Dimensional Descent

Thorne stumbled back, coughing up a large mouthful of blood. His eyes were opened wide with shock.

It was hard to understand Aina's level of skill when you were just watching another person do battle with her. Nothing she did felt special and she was often so bland and... human.

But facing her now, she was like an unshakeable mountain. Her moves felt bland and simple only because she seemed capable of cutting to the root of a battle in an instant. She found his weakness and shredded it apart in an instant. She didn't need to couch her battle style in a rain of fancy movements and the like, and her Forces were often concentrated into her body so her actual power was deceptive and hard to gauge without standing across from her.

Thorne coughed again and blood fell from his lips in a stream, but he still managed to stay on his feet despite the fact there was a huge gaping hole in his back. If one looked at him from that vantage point, it wouldn't have been a stretch to assume that he was already dead.

However, right then, his flesh began to wiggle about and slowly mend itself, and the blood he was coughing up dried up as well.

From start to finish, Aina didn't press her advantage. She was observing him silently, her eyes filled with a certain light that was hard to read.

Thorne definitely wasn't as vulnerable as he had just seemed. But that was only part of the reason she didn't attack.

This man had angered her husband, and that was enough for her to teach him a lesson that he would remember.

A quick victory was nice. A dominating victory would be better.

Thorne took a breath and stabilized himself.

"You're going to regret that," he said lightly.

His body began to morph and change. Violet scales erupted across his body and his shallow horn became larger and more prominent.

A heartbeat that sounded like the roar of a violent beast spread out into the surroundings and another energy took shape in the air... 'Dream Force?' Aina thought. Even so, she remained entirely unmoved.

meters tall. He circled around Aina, every step he took separating out another clone of him, each one seemingly just as physically real and substantial as

Suddenly, they all moved.

swords slicing through the air, Aina actually realized that they were all real, and each one was more than twice as powerful as Thorne had been. He was clearly hiding a great deal of

finger again and this time, she gently

took shape, spiraling almost

step and vanished, grabbing one of Thorne's horns and pulling him down to

the earth as Aina kneeled

"Anything more?" She asked.

his heart

Even after those things Leonel said to

he was filled with so

ROAR!

and Dream Force rising into a formation in the skies and

step back as Thorne

head. It seemed that this was all the

a finger upward and a beam of light streaked through it. After hitting that single point, the entire formation seemed to have lost its strength, wilting away before it could even make

like a savage, his thin sword being replaced by a heavy sword

He, too, used a thin sword until he was pushed to the edge by Leonel, only to swap to a great

while and she knew that Leonel had taken a liking

head and punched

BANG!