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."

her ears

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

the greatest concession she was going to get out of this blockhead. But she

to mention

"Mm," Aina nodded.

Leonel had a

this world was simply far too valuable in how great of an effect their corpses

Fiend Class demon. This was because the

and the Dark Star Force sides of his Lineage Factor was in the fact that the former focused internally while

Branch of the 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 Ethereal Glabella. The Strength Branch of the White

the Dark Star Forces, it was the opposite. The Wisdom Branch manifested externally as a Domain. The Healing Branch functions like a life steel Ability Index. The Strength Branch actually formed a beast construct that Leonel could take control of to power his

end goals, but they reached them using different methods, and this made

foundation were actually quite small. In fact, because of the sudden growth in his potential, the holes in his foundation

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

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

Void Palace, and that was just the lower

and bounds and their