Dimensional Descent

Emna didn't know that there was nothing to find yet; To her; it had only been a few minutes and she had no idea that Leonel was capable of enveloping the entire asteroid; even to the point of penetrating to its core; In fact; the fact Leonel had spent a few minutes on this task at all just went to show how thorough he had been; In reality; he already knew that there was nothing to find after a single instant;

'There has to be something here…'

Leonel thought that it might be hidden on the corpse itself, but he had already scanned the corpse at all and there was nothing to be found, not even the slightest mark of Shield Cross Stars was present; There was simply nothing;

'Hm…'

Leonel felt that he had to think outside of the box; The instant he shifted his perspective, something suddenly clicked;

With large strides; Leonel crossed the convenience station and entered its outhouse; It was just a small box barely two meters tall; Just to step into it; Leonel had to duck and the smell was absolutely horrid; There was nothing in this place aside from a hole in the ground and a single phone;

Leonel snapped his fingers and with a whoosh; a blinding golden light cleansed everything and he picked up the phone that looked as though it had come right out of Earth's 19th century;

After a moment, Leonel's expression flickered and he placed the phone back down.

on the phone; each one more layered than the last and they were all exceptionally well hidden; The first allowed it to function as a normal communication device; the second was a diversion tactic that scattered the signal and made it difficult to trace; the third was the

to carefully analyze this himself; or he could hand it over the Segmented Cube to do;

distance to find that Emna

lot of a term that he hadn't heard in a very long time: A

future influenced their abilities in the present, creating a feedback loop that made them even more powerful than

though. was that they didn't have the backing of

times before; But for obvious reasons; ever since he entered the Void Palace and became a second generation wastrel; no one had accused him of such a

Emna; though; was different;

a blade; and she had pushed this to the very pinnacle of the 4th Tier; but beyond that; she had gone from being able to turn her body into a blade to

In fact. it was enough to call this a mutation of the Ability Index… In fact. Leonel felt

over Sixth Dimensional Blade Force, not Fifth; Setting aside just how rare it was to comprehend a weapon Force beyond your Dimension, if Leonel was correct, she was using this Blade Force

had a body of metal, Emna was creating a Lineage Factor

to break free of the usual restrictions of her Dimensional tier, meaning that she had already stepped onto her own path. In fact, it was even

reason Emna hadn't stepped into the Sixth Dimension wasn't because she couldn't, but rather because she

a Path separate from the God and Conventional Paths. And because this Path was created by her own