Dimensional Descent

The figure was nothing more than a speck of dust in comparison to the size of the Moon. and yet as he walked forward. it felt as though the Moon had lit itself on fire to herald his appearance.

The sound of billions of heartbeats beating in unison began to drum across the skies; The entire world seemed to resonate with the footsteps of this young man as he took one step after another;

Despite his seemingly slow pace, he crossed countless kilometers with every stride, and by the time he had come close enough for his features to be differentiable from the blazing Moon to his back, the shock that took hold of those watching him was enough to stop their hearts entirely;

Leonel slowly walked through the skies, his gaze frighteningly cold and his lips pinched into a line;

Wisps of red fog came from his eyes, his breath and his hair, the menacing stench of blood rising into the skies;

He looked as though he had just crawled out from his own coffin; A ghastly wound stretched from his left chest down to his right hip. showing off glistening bronze pieces of his ribcage and inner organs; His left arm hung from his shoulder socket by just a few tendons and ligaments; His clothing was nowhere to be seen and he walked completely in the nude. seemingly oblivious to this fact entirely;

It truly seemed as though that he just might collapse at any moment…

So why were they feeling such fear?

The ghastly black rod in Leonel's right hand billowed with fiendish fog as dark as night; It suddenly trembled, forcing the amorphous fog to sharp and become a twin pair of menacing curved blades that found their home at the end of the rod;

Leonel didn't speak a single word; He didn't roar in rage; He didn't tremble in anger; He didn't even seem to be able to "see" the people around him; His gaze was cold, but entirely unfocused as though he saw right through everything around him;

And then… his foot raised and he took another step forward;

BANG!

Leonel dangling left shoulder merely glanced by the body of a Brazinger family member, and yet they erupted into a ball of flames before bursting into a shower of blood that was quickly incinerated to ash;

chance to scream or holler; they were

Before its pilot and crew could even try to maneuver out of

finally breathing for the first time; But just that single breath caused sparks to

ten meters of him to

broke the silence and many woke up to the fact that just a single step of

RUMBLE!

the first time and

rumbled, gathering together and forming enormous behemoth-like monstrosities

was furious; the skies

Leonel's head; the void trembled and an ancient scroll appeared; It radiated a blinding

unfurled, the blinding light it exuded only becoming ever more

it unfurled completely; surges of lightning coursed through the air;

Emperor's Edict.

ancient characters of the golden edict rose like a tempest,

those of the

since he appeared. The instant he did. he seemed to conjure the phantom of a malevolent

"… Die."

shuddered. The skies whined and gods lamented. The spirits of life shed tears and wraiths of

range of Leonel's edict suddenly

began to fall from the skies and

seemingly wanting to envelop the entire world. The radiance

just a single sentence,

that was when

ended up in a similar state to his left. In yet another breath, his knee collapsed, suddenly twisting in the wrong direction and