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.

took out the Silver Tablet again, and Joel's beast body

with this before the rest of his brothers followed through, one

it felt like a knife was being twisted into his

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

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

you be so reckless?

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

on the ears even, like

trust felt like a burden, a burden he

the hell is wrong with

a step back

because of his Vital Star Force? It was like an anchor in his heart. Without the presence of other Forces within him because his body simply couldn't withstand

brown trembling. "I'm tired of dying. I've already experienced it three times now. But I'll experience it

contradictory words rang in Leonel's

opportunity. An Ability Index wasn't the only thing that could represent those concepts, but life

...

felt suffocated. He 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

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

it

so cruel, his actions so decisive and emotionless. How much of that was really

needed the space

though, the golden tablet trembled

his hands, and a humanoid figure appeared

forward without thinking, his arms wrapping around Aina before

for what, exactly? Do they think they're going