Dimensional Descent

Leonel sat in the middle of the Cleansing Waters of the ocean, surrounded by Pure Ninth Dimensional Reinforced Urbe Ore.

According to his father's technique, he needed one Essence per cell. But before he took action on this front... he swallowed the pill that Aina had created.

Almost instantly, his body superheated as though he had become the core of his own world. His veins lit on fire, becoming molten streams of crimson that threatened to burn him up from the inside out.

During these last few months, Leonel had been thinking a lot about the soul and the benefits of having it separated versus being a part of his body. Those thoughts had, obviously, been triggered by Aina's own path.

That said, Leonel didn't actually believe that his father was wrong. Rather... he felt that he was looking at things the wrong way the entire time.

It was one thing to follow the path a technique set out for you... but understanding what that path was and why each step was as it was was a different matter entirely.

The best example of this was actually [Dimensional Cleanse]. The difference between whether you could share that technique or not was entirely based on whether you understood its various layers. For a long while, Leonel had been able to use the technique, but he was unable to share it with Aina or his brothers because he didn't really understand it.

These thoughts had led him to realize that he had never really understood his father's intentions behind each step either.

He shuddered every time he saw the number of resources he needed just to progress a single step forward, but he had never stopped to think... Why?

The establishment of [Final Destruction] seemed to be the creation of a Destruction World. Secondary to that, it was turning the body into an anchor for this world. And in the end, the soul seemed to be an afterthought in this equation...

Or was it?

still using his body as an anchor through the Dimensions, then how would his

seemed, then, the reason he had to separate his soul from his body was precisely to avoid this

mean that he was forever lost to the path

wasn't so certain of

pain, the Cleansing Waters washed away much of the

his body's strength increasing by

as a conduit, his Northern Star Lineage Factors began to strengthen his body not through a newly created mechanism, but rather

either shockingly easy, or acceptably

with the Dream Asura Lineage Factor suppressed, Leonel's body was still somewhat different from other humans. His ability to use his Dream Force to directly affect

just this

designed to control the parameters of his body? Wasn't that the tradeoff for being unable to project Dream Force in

into place one after another, Leonel realized that his talents were more synergistic than he had ever given

all seemed too perfect, slotting in one by

raising up from the 1st Tier of the Fourth Dimension, his abilities increased by leaps and bounds, and from the restrictive chains of a Mortal, his body soared and quickly reached the stature of

growing as light as a feather, many of the restrictions on his Forces loosening

gained subtle hints of improvement-not obvious enough to make him look like a completely different person, and yet still

glow, every one of his cells shimmering

than a hundred times the usual 30 trillion cells of a human. Now, he seemed to