Dimensional Descent

Leonel and Aina left the Senate Branch, their destination all too obvious: the Void Tower.

However, as though they were being led by the nose, they found yet another roadblock ahead. Leonel was already having a hard time not being visibly annoyed.

The surroundings of the Void Tower made Leonel feel as though he was asking for amnesty. It was impossible to tell that this was a core region of the Void Palace that was once frequently visited by students because it practically had a border patrol now.

Judging by everything else that had happened until this point, Leonel didn't even need to make too many guesses as to what was happening. Just like all the missions before them, Leonel assumed that the spots of entry into the Void Tower were being monopolized by the so-called Cataclysm Generation.

In the past, people would only rarely enter the Void Tower. This was firstly because exiting meant that you had experienced something akin to death, it would feel just as real and the real thing. And secondly, there was no point in continuously entering the tower due to the fact one would usually only do so when they had a great improvement in their strength.

Of course, none of this even talked about the fact that only the first entry into the tower was considered to be free, while every subsequent entry cost both Void Points and Void Merits. After all, the Void Tower was considered to be a cultivation resource.

But now with so many geniuses appearing that were outside the bounds of the Void Palace's normal understanding, they entered far more frequently and demanded much more space. It also seemed like there was an entry capacity limit of three for the Void Tower as well, something that Leonel hadn't been aware of until he casually listened in on a few conversations.

"I managed to get a slot for seven months from now. That's not bad. If I had tried five years ago, the waiting time would have been even worse. It looks like they're slowing down."

of the Void Tower. They used to go at it almost everyday, multiple times a day before. Now

deaths on the higher floors are so much more gruesome. It's probably better for their health if they experience

to them. The truth is probably that they've reached a bottleneck. If they want to progress any further, they'll have to enter the Seventh Dimension first. I think that if we want to use some of the best resources of the Void Palace, this window while they're stuck at the peak of the Sixth Dimension is the best chance we'll get. I'm going to

these conversations, Leonel

but this was even more exaggerated than what he remembered. They weren't just fighting over resources here, it had reached a point where they very obviously monopolized

once prideful and used to peacocking, just seemed

his blade, he would have understood that this was why they were so confident it would happen. This was already his third or fourth attempt

time this happened, Leonel's good mood after having spent the last several days in leisure

foot into the Void Palace. This place, designed for the future leaders of humanity, created to curate the geniuses of the future, acted to crush their spirits

overseers told them nothing and simply allowed it to happen. They wanted to strip them all naked as though in this place,

it seemed that sort of emasculation, that sort of infantilization, was pushed to the point where everyone here

the "normal" geniuses, force them to lower their heads, only allowing the truly outstanding ones to stand

were growing, you would still need to lower your heads to those

out for him in real time, and by the time he made it to the first "checkpoint" for entry into the Void Tower, his

been following Leonel for a long while. The moment news of him being back was disseminated, he was