Dimensional Descent

'... You've got to be kidding me.'

Leonel unleashed a groan and pushed the crate off of himself, pushing it into the air with all his might and ducking for cover before the wind could knock him off his feet. He slid to the ground, gasping for breath. He pulled one knee to his chest and rested his forearm on it. With the way his pale violet hair drifted over his face, his eyes were entirely obscured.

In that moment of silence, it was truly as though he had been cut out from the world and placed in one of his own creations entirely. And within it, his heart felt a frightening cold, one that chilled him to the bone and made his flesh feel as fragile as a thin pane of glass.

If Leonel had known that Wise Star Order used the Silver Tablet to create the legend of Merlin, he would have figured this out long ago. If Leonel had known how Zones worked in Complete Worlds, rather than assuming that they couldn't exist at all, he would have figured this out long ago.

But now, he felt like it was all rushing to him at once, and he also felt that it just might be too late for him to realize all of this.

These people were truly monsters.

His breathing calmed, and the tranquil look in his eyes returned.

He understood why they had all been so casual, why they didn't react much to the deaths of so many of the youths that were supposed to be their "last" hope, why Mo''Lexi didn't seem to care even about sending Leonel and Aina off to their deaths, so much so that she had even casually allowed them to hunt demons for such insignificant characters.

He could tell. Compared to Alastar, those three young men could be considered trash. There was absolutely no way that Leonel's own potential was seen to be weak enough by Mo''Lexi to risk his life just for their sakes. If anything, shouldn't Mo''Lexi be trying her best to raise Leonel from the Fifth Dimension? She knew that his Dream Force affinity was greater than maybe anything she could have hoped from someone raised in an Incomplete World, and yet she ignored it as though it didn't matter in the slightest.

All of these disjointed actions, all of these inexplicable choices, could all be explained in a single sentence.

They wanted to wring them up like farm animals, place them on a plantation, then work them to death. And the worst part was that even if they died, it still wouldn't be an escape.

couldn't fathom what it could be... Until he

he stepped out of the Valiant Heart Zone for the first time, how much existential dread he felt watching all of the subordinates he had

Tap to unlock!

impetus for his own change, one where he swore to become a King, just to ensure that such a thing would never happen to anyone

He had erased them like the unspawned game characters that they were,

sort of god, pressing his finger on the scale like that

this was

all

be so useful. The people within had potential, but it was hard for them to have as much potential as the truest elites of the Complete Worlds-even among the

might be barely worthy enough to reach a middling standard in the Complete Worlds, there

It was too insignificant.

what if they could make the life

a frying pan, and

of the Zone itself, like a game that could be played again and again, like characters

Zone that Leonel couldn't probably place. Was it a Variant Zone? A normal

had always assumed that maybe it was Mythological, based on some legend of Planet Valiant that he wasn't

reason the Silver Tablet was within

had always been trying to revive the world to its original state, to fight back against the fading of the Northern

if this was yet another one of

becoming as deep

a choice to participate in this event at all. He bet that anyone foolish enough to not take