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.

in the slightest. However, this game of chess with a woman a half-step from the

Now that was stimulating.

send him a questioning look. Seeing her perfect reaction, Leonel couldn't

seen just months ago, she was completely different. Restrained, and though not quite docile, she exuded a gentleness that quickly

Aina asked, using her soul

it for now. You're going to have to

What was

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

they could exchange Force comprehensions was because they were anchored in the soul

least this difficult, what

smiled and shook her

first create an entirely new system of Force Pill Crafting that didn't rely on Blood Sovereignty, and then

easy," Leonel just said. "We'll fuse our souls

blushed. "You can't

done this was back in the Void Palace. Back then, Aina remembered the feeling quite clearly. It felt far

It was more so that doing this was almost like having sex in broad daylight. Leonel was really too

the devious grin on his face, Aina couldn't help

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 headless chickens. How were they supposed to vet thousands of people in just an hour? At best, they could just throw a dart at the wall and hope for the

paired up