Dimensional Descent

1839 Symbiotic

[More chapters on the way, just got a bit of a late start today... *cough*]

Leonel entered the Segmented Cube and didn't disturb Aina. Instead, he went right to Anastasia to see what she might have found out about the inheritance until now.

Quite frankly, he was quite curious. It wasn't just about the inheritance itself, but also its method of transferring its benefits. Leonel had only been in contact with a third of the inheritance for a small while, and yet it had permanently altered his heart size and shape without him even noticing. Methods on that level were far beyond Leonel's understanding.

Even when it came to the tablet, Leonel could feel the transformation process, and there was even some pain involved, especially when the light and dark halves of his Northern Star Lineage Factor fused into one.

For such sweeping changes to occur to him without even taking note of it... it was one part astonishing and another part somewhat scary. What if instead of benefits, the inheritance had been malicious? What if instead of improving the function of his heart, it added a permanent defect to it? Or what if it removed his heart entirely?

These latter reasons were why Leonel chose to be cautious. If even his senses were useless in checking and monitoring the changes of this inheritance, then diving head first into it might very well be a mistake that he would never be able to extricate himself from.

"Any news?" Leonel stepped into the lab to find a floating little girl.

"This inheritance is quite amazing. If what you said about the Silver Empire being a hotbed for demons was true, then this inheritance is probably the reason they were able to do it.

of slowing your heartbeat alone would extend your life

to physically use the tools of the lab to get the results he wants, Anastasia was the lab and the lab was her. That vacant look in her was just her exercising her control over her surroundings, and that was made even clearer

by Anastasia's words, though, most of these were his guesses already. Plus, even back on Third Dimensional

"Anything groundbreaking?"

you would expect. The three parts of the inheritance come together to cause a qualitative change to the body, however the wood part of the inheritance caused the most obvious changes. More valves to the heart, larger sides,

part of the inheritance allows you to swallow Fire Force and turn

yourself to other objects, namely metal objects,

the vessel. The last part allows you to

that it's not obvious at first glance what it's trying to support. The fire part makes sense, but the transfer to metal objects part feels

fire

was the first invention. Without its existence, without its warmth, there wouldn't

in a book, or some legend about a man

nuclear reactors that took advantage of the exothermic output of volatile chemical reactions. Life could exist without fire, in fact existence might be better off without it in some respect. But it couldn't make do

Water Force, he would have tended

embodiment of destruction be the number one Fire Force in

It didn't compute.