Dimensional Descent

The two remaining free hands of Leonel's clapped together, releasing a sonic boom as fearsome as a clap of thunder. The rushing black fog gathered together as Leonel's bow string was drawn back.

The signal of danger roared in Thaela's mind, several times more powerful than it had been before. It was so violent that her brows shot up, her eyes widened and goosebumps racing across her skin.

Thaela didn't hesitate, releasing a roar that manifested a Star to her back. It sparkled with silvery lights and just the faintest hint of blue. It would only take a single glance for others to see that this was a manifestation of her Emulation Spatial Force.

The space around her rippled so violently that it formed visible waves of silver and black in the air. In one moment, she had gone from a sneering mastermind to what looked like a goddess standing amidst tall silver waves.

Her star shimmered behind her like a radiant moon. Her hands pressed together, a strong fighting intent blazing from her.

The moment Leonel released his arrow, she sensed it. But what shook her heart was that the ripples in space were less ripples… and more a violent destruction of the integrity of space itself.

Thaela's mind spun at incredible speeds, quickly forcing her shock down.

Logically, the only existences capable of destroying space like this were the monsters of at least the Seventh Star. They could forcefully impose their will on the world, even increasing their speed by bending the laws of physics to their wills.

At the Eighth Star level, such an existence would be able to cause true destruction, their strength reaching beyond the bounds of reason. Once this realm was touched upon in earnest, rules like the impossibility of destroying energy were thrown out of the window.

However, there were methods of accomplishing this long before reaching these levels if certain parameters were met or if certain Forces were under your control.

was hardly a single Force that Thaela didn't at least have some familiarity with. So, the moment she sensed such destruction,

Force and Fallen

there wasn't a single one that she hoped to run into. They were all incredibly fearsome and every single one of them had the

the time Thaela finished these thoughts, the air had already entered her rippling waves. The closer it got, the more she

be able to threaten her, Fallen Star Force was especially heavy. It was like an anchor sinking into darkness

pieces. Both were lethal for different reasons, but if there was one that was especially dangerous when formed into a speeding arrow like

of the arrow, weighing it down and shredding it into piece, appearing before

barrier might have been ripped apart, but it had bought her enough time to think and calmly analyze the

that she wouldn't be able to get Leonel to simply hand over his head. In

other hand flipped over to reveal a translucent whip that looked like it was carved of glass, and yet it seemed to have even more flexibility than a

flexed, her wrist forming a spiral pattern. At the same time, within her body, her Nodes and

tornado around the incoming arrow and a rush of powerful Water Force

has

once before from an envoy of the Void Senate. With those hand seals, she was able to instantly

a Lineage Factor. In that case, I have to be more careful because a Lineage Factor is rarely just an affinity and an affinity alone, there are other factors attached to