Dimensional Descent

Leonel stepped out from the Silver Tablet. Or, rather, he simply snapped out of his meditative state, alerting himself to the outside world once again. It wasn't lost on him that there were some hostile people before him, but he wasn't worried about it in the slightest. How could they harm him with Anastasia around? He hadn't hesitated to enter a deep state of focus at all.

"I have a technique here that might help you all return to your human forms. It might take some time, but so long as you're diligent with it, things should work out in the end."

Leonel crushed the technique orb that appeared in his palm, and a Force Art appeared before him. It wasn't too complicated, and it was actually far simpler than what he had seen from his own Ability Index and Alexandre's, and certainly less so than Goggles'.

He didn't know how these people would react to a technique being in this form rather than the more digestible format they were used to, but this was the best he could do for them.

What Leonel didn't expect, though, was that Joel would block his path before he could leave to handle other matters.

These bear beasts that his brothers had been turned into were enormous. Even on all fours, they could look Leonel right in the eyes.

Leonel and Joel's eyes met for a long while before Joel's eyes suddenly lost all spirituality. His body keeled over and collapsed.

Leonel rushed forward and caught Joel by instinct, feeling his heart beating out of his chest.

'What's wrong with me?'

Leonel furiously shook his head. Normally, he would understand Joel's intentions instantly, and react with far calmer. It was obvious that Joel understood enough about Leonel's abilities to know that he could turn them back so long as they killed themselves.

Of course, Joel was a bit too eager. If not for the change to the Silver Tablet, Leonel would have had to put him in a snow globe until he got his King's Might Lineage Factor back.

But, Leonel had felt panic first before anything else.

Life wasn't so fleeting. He could feel the weight of it now more than he ever had before.

Tablet again, and Joel's beast body trembled before it

before the rest of his brothers followed through, one by one. They killed themselves without

it happened, it felt like a knife was being twisted into

of them, bringing them into the Silver Tablet before pouring what Force resources he had left into resurrecting

felt a heaviness that he hadn't felt before, a heaviness that didn't vanish even when he brought them back one after another. It felt

be so reckless? What

more light-hearted, and even in a joking manner, but it had lost any sense of that it once had when

grating on the ears even, like he was reprimanding

like a burden, a burden he almost wanted to

hell is wrong

a step back along with

anchor in his heart. Without the presence of other Forces within him because his body simply couldn't withstand any other Force right now, it had taken

too, Leonel," Joel looked into Leonel's eyes, their deep brown trembling. "I'm tired of dying. I've already experienced it three times now. But I'll

contradictory words rang

the only thing that could represent those concepts,

...

understood what Wise Star Order had meant about an Innate Node being able to consume you now more than ever. And this was just a Force he had comprehended, what if one day his Scarlet Star Force Innate Node began to rampage

Sovereign Tablet. His fingers trembled slightly as he tried to steady

maybe it

so cruel, his actions so decisive and emotionless. How

needed the space

golden tablet

react, the tablet spun out of his hands,

without thinking, his arms wrapping around

what, exactly?