Dimensional Descent

This time when Leonel re-entered the odd plane, he came in like a blazing inferno. He could easily remember the energy signatures of all those that had attacked him previously, it might as well have been like looking at a face for him. But he realized almost instantly that those people were no longer around him.

He realized what the issue was soon. The movement in this odd plane was incredibly fast, but it was also a great deal restrained. The further he traveled the greater burden he felt on his Dream Force reserves, as though his soul itself was being stretched thin.

The more soul he had, the further it would be able to go from his current location, but if he moved too recklessly, he could find himself having killed himself before any of these people could get around to him.

However, what Leonel learned immediately after that was that it didn't seem to matter who was around him at all, or more accurately, he hadn't landed in the midst of a particularly sinister bunch. It instead seemed that everyone in this plane was a complete jerk. He had only appeared for a few fractions of a second before he took everything in, and yet the new group of individuals around him had attacked without hesitation again.

It was as though they all had a keen sense for fresh meat and they wanted at Leonel immediately. But this time, they paid the price for it.

The Destruction Runes lit up, and a raging, violent aura shredded everything in its path.

"Sovereign!"

had roared this into his ears, and yet it felt instead like it had echoed out from his very skull. It was an odd and disorienting feeling, the kind that almost made him think that this was some sort of soul attack instead

but they didn't really say what kind. That was interesting, interesting enough that Leonel felt that he could make some extrapolations from it. In fact,

'If that's the case...'

in, but the instant he did, his voice came out like a

his Destruction Runes had been. His voice

Leonel was stunned. This...

experienced this feeling since the last time he had

Verse, the less Invalids there seemed to be, but this made sense. The powerful families that had managed to survive would have long since gotten rid of the Invalids that threatened them. As for Variant Invalids, well... the last time he had come across one was in the

even feel that his Dream Force had gotten not a small boost

'They're memories?'

of place was this? He could kill souls to increase his strength, and he gained their memories on top

of the Shadow Sovereigns worked similarly... but it didn't directly increase their strength. From his understanding, as they defeated other Shadow Sovereigns, their Shadow World became larger and their

this was something all Sovereigns had, then Aina would have found her own

the edge of something big, but he couldn't quite understand it. He chose to immediately go through and organize the memories