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.

was practically ending, but even if they did, it was hard to claim that anything would really change. Ultimately, they were used to it

Earth, then it was ending for the Human Domain,

had already all grown into calloused, seasoned warriors who had seen everything and been through everything. Even though

of the human population that seemed to be running around like

and celebrating, forgetting their worries and drowning out

time with his brothers these days, even after promising himself for the millionth time that he would, it seemed that

this time, 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

peace until it finally seemed that the humans... or maybe it was the Demons had

he couldn't even say

was obviously

based on percentages, they would skew that percentage as best they could in their favor. They started to

and sighed when Anastasia informed him about what was happening. Honestly, he couldn't even drum up the motivation to

and had just holed

but at this point even the Gods themselves are cowards, so how can the

looked up into the skies lost in thought while Aina reclined in his arms. They both wore white like a true pair of newlyweds, basking

to

didn't even