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 what was familiar had suddenly been replaced by something else, and you lay there confused for a moment, wondering what had happened to the world around you.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.

would be lost to him forever if he took one too many? What if he would

and it was hidden

everyone that comprehended a Dream Sovereignty feel that tranquility he

thought, one unlike the fear-laced ones he had had until this point. But after some thought, he didn't feel

that tranquility part of how he had found his true self? How he had purged the influence of the Demoness and

a huge piece of his Sovereignty? It was because that was the first feeling he had back then, but was

words to describe it. Tranquility, confidence,

fourth time overall and the

he hadn't noticed it? No, it definitely wasn't there; he had dug up as much as he could,

to finally

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 slipping free of his hands. If it was the latter two,

could feel it quite clearly. It seemed the fear wasn't coming from his Dream

made sense. It would likely only come with increasing difficulty to keep moving up like this. He

him take a step back

and Dream Sovereignty? Was there a

had just described his Destruction Sovereignty as something attached to his Scarlet

way? How many other

was it just another name for