Dimensional Descent

Leonel felt himself slowly calm down, his expression becoming serious. He didn't know how to feel about the conclusion he had just come to. It felt like there was something missing.

Sure, Ability Indexes were an anomaly that he couldn't quite understand. They appeared for seemingly no reason and they were an existence that manifested outside the bounds of reason.

It was no wonder.

Leonel had a deep understanding of his soul now, deeper than any comprehension he had ever had in the past, and beyond what even some with Life State Dream Force might come to comprehend. And yet, he had still yet to find the source of his Ability Index.

Could it be further down? Could it be located in the First Dimension instead of the Second? The Dimension of the impetus of Existence itself?

'There's a kernel of truth to that, something...'

Leonel's gaze flashed.

What about the universes necessitated that there be life? Why was it that under the pressure of evolution, life would appear again, and again, and again, given the right conditions?

The answer was obvious.

There was a rule as fundamental as any other rule of physics that everyone was ignoring, a rule so fundamental to Existence that it forced life into being.

What that rule was, what its parameters were, what limitations it had... those were the questions that would decide just how useful this information was to Leonel.

'The necessity of life...'

felt his Vital Star Force comprehension shift. Those vague, partial runes that he had memorized as they fell from the Vital Star seemed to fuse, albeit only

in non-existence wind for a moment before it

maybe somewhat disappointingly, his Vital Star Force comprehension was still at Half-Step Impetus State. But it felt far more like his own comprehension now, as

else changed as well. The world around his felt brighter, as though he

It was gorgeous.

choose to see the beauty in everything, rather than allowing yourself to become tied down by

wonder I'm so incapable with this

sky light above. The beautiful dome of glass that

the beauty of life, it really wasn't

just so happened to enter the Dimensional Cleanse Trial. And if that really was his future self, then

she would awaken and everything would go back to normal once again. So did

the beauty of life?'

didn't really see the beauty of

even more cruel. Beasts used the world as their own personal toilet, they fought and killed one another for scraps, scavengers might even have some dung for dinner

tried to gaslight him into believing was a

of her pregnancy in almost constant discomfort. Her back would hurt, her feet would be swollen, she would be a slave

the day she finally did give birth, it would be the worst pain she would likely experience in her

because their brains would trick them into forgetting the entire experience, making them feel as though it wasn't so bad, all so that

about that? To be chained into being a slave of your own mind, or a law of existence as

experience colors as they were, not only was a large segment of