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.

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

this is a worthwhile

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 uncle's attempt at painting a spear would

sort of application

been practicing the technique his mother had left behind for a while. But, its effectiveness had somewhat

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

even comprehended a single Destruction Rune yet. But now he had comprehended 729 Destruction Runes thanks to whatever had happened when he was stuck in

there were nine basic runes, these formed the foundation of the Third

times, forming nine large runes. This meant that to master the Fourth Dimension, you needed

time forming nine large runes and fusing them together nine times,

Force from the atmosphere with no impact to his body, he would

since Leonel had mastered 729 runes, why it was

was, indeed, in the Fifth Dimension, it had a complete set of Runes, sitting at almost five million total runes combined

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

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

with a seal that just magically appeared in