Dimensional Descent

Leonel didn't force himself to make a decision, still focused on assimilating more. However, part of his mind still wanted to feel like he was headed in the right direction, so he allotted some of his thoughts to organize this information slowly.

Ultimately, the main difference between the two paths was that one was focused on physical manifestations of change while the other was more focused on ethereal manifestations.

'Wait…'

Leonel had quite a real world example of this, did he not? His grandfather's step by step progression from calligraphy to painting, which category did it fall into? Was a physical? Or ethereal?

There was no fundamental change to the way Leonel utilized his Spear Force. It was fundamentally a change that occurred on the ethereal level, changing the Artistic Conception that breathed power into his spear.

That was that, case closed… Right?

But when looked at from a different angle, it was also a physical change. After all, Leonel was consciously manipulating his Spear Force with the use of his Dream Class technique to form a different demeanor by which he could project a powerful Artistic Conception.

Due to this, he had found it difficult even to properly use his Spear Domain Lineage Factor as it required a more ethereal comprehension. On its face, this was clearly a contradiction. But maybe that was because his way of framing it was wrong from the very beginning.

Although the manifestation was ethereal, didn't it have a physical presence? Weren't the changes that happened "ethereally" used to catalyze real world changes?

matter of physical and ethereal, it was deeper

felt that he was on the cusp of understanding something, but it was too profound for him to quite grasp. Even as he tore through the research papers, he still couldn't quite find his answer. For the first time, he felt that his intelligence actually wasn't high enough

even when they did, there would be peaks and valleys. These were things meant to be researched over the course of a lifetime, not just

just kept

once, what he wanted was a spark, a single ignition that would light the small fire he would protect until it became a raging inferno. So, he

although it

life, no matter what he came across,

one with a

took into consideration useless details. Even for someone as smart as Leonel, he was fallible

like a uniquely designed software for a very specific task, and as such, whenever a link was made in one

Leonel stripped down all the useless jargon and only

interesting research papers he had read, some of which he planned to incorporate himself and others of which he only wanted to use for reference as he felt he had

hours passed and Leonel's speed of assimilating

first 24 hours passed,

an inconspicuous board that was easy to miss, it too was filed with names. However, this board was easily ignored because there were hardly ever changes to it, nor was there any

no one quite understood what it was for. All anyone knew was that there was a name match with

Cynthia Omann –