Dimensional Descent

Leonel opened his eyes slowly and exhaled. His strength hadn't improved in a tangible way, as he was still in Tier 1. But if one was to say that his power was the same, they would be sorely mistaken. In fact, he felt that staying at Tier 1 was the far better decision as well. If he could, he might even choose to return to the Sixth Dimension. He had been too hasty in progressing.

The more powerful you were in terms of Tiers, the more difficult the hurdle to clear was if you wanted to improve your Forces. Leonel could also feel that within [Dimensional Cleanse], the best state for him to improve his body the most would have been in the Sixth Dimension as well. While he could still feel large progress in the Seventh, he felt that he would have gained even more had he been weaker.

There was no use in regretting it, but it was something that he kept in mind for the future. It would be a harder path, but he could still reach the end.

He also couldn't help but note that the creator of [Dimensional Cleanse] hadn't given him the Eighth Dimension Layer or the Ninth Dimensional Layer. The meaning behind this was obvious; he wanted Leonel to deduce the rest just like he had the first several layers. It would benefit him far more to do this.

Leonel stood to his feet. To his surprise, Little Tolly reacted, squirming up his arm and spreading across his hand, wrist, and up his shoulder and even part of his chest. He coated Leonel like a sleeve, turning his left arm into a gorgeous pattern of silver and white gold.

A slight smile spread across Leonel's face. He could feel that the little guy was trying to say sorry; it seemed that it was still forming more and more complex thoughts. He felt like a parent watching his little toddler grow up.

After a while, his expression grew more serious and his gaze became cold. He could feel the Forces singing around him, so he also knew that this world was going to collapse soon. The unfortunate part was that he didn't know how to go back.

He had to actively enter this space by clearing the puzzle, but when you were sent out, it was automatic. There obviously wasn't the same clear process. He had to figure something else out.

Suddenly, he felt movement from Little Tolly. The little guy was just messing around, feeling happy that Leonel didn't blame it. But the movement and the strong connection between the two of them made Leonel suddenly realize something.

Dream Force didn't

acting like something akin to an Innate Node, but

paths for Metal Spirits was related to

wasn't just Crafting stamina that Little Tolly could help with, but there was a noted improvement to all of his

helping Little Tolly breakthrough like this would give him access to all of the Spirits' Paths,

like making your Metal Spirit a jack of all, and master of none. But for Leonel to be able to feel this change

could only be that beast, that's the

shook his head. He had to think about this less and more about how to

had used to get here, but that was stupid. He knew it was, so he didn't even try it. He didn't even know what "reverse" would mean in this context. What surface would he use

was that returning would likely have its own unique chemical structure, one that he wasn't strong enough to even begin deducing. There

again and again. How to return home, how to

on its own and tapped. Little Tolly did a small happy dance in him mind as though it

he leads me into the middle of a blackhole,

portal, but to his astonishment, he stood right where he had left, right beside El'Rion, and the latter

an interesting structure, yes, but it's ultimately still a Third Dimensional material without any Force

looking at Leonel for the first time since he began his "payback." He could feel just how different Leonel was, and when he looked at the silvery white gold sleeve on