Dimensional Descent

This was trouble.

Leonel quickly got information about the demons. There were four of them, all of whom were in the Eighth Dimension. It was really enough to make Leonel wonder why they did this at all. Just one of them was probably enough to kill the Sergeant, so why go through all of this trouble?

Soon he understood, though.

The demons probably had their own resources, they didn't need to steal the humans. In addition, their race probably had a generally low reliance on such things to begin with. They were fighters and they relied on their own strength. Leonel was willing to bet that their number of Crafters was low, especially considering the standard of weapons he had seen from the group of demons he and Aina had killed.

In that case, their priority wasn't to kill or occupy this mine, it was to destroy it, or at the very least make it very difficult to unearth again. If they could kill some humans as well, then that would only be to their benefit.

But Leonel felt that they were a bit stupid. This wasn't the best method to destroy the mine at all. Seeing the sinister look on their faces, it looked as though they had chosen one of the worst options just because they felt it would be more fun to watch the humans squirm this way.

Leonel fell into his own thoughts. If this was their intention, then making it out would be even more difficult. In that case, his best option would be setting up a teleportation formation and getting himself out of here.

He made the decision quickly and used Anastasia's help to get him to a region of the second layer with the least amount of people. Then he used one of the many entrances that had yet to be found to slip back into the third layer, where he rushed into the tunnel system, ignoring the catacomb.

Researcher Popsy had already long since gone back up to the second layer. In her opinion, the person was long gone from the third layer and was now trapped somewhere in the second along with the rest of them.

She was smart enough that she might guess that Leonel had returned to the third layer, but by then, he should hopefully be gone.

could see the dense ores like Force barriers of sorts, and it only made it worse that Urbe Ore was

same reason why Little Blackstar couldn't have been the one to go and get the embryonic Urbe Ore Core. Phasing through these ores wasn't like phasing through normal walls, it required pushing through a large

battle, Little Blackstar could phase through one attack, or a few, but phasing through these Urbe Ores was like trying to do so with a continuous barrage of powerful and dense attacks.

same, teleporting out of here when the Urbe Ore stabilized the space so much was

way. This was just Fifth Dimensional Urbe Ore, and he had an overpowered little Metal Spirit by his side that could recreate any Ore he had ever touched before from thin

abuse this power. But this was a teleportation formation only built for

Leonel wanted quickly and began to push out the ores. Leonel stopped the little guy quickly

fusing them,

just a single person took shape and Leonel embedded it

as he heard the sound of footsteps swiftly approaching. He could only shake his head, this Researcher

Researcher Popsy rushed in, her hair bobbing in its messy bun

quickly reached out, a

light once it

...

Leonel asked with a frown. That vial was yet another thing he didn't understand, the second in not too much time at that. First it was the talismans that that young man

did as she was

into silence as his

'Fascinating...'