Dimensional Descent

What Leonel didn't know was that this Infinity Beast was more than just tired, it was old and worn. For a creature to be so beautiful, and yet so close to the end of its lifespan, was probably something a human like Leonel who was destined to grow old and wrinkled could never truly understand.

It was tired of life, tired of existence, maybe it was fully aware of what was happening and simply couldn't be bothered to care anymore. That was all it had done in its life... care... and it cared too much.

It wasn't like the Void Beast that destroyed all things, because it was, in fact, all things. It was all Forces, all beings, and as such it understood all Forces... all beings. Its sympathy was boundless, but this was like a curse, one that ate away at its very being and suffocated it for all that it was worth.

Marred by this beauty, no one had ever seen its true self, that hidden interior awashed with darkness and suppressed by its own care and concern.

In its final moments, it exhaled a breath of relief. Someone else would have to hold onto its burdens from now on... It was no longer its cross to bear.

Leonel began to fall from the skies, the Infinity Beast's body having vanished into a clump of silver he held onto. He couldn't fly at all in this dense den of Force Arts, because even though the entire Vital Star had vanished, the runes that had once colored its surface were only released from their shackles, unleashing onto the world a wide range of changes that made an Eighth Dimensional World's pressure feel like child's play.

However, Leonel couldn't focus on the fact that he was falling right now, because it wasn't the time to. He still needed Anastasia's help to cast [Breathe].

just killed, nor the kind of weight that

Void Beast, although he had reacted indifferently, he had still felt that mighty pressure coming from even its corpse. He couldn't imagine what that beast would have looked

its counterpart?

never seen its true

the impermanence of [Assimilate] didn't ruin Little Tolly's chances. Of course, he was also worried about Little Tolly turning on him, and the best way to deal with that was to use

he would both weaken Little Tolly significantly and make any potential rampage manageable, and he would also secure his Metal Spirit's future. It was

a faint bit of the little one's intention to devour the power itself, but it immediately

this was the most complex thought that he had ever heard come from Little Tolly so

know what kind of beast that beautiful creature had been, he was certain that it was at least beyond the level of the Ancestors of this world. So, the fact that it could be so strong, and yet not dealt with by the Regulator, made Leonel feel that just maybe... it might be

greedy thinking that he could devour something like that

from the residual Force of the Infinity Beast itself. So, even

of blood. It had been a long while since he had been worried about gravity of all things, but looking at Little Tolly, he

beast didn't look like it had metal attributes, and Leonel had learned long ago that more abilities wasn't as good as abilities that coincided with your current path. For example, with the Silver Tablet, he had been able to steal the Ability Indexes of others for a long while, but he never