Dimensional Descent

The group of demons rushed into the earth, moving so quickly through the paths that Leonel had left behind that they were already seconds from catching up with him.

However, when they got to the end of the path, they found nothing. Leonel seemed to have vanished into thin air.

Khelgis frowned. He was certain that someone had just followed this path, but the problem was that Leonel seemed to have vanished into thin air.

There wasn't anywhere else that he could have possibly gone. There were no other patches of soft earth.

Was it a diversion? No, that didn't make sense. If he had the time to set aside and make a tunnel to distract them, why would it have just a single path? At the very least, he should give it some branching pathways so they would be distracted for longer than a few seconds, or make it so that they would split up and be easier to pick off.

However, none of that was happening here, and it was more confusing than anything. If Leonel could suddenly vanish into the earth, then why had he made this tunnel to begin with?

Khelgis' eyebrows flared with dancing flames. He didn't like this feeling at all. No one could lead him by the nose.

...

Leonel sat in a small crevice. Little Blackstar lay on his lap, panting for breath.

He could only shake his head, what a close call. But it seemed that Little Blackstar had given everything he had just to get them to this point.

In the final moment, when Leonel was struggling to make it through, he asked Anastasia to scan the rubble to see if there were any nearby pockets of air. Luckily there were, and he relied on Little Blackstar to get to them.

when Blackstar hit his limit. Some things were simply easier to phase through than others, especially when it was such a dense mine of Ninth Dimensional Urbe Ore that

face off against hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands of opponents at once before. But now less than a dozen had

In fact, the current Leonel was already stronger than he had been back in the Dimensional Verse. It was just that these opponents were

had just been one demon, he could have just directly fought against them or had

'Sun and Moon Demons...'

the others. That wasn't to say that the others were weak because he had to take them seriously as well. It was instead that the Sun and Moon Demons were

was an illusion, they almost gave him the same level of pressure as Vivak or the other Ninth Dimensional

Higher Demons, a step below

could guess by this one encounter that it had to be true. It

the reasons the human alliance hid the existence of Force Manipulation from the general human population was because it was the great equalizer. Meaning, one could use Force Comprehension to make up for a

Force Manipulation exceeded raw talent

he hadn't even comprehended even one Impetus State Force. But that didn't mean

they were children. El'Rion was just 14 years old, and Shan'Rae was probably similar. What distinguished them from

an adult, but

was all to say that Force Manipulation was just one standard by which to measure a person. Their intrinsic gifts, what they were born with, the blood running through

surpassing El'Rion right this moment, he still didn't stand a chance

This was the difference.