Dimensional Descent

Leonel stretched and tried to move, but Aina was still wrapped around him like some sort of cross between an octopus and a koala bear.

"You're so clingy, wife."

"Are you complaining, husband?" Aina sneered, not opening her eyes.

Leonel's face almost split with a wide smile. That was the first time Aina had called him that, and it felt sweeter than he had thought it would.

Aina opened an eye when she didn't hear Leonel respond, only to see a smile that she could only return in kind.

"I'm not done with you yet," Aina said after closing her eyes. "Be an obedient hunk of a pillow, please."

Leonel chuckled. "Alright."

He pushed himself up and shifted Aina's position, letting her curl up in his lap and arms as he pulled himself into a meditative position.

Whether she was here or not wouldn't really affect much. In fact, it made him calmer and his thoughts and Force only seemed to move more smoothly.

He had already gathered up all the resources he needed to enter the Fourth Dimension, but he was still missing a few things on the comprehension side.

His Forces weren't the problem. He had already succeeded in elevating them all to the Middle Impetus State and then some. What still remained on the list was comprehending True Destruction Sovereignty, tempering his body with Sixth Dimensional Pure Ores, and raising his Constellation Realm comprehension from Rudimentary to Common.

Luckily, that sudden breakthrough while he was running from Khelgis and Adru had covered a lot of those bases as well.

True State, melding what he was

Constellation Realm Comprehension had

Leonel's deviation, he believed that what he had done was actually better than

had deviated from the original path, and thanks to the earlier mentioned breakthroughs, he began to use his

where his body was almost the perfect reflection of a God Beasts and the weakness of his human body would no longer be a limiter. And better yet, he

little to none. Aside from the boost he gained to his Dream Force affinity as a result, he was free of those chains... and he liked it

then, he was still Leonel and he was still stubborn about many things. That woman had forced him to watch his wife die right in

would never rely on that power

more than a pawn in his palms. When that day came, he would assimilate it

Nothing more, nothing less.

and the True Dream Plane's rewards having given him full

Ninth Dimensional Evolution Ore to

he had Anastasia to handle that and it

Segmented Cube's world. Then, holding his wife in his arms, and without a care in the world, he began to absorb

changes to his Destruction World, it felt

beaded down his brows and his body tensed, but at the very least, he wasn't curled up

was his Dream Force. As much as he wanted to say it was because of Aina's soft body pressing into his,

to it that it hadn't had in the

also very strong, but it was also very brittle. If it was