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.

own, at least for now. He had already thought through her intentions and the only reason she was still standing was because of his

two figures exchanged hundreds of blows, Leonel being on the back foot for much of the

the vast ocean waters, their movements kicking up currents and

ankles, and to Leonel's astonishment, they began to pull away at the impurities in

was so focused on dealing with

countered with a fist to her chest. Cindra's body blurred and she appeared

than taking a step back. He blocked the wind slicing kick with a

the Cleansing

retreated, but not before Leonel's knuckles barely managed

sparkling shards of glass falling into the water. Her feet smashed down into the water, forming a massive chasm as she erupted

out shockwaves into the air. They weaved in and out of clashes, the wind seemingly imploding and the clouds above

one of their strikes, pillars

of one

in her mind like an explosion of magma. The heat pooled through her

runes danced within these white scales and her hair became

water, the ocean seemed to separate in two and she appeared before Leonel so fast that rather than a teleportation, it felt more

to Leonel's mind as a strike of lightning

own Light Force flourished, several mirrors appearing in the skies under the might of his Emulation Spatial

and buckled