Dimensional Descent

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

The rumble of Leonel's poem seemed to resonate with the world, dimming the depth of Amery's night and the brightness of his day. His defenses became airtight, his spearmanship taking another leap forward.

The raging battle intent in his eyes seemed to become as calm as a chilly lake, but it was precisely this controlled battle intent that made one's heart grow cold.

He took a step to the side, parrying Amery's assault.

"One spear to connect the earth and skies."

Leonel's voice rumbled again and his spear tip met the perfect crossing of Amery's two blades, thrusting through the two of them at precisely the same time and disrupting the flow of his attack. A streak of spear light shot through the vast darkness above, becoming a dividing sign between Amery's Natural Light Realm and the rest of the world.

Amery's swords flew to the side and he was forced to take a step back, the strength of Leonel's spearmanship throwing him off balance. But even so, his gaze only gained a fiercer depth to them. His Natural Light Realm changed once again.

If before Leonel's "One spear to connect the earth and skies" had been the dividing line, at this moment, Amery himself was the dividing line. It was as though he became the center of the world, his Dark Force sword holding the night and the Gaia Force holding the day.

The fierceness of the glow of his Innate Nodes continued to grow, each becoming the center of their own world.

Amery's horns sparked, sharp, howling Sword Qi spiraling around each one of them. His Gaia Force sword rose and the world seemed to fall into silence. The echo of Leonel's poetic words dimmed and faded entirely, the strength of his spear dimming considerably at that moment.

but to learn the True version, like Leonel

more accurately, the talent. But, Amery had made the

first, Leonel didn't understand why this was,

to the sword in a way that Leonel had never done for the spear, or even the bow. And

Reflected exactly that.

BOOM!

up more Universal Force than Leonel had ever seen in a single

In fact, even as he swung this strike, Leonel felt

improving in

his expression only grew and the pulsing crimson light within the

by a deep, black fog. It grew deeper and deeper until the point it had swallowed the entire cyclone and an enormous sphere of Dark Force enveloped Leonel

of Amery's strike fell by half

through the darkness, but as quickly as he split it into two, was just as quick as it swallowed itself back up, suturing up

himself, but Amery's pupils constricted. He felt

had

Force comprehension came from the concept of Cycles, and Cycles found their strength

its proper strength beneath the might of a Shadow

and its Domain deployed, the strength of Leonel's Dark Force skyrocketed