Dimensional Descent

Leonel and Aina ran into their first awkward situation quite quickly. Almost comically so.

Neither had any way of knowing much information about the Incomplete World until they stepped into it. The problem was that while the Dream Pavilion provided the coordinates and the orbiting formula, they provided nothing else.

The coordinates were, of course, the exact location it had originally been found at. The orbiting formula was one calculated based on the unique characteristics of every world, whether Complete or Incomplete. Essentially, it allowed you to pinpoint its location as a function of time.

Though an orbiting formula could change-or more accurately, certainly would over the course of a world's life-such changes only occurred over the course of millions to billions of years. For now, Leonel had no worries about the formula being incorrect any time soon.

This aside, while they had such information, what they didn't have was any knowledge of what was going on inside. So, they didn't realize that they had ended up in a non-human Domain until they touched down on a planet and found themselves surrounded by Oryx.

The Race itself was a surprise as well. That was because from Leonel's understanding, the Oryx were a very niche and uncommon Race. He had happened to stumble onto a small population of them on Valiant Heart Mountain, and Elthor, their prince, had even become a huge part of his people's combat strength, but it wasn't the kind of race he expected to find elsewhere.

As far as he knew, there were no Oryx in Complete Worlds, at least not ones born there naturally.

'Interesting...'

This was the first thought Leonel had when he and Aina were surrounded. Well, surrounded was a bit much. There were only three Oryx, and they were in the middle of the wilderness with no backup to speak of. Plus, the strongest of them was only in the Sixth Dimension, while the two weakest were in the Fifth.

Leonel could imagine why they were so confident, considering Aina was only in the Fourth and he was in the Fifth. But he didn't really take them seriously at all.

expectedly, quite suffocating. Elthor usually suppressed his pheromones because he knew humans didn't like it. But usually, the stronger the scent, the more talented

three weren't very talented at all. Since this was a

of this was why Leonel found this matter so interesting,

pitting them against one another and seeing which could come out

the Northern Star looming overhead, but the truth was that Existence likely wouldn't be going anywhere for several more million years.

appear in the Dimensional Verse and here too... could it because Existence was prepping to

that all Incomplete Worlds at least had one or two Races that rarely or never appeared elsewhere. This was the simple product of evolution,

essentially meant that for one Race to appear multiple times, it meant that they had survived the countless years of evolution to

Mortal Races that could successfully accomplish this were the ones that Leonel

Race. The Spiritual Race. The Rapax Race.

was speaking about evolution's victors, humans had earned

starting to take steps toward becoming the seventh Mortal

Could Existence withstand that?

his forehead as the fur that covered its lower body bristled. A heavy ax with blades that spanned half his pointed toward Leonel in a threatening

shook his head, realizing they were mad because he was ignoring

translate immediately... seems

human or I will cut you at the