Dimensional Descent

"I…"

The beads of sweat poured down Adrin's brow. If others learned that he told outsiders about this, his death would be practically guaranteed. He wasn't even worthy of having this information, but his little sister had reached a level of status where it was tacitly allowed for her to bring this information back to her bloodline. Due to this, he had benefited.

The reality was that the true name of this principle wasn't even Force Manipulation, it was just that the moment Leonel had said those words, he understood exactly what he was referring to.

This was inevitable. Leonel had deduced the existence of Force Manipulation himself, so he had also, of course, named it himself. He originally hadn't expected Adrin to know what he was talking about at all, but it seemed that he was right to ask.

Leonel leaned back in his chair, patient. Adrin wasn't going anywhere and there was only one path forward for him. There was nothing that the latter could say to get out of this.

"I…" Adrin took a deep breath. "… They call it Dimensional Layering or Dimensional Folding. According to what I know, the true reason we call our progress Dimensions is because of the existence of Dimensional Layering and the principles behind it.

"It's said that worlds fundamentally change after crossing into the Fourth Heaven and gain Force which fundamentally changes the laws of physics, but the reality is that even in its infancy and before a Metamorphosis, Force exists. The trouble is that it exists in Folds of Reality that aren't perceptible. With the way they layer, they can't interact with the real world and worlds at and below the Third Dimension are water to their oil."

Leonel frowned. "There are worlds beneath the Third Dimension?"

"Yes. The First Dimension is known as the Impetus of Creation. Some believe it's God, some believe that it's the Big Bang, some others have any number of other theories and explanations for what it might be. Ultimately, its just the moment right before existence comes to be.

Impetus of Life. It's said that this is a reality that only the Regulator can exist within. The Impetus of Life is both an instant of time and an

Leonel's gaze narrowed.

Dimension forms, it can begin to slowly unfurl itself. When the Fourth

Leonel's frown deepened. "Fully?"

it was scaffolding. The stronger

is taking the complex Folds of a Force, untangling it, and layering such that it could be used with less and less scaffolding. This is the

way

Leonel

between someone with talent and someone without it. He had had all of

ways of strengthening

Dimensional Folding, or decreasing the amount of scaffolding your Force needed to

and thus made it functionally stronger. However, this method required you to have great talent, otherwise, you would eventually run into a bottleneck

body as a proxy for something your Force Manipulation should be doing, and as such, you were missing out on a lot of

two in a feedback loop of sorts. Leonel had a feeling that leaning into

understood, the easier he could "Fold" them, and the more of them he Folded, the more of its power he could use with

was working with, the more effort he needed to put into Folding

all Nine Dimensional Layers to unfurl itself. If Leonel wanted to shrink what it needed,