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."

perking her ears

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

head. Clearly, this was the greatest concession she was going

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 of

"Mm," Aina nodded.

so much strength, their best bet was to maximize it. Since Leonel had a method to leave this Zone,

this world was simply

3 strength based middle Fiend Class demon. This was because the strength of the Aurora Black didn't come from its body, but

that the dividing line between the Light Star Force and the Dark Star Force sides

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 Myghell's

Branch manifested externally as a Domain. The Healing Branch functions like a life steel Ability Index. The Strength Branch actually formed a beast

were like two sides of the same coins. They often had similar end goals, but they reached them using different methods, and

fundamental changes to his foundation were actually quite small. In fact, because of the sudden growth in his potential, the holes in his foundation actually became much larger. As such, he needed more demon corpses to make up for what he was

allowed Leonel to refine Aina's pills even faster. And since the 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 than were beneficial

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

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 at that level anymore, focusing entirely on the

bounds