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.

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

his brothers

it happened, it felt like a knife was being

into the Silver

felt before, a heaviness that didn't vanish even when he brought them back one after another. It felt as though he couldn't catch his breath, and bringing

so reckless? What if something went

wanted this to come out far more light-hearted, and even in a joking manner, but it had lost any sense of that it once had when it was filtered through

sounded harsh, grating on the ears even, like he was

a burden, a burden he almost wanted to instinctually

is wrong with

a step back along

his heart. Without the presence of other Forces within him because his body simply couldn't withstand any

into Leonel's eyes, their deep brown trembling. "I'm tired of dying. I've already experienced it three

contradictory words rang in

Ability Index wasn't the only thing

...

Node being able to consume you now more than ever. And this was just a Force

bed, holding Aina's Blood Sovereign Tablet. His fingers trembled slightly as he tried to steady

maybe it

so cruel, his actions so decisive and emotionless. How much

the space to

the golden tablet trembled and a

out of his hands, and a humanoid

without thinking, his arms wrapping around Aina before she was even aware of her

"The humans are amusing, don't you think? All this effort, and for what, exactly? Do