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.

speed was still far beyond her own, at least for now. He had already

Leonel being

of the vast ocean waters, their movements kicking up currents

ankles, and to Leonel's astonishment, they began

under its influence. She was so focused on dealing

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

a step back. He blocked the wind slicing kick with a shoulder check

Force rippled, mixing in with the Cleansing Waters and

explosively retreated, but not before Leonel's knuckles barely managed to

water. Her

again, the furious cascade of strikes sending out shockwaves into the air. They weaved in and out of clashes, the wind seemingly imploding and the clouds above dispersing beneath their

pillars of glistening geysers

laughter peeled through the skies, three quick fists layering atop of one another and echoing with sonic booms as they ripped through the

erupted in her mind like an explosion of magma. The heat pooled through her veins and her heart leapt out from

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

she pressed off against the water, the 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

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

several mirrors appearing in the skies under the might of his Emulation Spatial

and buckled as Leonel