Dimensional Descent

"No relationship can work one-sidedly. You can follow your heart, but not to your detriment or to the detriment of the person willing to give you theirs," Leonel said with a solemn tone, his words hanging in the air.

Eamon fell into silence and nodded slowly.

The two just sat there in silence, and at some point tears began to flow from Eamon's eyes, but Leonel didn't leave.

The two sat there for a long while until Eamon's tears dried.

He wiped his cheeks and took a shuddering breath.

"... I know that I shouldn't like Cindra, or at least that's what she's told me. She said that she was forced to do a great many things to survive and get to where she is today, she's also much older than me, much wiser as well. In some ways she even raised me even though she was never my mother in a real sense.

"I knew that it was uncomfortable for her to see someone she had known as a little boy suddenly begin to pursue her like I did, and it was selfish on my part, I know that.

"... I will apologize to her and close this chapter. Maybe in another life."

Leonel smiled and patted Eamon's shoulder.

"Come with me, we're going somewhere cool."

Eamon blinked in surprise, not quite understanding what cool thing they were going to see. But when he finally laid eyes on it, he was truly speechless this time. It could be said that Leonel was one of a kind in the worst and best of senses.

To think his idea of somewhere cool was strolling into Godlen territory.

...

City, both standing

below, people scurried about and did their business, but they couldn't seem to

"Do you see

living in a city that was perpetually caged in, I wouldn't be so

by Eamon made Leonel look toward him

at all. In fact, he looked thoughtful, a hint stoic, and

first Leonel thought it was because he had

had a bit of a

to be exchanged to begin with. In fact, even if they spoke in intelligible syllables, so long as they still

Eamon was saying was that the Godlens couldn't get away with caging their citizens in

caged in the first place. Meaning,

and illusion formation at the same

Eamon said,

at him, Eamon blushed in embarrassment, wondering if he had said something

Leonel nodded. "The last time I came here, this formation wasn't nearly as good. It seems that

the formation as well in the past, but it still wasn't this good back then. Something changed

they really gain the ability to improve this formation by this

doesn't really matter much," Leonel said with

of his hand, a spear manifested

world trembled as Leonel's gaze sharpened. And he suddenly swung

CRACK.

CHIII.

raining down and startling the citizens below. They all looked up at once to find Leonel and