Dimensional Descent

Leonel collapsed and took a breath. What a headache, all that trouble and it had bought him what? Maybe a couple dozen minutes at best? What an annoyance. His old man really knew how to screw him over even from beyond the grave.

Leonel shook his head and returned to his alpha form, forcing the wolves to rush up from the third layer into the second layer.

Sergeant Amon was beyond all of them in strength. Culling this sort of beast tide would only be slightly complicated for him because of the winding tunnels and the various soldiers and researchers he would have to protect. If not for this, Leonel might not even have more than a few minutes.

He had done his best; now he just had to mine a billion kilograms of ore, and he didn't even have an hour to do it. Perfect. Not to mention the fact he would also have to find a method of escaping as well as the only entrances and exits were guarded on the surface. But that would be easy enough.

Leonel stood and stretched out his back. Then, he grinned.

The third layer was massive.

The ceilings were at least 50 meters tall, and it was at least a half-kilometer of diameter from one end to the other. This was only about 80% of the region as well. Outside of this, there were several chains of tunnels which would be where the wolves of the third layer normally hid until Leonel goaded them into coming out in full force today.

The walls were lined with a shimmering metal that almost looked like obsidian with a touch of the faded black of charcoal. However, what was interesting was the fact that there wasn't a single mark on them; they hadn't been touched at all.

Of course, most of the mining had taken place on the first layer, so it made sense there wasn't much movement on the second and third. In addition, this had been the realm of the researchers.

As for what they were researching, Leonel had a few guesses.

Aside from looking for a potential fourth layer, they could be looking for the core of the mine which would be responsible for the production of such a large mine to being with; they could be trying to see if there were any Ores of higher evolution here, or maybe any invasive Ores that would need to be weeded out to keep these Ores strong.

on modern Earth, metals in these worlds had real life to them. They were better treated like plant life than inanimate objects. As such, caring for the mine so it could continue to produce for many centuries until its core ran

check to see if this mine could be upgraded from the Fifth Dimension to the Sixth, and so on. If it was possible, they'd probably close off the third layer and begin the

there was a lot the researchers could have been doing, and

of the mine?"

meters to your 11 O'Clock and

Leonel was actually quite

even if there wasn't a fourth layer, there was practically a fifth layers' worth of Urbe Ore here alone. In fact, that might not

for some unknown reason, the mine core is

"Peculiar how?"

she couldn't explain. So,

about the Ores down there? Are

fact, they

That made little sense. Logically, the further down you went, the older the Ores should be and the more valuable and precious they should be. He had never heard of Ores

many layers are

one a

they get progressively

"Yes."

eyes flashed with a

explanation: something was pushing the Ore