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.

small, especially since this was among

did so with a smile, basking in the waves of pressure. It almost felt like a massage

attention to the different quirks of the Dream Force, and he seemed to be able to feel the subtle differences as he progressed. It somehow felt

it wasn't for the fact that

shared a similar shape. Instead, it looked like it contained countless fluttering golden runes inside, each one shaped

and difficult to grasp, but it was

around him, having endless potential, and yet didn't

seemed to sense that Leonel was the

9999th spot it shared along with the three other Dream Pavilions that had entered along with him, it shot upward blazing back into the top 1000 and appearing near

trembled and then, under everyone's astonished gazes, the Vast Dream Pavilion moved up one more spot, firmly

Pavilion would take such a commanding victory. Even if Leonel had been first, if there had been a second, third, and fourth place, the Challenge points would have been distributed in a Tier system. Fourth place

have at best moved

The divisions in the rankings were as follows. There was a dividing Tier for every 1000 spots where both the strength and Contribution Points leapt