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

in the world," Leonel

was the greatest concession she was going

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 even the smallest bit

"Mm," Aina nodded.

maximize it. Since Leonel had a method to leave this Zone, they should be thinking

be a huge game changer. The demon race of this world was simply far too valuable

gained enormously from Force Pill Aina crafted from the Tier 3 strength based middle Fiend

come to realize that the dividing line between the Light Star Force and the Dark Star Force sides of his Lineage Factor

example, lowered Leonel's weight to make him faster. The Wisdom Branch of the Starry Tailed Fox expanded Leonel's mind and Ethereal Glabella. The Strength Branch of the White Stone Elephant ballooned

Healing Branch functions like a life steel Ability Index. The Strength Branch actually formed a beast construct

had similar end goals, but they reached them using different

actually quite small. In fact, because of the sudden

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

they were two or even three times stronger than they had been when they first stepped foot into the Fiend Class

an ordinary talent into a genius worthy of entering the Void Palace, and that was just the lower Fiend Class ones. Leonel and Aina didn't even bother to absorb any

by leaps and bounds