Dimensional Descent

1968 Decision

Leonel plucked the reward and rolled it between his fingers for a moment.

Then, with a thought, he pushed it toward the core of the city and agreed to accept the change.

After a wild bout of vertigo, everyone opened their eyes to smell an air that was decidedly more humid, refreshing and... salty. Even from here, they could hear the sounds of the crashing waves. Without even looking out of the city, they could tell that they had all suddenly been moved to the oceanside.

Leonel didn't flinch after this happened, he had already expected it. Without hesitation, he pushed forward a second reward and accepted it as well.

The ground rumbled and the sound of heavy rocks crashing into the ocean resounded. Many who didn't know what was going on rushed to the city walls and their eyes widened as they felt that the city was about to fall right off a cliff and into the raging waters below. However, just when it seemed that this would happen, the city stabilized and became rock solid.

Waters rushed in from the side and the moat that had surrounded the city before was filled instantly with a rush of heavy salt water. It felt like, in that moment, the city was enveloped by the embrace of the ocean.

The mountain range they had been hidden within was completely gone and they found themselves on soft, sandy land. If not for the fact that this was a simulation and not completely analogous to real life, there was no way such a heavy structure could exist on such fragile land.

At the same time, they had been right near a cliff face which had now crumbled and collapsed, lowering their elevation and causing a rush of ocean water to tide in. Their city was now half perched on sand and another half in the ocean, and with their moat, they felt a step away from being entirely submerged.

In order to accomplish this, Leonel had done two things. The first was that he used a territory moving reward. Since it was just Silver-Grade, it only allowed him to move his territory to anywhere within his territory's range, however given the size of his territory to begin with, that gave him access to over half the supercontinent!

Then, he used yet another terrain change reward, but this one, rather than being used for mountains, was instead used to direct waterways. Its original purpose was to create a source of water by extending it from a primary source. So, Leonel used it on the ocean and extended it into their moat.

was he not technically underwater

just trying his luck, using these rewards like this still only benefited him. Although he had abandoned the mountain range, attacking his territory like this was even more difficult because you could only send an army from a

wouldn't have to worry about only having this to gain. When he saw that his territory map now extended into the depths of the ocean, he almost couldn't refrain from grinning ear to

have extended 2000 kilometers from his city now, or rather, however far it could go before it ran into other territories, but territory distance was counted differently within the ocean. There seemed to

surprised by this. On land, territory only had to account for two dimensions, but with the water, depth had become

also had to incorporate a distance down to the greatest depth of the ocean. But even then, because he

in perfect detail, the things he could see were

ocean's depth ranged from five kilometers to 20 kilometers. This was far deeper than a moon of this size should have had, but

appeared at all depths and because of the difficulty in reaching them, they

that Leonel could see,

Bronze-Grade, about a quarter were Silver-Grade, however there were over 40 Gold-Grade challenges and almost 10 were Heir-Grade! At the same time, there were over 15 Gold-Grade dungeons and five Heir-Grade

the land had yet to even spawn Gold-Grade challenges and dungeons. Only now that

Leonel had also spotted the territory of several Heir-Grade oceanic beasts as well, each one of them

long as they

of the effort I put into getting ahead would be completely crushed. I expected

Leonel narrowed his eyes.

and Quarius families were behind, but once they entered the ocean, their advantages would sky

had was even greater. Who could afford to buy 2000 kilometers

kilometers worth of information?

planning on pouring all 30 billion points he had not into underwater outposts to extend