Dimensional Descent

Aina's eyes lit up, but she didn't interrupt Leonel.

"But I also don't think it's that simple. There's a fundamental difference between Weapon Forces and other Forces, and that's that Weapon Forces all start from the foundational Dimension."

Aina frowned. Didn't all Forces do that? Leonel's Scarlet Star Force was the perfect example. If not, he wouldn't have to undo the seals step by step. If it was someone else, Aina would have probably interrupted, but Leonel wasn't someone who would make such a rudimentary mistake, so she just continued to listen.

"When you look at other Forces, it feels like that happens as well, but it feels like… a rubber band," Leonel chose this example after a while. "The stronger the Force, the tighter and thicker the rubber. It's harder to stretch, but it's also more resilient at greatest length, it also stores up more energy per length stretched.

"If you take a normal Fire Force and you compare it to Scarlet Star Force, the latter is the far thicker and more powerful rubber band, even right from the start. If you stretch it a single inch, and let's say that inch represents the Third Dimension, if I release it, which rubber band will fly further and have greater impact is obvious.

"But the starting point, from the very beginning, is different.

"For some Forces, if you stretch it past a certain point, rather than producing more powerful effects, the rubber band will snap. There are just certain levels of power it won't be able to reach no matter what. That's the most ultimate truth.

"Take my Dark Ice Force, for example. It's a Fifth Dimensional Force…"

Aina's brows jumped up when she heard that. She hadn't even thought about it before, but the moment Leonel mentioned Dark Ice Force, things suddenly started falling into place.

be of certain Dimensions. And yet, higher Dimensional individuals used

more strength to it. However… I fused my Dark Ice Divine Armor with an Evolution Ore, allowing it to display power comparable

because of that, it's taken me longer than usual to realize the problem. My Dark Ice Force is quasi Sixth Dimensional thanks to Evolution Ore, my Ethereal Star Force is Seventh Dimensional, my Scarlet Star Force is Ninth Dimensional… I haven't reached the end of any one of those rubber bands yet, not even close for some,

end of the rubber band almost immediately. You're forced to find a path ahead for it, because if you don't, it quickly becomes useless.

have to be other paths. But the

Aina's senior and a member of the Endless

for people who aren't born with obscenely powerful affinities. Most won't have an Innate Node like mine, or even an affinity a step

Eighth Dimensional door, but when I asked the dictionary about it, it triggered a video from my dad and this is apparently

in a world where the Seventh Dimension is almost a cap, then even in the Void Palace, the top level geniuses usually, at best,

and focused on one or two Lineage

are the Morales and Suiard families who

there if not for what happened with the White

and logical progression toward the next step. In addition, there's a large number of masters

also be another reason why humans are so weak compared to the

normal Magic System, this one is a layer deeper

us are any less talented than Chaos Demons. What we lack are two things: Foundation and Force Manipulation. The first can be

this is a ubiquitous method of this Zone, I should have already run into methods in the previous exchange stores I visited, but I didn't. I also didn't

the true Magic System of this Zone. But since we've already failed this Zone, that