Dimensional Descent

Leonel sat in silent meditation, slowly pulling himself into that state of sudden enlightenment that he had touched upon just days before.

If for no other reason, this sort of ability was one that others would kill for. Who knew how many sudden enlightenments were ruined in the past by a stray thought or an interruption? And yet, this couldn't faze Leonel at all.

He would call this ability Dream Enlightenment.

It could be used for anything as simple as catching a strand of sleep before wild thoughts put you into an awake state again, all the way up to resurrecting a true state of enlightenment like this one.

The Four Season Realm... The Heavenly Body Realm... The Natural Light Realm... The Cosmos Realm... The Constellation Realm...

He pulled himself back to those thoughts once again.

'Star Force... it was the only Force that always seemed to be attached to something else... it didn't usually come alone... The disorder of the Realms...'

Leonel quickly found that rhythm again.

He thought about how he had always assumed that the progression should be the Natural Light Realm first, then Four Season, then Heavenly Body, then Constellation, before only then Cosmos appearing.

But he had been proved wrong, and Wise Star Order had even laughed in his face when he said so.

But why...

Why Four Seasons first? Why was Natural Light not more simple than the seasons?

light, could they not? In winter, the days were shorter, and

cosmos was formed of many Constellations, so how

make sense unless the main idea here wasn't the phenomena themselves, but rather the

Force... Universe Force... The

was the Northern Star the arbitrator of chaos? Why was its descent so important? Wasn't it just one star? What Force did it embody? Why was it called the Northern Star and not the Chaos Star or the Death Star?

it moving at all? Why was it growing larger and shifting its position? Why was it, that in a constantly expanding universe, something so far

something deeper, something

had saved his life. It took three days to reach this state before, but now it only took a matter of

his definition of the Realms

their names...? What if the progression was

Constellation? Would he still

No, he wouldn't.

Natural Light referred to the presence and disappearance of heat, if the Cosmos referred instead to the gooey, soupy state of unbirth that a universe was in during its infancy, and if Constellation referred to the first signs of order... Would

Yes.

knew how many languages were out there, how many times these words and meanings had been translated, how often the deeper truths hidden within could become murky due to a game of telephone... [Universe] was the perfect example, it was exactly the

to comprehending the Universal Cycles around it. It referred to creating your own, to manifesting your own seasons, your of Heavenly Bodies, your own kernel of light, your own breath of

Northern Star, your

"north" was important. Before anyone learned of the danger it posed, everyone knew it for one thing:

were, what world, whether Complete or Incomplete, it

was the true Star

attached to something else was because it was akin to Urbe Ore. It was an enhancer, a constant and steady hand, a foundation that

seasons were the cheapest form of this foundation. It showed you that the slightest changes in the amount of Star Force one