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 up.

the world,"

greatest concession she was going to get out of this

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

"Mm," Aina nodded.

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

it would be a huge game changer. The demon race of this world was simply far too valuable in how great of an effect their corpses

middle Fiend Class demon. This was because the strength of the Aurora Black didn't come from its body, but rather a specific application of

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

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

like a life steel Ability Index. The Strength Branch actually formed a beast construct that Leonel could take control of to power

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

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

target more powerful demons, there were more to pick from which resulted in them

just a single week, Leonel and Aina easily reached a point where they were two or even three times stronger than they had been when they first stepped foot into the Fiend Class Sector. On top

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

improved by leaps and bounds and their