Dimensional Descent

BANG!

Leonel was rocked. He was sent flying into a tree with such force that he nearly cut it in half. Even so, he felt that satisfying feeling of his spear piercing through truly tender flesh. No matter how powerful the wolf beast, there was no way that even its brain would be so fortified, right?

The last mournful howl of the beast echoed as Leonel's head swam. He nearly lost consciousness, but he bit his tongue. He couldn't afford to lose his mind here.

Leonel coughed up a mouthful of blood and stumbled once before pushing himself to his feet and nearly falling to the ground again.

'Dammit...'

He had a mild concussion and all the wind was knocked out of him. In fact, he was also pretty sure that he had cracked a few ribs as well, not to mention the ugly gashes on his chest now. It was lucky, though, that the latter were just skin deep. But even so, in this environment, and considering his body was back in the Third Dimension, this kind of injury could kill him if he didn't deal with it properly.

Wouldn't it be too pathetic if he lost his life to an infection after having already become a Sixth Dimensional existence? Even back in Third Dimensional Earth people almost never died from such things, technology had gotten much too far.

Leonel stood weakly to his knees and thought about running, but he shook his head again in a vain attempt to clear it. He knew that he needed to understand what was going on with that barrier first. Why had it appeared? Why was it there? And why was there not even a single warning?

Leonel rushed up to the barrier and pressed a hand against it. He couldn't pass through no matter how hard he pushed, and the barrier showed no signs of giving in.

Leonel frowned a moment and shook his head again, his fogginess beginning to clear a bit.

There were no obstructions to his sight. He could see to the other side all too easily, which was why he had run into it to begin with. He wouldn't have been foolish enough to do so otherwise.

'It's moving...'

barrier was definitely further out than it was originally. Was it here to protect him? Maybe there were much stronger beasts than what he could handle

to potentially be the case considering this was a trial

Leonel's pupils constricted. On the other side of the barrier, what must have been at least a few

There was no telling whether beasts were the only challenge ahead for him. After all, this was a spear trial, one for

increased, until his head spun so much that

seemed slightly more prepared than Leonel had been. His spear chipped at it first before his body came to a stop. Only then did he nod to

didn't notice the latter, well that and the fact there were so many trees and obstructions between them. Leonel only happened to have the perfect angle

spear that looked

But what was truly shocking was the fact that everything was simply

fought battle, the young man finally managed to take down the beast. Without hesitation, he stuck his entire arm into the bloody eye socket of the beast, digging around in its brain until

bulged once before concentrating back down to

head suddenly turned in Leonel's direction. He paused for a long while, seemingly scanning Leonel up and down before he gave a bloodthirsty grin, the blood of the beast he had just

picked up his spear and shot into the distance, his speed

quite understand what was going

too much time here. At any time, a swarm of beasts could be attracted to this location, he couldn't

prepared to run

that soon enough, if those barriers kept moving, his barrier would eventually overlap with that young man's and maybe even the

the past had, or even surpass him, but there was no doubt that doing so would require battle

corpse. He mimicked the actions of the young man and dug

Beast Crystals like this, or maybe he had a