Dimensional Descent

Aina's golden gaze began to flicker, a dense red fog coming from her body as she raised her hands. The instant Little Blackstar's form vanished and he landed on Leonel's shoulder even as the latter landed on the back of one of the soul construct beasts, the meat paste the beasts had become were suddenly ripped of their blood.

She didn't seem intent on using these globules of blood immediately. She floated down toward the beast soul constructs along with everyone else, pulling them along through the air.

Keiza's expression finally seemed to change. "Fire!"

Her voice echoed through the skies, the irony being that her previous laughter had yet to finish echoing. However, she seemed to disregard this entirely as she roared out this command.

Before, she was allowing the twins to continue to wear down Leonel with their words, but they had long since entered firing range of Leonel and the others. Seeing that the situation was changing, she immediately chose to forget the mind games and focus on pressing down upon them.

However, when the first volley of arrows entered the skies, they immediately blinked out, the Bow Force that had been coating them vanished.

James landed on a beast soul construct and waved a hand, causing a shield to appear before them. Without their Bow Force, he hardly strained at all to block this volley of arrows. In that moment, everyone had found a beast for themselves and they surged forward.

Right then, the distance that had been quickly closing stopped closing entirely, and then Leonel and the others began to pull away. Leonel had only targeted Tier 6 beasts. In order to maintain the formation, Keiza had to make all the beasts uniform in speed. But that didn't mean they all had the same speed.

substantially faster than those that were still of Tier 4. Without the pressure of maintaining the formation of an army, Leonel could obviously allow these soul constructs to speed forward

Keiza's expression darkened.

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annoying. However, outside of this darkening expression, she said nothing else. She had taught her daughter well enough to

Of course, this wasn't because they had the same faith in Keiza, but rather because they didn't feel that this changed much. Other than making things more annoying for Keiza, the situation was the

forced Leonel to give up on his millions of soul constructs. His current base only had the protection of a few thousand Skies and Oryx members. Even if they were up to par in terms of talent, which they weren't, this number would be far

looked at it, it felt that Leonel was once again just

…

else. Even now he hadn't explained anything, and it didn't seem like there was much left to

loss of face. She had just been laughing,

most was that this Leonel had actually harmed her. When was the last time she had felt any sort of pain?

separated and Tier 6 beasts rushed forward. She removed their restrictions and had them press forward, maintaining the distance between Leonel and the

through the air, filling it

had had a plan, but it would no longer work. Now that Leonel had similar maneuverability, it would be troublesome to use. However, she immediately adjusted her thoughts, pulling out a formation plate.

to Leonel's current location. As such, they were also by the ocean, and