Dimensional Descent

Leonel looked down at the girl. Even in his enraged state, he had noticed the actions of this young woman before. His connection to the Dream Plane had been cut off in this place, but he could still read people's intentions with far sharper intent than most could.

Knowing this, he targeted this woman because she seemed smart. She would likely know about the stuff he had missed out on.

"Open your eyes."

The pink-eyed young woman trembled and bit her tongue. But after a moment, she opened them, a hint of resolution within.

She was, indeed, sharp. Among those that Leonel had killed, there were two women who were conventionally more attractive than she was. If Leonel wanted to do that kind of thing, she wouldn't have been his first choice. He didn't seem like the type to use women in that way, he would sooner kill them so that they wouldn't be a burden. Though it was possible he found her to be a bit exotic due to her oddly colored eyes, this was a small percentage chance that she didn't place more than a three or so percentage chance upon.

There was another important matter as well. The way Leonel fought, the look in his eyes when he swung his spear, it was all precise, cold and calculating. He probably had a sensory type Ability Index much like her own, and as such, he probably felt that she was useful to him for something.

But it was odd. It didn't make sense for Leonel to need another sensory ability if he had one of her own, but judging by that old man he was cursing, maybe he hadn't come here of his own will, and as such... didn't know the rules?

Leonel hadn't made any attempt to absorb the energies around him, so that made sense.

of this place, don't hold anything back, or else I'll know. If you satisfy me, I

she realized Leonel's spear was still pressed to her neck and she had nearly cut herself. It seemed that even she was a bit

the Gods seems to be divided into rounds. They haven't told us what the next rounds entail, but this one is

points aside from the Seeded Participants. Killing a Seed Participant doesn't net you points, but it

combination of insights and raw strength. It can be either used to push your Tiers upward, or you can

that possible? He didn't

than one Innate Node, which was essentially a

bad even to create Innate Nodes yourself. The Gods clearly had a method of forming Innate Nodes naturally, but they advised against doing

Node was even worse, making your future path even

circumvent these problems. In fact, if his deductions were correct, this method of refining people down into their Force insights was likely

was perfect, and yet inadvisable to use. So how much worse would the

scheme by the Great Families. They wanted their pawns to be strong and also use this opportunity to get stronger, but in line with their usual history, they didn't want them to get

become extremely powerful within the

their potential ran dry, they wouldn't even think to link it back to this occurrence, making them remain

a clever