Dimensional Descent

Adrin trembled when he heard this question, looking toward Leonel with a wide gaze. Force Manipulation wasn't something widely spoken about, it was a secret even more closely held than the existences of the Emperor's Might and Northern Star Lineage Factors.

Of course, the reason for this was because those two Lineage Factors were considered taboos, and as such the legend of them was spread only for the sake of disparaging the families that had once used them. But even so, this was the reality.

Most beneath a certain standard only stumbled onto Force Manipulation through anecdotes and countless years of training. However, the true and systematic methods were only held in the hands of a very select few, and maybe only the Spirituals could boast having any sort of methods that was anywhere near complete.

Leonel's gaze narrowed when he saw Adrin's reaction.

In truth, he had guessed much of what Adrin was thinking of right now, and there was a very simple reason for that. In the Cataclysm Zone, he had seen all sorts of treasures that could be exchanged for, even to the point of laying eyes on the Emperor's Might Golden Tablet, but not once had he seen anything even remotely refer to Force Manipulation.

On the one hand, it was possible that the Zone was just incomplete. It was a Zone, after all, so it was possible that it wasn't a supremely perfect representation of reality. With something as hard to emulate as Force Manipulation, it made sense if it wasn't all that easy for it to be replicated. If Zones relied on Dream Force to build everything, it would eventually have a limit.

It had to be remembered that Dream Force was a Force itself, obviously. It was one thing to emulate other Forces at lower resolutions or weaker states, but if it was tasked with emulating other Forces at their very best, which is exactly what Force Manipulation represented, it would no doubt reach a bottleneck it couldn't pass through, a bottleneck that would only become more stringent the more powerful the Force was.

enough for Leonel to accept back then, good enough that it didn't bother him too much. However, there had always been a second explanation lingering in

stop geniuses from stumbling onto methods to better control their Force, so long as there was a tacit suppression of information about such methods generally speaking, disallowing the sharing of such methods, it would be fairly easy to

always had a theory brewing in mind, one that he only confirmed

in the middle of a forest, and did the same

advantage in intelligence through the generations. With each small advancement

you take that advantage, and you suffocate it,

no ability to communicate and share insights, all advancement would stall with the end of said genius's life and then the next genius would have

akin to Isaac Newton never sharing his invention of calculus and everyone having to deduce it on their own. Imagine a world where instead of calculus having been an annoying middle

was akin to night

question, then, was why… But that answer was even

multiplier, not in the sense of energy, but rather a general sense. The only way for those born with weaker

they possibly

perfect example. He had been an exceptionally weak demon to start, and the Forces he used weren't particularly impressive either, but he was so powerful that Leonel, even given all his talent, couldn't last even a single exchange against

was what Force