Dimensional Descent

Leonel was speechless. This woman was so crafty, but did she have to be so paranoid at the same time? He could understand her feelings. He had taken her into the Segmented Cube in order to hide the manifestation of her Lineage Factor. It was impossible to tell what kind of trouble it would cause if this commotion was sensed by someone who knew what it actually meant. But from her perspective, it looked like he had taken advantage of her distraction to bring her into the very world she had been trying to avoid all this time.

'Fast,' Leonel's pupils constricted.

His thoughts immediately went to using Anastasia to suppress this woman. It would be easy. In this world, he was invincible so long as Anastasia stood on his side.

Even if he didn't use Anastasia, as a person with the Northern Star Lineage Factor, it should be easy for Leonel to use the Life Tablet to subdue her as well.

But he didn't for two reasons.

The lesser of the two reasons was that he didn't want to sour their relationship. Obviously, using such means would make her think the worst of him.

However, this was the lesser for a reason. He felt that if he restrained her, he could explain what was happening quite simply and she was smart enough to accept it.

The real reason he didn't stop her was because he was fascinated. She had only just awakened the Lineage and she didn't even have the supporting techniques for it... So how come she was suddenly so much more powerful?

Her fist appeared before Leonel in a blur of Light Force. It was so fast that it felt like she had cut through space itself, bending the laws of causality and bearing down on him.

Cindra's thought process was quite simple. She knew that Leonel likely had great control over this world, so she wanted to catch him off guard and restrain him so that she would gain the upper hand again.

for her, Leonel's thinking speed was still far beyond her own, at least for now. He had already thought through her intentions and the

blows, Leonel being on the back foot

slid onto the surface of the vast ocean waters, their movements kicking up currents

Waters licked against Cindra's ankles, and to Leonel's astonishment, they began to pull

getting better and better under its influence. She was so focused on dealing with Leonel that she didn't

with his elbows and countered with a fist to her chest. Cindra's body blurred and she appeared to his side, a vicious roundhouse kick lashing out against

the wind slicing kick with a shoulder check and braced himself, his core tightening

Force rippled, mixing in with the Cleansing Waters

body and explosively retreated, but

coating shattered, sending sparkling shards of glass falling into the water. Her feet smashed down into the water, forming a massive

furious cascade of strikes sending out shockwaves into the air. They weaved

strikes, pillars of glistening

through the skies, three quick fists layering atop of one another and echoing

The feeling of her life being in danger erupted in her mind like an explosion

her body as a pair of wings spread from her back. Golden runes danced within these white scales and her hair became a

ocean seemed to separate in two and she appeared before Leonel so fast that rather than a teleportation, it felt more like the very world had shrunk at her

idea came to Leonel's mind as a strike of lightning linked in his

the skies under the might

world whined and buckled as