Dimensional Descent

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"He shouldn't be this strong," Peacock said softly. He could feel the pressure of Leonel's steps and none of this was like what the reports said it would be.

Like he had said earlier, they already felt that sending this many was overkill. It was just that to compensate for any error in judgment, plus taking into account that they might hide away in the Dream Pavilion, the Invalids had decided that it was best to send a large army.

What they didn't expect was that not only would Leonel not huddle up and hide in the Dream Pavilion like they assumed he would, but he would come to match their might in a relentless fury...

All on his own.

Or so it seemed.

"Yip! Yip!"

Little Blackstar suddenly appeared on Leonel's shoulder. Leonel hadn't called him out, but the little guy had sensed the agitation and chose to make an appearance.

Without even the need to exchange a word between the two of them, they seemed to have already formed a tacit understanding and they suddenly split into two.

Leonel flickered toward Apex and Peacock while Blackstar dove into the army.

The carnage of the two of them combined seemed multiplicative of what Leonel was capable of alone. Their tacit understanding allowed all variables to be handled ahead of time, and in what felt like the blink of an eye, Leonel had already appeared before the two Variant Invalids.

the beast, I'll deal

me around." Apex

Leonel had already attacked.

have been because Invalids

the answer didn't

seemed fuelled by his fury. [Domain] descended and suppressed the two Variant Invalids, while [Universe] layered with Leonel's Absolute

whims, it wasn't just a distortion of time and space anymore, but it carried a variability and

a strike from the left might suddenly deviate and pierce toward their legs. His spear somehow seemed to be both everywhere

feathers that took aim to defend him while Apex suddenly punched

erupted between the trio and became very obvious, very quickly that

from swift and fierce to gentle but firm. He changed stances on a whim and his spear seemed capable of both being endlessly flexible and hard to track, and rigid and

for lack of his skill in the spear, he still remembered the humiliation he faced at the hands of

since that time, he

spear for no other reason than

who could feel the stroke of his spear

power was far

toyed with them

the two Invalids. They could see nothing more than a blur of silver, crimson and gold streaking through the air... that and

and yet, at

and his spear blade became like the connecting lines of a

had grown to the point that it didn't even look like they stood in an Inbetween World any longer. Rather, it looked as though they were