Dimensional Descent

Patriarch Khafra smiled when he entered the first floor. It was identical to Leonel's, filled with carnivorous plants hidden within the beauty.

On his practically mummified face, such a smile was nothing short of eerie. His bones rattled and four swirling portals of space rippled behind him, but in the end, he settled them down. No, it still wasn't necessary to go so far.

Leonel was definitely a surprise, but his strength wasn't to the point that it was unfathomable.

During the first battle, he had gone at about 10% or so. 20% should be enough to crush Leonel, but there wasn't much room for error anymore.

'I'll go at 30%. In this environment, it's easier to explain it away.'

Even if he cleared this Tower with exceptional speed, it could be explained away with the fact that he was just particularly good at analyzing and clearing Force Arts. Plus, this was the one recurring challenge that many prepared for and trained with. There was even a Pavilion in every Dream Pavilion that could replicate some of this challenge's effects.

In that case, this was the perfect chance for him to exhibit some of his strength without seeming too suspicious.

30% was already far more than what Leonel deserved.

A carnivorous plant tried to swallow him whole from above, but Patriarch Khafra suddenly waved a hand, causing it to disappear into motes of light. However, when one looked closer, these motes of light had several runes dancing within them.

'The secret to clearing these Realms fast is to find the core of the world, decipher it, then diffuse it akin to a bomb... the core should be...'

Patriarch Khafra's gaze flickered toward where the core was. He had already found it; this was the first floor after all. But he waited a few seconds, fighting back against a swarm of carnivorous beasts before he flashed and appeared near the core.

The region was quite swampy. It was a lake, but it was covered in so many leaves and lily pads that it looked almost like solid ground.

for a moment

and his toes lightly tapped the ground. He hopped from lily pad to lily

light would radiate,

side, the rippling lights connected and echoed through the whole world. In a flash, the world was enveloped and then vanished into

Let's move on to

...

found himself in a desert. Dunes rose and fell for as far as the eyes

appeared beneath him, and a beast tried to swallow him

...

felt his Dream Force being sapped away as his mind was

letting a snowflake fall onto

a bit more difficult. The formation is actually hidden in the falling snowflakes, and every

Gods wouldn't be able to form such a complex

a single Inverse Force Art should do. Analyze the snowflake

...

descendants, he would have

know was that his two subordinates

back in the courtroom. In fact, he had appeared the moment Patriarch Khafra entered