Dimensional Descent

Leonel rushed to capture some creatures to stabilize his situation, and once he was done, he didn't rush up the mountain yet. Instead, he went to every mountain he missed, plucking away every Forgetful Orb that he could find.

Between the ones he took away from the corpses of Deputy Pavilion and Pavilion Heads, and the mountain ranges he had yet to visit, he gathered over 300 of them. This number was a huge boon to him. He could help a large number of people progress through the Impetus State.

Aina didn't really need it. Just with her Soul Clairvoyance alone, she could probably walk through the Impetus State blind and with her limbs bound. The real question was the others. Leonel was worried about how long they might take to catch up.

He gave them as much help as he could, and it wasn't like they were slow compared to everyone else, but it just wasn't enough.

He didn't have the time to allow them to slowly grow. They needed strength now, and this was the only way to ensure that it could happen. He almost wished the True Dream Plane was harder so that he'd be able to gather more.

However, he pushed down this thought. This was too dangerous. If Minerva had a different sort of temperament, or he didn't succeed in his breakthrough, or any number of other little things didn't go just right, he wouldn't have been able to succeed like this.

When Leonel was finally done, he met the tall mountain with a smile on his face. Then, he began to walk up it.

The pressure of the Dream Force washed over him. It felt not too dissimilar to the stairs he had to walk up to reach the Life Tablet, but this time, it didn't seem to care that he was a Sovereign.

Usually, this mountain was meant to be walked up in a tandem. This was a race to the end, not a fight to the death. However, Leonel, though not the first to do so, was a minority in what he was doing now. Taking on the pressure of the mountain alone was something only some had managed to do.

especially since this

the waves of

different quirks of the Dream Force, and he seemed to be able to feel the subtle differences as he progressed. It somehow felt to have character, and yet completely free from restrictions at the

to the top of the mountain. If it wasn't for the fact that there was simply nowhere else to go, he

they shared a similar shape. Instead, it looked like it contained

movement of the runes was erratic and difficult to grasp, but it was beautiful nonetheless and

was the same feeling he got from the Dream Force around him, having endless potential, and yet didn't feel flippant

to sense that Leonel was the only one

three other Dream Pavilions that had entered along

more spot, firmly taking 100th place while the former 100th

if there had been a second, third, and fourth place, the Challenge points would have been distributed

have at best moved up

in the rankings were as follows. There was a dividing Tier for every 1000 spots where both the strength and Contribution Points leapt forward considerably. Then, there was the 100-999 Tier.