Dimensional Descent

Although the Human Domain had been liberated, not enough time had passed for the Human Race to fully return. News hadn't even quite spread anywhere but the highest echelons of the various races. It was perfectly natural for some humans to still think that their lives were hanging on by a thread.

As Leonel entered the dark region, his thoughts were spinning with one thought that he had yet to resolve. If the Barbarian Race had helped the Human Race rise up, why let them be destroyed? Why even participate in their destruction? And if their destruction was important to their plan, why let Leonel reclaim so much territory so easily?

Sashae and Talon hadn't even appeared again after their first disappearance.

That belied another question, and that was why were they propping up the humans, Oryx and Sea Gods all at once? What had they done that managed to create Barbarian Invalids?

Were they participating in the war as well? Were they on the side of the Fallen God Beasts and Owlans?

Leonel felt that the answer to these last few questions was no, but that also meant that these waters were far murkier than he assumed.

'This should be the product of the pressure the Gods are placing on the lesser races. How could there be no resentment at all? Sure, for now the Culling doesn't involve the Demi-Gods, but what about when they ran out of Mortal Races to kill? Wouldn't they move on to the Demi-Gods before they looked to themselves?

'If the Demi-Gods were smart, they would certainly be trying to find methods of saving themselves for the future. If the path toward Godhood meant experimenting with Invalids, then that was what they would do even if Invalids were far more hated than even the Fawkes had been.'

This explanation made sense to Leonel, and he felt there was a better than 90% chance that it was correct.

But this meant that he had started the fuse on something much larger than he expected.

If things continued like this... wouldn't the whole of Existence be embroiled in war soon?

Leonel's gaze became serious. It was even more important that he become as strong as possible as quickly as possible.

...

city appeared before Leonel, if

seemed to all be constructed by similar materials. It felt more like

across several Rapax,

expected, the Rapax were the least likely to care. The real danger came from the violence of

tails whipped out behind them like a scorpion's,

run into any Rapax in the Complete Worlds, but they certainly existed. Many were ranked in

to the city gates,

over, its maw opening wide to reveal a row of translucent

"Scram, weakling."

BANG!

Its head exploded.

moment, the Rapax was growling, in the

kicked its corpse to the side and continued

the more sacred cities of the Rapax. Even if it was a weak Rapax, it

versus the strong. Nothing else

his standing more than enough. In fact, he had already forgotten about the earlier encounter. He had suddenly remembered something about the

he could sense and feel the Dream Plane. So the Rapax couldn't escape his senses anymore

been curious about this ability. It was an

He just came to the largest