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.

Regulator isn't the physical manifestation of a being. It has no will, no consciousness, it only exists as an arbitrator of

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

the Regulators that gatekeep states

more but your little mind would

access to these layers of reality. The more access to these layers of reality you

encompass the entire Incomplete World. The Regulator had tried to stop him as well, much like it had tried and

what his dad meant by ignoring the rules of

about Forces? This explanation sounds a lot like one

silence, but Leonel could feel it calculating something. In fact, he could vaguely tell that

now, and though he was far from his father, he had at least clipped the edge of Velasco's cloak. He

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

it was unlikely his father would use the same words. And his father had never stepped out of the Dimensional Verse, so how could he know what terms the

the dictionary was able to convert everything into

Then it spoke.

But the distinction is in body and in

caused it, or path you

fundamentally cause changes

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

fused into one, it's impossible to give both the care and attention they need. Both need their own approaches. If you keep them together, as the body progresses, it will pull the soul along, forcing it to stretch itself across several Dimensions so that it won't be left

overall, and it

Leonel frowned.

He... somewhat? Understood this.

Manipulation represented folded your Forces until they could return and be used naturally as close to the Third Dimension as possible. Then, stepping into the

It seemed that the body's task was to rise through