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."

echoed through the skies as a

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 collapse of an entire

"We-."

going to lie, completely uninteresting," Leonel cut off the Celestial Ember. "Come

trembled within his body. His Divine Armor took shape once again, but this time a spear came with it,

from the curved black tooth of a White Spectral Tiger. Flames whipped across its surfaces, poking through the scale-like body of the spear, and at the base where pole arm and blade met, a diamond ring lay,

appeared, the

the nine Ninth

"God Armament?!"

toward the ground. He paused for just a moment before his torso flexed and his body roared with life, his heart

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

"DEFEND!"

clash caused the world

with the talons of Celestial Embers and the teeth of White Spectral

slashes of wind and lightning surrounded him, the

white-violet Dragon wrapped around Leonel and roared into the skies, splitting them and dispersing the might of the

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

the Celestial Embers, suffocating them to the point they couldn't use their emotions to fuel

another. He was just a small figure in the midst of mighty beasts that could collapse mountains with a single breath, and yet he was as sturdy as

from his body, cuts appearing on him. However, maybe that was because as quickly as

"[Star Fusion]."

the body, and it felt like a

wisp of Stars mixed into his hair and eyes, causing