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...'

runes that he had memorized as they fell from the Vital Star seemed

non-existence wind for a

still at Half-Step Impetus State. But it felt far

The world around his felt brighter, as though he

It was gorgeous.

rather than allowing yourself to become tied down by its complexities,

no wonder I'm so

light above. The beautiful dome of

grasping the beauty of life, it really wasn't a Force

to enter the Dimensional Cleanse Trial. And if that really was his future self, then the only reason he had placed Vital Star Force inside was to save

would go back to normal once again.

running away from the beauty of life?' Leonel asked

knew the answer. He didn't really see the beauty of it at

more cruel. Beasts used the world as their own personal toilet, they fought and killed one another for scraps, scavengers

everyone tried to gaslight him into

spend the end of her pregnancy in almost constant discomfort. Her back would hurt,

it would be the worst pain she would likely

into forgetting the entire experience, making them feel as though it wasn't so bad, all so that evolution could spur

being a slave of your own mind, or a law of existence as

You didn't even truly experience colors as they were, not only was a large segment of the spectrum hidden from you, the color of an