Dimensional Descent

Cornelius froze. His head almost subtly turned in one direction, but he caught himself before he did so. He knew exactly where Leonel was because he had been following him, but that didn't mean that Shield Cross Stars did. As shocking as their strength was, no one beneath the Eighth Dimension could just casually cover several planetary widths of space to find a single person. If they could, they wouldn't have to lock down the space.

He wanted to refute what DiVincenzo said, but the latter seemed so certain and he had no idea.

When Leonel fought, whether it was against Conon or the Sword Faction, he hadn't released his God Runes even once. Unless Cornelius personally scanned Leonel with his Internal Sight, something he wouldn't do for the latter's privacy, it was impossible to tell. Plus, what he didn't know was that even if he was willing to do such a thing, whether or not he could actually get past Leonel's mental defenses was a different matter entirely.

He had originally thought that Leonel was just so powerful that he didn't need to use his God Runes, but then he suddenly remembered that in his battle up the Void Tower, Leonel hadn't used his God Runes either, even up until the point of his death.

A part of Cornelius wanted to believe that this was because Leonel expected something like this to happen, and as such, held back a good portion of his strength. But was that possible? Even though he was completely caught off guard by all of this, was Leonel's foresight really so much better than his own?

According to the rules of the Void Palace, anyone who failed to enter the Sixth Dimension with the God Path would be expelled, effective immediately. If what this Tier 2 Officer was saying was true, then Leonel truly didn't have the protective badge of the Void Palace any longer.

"There's no need to doubt this matter, esteemed sir. The timeline is clear for you to check yourself. According to our information, Leonel Morales suffered the descent of the Cataclysm at Tier 9 of the Fifth Dimension. When he returned, he was in Tier 1, but he had never checked the technique stores of the Void Palace, so it's clear he took the easiest method."

"That proves nothing, you know his background as well as I do—."

"True enough, he could have gained a method from the Morales family. Unfortunately, this isn't the case. The Void Tower formed a perfect replica of him when he entered and it didn't sense the aura of the God Path. Shield Cross Stars wouldn't act without proper assurances."

Cornelius stopped talking, his expression turning placid. It was clear and obvious what this person was doing. He could have stated this as his first reason and left the matter at that, but he didn't, instead allowing Cornelius to speak more before shutting him down.

Not only was this a humiliation, but it seemed to speak on the incompetence of the Void Palace. Leonel had entered the Void Tower days ago, and yet they were still unaware until now.

Regardless, hopefully by now Leonel had used this opportunity to make some headway in running. This matter was still fishy to him and he simply didn't believe that that man's son would do such a thing. Before that happened, Velasco himself would probably kill Leonel first.

not knowing how to react at

fugitive

much effort behind it either, and yet, his projection didn't lose out to the two Seventh Dimensional monsters in the skies at all.

feet dangling a smile hanging

to be hundreds of times closer before Leonel would feel anything. In fact, considering

said, Leonel could see his face almost too clearly, and it was likely that DiVincenzo was well aware of this feeling, or else his face wouldn't have been so stiff for

yourself in,

in? Why would I

he did Cornelius, but this wasn't because their strengths were

Potential.

isn't a matter you can decide," Cornelius replied

"Oh? Is that so?"

Leonel blinked innocently.

a flip of his palm a familiar silver disk

you think that you should

suddenly froze, his body subconsciously trembling as

a very wronged expression just a moment ago, suddenly burst into a fit of laughter. Seeing DiVincenzo react as though he had just eaten a pile of shit had

my old man has better things to do than be here. But it's funny,

time, the hints of red being overwhelmed by

"Who?"

about to attack in a state

Leonel's turn

appeared. Clearly, he hadn't