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.

fury he felt before getting here had somewhat faded after meeting his Uncle Montez again. But, if he couldn't make any progress, he knew it would come back. By then, he would probably be far more serious about finding

then. Since this is a worthwhile endeavor,

Truthfully, that was an oversight on his part. But, if he was honest, he would have probably hurt himself had he tried to take that approach, if not in calligraphy or music, his

is this a different sort of application

his mother had left behind for a while. But, its effectiveness had somewhat

to use his Innate Node as a foundation, and that succeeded. But, since then, he had yet to upgrade it. This was mostly due to the fact that Leonel had too many different things to improve in, he was constantly being pulled in all sorts of directions and it was hard to remember them all, let alone improve in them

Mind in the form of a miniature humanoid, he hadn't even comprehended a single Destruction Rune yet. But now he had comprehended

basic runes, these formed the foundation of the Third

comprehension, you had to fuse nine basic runes nine times, forming nine large runes. This meant that to master the Fourth Dimension, you needed to comprehend

to repeat the process all over again for the Fifth Dimension, this time forming nine large runes and

and pull Sixth Dimensional Scarlet Star Force from the atmosphere with no impact to his body, he would need to comprehend 6561 runes, and so

might wonder since Leonel had mastered 729 runes, why it was that he

the fact it had grown far too large. While it was, indeed, in the Fifth Dimension, it had a complete set of Runes, sitting at

set of a Ninth Dimensional Innate Node, making it far more powerful than a usual Fifth Dimensional Innate Node. This was the price Leonel

in his left kidney, he now had an Innate Node that had outgrown him, and another than had actually lagged behind him. 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 a situation where he

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