Dimensional Descent

Leonel's spear moved like the wind. Suddenly, billowing tendrils of foggy silver-blue light came off of him in waves. From certain angles, it even seemed as though he was a blue star letting off waves of solar flares, his furious momentum rising to another level.

[Star Fusion].

He became even faster, his lungs expanding and the beats of his heart sending rippling waves through space. Just his heartbeat alone sounded like a war drum, echoing through the air and even sending the weaker Invalids flying while directly shattering the even weaker once to nothing but motes of light.

Every time one of these Invalids came after his wife, he was reminded of that day back on Earth. By that point in their relationship, Leonel had already accepted that the Aina he knew and Aina he had come to know after the Metamorphosis weren't really his wife. Instead, they were a combination of the two.

His wife could be very shy sometimes, but she could also be very demanding. She could be very soft spoken, but she could also be a mass murderer.

However, the one thing that she never was... was fearful.

That was an emotion he had never sensed from her until the Puppet Master appeared. That day, she was paralyzed, not just by his power, but also by an attack on her heart and her psyche.

He understood his wife maybe even better than he understood himself, no... he almost certainly did.

Family was something deeply personal to her.

Battle was something also deeply personal to her.

And yet, the Puppet Master had wanted to take away both.

herself, and all the training that she had

of that right by the Brazinger family, so she had always promised herself that when things settled down and she could find a man that she trusted, she hoped

yet, the Puppet Master had wanted to commandeer even that, stripping her of her right to build her family in her image,

Aina hard, and even to this day, when she met

just for selfish reasons that he hated the fact he had sent Aina off to send that letter back when they were trapped in the cult, it was also because he knew that she would have to likely face the one creature

A Variant Invalid.

saw this hoard. He was so furious that he didn't think of

he killed one, he wanted to kill another,

mind didn't even have

them

that were all directing them couldn't

of Destruction were so potent, so violent, that at a certain point the

at once and shattering the very existence of Invalids

his way all the way through the army and

Invalids were still making their way in, only to be stopped by

tip vanished, dancing through

form, for the first time in a long while. And this time, they erupted with strength that was unprecedented in

his attack, his skill had reached an entirely different level, so much so that Auspicious

ancient bronze began to dance with the dense billowing blue and the smokey