Dimensional Descent

1980 Retreat

"Retreat," Leonel said calmly.

He took a glance at the distance just a single time before turning away. With a leap, he landed on Little Blackstar's back, his expression calm.

In the distance, an army led by Huon, Droet, Hulot, Druid, and most obviously, Keiza, had appeared. They rode on the backs of beasts that were all quite shocking and powerful, so much so that although he had long since looked away, Leonel's eyes couldn't help but narrow.

Leonel didn't recognize those beasts, but the people of the Human Domain most definitely did. Those were the very beasts that the Lio family had prepared beforehand, beasts that had given them a great advantage previously, but had suddenly now come under the control of the Gemin and Libra families.

The Lio family's only choice was to be quite devastated about this. They were among the rare few that had two members of the Cataclysm Generation with both Conon and Gunter, but neither of them were strategists and they were both quite simple minded.

In order to defeat them and claim their beasts, Keiza and the Libra twins only needed to defeat Conon. So long as Conon's badge was shattered, his beasts would be left behind. This was the difference between using a kill exchange for a beast and using points. If these beasts had been exchanged with kill exchanges, then they would have disappeared along with Conon and Gunter when they exited the Heir Wars following their loss.

The Lio family had used a loophole to gather a large amount of beast subordinates for just one point each. By the time Keiza had gotten to them, they had already gathered over a hundred thousand in this way.

had an advantage that the others didn't... And that was their comprehension of

charging after Leonel

after he ran into the Libra twins. The two of them already had his general location, and they also had methods of relaying this information back, so that meant for as long as Leonel didn't notice, those two had probably been monitoring his movements. After they died and the connection was severed, the Libra

bit of investment to do that, that's also a decent loophole to exploit as well... But those beasts shouldn't be native to the Gemin or Libra territories, so it must have been claimed from

families or organizations with enough capital to use this method have to be among the few most powerful. It could only be one

Leonel?! You've seen me!

that he had met during the True

of the beasts the coming army charged with were not slow. They had just appeared over the horizon, but they were already rapidly closing the distance. Although it was true that if it wasn't for their inhuman abilities, even seeing or hearing

cover so many hundreds of kilometers of territory to begin with was because of the speed of the Seventh

him to make it back to his own territory in that

faster, but they would still be caught.

was especially fast, but that was in his normal form. In this form, where he used his mimicry to imagine a much larger, more powerful creature,

seemed to be to stop and fight. Their army

000 strong and Leonel still outnumbered them greatly with things the way they were.

were Libra family members who were charging forth in tandem. When they worked together, their power was worth