Dimensional Descent

Leonel coughed up a mouthful of blood, his pupils constricting. He felt that he was on the verge of dying. His Dream Force was quickly dissipating, and though he wouldn't die a true death, he would lose without having even ascended the mountain, and that would be a different form of death. Even if he didn't die immediately, the Human Race would certainly be finished.

However, Leonel managed to maintain his tranquility.

His first thought was that he had accidentally triggered something he shouldn't have, maybe a failsafe of sorts. When you were using a treasure like this and using trial and error instead of raw comprehension, it was inevitable that you might accidentally stumble into such a thing.

However, after seeing that the shield wasn't actually trying to kill him, Leonel's eyes narrowed.

He paid close attention to what was really happening, and when he figured it out, his eyes widened.

He retrieved his Dream Force and coughed up another mouthful of blood as the belt was ripped out of his chest.

His Dream Force was still quickly dissipating, but he used the Life Tablet to keep it intact. Then, he rushed down the mountain, looking for a target. When he found a Tier Six, he swiftly killed it then continued to find another, and then another.

Eventually, his Dream Force finally stabilized.

He took deep heaving breaths. That was really close. If not for the Life Tablet, it would have all been over because of his recklessness.

He didn't usually think of himself as a reckless person, but he couldn't really describe what had just happened as anything but reckless. He had made a mistake and it had almost cost him.

But this mistake hadn't come without its benefits.

treasure...' Leonel muttered to himself,

pulse of it out the other direction in return. The more you poured in, the

could release a blast at Tier Eight just like Regnier could, but his understanding of the treasure was limited, so he could only do it once every ten seconds. In addition, if

wasn't the main ability of the shield at all, it was just the cover used to hide its

purpose behind that action just now that went beyond just a failsafe against those

shield's wraps put him in a near-death state so that he would be on the verge of returning to his body on

have allowed Regnier to use his

problem, though, was obvious. The moment you activated this function, you would be on a ticking timer. And since you would have to be in a near-death state to make it work, the time was

Regnier didn't...

Leonel felt that he could last about three minutes total... if his

was up, he would

he used his Dream Force to do anything else, like controlling a beast

was that of his real body, which was separate from the Dream Force this avatar was using. But it was still something to note

it returned to the form of a belt that wrapped around his arm. Thoughts

'Reach Tier Eight.'

else and began hunting Tier Eights. He was much more cautious, knowing that

his surprise, or maybe his expectations...