Dimensional Descent

"-so you were thrown into the in-between worlds to collect demons for the juniors, and this happened while you were inside?" Vivak's gaze narrowed. "You're quite... lucky."

Leonel laughed, scratching the back of his head. "My Dream Force is quite good and my reaction speed is excellent. Plus, I was lucky enough to find a spatial tear out and took my chances."

Vivak nodded slowly. Leonel's Dream Force was indeed powerful, abnormally so. It should also explain why he managed to become a Spear Sovereign.

'A Destruction Sovereign and a Spear Sovereign in the same body. He's exactly the kind of specimen we were hoping for... no, he's more than we could have ever hoped for. But that doesn't explain why we didn't sense him.'

"Your Spear Dom-"

"Ah! Noah!"

Leonel's eyes opened wide as though this was the first time he noticed his cousin by his side.

Noah was a bit sluggish to react, but he looked at Leonel with a dull gaze before nodding lightly.

"Oh... Hello, Leonel."

He nodded and then lowered his head to the floor.

Leonel blinked in "confusion," before he pursed his lips and pretended to be peeved by Noah's reaction.

"We're cousins and you still act like this every time you see me? Is it that big of a deal that I was named Crown Prince and you weren't? You even went and changed your last name."

The nonsense flew out from Leonel's mouth with a practiced ease.

He had thought about pretending not to know Noah at all, but he tossed that idea to the back.

about him. If he pretended not to know Noah, and then they found out that they

a perfect compromise. It gave him a reason to

Noah were indeed not that

Leonel really needed was an excuse to help Jessica out. He couldn't let her die just like that. If Noah ever snapped out of it and found out what

"Cousins?" Vivak's gaze narrowed.

mother and his father are siblings," Leonel said lightly, still a

to flash with a fierce light. This sort of

pushed it

Lineage Factor, how is

up. "... Oh, you mean that. Sorry, I haven't called it

raised an eyebrow, "why's

me, it was different. I think it might be

brows shot up. "I

this was true, it would explain everything. It was no wonder they didn't sense it;

Vivak wasn't necessarily wrong. At the very least,

he didn't suffer its corruption. And then his Spear Domain Lineage Factor fused with his

what, Leonel,

eyes brightened. "Sir God remembered my name;

he found that

you feel about going with me instead of Molexi?"[Author's note: spelled like that on

This..." Leonel

Vivak observed Leonel.

It was difficult to reconcile this Leonel with the Leonel that

he remembered something, that beautiful young woman who was by

only acted back then to make sure that he

contact Molexi about bringing your

sank, and tears began to pool in his