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.

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 real communication network; connecting this phone to

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

the outhouse, Leonel looked into the distance to find that Emna was still

was truly an anomaly; She reminded Leonel a lot of a term that he hadn't heard in a very long time:

flare to a powerful lineage; The accomplishments of their future

that they didn't have the backing of powerful families or

obvious reasons; ever since he entered the Void Palace and became

Emna; though; was different;

pushed this to the very pinnacle of the 4th Tier; but beyond that; she had gone from

was a huge change. In fact. it was enough to call this a mutation of the Ability Index… In fact. Leonel felt that Emna had already taken the step toward turning her Ability Index into

had control 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 to reconstruct

body of metal, Emna was creating a Lineage Factor that forged her body of

to this, she was able to break free of the usual restrictions of her Dimensional tier, meaning that she

feeling that the reason Emna hadn't stepped into the Sixth Dimension wasn't because she couldn't, but rather because she was subconsciously aware that if she did so, she would lose this opportunity

to perfect her self-created Lineage Factor before entering the Sixth Dimension, she would create a Path separate from the God and Conventional Paths. And because this