Dimensional Descent

Somnus' eyes widened. He was in a genuine state of shock.

His first and the most reasonable conclusion was that the teleportation device had malfunctioned for them too, so of course they were here....

But then where was everyone else?

And why weren't they surprised as well? Shouldn't they feel fear seeing him, a Demi-God, standing in their presence without anyone to check or regulate him?

And then he watched as Leonel slowly pulled out a spear. It flashed out from a depth of nothingness before his body was covered in an amorphous armor with neither shape nor form outside of something vaguely humanoid.

Leonel didn't speak a word, but the previous words echoed in Somnus' mind nonetheless.

He had said that his words would cost him his life, and here he was to collect.

Somnus suddenly began to laugh. "Is this what I look like to other people? Overly confident? Overly brash? Prideful to a fault?

"You have no idea the gap between mere Mortals and Demi-Gods, but you came here to flaunt your insignificant wealth?"

Leonel's spear tip trembled, every downward stroke causing a ripple of flames to spark.

As he walked forward, Aina stood in silence, crossing her arms and not saying a word. The current Somnus was beyond Leonel right now, she knew that. But the measure by which Leonel won wasn't based on raw strength nor the common senses either.

Regardless of what the raw stats said... she felt that he had a 100% chance of victory.

So she stood there, her hair silently blowing in the wind as her husband continued to walk forward, his gait slow but steady. Every step looked precise, the same amount of distance apart, the same level of pressure, the same time from raise of foot to its descent.

And with every step he took, it seemed a new ability flourished.

air of bronze that came from his Auspicious

Step.

amorphous armor and their soles beginning to pop and sizzle with strands of smoking embers...

Step.

came a flourishing crown, billowing with dense silvers and golds... His Dream

Step.

"Yip! Yip!"

his little teeth, sitting on Aina's shoulder. He was none other than the reason the braces had been found in such a convenient location, and no he watched Leonel walk into battle as he had seen many times before, his

Step.

vanished and Somnus sneered, punching out

BANG!

Spear and fist met.

Dimension, it felt like a joke for him to face off against him even if he wasn't a Mortal, and

blood before? How'd he manage to heal the injuries

be shattered. In fact, the casual punch alone made several fissures and fractures appear on his bone.

[Domain].

[Universe].

Leonel's crown shimmered...

[Finality].

it with a change to his expression, but

"What...?"

tip passed through complex Force Arts that

BANG! BANG! BANG!

and crushing his defenses... well, the amount of Forces he could use in the first

so many Life State Forces at this point that he could even suppress the likes of Somnus by over

was that Leonel's Dream Force was so far beyond Somnus' with the addition of his Sovereignty that the latter couldn't even muster

out, landing a sole right on Somnus' chest and sending him