Dimensional Descent

"Who is this man?"

Talon's gaze sharpened. Such halberd skills shouldn't appear in this world. But then again, the Sea Gods were far more powerful than they should be as well. Was this why his uncles were so obsessed with this place? There had to be something special about it.

Sashae's eyes narrowed as well. What Leonel was doing now was something that a single Sea God should have been able to do to the human army. Instead, there was an odd reversal where a mere human Overlord was capable of all of this?

Even she felt palpitations looking at the strokes of that halberd. There didn't seem to be any Halberd Force on it, and yet it was more masterful than any other halberd master she had seen.

The people of her Race were all tyrannically large. The number that wielded halberds wasn't small in the slightest, so she had seen her fair share... but this...

...

Every step forward, Leonel took reaped another three lives. His halberd seemed to teleport, warping space and time and elevating beyond normal realms of reasoning.

Just as blood would spurt from the throat of one Sea God and another would be watching in shock, the latter would suddenly find a hole in the middle of their foreheads, completely oblivious to how it had happened, even to the moment of their deaths.

Life seemed like nothing but a pawn in Leonel's palm. He swept and thrust, cut and slashed. His movements were without the slightest wasted energy, simple in their beauty and unadorned in their splendor. And yet it was precisely this that made it all so beautiful.

Light radiated off of him in waves. In the darkness and the heavy rain, only he seemed to exist.

And the soldiers to his back fed off of his energy.

With Leonel taking the bulk of the pressure, they challenged the Sea Gods in pairs of two and three, ripping their armies apart.

...

"This can't continue. I'm going."

"Stop, we-."

"That's enough."

smile vanished in the blink of an eye. He looked down on Sashae from a taller height, the oppressive aura of not only

now, but you'd benefit from remembering your place. I'm here under the orders of my uncles, not you. Your pitiful little Incomplete World

piss me

taken aback, not expecting Talon to have such a side to

Talon to snap like he had, but the last several

front of so many eyes. He lost to a

not know what dirty tricks were played to suppress

had been the very best candidate present, and there was no comparison

soul ever since the Gathering of Minds ended. But worse than

to those old fogies harass him about spending more time on his training just made him

It was infuriating.

off to this world when he would much rather be Crafting, forced to play babysitter to this woman who clearly thought far too

this halberd wielding man that

but recall another memory of Leonel, one that grated on his soul just as

~

"That's

frowned. "What is a

chosen to use your fists, you might stand a chance. In a battle of Crafting? Even if a God descended,

~

words, Talon's fury erupted like a volcano. His

and he launched