Dimensional Descent

Leonel's reaction was far too calm, but the reality was that it was hard to act surprised when you had deduced what would happen the moment it started. Had he wasted time trying to stop Veiga, the Morales would have suffered casualties, and heavy ones at that. At the very least, upwards of a million would have died. For the casualties to go from zero to that point, to this sort of level, he found it unacceptable.

But it was likely that whoever was messing with his plans likely knew this and acted accordingly. Though it was doubtful that they expected Leonel to be so decisive.

Unfortunately, whatever facade of a brash, unruly youth who was too full of himself wouldn't work anymore, but that was the least of his problems.

He cast a glance toward the Half Spirituals.

In order to deal with the immediate problem, he decisively destroyed the formation. This time, it was truly destroyed and there was no coming back from it other than to rebuild it from the ground up. While he could have taken his time to find a less crude situation, the more time he wasted, the more Morales would have died.

His speed of thought was fast, but not fast enough to analyze a Path that he had little to no idea about, and then apply that to a formation that spanned an entire solar system. Even he wasn't that mighty yet.

His most important takeaway from this event, though, was that this person was smart. Almost too smart.

Leonel couldn't remember ever giving this sort of evaluation to anyone. It was a simple one-word description, and it wasn't overly flowery in his presentation, but it held the weight of the word when it was spoken by him.

In order for this person to outplay him like this, they had to not only understand the weakness of his Silver Tablet and his Lineage Factor in combination, but they also had to be able to use an entire Path and a formation they had likely never even seen active in person, to create this whole farce.

the worst of it. That much was still acceptable. The truest problem was that for this plan to have worked, it relied on

complex matter simple, this individual used the strength of the Spiritual's formation to target the weakness of the Morales, dealing a blow to Shield Cross Stars,

that was done, Leonel still wasn't 100% certain on the details, but he had

worked by sensing the life of the universe around them, melding into it, and allowing the power to wash over it. But it was also precisely because of this

nature could mean multiple things depending on the location, the person, and even the time. With that in mind, it was beginning to become clearer how

now a large concentration of Morales in the surroundings. And what exactly was the innate

might be a hard question to answer until one remembered

Lineage Factors seemed to influence their minds and they became more battle-hungry and less reasonable. This was what had sparked

used the Dream Plane to amplify the innate

in its sphere of influence, the very nature of the world around

both hating herself for what she had done, and hating Leonel for putting her in such a situation, it had

felt that Leonel's analysis of this person wasn't nearly high enough.

felt that it

there not be explanations of the God Path within? But they were all vague and abstract, as though even people