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

the world," Leonel sighed. "It's

was the greatest concession she was going to

go. 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.

bet was to maximize it. Since Leonel had a method to leave this Zone, they

race of this world was

increase in power, Leonel still gained enormously from Force Pill Aina crafted from the Tier 3 strength based middle Fiend Class demon. This was because the strength of the Aurora Black didn't come from its body, but rather a specific

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

Branch of the Starry Tailed Fox expanded Leonel's mind and Ethereal Glabella. The Strength Branch of the White Stone Elephant ballooned Myghell's muscles

it was the opposite. The Wisdom Branch manifested externally as a Domain. The Healing Branch functions like

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

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

could target more powerful demons, there were more to pick

they had been when they first stepped foot into the Fiend Class Sector. On top of that,

genius worthy of entering the Void Palace, and that was just the lower Fiend Class ones. Leonel and

leaps and bounds and their battles only became