Dimensional Descent

People would likely call Leonel ridiculous if they knew what he was thinking. But this was what he felt from the bottom of his heart.

The Sea Gods weren't as imposing, and their blood certainly wasn't as potent, but the feeling and momentum they gave him was similar to a miniature Pluto Race.

It wasn't just because they shared the same blue-tinted skin, but it was something deeper.

Even though they were just standing there and talking, their presences alone exuded a great deal of might. Leonel could hear their heartbeats synchronizing like waves, the thrumming enough to make a Third Dimensional existence's eardrums burst.

'They didn't send their powerhouses, but it honestly doesn't seem like they need to. This sort of status quo had remained for a long while. I wonder why the Sea Gods haven't just ended it. The humans almost certainly have something that's making them hesitant. Either that or they're trying to bait out something else.'

Now Leonel was wondering how to get in.

Right now, the land was in an odd situation.

At the center of the several armies there was a city. The trouble was that the city took up practically a tenth the size of the entire planet. It was absolutely huge.

'Well, it takes up ten percent now...'

Usually a capital city of a Domain would take up an entire planet, if not an entire solar system or network of planets. It wasn't normal for one to be so... reserved.

had been forced to retreat back to

walls were tall, and the protective Force Arts were excellent by the metrics that Leonel had seen of this world at least, but that was pretty much where all the good news

Sea Gods were turning the city into an island. The ground that did remain was sloshy and waterlogged, but there were already

all, there was only so much water plants could intake. Any more and they would all

even worse that all this water was salt

Gods were pumping this

only so long food could last, only so long unrest could be

Both figuratively and literally.

some point or another. The foundation it was built upon wasn't designed to withstand this odd rush

do in the first place, who

they were entirely submerged in water? What if they were buried so far that sunlight couldn't reach

designed to break their spirits. They didn't seem to just want to kill all the humans, they

this was that security was

on the Ancient Battlefield, and yet here he had managed to slink his way all

seemed the Sea Gods almost wanted humans to be able to sneak back to this

as a trap to deal with them all at once? Or was it related to what he had

in the far off distance, the salty waters lapping at its trunk. He closed his eyes for a moment, wondering how best to