Dimensional Descent

Objectively speaking, it wasn't a bad plan. All things considered, the fact that Minerva went so far as to do this was actually a net negative for Leonel. This meant that she was no longer choosing to be as arrogant as she was in the past and taking him more seriously.

Honestly speaking, this was bad news for Leonel. Minerva was someone he had only managed to defeat because of her lack of wariness and her overall arrogance. She failed to take Leonel seriously, so she had only brought three people and in the end, she had lowered her guard so far that he was able to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

Now that she was actually taking precautions, this meant that the villain he was ready to face off against had changed her deck of cards...

It was just unfortunate she didn't have nearly enough information to play such tricks on him.

He actually didn't want to expose Aina's abilities, as that was yet another net negative for him. However, all things considered, if he were to rank the list of worst outcomes to the best, this was ranked somewhere in the middle.

Of course, the best outcome was that Minerva would still be arrogant enough to not make any contingencies whatsoever. In the worst case, though, she filled the competition with abstruse lingo only well known and understood in circles who had been formally trained in the Complete Worlds.

Even in the worst case, Leonel wouldn't be completely helpful. He didn't need to understand terms if he could understand the intention of those speaking them through the fluctuations of their Dream Force.

However, if the one explaining the matters was Minerva who had Dream Force far above his own, then there wasn't really much he could do if she hid her intentions.

This was still a problem he might face. However, unless Minerva was an existence who had reached the extreme of both Crafting and Force Pill Crafting, Leonel felt that he would be just fine.

As far as he was concerned, she was the only one who Leonel felt could hide her Dream Force fluctuations from him.

Even though he knew that this wasn't a killing mistake on Minerva's part, and he knew that the game had only just begun, he felt alive.

going to stimulate him in the slightest. However, this game of chess with

Now that was stimulating.

light pinch come from his side and he saw Aina send him a questioning look. Seeing her perfect reaction, Leonel couldn't

rolled her eyes. Compared to the murdering demoness they had all seen just months ago, she was completely different. Restrained, and though not quite docile, she exuded a gentleness that quickly became sharpness when she met

do?" Aina asked, using her soul to

partner up with me and I'll take the brunt of it for now. You're going to

was speechless. What was this man

Forces, but that and this were two different matters. It wasn't like they had just swapped all of

because they were anchored in the soul to begin with. However, matters like Crafting and

at least this difficult,

smiled and shook

she would have to first create an entirely new system of Force Pill Crafting that didn't rely on Blood Sovereignty, and then somehow transfer all that muscle memory and the

easy," Leonel just said. "We'll fuse our souls and they'll never

"You can't

Palace. Back then, Aina remembered

this wasn't why Aina was blushing. It was more so that doing this was almost like having sex in broad

his face, Aina couldn't help but pinch him

begun, but Aina, Leonel and their cohort hadn't even moved. In fact, the couple were clearly busy flirting while those who hadn't expected the new rules were running around like

paired up the