Dimensional Descent

[Bonus chapter courtesy of Mr. Mostert <3 1/6]

Leonel looked at his haul. He had over 50 Forgetful Orbs now. He felt that he would at most need 20 to reach the Life State, and that was if things went horribly. He should be guaranteed to succeed now.

He crushed the first one, and that familiar feeling of forgetfulness came back. It was like that moment just after you woke up in a new place... what was familiar had suddenly been replaced by something else, and you lay there confused for a moment, wondering what had happened to the world around you.

Even so, the confusion wasn't deep enough that you felt fear or trepidation. You were sure that there was a reason you were in this unfamiliar world, a reason for these soft bed sheets that were just a tad different from what you were used to... a reason why you were staring at a door when usually you would be staring at a window... why the shading and lighting wasn't exactly what you were used to despite the fact your internal clock told you that you should have woken up at around the same time.

Leonel basked in that feeling, and then he caught onto something new. It was actually a hint of fear.

This fear didn't come from his situation, but rather that feeling of loss that came with much of the context of his Dream Force being stripped from him.

His Dream Force wasn't just an external Force; it was him, and its rise in strength was the anchor that allowed him to find himself... his true self.

To him, Dream Force wasn't just a means to an end; it was the ends, and the context around how he had reached this stage wasn't just a casual enlightenment here and there... it was him, his true self.

Every step he had taken carried with it the weight of the person he was now, and there was a certain beauty to that. But it was likewise the reason he suddenly felt a hint of fear using this Forgetful Orb.

he couldn't bring it back? What if it would be lost to him forever if he took one too many? What if he would lose a piece

sunk in heavily and it was hidden deep within the core of

Dream Sovereignty feel

was a sudden and random thought, one unlike the fear-laced ones he had had until this point. But after some thought,

had purged the influence of the Demoness and become Leonel

Sovereignty? It was because that was the first feeling he had back then, but was that all there was to

several words to describe

time overall and the first of

before, or maybe he hadn't noticed it? No, it definitely wasn't there; he had dug up as

to finally

tested? Maybe it was being refined? Whatever it was, he could feel it getting further and further away. If it was the first thing, he already felt close to it

clearly. It seemed the fear wasn't coming from his Dream Force itself, but rather it losing

sense. It would likely only come with increasing difficulty to keep moving up like this. He already had one Sovereignty attached to a Life State Force, and two more a half-step

made him take a

the difference between Destruction Sovereignty and Dream

as something attached

his Dream Force in that way? How many other Sovereignties

really separate? Or was it just another name for darkness? He didn't feel that it