Dimensional Descent

2033 An Hour

Leonel's body flashed, and his vision sharpened. Others couldn't maintain their sense of direction in the middle of a teleportation, one would end up feeling weightless and would become unable to tell which direction was up, which was down, and where left and right was.

However, Orinik had miscalculated. Not only could Leonel maintain his sense of direction, even his vision wasn't obstructed. He could feel the swirling mass of space splitting open before him.

Leonel had known that he could do this intuitively, but this was the first time he had truly done it. He could feel that his comprehension of space was shifting and molding to the changes around him, but he quickly snapped out of it and suddenly reached forward.

Orinik, who couldn't see or orient himself at the moment, felt a suffocating pressure squeeze around his throat. At first, he thought it was just an oddity of the teleportation, but when his vision cleared, his pupils couldn't help but constrict.

To his horror, Orinik looked forward to finding Leonel right in front of him, his throat clamped down. Right to his side, Rychard was in a vice-like grip as well, both of their feet dangling from above as they struggled to push blood flow to their brains. While practitioners of their level could last a very long time without breathing, that was only if their blood continued to circulate normally. Leonel's palms weren't just restricting their breathing, his fingers clamped down on the important blood vessels of their necks, making them feel light-headed as they struggled.

"Help! HELP!"

This was Orinik's only option. He felt that they should be close enough to Xavnik's territory now, calling out should bring down hell upon Leonel. In fact, because he had brought Leonel, he might not even get punished for this failure. Orinik could tell that while Xavnik was hyper fixated on First and Second Nova as his only competition, only he knew that Leonel was a true monster.

Orinik had tried to explain these matters to Xavnik in the past, but the latter simply brushed it off. How could Third Nova believe that a Sixth Dimensional existence could threaten him?

Then again, Orinik had a hard time understanding what it was that Xavnik was thinking half the time. Even now, he wasn't 100% certain of what his plans were, all he knew was that he needed help right now, and a lot of it.

So long as Xavnik could come with his army, there would be a chance for survival. Leonel should also be smart enough to know that he wasn't a useful bargaining chip, so he just had to…

Orinik froze, his body shuddering.

location… This location

the ability to step out of it early? Did you think I would let you drag me into such

think that's actually true. But the difference is that the definition of 'absolute power' from person to person differs greatly. To you, I've long

shatter. It wasn't literal, but his body felt like it had lost all of its strength. Hanging in the air, looking into Leonel's eyes, feeling his cold indifference, he realized that the boy back then he could have crushed with a single hand had long since soared well beyond

had only known that the Leonel he met back then was a young man who hadn't even been in the Dimensional Verse for even a handful of years, he would have understood things much more thoroughly.

Orinik felt his badge shatter. It wasn't him who had done

badge shattering, the blacks

the luxury of thinking about it. He already knew that the moment he left, he would find himself in the hands of others. His

feelings of the two of them. He had always been a compassionate person,

latter tried to marry Aina, he hadn't even cared to go and stop the marriage in the first place, so how could he retroactively be enraged by such a thing? What he hated Rychard for was not

back then, Leonel would have long since killed this person. But then he had the audacity to hold a grudge

he was enraged by the intention behind the action, and then the

of them didn't deserve his sympathy and he didn't care for it.

sharp pain that Orinik

a bloody organ. It was a gallbladder of sorts, but this was filled with poison. But what was interesting is that when it was implanted into

It was fascinating.

this organ naturally. He had found it by scanning Orinik's body with his Dream World and around

with

to be Third Nova. In fact, it was very likely that Auran had been poisoned as a result of this and

wasn't a demon, but somehow he was able to gain demon-like characteristics

head. Just what

Morales family had ties to demons. The Suiard family likely had ties to demons. The

the Human Domain like the Cloud Race had? Something wasn't adding