Dimensional Descent

"I placed your Metal Spirit into Suspended Animation. 20 years of separation between yourself and your mink is one matter, but if you allowed the same to happen with your Metal Spirit, it would grow apart from you.

"Before maturity, Spirits are too malleable and susceptible to their environment. If you only spent a fraction of their life with them, they would easily forget you, which makes sense since they live far longer than humans, some even believe that Spirits have no finite lifespans at all.

"The little one will be in the first lab."

Anastasia changed the subject before Leonel could ask any questions quite clearly. It was obvious that she had no intention of allowing him to know the truth.

The good news, though, was that Leonel was ecstatic to hear this news, he had actually been worrying about it. If Little Tolly also entered the Sixth Dimension while he was gone, it would already be too late to do anything and he would have wasted billions of Demon Points on nothing.

Someone else might have thought of abandoning Little Tolly at that point and simply picking up a new Metal Spirit, but by this point, Tolliver was Leonel's partner. How could he abandon him just because? He wouldn't have the heart to do it.

…

It wasn't long before Leonel felt that familiar feeling of Little Tolly rushing through his fingers. He couldn't help but have a wide grin on his face. It seemed that Suspended Animation state hadn't affected the little one at all and it was just as enthusiastic. To it, it had been even less than a year since it had seen Leonel, but it was still far too long.

Anastasia had obviously sensed this and made this decision herself. Toward this, Leonel could only be endlessly grateful.

to face Candle and Vice. The two of them didn't look to have aged a day, but this was to be expected. Although Savants could rise through the Dimensions via normal means, so long as

the usual shadow that loomed

demeanor was no longer as prominent and Vice seemed to have stopped copying everything Candle did to hide his true intentions. Most curiously, though, or maybe it was only to be expected since only the two of them were here, they seemed very close to one another. Facing Leonel now, they

nothing to try and force it. He wanted the two of them to slowly pull away from

for two decades, it would still be easier

an event caused me to lose access to the Segmented

that you

okay," Vice suddenly

the past, Vice would be too busy imitating Candle to dare

Star Order said with a snort. "My two little disciples are

to do in life?" Leonel kept looking toward them, not sparing Wise

one another before grabbing a

want to help master rebuild the Luxnix family," Vice spoke for them

before chuckling inwardly. He knew that Wise Star Order would do his own

either. After all, if his first interaction with Candle and Vice was to question their motives or if they were smart enough to make their own decisions, then it would completely ruin any good will he had in their

was just a person who had threatened them with death and then leveraged that into controlling their abilities. The gap was far too