Dimensional Descent

Amery's pupils constricted. This attack was one that he hadn't been able to sense the first time, but almost as soon as his heart skipped a beat, he regained his composure. His sword seemed to improve once again.

CLANG! He struck out without even looking, his blade parrying Leonel's strike.

Leonel's spear faltered and his Force Art flickered, threatening to collapse. The greatest weakness of his Spear Dance technique was that every stroke had to be perfect. If he made even a single mistake, he would need to start again from the beginning.

This was only the second time he had used such a technique, and it was even in a completely different situation than the first time, but Amery had actually reacted to it even quicker than he had the first time. Not only had he reacted faster, but he had not just blocked, but even parried it.

A sword blade entered Leonel's chest, just barely missing his heart but still tearing a hole right through his lungs.

Before the Sword Force could explode, Leonel's cold, indifferent gaze flickered with a slight violet light. He activated [Emperor's Edict], fusing it with his mother's bubble world technique. He had long since realized that these two techniques had the very same foundation.

He contained Amery's sword strike, and in an odd occurrence, the blade separated into two pieces almost as though the front of Leonel's body had become a portal to his back, but leaving his body itself entirely unscathed.

The explosion of Amery's Sword Force occurred to Leonel's back, a strong Spatial Force warping its location. Leonel's spear recovered quickly, his eyes flickering with a calculative light as he adjusted and made up for the mistake.

down and then up

and Amery's sword tip

strong retreat, but his spear seemed to use the momentum of Amery's retaliation to draw another elegant arc through the

strikes increasing. It had already been over 200 exchanges, and though Leonel was in a sorry state, Amery could feel that

that his understanding of Amery was quickly deepening. The two had both stopped using their Ability Indexes at once,

was certain. Amery's Ability Index was very much similar to Aina's, however it wasn't related to self-healing or Blood Sovereignty. Instead, he seemed capable of improving

obvious before because he had been at the bottleneck of the Natural Light Realm, but the moment he crossed into the Cosmos Realm and gained so much room to improve, it was as though he was riding with jet fuel in his sword. Every time Leonel's Spear Dance improved, so too did

so, a realization was just a

sword didn't move Leonel in the slightest. In fact, his heartbeat became calmer. The lines that his spear drew across the air became

BANG! BANG! Suddenly, the space between the two erupted. The

pools of magma rushed over their edges, snaking across the crevices of the ground and burning everything in their

Leonel's gaze seemed to have

single location on him that didn't contain an injury, but every ounce of Force in his body seemed to have been focused on just

Leonel's feet, the sway of his spear, the trembling tip of his blade, it seemed to fuse with the image of a dance

seemed to become a cosmos of their own. They separated, taking up points of Leonel's quickly forming Force Art as though they were

them. Dream Force. Scarlet Star