Dimensional Descent

[Bonus chapter courtesy of Firemonster <3 4/6]

So that was what Leonel did.

He used his Ability Index to take stock of his body, understanding it to the deepest and darkest depths. Then, he used his Unnamed Lineage Factor to take control of those depths, forcing them to accept a breadth of outside power.

They became like a vessel for his strength to leap forward by leaps and bounds.

In a way, he was "devouring" his own body, its potential. Using it as a conduit to cause his basic strength to soar.

He didn't care what it was. So long as it was a Mine Core with some sort of Light, Dark, Star, or any related Force to both sides of his Northern Star Lineage Factor, he devoured it.

All he could think about as he moved was El'Rion.

He could remember the sheer magnitude of his bodily strength. A single drop of his blood could destroy a Void Beast corpse he could hardly put a dent in. His body was so sacred that it refused to bleed even when he lost an arm. His vitality was so powerful that his language alone sounded like the roars of dragons and lions, and the claps of thunder and the strikes of lightning.

That was the body he wanted. He didn't know how far from it he was, but he wanted it.

He could feel that his body was like a bottomless well. It could take more, imposing his will on more, make more his own.

Just the Unnamed Lineage Factor alone was like an insatiable black hole. When the Golden Tiger and the Death Pulse Deer were added to the mix, Leonel's body was truly akin to a brewing storm in a bottle. Lightning alone couldn't crack it.

Every time he swallowed another Mine Core, his body would thrum with excitement. His blood would move faster, his heart thump louder.

The air began to shudder and quake around him as though his body alone had gained a will that imposed itself onto the world.

More. More. More.

after absorbing a hundred Mine Cores,

a thousand, he felt like he could have

after ten thousand, it felt like

that it was hard to believe that it was him... and in

If even tens of thousands of Mine Cores weren't enough to satisfy him, what would happen

only aiming for the weakest mines of them all. At this level, they were so numerous that

even more considerably. But every time it pumped,

Pulse and Golden Force

too did his Forces by

and then doubled again. He suddenly felt that this world was too small

the

crossed

Then the 500,000 mark.

completely focused on devouring his next meal, his eyes shifting from orbs of black to the pupils of a roaring

with a tug so hard that a slab of almost a hundred meters across shot

reached forward, beckoning the Mine Core toward him and devouring it in

moment, Leonel exuded the truest aura

a maddened beast, zipping around from location to location and moving with a

could see him now, what they would

738,928.