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.

handle the beast, I'll deal with him," Peacock

around." Apex

Leonel had already attacked.

might have been because Invalids didn't feel emotion the same as everyone else did, or it might have been because they were truly that

to Leonel the

by his fury. [Domain] descended and suppressed the two

just a distortion of time and space anymore, but it carried a variability and unpredictability that came when laws weren't just distorted, but

in an instant, a strike from the left might suddenly deviate and pierce toward their legs. His spear somehow seemed to be both everywhere and nowhere at once, and the instant these two faced it, the next words of their

aim to defend him

obvious, very quickly that their skill paled

his spear did the thinking for him. He moved 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 unmoving at

skill in the spear, he still remembered the humiliation he faced at the hands of Amery when he was told he

time,

up the spear for no other reason than it was the

was a man who could feel the stroke of his spear in his breath and listen to its rhythm in his

power was far beneath

he toyed with

began to appear across the bodies of the two Invalids. They could see nothing more than a blur of silver, crimson and gold streaking

shorter than the both of them despite being just over 6'9", and yet, at that moment, he might as well have

like the connecting lines of a constellation. Every stroke

Auspicious Air in the surroundings 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 standing in the middle of a bronze