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...'

out than it was originally. Was it here to protect him? Maybe there were much stronger

potentially be the case considering this was

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

beasts were the only challenge ahead for him. After all, this was a spear trial, one for

until his head spun so much that he didn't quite understand how to take what

ran into the forcefield like he did, but seemed slightly more prepared than Leonel had been. His spear chipped at it first before his body came to a stop. Only then did

well that and the fact there were so many trees and obstructions between them. Leonel only happened to have the perfect

on the ground and brandished a spear that looked practically identical to Leonel's own

that

the beast, digging around in its brain until he found what he

before concentrating back down

for a long while, seemingly scanning Leonel up and down before he gave a bloodthirsty grin, the blood of the beast he

spear and shot into the distance, his speed clearly

moments, Leonel didn't quite understand what was going

time here. At any time, a swarm of beasts could be attracted to this

back, prepared to

his barrier would eventually overlap with that young man's and maybe even the barriers of other humans that may or may not be here. Obviously, his only opponents

know what it would take to perform to the standard his grandfather of the past had, or even surpass him, but there

pause and he shot back toward the wolf's corpse. He mimicked

not. Maybe he had a body that helped him digest Beast Crystals like this, or maybe he had a cheat. It looked like he was far more prepared for