Dimensional Descent

Leonel didn't know that his mission had just gotten that much harder. In fact, he was in a state of quite some tranquility as he moved because his father had indeed left something behind.

"Listen here, oh seed of min-"

"Could you stop with that nickname?"

"Silence, twerp. I'm trying to help you."

"Oh? That's a change."

It took way longer than Leonel cared to admit to get his father's AI to actually start giving him the information it was apparently here to provide. But the moment it did, what he learned quite quickly was that he had too little understanding of what his father had done for him.

For one, Leonel learned that his being born with a Scarlet Star Innate Node and then having it taken away not too long after was actually somewhat of a blessing in disguise.

His father had, indeed, gone to Earth to learn about their forms of medicine in an attempt to regrow the Innate Node and also to stabilize his condition.

After losing his Innate Node, the infant Leonel had been in an extremely precarious state where he could have died any time. The pressure of a higher-level world only made his situation worse, and it was only by returning to a Third Dimensional World could he finally begin to heal.

The question he had never really thought about was why?

The answer seemed obvious. Obviously, it was because he had lost a precious part of himself, but was that truly the case? When he took his Innate Node back from Myghell, the latter had seemed fine afterward.

had been a grown man.

that was

at birth should have been excellent. Even if he lost his Innate Node by rather crude methods, it was so small and insignificant back then that unless those few bastards tried to kill him at the same time, he

was another

said that his Innate Node would consume him if he didn't master it within

toward life. Whether it was the Light Side of the Northern Star Lineage Factor or the portion of the Morales

the Morales Lineage Factor as a whole had a heavy emphasis on life, so much so that he practically exuded vitality, his single breath capable of causing whirlwinds in the

whole, had a heavy emphasis on creation, mimicking aspects of the

ties with creation

the exact opposite. It was the embodiment of destruction,

between the two should have been enough to tear an infant apart. It reeked of an experiment, reeked with

after all, and she really wanted to see

than all of this was something else that he had neglected: his

of Life itself, and his affinity in it couldn't have been stronger, especially with

would it have clashed with his Innate

as well. As a result, not only was he looking for a way to regrow Leonel's Innate Node, but he also suppressed Leonel's true Dream Force affinity so it wouldn't

in one direction and destruction pulling in the other. He might have even found it to be

side had been the far stronger of

that he gained a second Scarlet Star Force Innate Node, his enlightened self even having brought it