Dimensional Descent

The conclusion was simple. So long as you were within the first of three steps, and you hadn't locked yourself in by entering the Sixth Dimension, everything was still negotiable.

The reason why he could rearrange the steps of Dimensional Cleanse like that without much backlash was precisely because it didn't matter which of the three steps you took first.

If he had wanted, he could have focused on his body in the Third Dimension, his mind in the Fourth, and his energy in the Fifth. Who knew, maybe there were some techniques out there that did just that.

He now also understood why he felt so depleted, why his body was so weak and why his Innate Nodes were dormant.

The real reason was because he wasn't in the Fifth Dimension at all...

He was in the Third!

The reason he felt that he was in the Fifth was because his mind was fully unshackled. It was also why his Dream Force was so absolutely powerful.

His Innate Nodes were dormant because he technically hadn't formed his Nodes, though they were very clearly in his body.

His body was weak because he had yet to form his Nodal Pathways, though technically he already had.

Everything lined up and made much more sense to him.

One might be wondering why it was that Leonel was so excited. After all, just because he understood his situation now with greater accuracy, didn't mean that anything had changed.

He still didn't know how to move forward, and if anything, he had even more questions now than answers.

But Leonel didn't see it that way.

The first thing he had thought when he realized he was in the Fifth Dimension, after he finished cursing, was that it was a shame he hadn't been returned to the Third Dimension instead.

had been laid out for him perfectly. How could

say something earlier,

your own head as though you're the only one with all the answers. You

heart skipped a beat, but then he slowly

gotten some closure the last time he talked to his father, or at least his AI father, but that

would know something about all of this; he seemed to

seal that he felt had been undone in his mind was definitely something that his father had placed,

when his journey began, at least not in terms of the progression of

there

Velasco make a whole training plan for his Crafting, but then leave him to his

planned for this day to

it was his grandfather or his father, it seemed they both liked to hold up a mirror to his face and show

only two he didn't seem to really mind being the pawn

I'll take a look.

a hand and one of the almost

few stragglers remaining that hadn't been killed by the Alpha's Domain, and they all wanted to get at him and tear him to pieces, but they also couldn't step onto the magma without combusting and dying. So they had been growling around the outer rim, launching

was a bit sad,

"Hey!"

shake and their growls to subside. It

he

hesitated, but when he realized that the compulsion was gone because his Alpha was dead, he

compulsions on them, but not enough to

took out one of the Betas he had stored away from

recognize him?"