Dimensional Descent

"So you've learned our lesson now?"

Aina smugly met Leonel's gaze after the two finally decided to come up for air.

"My lesson?"

Leonel could immediately guess at what Aina was talking about, but for the sake of his pride, he feigned ignorance, preparing the best line he could to shift the topic to the weather. Unfortunately, Aina caught on long before he could say anything.

"No, no, no. I want to hear it. Say it loud and clear: My name is Leonel Morales, and my girlfriend's ideas are better than my own."

Leonel coughed. This was clearly a case of giving an inch and taking a mile. She truly was ruthless, but on the flip side, she had a point.

Ultimately, Leonel had blind spots, blind spots Aina was often able to cover. It wasn't wrong of her to ask him to run more things by her.

At the same time, this was a bit of a special case since it literally required her to swallow dozens of liters of his blood, a loss he wouldn't have even been able to sustain if not for [Instant Recovery] being active.

Regardless, though, at least in this case. She was definitely correct.

"Alright, alright, you win. I concede defeat."

blinked, perking her ears up.

the world," Leonel sighed. "It's a heavy burden

laughed, shaking her head. Clearly, this was the greatest concession she was going to

We probably have a few weeks to maybe a couple months to gather up as many demons as we can, not to mention make it to the exchange so that we can get the final ingredient. We can't waste

"Mm," Aina nodded.

strength, their best bet was to maximize it. Since Leonel had a method to leave this Zone, they should be thinking

game changer. The demon race of this world was simply far too

from the Tier 3 strength based middle Fiend

Force sides of his Lineage Factor was in the fact that the former focused internally while the latter was far more

Snowy Star Owl, for example, lowered Leonel's weight to make him faster. The Wisdom Branch of the Starry Tailed Fox expanded Leonel's mind and

The Wisdom Branch manifested externally as a Domain. The Healing Branch functions like a

similar end goals, but they reached

had experienced an explosive growth in his strength, the fundamental changes to his foundation were actually quite small. In fact, because of the sudden growth in his potential, the holes in

stronger and could target more powerful demons, there were more to pick from which resulted in them finding more

than they had been when they first stepped foot into the Fiend Class Sector. On top of that, their store of demons only

would be enough to change the fate of an ordinary talent into a genius worthy of entering the Void Palace, and that was just the lower Fiend

strength improved by leaps and bounds and