Dimensional Descent

"How'd you manage to use the Convention Path in the Void Palace?"

"You think I went to the Void Palace for their help? I went to chase skirt-I mean I went to be an instructor. I never joined that shitstain of an organization as a student, I had better things to do. Plus, they paid me a hefty sum. Probably thought that if I was in their sights, they could learn about what made me so powerful. Jokes on them, I'm one of a kind."

Leonel smiled. This old man never explained things so clearly, but because his AI was strapped to the rules of the dictionary, it was like he was finally learning more about his father's life.

"So basically the Conventional Path is very malleable. Are there any limitations?"

"There are limitations to everything, but the Conventional Path is a bit... unique. You essentially undergo two body tempering stages. To the outside world you seem to be in the Sixth, then Seventh, then Eighth Dimension. But in reality, you just repeated the Third, Fourth and Fifth Dimensions. You never really stepped into the Sixth."

Leonel frowned. That sounded... wrong.

"If it sounds wrong, that's because it is. The Conventional Path is theoretically supposed to work like this, but it doesn't. Rather than staying in the Fifth Dimension, or better yet, backtracking to the Third with the same strength and power, you instead get what I call... Quasi Dimensions."

"Quasi Dimensions? What's the difference?"

Leonel was suddenly very interested. He had concluded recently that Dimensions were highly important, but they didn't quite work the way explained in Earth's physics textbooks. He had a feeling that this was the piece he was looking for.

"Dimensions represent an elevated state of being. The higher your state, the closer you are to the foundations of life itself, and thus the more powerful you are.

"This elevated state of being is mostly reflected in an abstract sense to most who go about their day to day lives. However, it's more tangible than just existing in the abstract, and it's as real as the Dream Plane is. I just don't believe that there's someone in existence you can touch upon that Plane.

"Well, I would have given enough time. But there's no use crying over spilled milk.

"What's important is that this state of being is like an anchor that holds everyone in place, and I believe that it's related to the Regulator.

a being. It has no will, no consciousness, it only exists as an arbitrator

face to face with a Regulator one day, it would just be a Force Art, just

it's the structure laid out by the Regulators that

I would explain more but

keep a complicated matter simple. When you cross a Dimension, you gain greater access to these layers of reality. The more access to these layers of reality you gain, the more you

He thought back to that Void Race Ancestor who was so large he seemed to encompass the entire Incomplete World. The Regulator had tried to stop him as

by ignoring the

explanation sounds a lot like one

In fact, he could vaguely tell that

his father, he had at least clipped the edge

was doing this, it was converting the terms his father used

Manipulation was a term Leonel had coined, it was unlikely his father would use the same words. And his father

dictionary was able to convert everything into vocabulary

Then it spoke.

the distinction is in body

or

comprehension of Force will fundamentally cause changes

separating the two is so important. The soul's natural state is in the Second Dimension, as is that of every other Force, but the body's natural state

If you keep them together, as the body progresses, it will

weakens your soul overall, and it likewise weakens

Leonel frowned.

He... somewhat? Understood this.

they could return and be used naturally as close to the Third Dimension as possible. Then, stepping into the Impetus State allowed you to finally take that step, while the Life Step would allow

that the body's task was to rise through