Dimensional Descent

At that moment, the images seemed to have finally caught up. The Human Domain realized that the Ancestors hadn't vanished; they had moved exceptionally quickly, and their destination was actually the eight remaining cities.

When Leonel roared out, they too had appeared on the teleportation platforms of the eight fortified cities with Leonel on the ninth.

At that moment, the cracking teleportation platforms began to crumble even faster. But rather than this being a result of the crumbling formation, it became obvious that it was because of Leonel's actions.

One after another, the residual Force of the teleportation platforms surged into Leonel and his eight Ancestors' bodies. The weakening formation weakened even faster as this began to happen, but Leonel didn't seem panicked in the slightest.

[Emperor's Command: Arise] was quite straightforward. It was able to take control of the souls of the dead and force them into submission. Depending on the stamina of the one who awoke them, they would basically be undead warriors, unfazed by injury and death and completely loyal to their Emperor.

It was a fearsome ability, and one that struck fear in the Four Great Families. This alone was enough to explain the collapse of the Fawkes family. This sort of power was likely the kind of thing that even the Spirituals wouldn't be able to remain idle in the face of.

However, [Emperor's Command: Arise] was only one of three... there was still Assimilate and Breathe.

If [Emperor's Command: Arise] was able to handle the souls of the organic, [Emperor's Command: Assimilate] was able to handle the souls of the inorganic.

life within natural resources and take control of them. He could then assimilate with these resources or

learned of this ability's capability, his entire expression changed. That was because it was simply too heaven-defying, even

inspiration for the Life Grade came from. Natural resources were akin to the universe's hand at Crafting a Life Grade existence. It was seamless, perfect, and carried its own sort of

it. Once he did, and he absorbed it to himself, he could gain the

was just one of the

eight Ancestors began to warp and change. It was as though the ores of the teleportation platform were becoming a part of them, but not just that, they seemed to all connect them all across

Assimilate. Or rather, Leonel was applying it in a way that maybe no one of the Fawkes family ever had before. And if they had... It was something that could have only been accomplished by the most talented of them all. Not only was he integrating the remaining strength of

simple, Leonel was creating the strongest linked armors he had ever

was rather that he didn't know if it was worth it to expose at this moment. But his rage had

platforms run out of strength on their own, he changed his mind. He instead used Assimilate on them, sucking in the last of their power. This was absolutely perfect because Assimilate had its limits, if he had tried to Assimilate them in the beginning, even the Ancestors would have

now... It was

Ancestors raised their heads and howled into the

for a while, which made sense since it

immediately sent out their orders, preparing their armors to attack,

rushing toward the first line the Invaders had been using at their headquarters. They were erratic and hard to track, moving at a speed so impossibly fast that it seemed as though they