Dimensional Descent

"Son of a bitch-" Leonel cursed, looking up at the skies. Aina had mentioned that she had a plan for him, but she said nothing about it hurting like hell.

Most of his screaming was just for the theatrics; he had gotten used to pain like this, but that didn't change the fact it really did hurt like hell.

"That was just to 30%?" Leonel asked, huffing out a breath.

"Yup," Aina said, a little too cheerily.

Aina had said that he could only bring out 10% of his Northern Star Lineage Factor's strength because the way he wanted to use it wasn't really compatible with what it was designed to do.

Essentially, the Northern Star Lineage Factor was designed to elevate the mind and grant affinity for powerful Forces. The amplification of the body was secondary to those effects, so the fact that Leonel was trying to use it to purely do that was like trying to ask the sun to cool something down.

Technically it could just by moving away further, but that wasn't what it was really designed to do.

Either way, Leonel had managed to triple the strength of his body in a short time. Well... somewhat. He still needed to absorb the resources he would need to fill in those gaps. He had only absorbed enough for 10%, now he needed enough for 30%.

That was fine, though. With Aina's strength and his own, they didn't even have to trade for the resources from the Dream Pavilion. Whether it was the Human Bubbles or the Demon Bubbles, they assaulted them all until Leonel was filled to the brim with Fourth Dimensional Mine Cores once again.

The two bounced ideas off of one another and improved by leaps and bounds for what felt like every second. While the world was practically imploding around them, they moved about without a care.

Then, the two returned to the Segmented Cube and broke the news to everyone. There was an eruption of cheers and celebration, and they seemed to forget about their own training for the sake of hanging around and partying.

knew that the world was practically ending, but even if they did, it was hard to claim

the world was ending for Earth, then it was ending for the Human Domain, then it was ending

seen everything and been through everything. Even though their talents were lacking compared to Leonel and Aina, their hearts and wills

of the human population that seemed to be running around like a group of headless chickens, they were

everyone, happily drinking and celebrating, forgetting their worries and drowning out their

with his brothers these days, even after promising himself for the millionth time that he would, it seemed that there was always another world-ending

with Aina and his methods brought together, they could truly change their lives until it wasn't just he who stood at the frontier protecting all of them, but it slowly became

it finally seemed that the

had already thought of. In fact, he couldn't even say it was a bad one

that plan was obviously complete

they could in their favor. They started to

head and sighed when Anastasia informed him about what was happening. Honestly, he couldn't

this matter. Maybe they had expected this to happen as well and had just holed themselves up

but at this point even

in his arms. They both

to killing a

who didn't even