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.

course... Leonel had been a baby while Myghell had been a grown man. There

didn't believe that was enough

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 should have been able to weather the storm at the

this was

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

had a heavy leaning toward life. Whether it was the Light Side of the Northern

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

Metal Synergy Lineage Factor, even though only part of the whole, had a heavy emphasis on creation, mimicking aspects of the Metal Spirit Race and forming many things

with creation

then there was his Innate Node. It could be said to be the exact opposite. It was the embodiment of

to tear an infant

an end after all, and she really wanted to

of this was something else that he had neglected: his Ability

couldn't have been stronger,

it have clashed with his

only was he looking for a way to regrow Leonel's Innate Node, but he also

with creation pulling in one direction and destruction pulling in the other. He might have even found it to be poetic if it wasn't for the

had been the far stronger of

Scarlet Star Force Innate Node, his enlightened self even