if he was honest, he would have

this a different sort of application of King's

behind for a while. But, its effectiveness had somewhat diminished, mostly because he didn't put as much effort into it as he should

as a foundation, and that succeeded. But, since then, he had yet to upgrade it. This was mostly due to the fact that Leonel

Rune yet. But now he had comprehended 729 Destruction Runes thanks to whatever had happened

basic runes, these formed the foundation

complete Fourth Dimensional comprehension, you had to fuse nine basic runes nine times, forming nine large runes. This

again for the Fifth Dimension, this time forming nine large runes and fusing them together

Dimensional Scarlet Star Force from the atmosphere with no impact to his body,

it was that he still couldn't use

grown far too large. While it was, indeed, in the Fifth Dimension, it had a complete set of Runes, sitting at almost five million total runes combined into

meant that while Leonel's Innate Node was in the Fifth Dimension, it had access to the full Rune set of a Ninth Dimensional Innate Node, making it far more powerful than a usual Fifth Dimensional Innate Node. This was the price Leonel paid for having an Innate Node that had outgrown

It would only take a small effort to unseal this second Innate Node to the Fifth Dimension, the only reason Leonel hadn't was because he had yet to be in

you casually mess with a seal that just magically appeared in your body without a good