Dimensional Descent

Leonel and Aina sped into the dungeon.

Dark cave walls loomed over them and an almost suffocating stench of earth filled their nostrils. The dampness and humidity made it difficult to breathe, the ventilation of the dungeon not seeming great at all.

Leonel could immediately tell that their target weren't humans, however he didn't seem capable of pinpointing the exact race either, something that made him narrow his eyes. It seemed that Ancestor Hito had gone out of his way to pick more obscure targets just for the sake of maintaining the usual randomness associated with Zones.

First there were the trolls they had faced earlier while claiming the village, now this.

"Thick earthy smell, high humidity, low visibility..." Leonel thought of several possibilities before he narrowed it down to one. ".. 76% possibility this is an Earth Dragon den..."

Earth Dragon, while was the official name of this species, wasn't to be taken literally.

Most accurately, they were a type of earth affinity centipede with the legendary ferociousness of dragons, and they were notoriously difficult to handle.

They were adept at causing land fissures and earthquakes, they could easily collapse a cave of this caliber, and they could chew through most metals as though they were nothing but thin films of paper. In addition to this, they could hold their breath for weeks at a time even as newborns, and their body temperatures ran so hot that their roars gave off the illusion of fire breath.

burrowing through the earth that if they

breath had nothing to do with Fire Force despite the heat, making it difficult for him to counter unless he had some sort of

the heat itself, but there was little

Force affinity might not prove to be as beneficial as one might hope because the Earth Dragons were

Leonel said

was that they had only taken a single step. Before their second steps even landed, Leonel had already spoken his conclusion. His

taking the vanguard, Aina fell back and allowed Leonel to cross in front of her. She strapped her battle ax to her back and took out a twin pair of silk cloths that danced up her wrists

an earthly, menacing air. A three meter tall construct took form around him, but just as quickly as it appeared, a Divine Armor appeared and slid into place. By the time Leonel had taken his fifth step into the

Force hadn't just

dark gold construct

of his life. His construct was just as much a part of his as his Divine Armors were. Why did they

appeared to his back. Aina

had yet to be alerted as they had hardly moved very far into the cave. In fact, it was only now that the entrance vanished behind

he lifted as though he wouldn't be satisfied until the whole world was above his head. However, it very quickly became obvious

reacted just as quickly, the twin silk cloths on her wrists suddenly

head of the Earth Dragon was pierced through and its blood was