Dimensional Descent

Leonel sat in silence, the beads of sweat around him falling with even greater fervor. Even so, he seemed to be at peace.

Leonel opened his eyes and chuckled.

"You want to take that form?"

"Yip! Yip!"

"Okay. Let's see what you can do then."

Leonel didn't seem to sense the powerful auras headed in his direction at all. Instead, he smiled as he stood to his feet.

Little Blackstar unleashed a roar and suddenly became an enormous tortoise. His shell billowed with smoke, and when he opened his maw, black fog spilled out, drenching the crimson lands.

With a step, Leonel appeared on Blackstar's back. But his gaze couldn't help but flicker with surprise. He sensed that the enormous mountain range that reminded him so much of the Void Palace's mountains carried the aura of the Shadow World.

Leonel's surprise became a wild grin.

Blackstar's progress was beyond his imagining. In an instant, he had already managed to incorporate the abilities of the Celestial Terra and turn it into his own.

At this moment, the Shadow World was projected out into the real world. In flashes, Leonel could be corporeal and incorporeal with a slight intention from Blackstar.

"Let's unleash some real carnage, then. They still seem to be taking us too lightly."

voice echoed through the skies

of Celestial Embers, Celestial Storms, and White Spectral Tigers appeared. There were only nine of them, but each one had a powerful, imposing aura. It seemed like even a single one of them could cause the

"We-."

uninteresting," Leonel cut off the Celestial

extended his arm, and Tolliver trembled within his body. His Divine Armor took shape once again, but this time

a blade carved from the curved black tooth of a White Spectral Tiger. Flames whipped

this spear appeared, the world

expressions of the nine Ninth

"God Armament?!"

spun in his hand and it slapped into place, its blade aimed toward the ground. He paused for just a moment before his torso flexed and his body roared with life, his heart thrumming to the beat of the

roared upward. A single swing seemed to carry the fury of several God

"DEFEND!"

the

into action, his spear shadows covering the skies. He clashed with the talons of Celestial Embers and the teeth of

and lightning surrounded him,

wrapped around Leonel and roared into the skies, splitting them and dispersing the might

and his blackened blade twinkled. He pulled on [Borne Bane], closing a blade of space heading toward him with one attack, and in the same swift motion, he rotated his hips and split the same spatial rift open again, sending it flying back toward the White Spectral Tiger with even

doused the Emberheart Force of the Celestial Embers, suffocating them to the point they couldn't use

midst of mighty beasts that could

seem to react as arcs of blood flew from his body, cuts appearing on him. However, maybe that

"[Star Fusion]."

spoke his first words since the start of the body, and it felt like a

into his hair and eyes, causing his power