Dimensional Descent

[Bonus chapter thanks to TheCodedProf :) (4/6)]

They're actually all methods to use World Spirits? Leonel was taken aback. He had expected something different, and maybe he could find something like [Domain], [Universe] or [Finality] that could take his combat prowess to another level. But... it was outside his expectations that it would all be like this.

There was one method that taught of how to subdue World Spirits, there was another that taught of how to use a World Spirit as a sacrifice to save your life in a pinch, there was another that taught of how to use a World Spirit under your control to corrupt another...

The methods seemed endless, and some of them read more like scientific literature and theory than actual applicable methods.

And yet, Leonel was completely enraptured. For the first time, he forgot about the ticking timer in his head and engrossed himself in reading.

The more he did so, the more he felt that he wasn't just reading about methods to help himself, but more importantly... Anastasia.

There was too little he grasped about World Spirits and their usage.

It seemed that World Spirits took much longer to mature than other living creatures, and as a result, they were probably both some of the most dangerous and also most susceptible creatures in existence.

But what was more interesting than that was the fact that Spirits like Little Tolly and others were more interconnected with World Spirits than Leonel had previously come to understand. In fact, it could even be right to go as far as to say that they were the same Race.

They shared the name Spirit, but Leonel had never really thought much about it before because it felt irrelevant. The word Spirit could evoke so many things...

But now that he thought about it, even across languages, the word was the exact same. It made sense to dismiss it in English, but when every other culture was likewise the same...

a change. I need to cross reference my intelligence not just in English like I've been doing, but also in other languages. I

of it and slotted it into the back of his mind. He didn't create

work, and almost instantly, a raging spark of lightning shot through

'This...'

a bit before exhaling out

thought he had had just now was absolutely maddening, but even when he scrutinized it, turned it upside down and right side up, spinning it left and right, he couldn't find any flaws in

were to

to the

was ridiculous. But when he thought of Tolliver's propensity to devour, its insatiable appetite, how it was like a World Spirit,

into place one after another and he was

was, though... what could he do

huge, even. Piecing these things together from the bits and pieces of fragmented thoughts and ideas in these research

make the final leap just yet. Even his mind was at

'Unless...'

of their kind. Could it be that swallowing World Spirits was a faster path toward Tolliver's

already realized it ages ago. What was more interesting was what that meant for him and his Divine Armor, and on a deeper level than even that, his connection with Little Tolly and the beast that the little guy had

than enough information to be better than 70% sure that the beast hidden in

self got his hands on a living member of their species, he had no idea, and he was even less inclined to think about what

these combinations of factors would weigh