Dimensional Descent

When Leonel finally slowed enough to be tracked by the naked eye, he was wreathed in a radiant blue. However, that only lasted for the smallest instant of time before all anyone could see was a blinding gold.

Micrath's pupils constricted, the tip of Leonel's spear appearing larger and larger in his eyes. He couldn't help but notice that Leonel had crossed his domain without the slightest hindrance, entirely unmoved by his aura of cold.

Reacting quickly, Micarth formed a seal with his left hand, causing a shield of ice to appear before him in less than a fraction of a moment. However, as soon as it appeared, it was pierced through, the residual Spear Force sending Micarth flying into the distance.

Everywhere his body passed space sparkled and the fog froze into icicles, even the wind itself seemed to condense, only to be smashed through by his momentum in the next instant.

Leonel's feet lightly touched down, his Divine Armor shimmering.

That hand sign Micarth had made in the final moment was pretty interesting and Leonel only needed a glance to know what it was. While hiding some Ability Indexes was worthwhile, there were others that were such a core part of your battle style that it would instead be foolish to do this.

Leonel was one such example. "Hiding" his Ability Index would be a rather stupid choice. He only did so when he wanted a change of pace, and that had only happened once. Usually, his Ability Index was always churning in the background, the only difference was how much he was using it.

Clearly, the same was true of Micarth.

Unsurprisingly, Micarth's ability was more auxiliary. Such abilities were the best to make large parts of your battle style rather than hiding. His Ability Index fell into an energy manipulation type category, and was more precisely known as the Nodal Control Ability Index.

At its lowest Tier, this Ability Index allowed one to form larger Force Nodes than most, and their Force Node Pathways were also large in comparison.

At its Tier 4, however, one could freely control and shift and change the location of their Force Nodes as they please without any damage or harm to themselves.

best and that would be decided at quite an early age. However, there was a path and type of Force Art technique that Leonel had learned about in the Void Library that made such an ability not only worthwhile

a long story short, Micarth could designate a new position for his Force Nodes with a different hand sign. Leonel couldn't

their pathways would change position, forming

would the technique be deployed with extreme speed, but because Micarth's body itself was resonating with it, it was also far more powerful than most techniques

he liked, go into meditation for a few hours, picks a hand sign for it, tie this hand sign to a

and with the necessary

had hardly been ready for Leonel's speed and had still been looking down on the latter, and yet he

bit impressed by Micarth, those who were watching on were

member of the Unfettered Blade Party! He was an existence no more than a decade or two away from becoming a

Micarth, they would have never sent him. This wasn't a scene anyone had expected to

he roared in the next instant, his body shooting into

hand seal, causing several swords of ice to form around him. They wrapped themselves in Sword Force, shooting forward like blazing meteors as Micarth fell from

he held a spear in

took a step forward, the seams of his Divine Armor radiating with a blinding golden

Starry Light Domain.

took another step, he vanished once more. Micarth though that he had already adjusted to Leonel's speed after the first time, but his eyes could only widen when he realized that he had lost

another spear appeared between his brows. Yet another ice shield formed. And Micarth was once again sent flying back like

BANG!

been thoroughly humiliated, his words of grandeur seemed to come off as quite hollow, just like his white

roar sounded and a frigid pillar of ice

to life, his palm flipping over to reveal his