Dimensional Descent

Leonel strolled off and Aina split off from him, starting a battle of her own. He couldn't help but smile to himself, he had to admit that relying on Aina when he was certain she wouldn't end up injured or harmed gave him a unique sort of feeling.

He appeared inside the Three Finger Cult compound and frowned. Most who tried to lock onto him were quickly dealt with by Aina and even his clothing wasn't ruffled in the end.

The compound itself was still akin to a large airplane hangar, but the dense and stacked boxes were nowhere to be seen. Instead, there were markings on the ground, etchings that had likely been hidden beneath the crates.

Leonel walked to the end of the large hangar, but found nothing.

'Hm... cute.'

Leonel suddenly tapped a foot and a flood of Dream Force rushed through the etchings on the ground, and in a sudden flash, he vanished.

When Leonel's vision cleared, he found himself in a world all too similar to an Inbetween World. However... not quite.

Instead of rolling waves of darkness, there was a lot of rock that seemed carved out of obsidian. But rather than being glass-like, Leonel felt that even if he attacked with all of his strength, it wouldn't do any good.

He frowned for a moment and his Earth Force rolled out in a foggy wave, but soon his brows shot up.

'I can control the earth in an Inbetween World, but not here?'

Leonel looked around more seriously. There was a faint suppression around him, but he shrugged it off with ease. The gravity was heavy and the air felt even heavier. Moving felt as though he was trying to swim through crude oil.

"Who?!"

A booming voice echoed and a young man descended from the skies with a heavy BOOM.

Leonel's head tilted to the side, looking toward the tail that swayed behind the young man. It was a tail of shadowy black, sometimes it would split into two, three or even more forms, but ultimately it would return to a single form of oneness.

young man had an imposing might and he seemed ready to throw a punch at Leonel, but almost instantly he fell to a knee so hard the ground quaked once

of rainbow came from

battle, was suddenly

the Four Great Families that just vanished. Then there was the Dream Pavilion that actually ended up being a deeper well than I even expected. And

Cult can be

in his mind like a

this time, Leonel was wondering where his grandfather was. It just felt like if he had

he learned about how deep the waters of this world were, even in the Human Bubbles alone, the more he understood just how complicated this matter

Emperor Gervaise Fawkes simply wasn't ready. Either that... or he was waiting for

you?" Leonel said in a rumbling,

elder, I

"Rank." Leonel commanded.

descended to the

not have a rank, esteemed

- Wise

[Clearance Level: Novice]

[Contribution]

[Life: -]

[Gold: 2]

[Silver: 2]

[Bronze: 2]

[Black: 7 827 710]

379 382

time, Leonel had only increased from an Apprentice to a

God. These were the clearance levels, each one allowing a far greater store

largest change was honestly that his Bronze Contributions had ticked up by one. From Leonel's understanding, this increase of one actually didn't even come from