Dimensional Descent

Leonel raised his head and took a deep breath. Black, spiderweb-like veins pulsed up his neck and across his sharp jawline. He had only absorbed a single drop of blood, and yet it seemed like it was going to consume his own body. At this point, even Aina was feeling worried.

At the same time, though, Tolliver seemed to have been triggered by something. All along, the little guy had been wrapped around Leonel's left arm like a sleeve tattoo, silent and unassuming. But at that very moment, it too began to pulse wildly.

All at once, veins of black and gold began to fight for supremacy in Leonel's body, but the calmness in his eyes never faded for a single instant.

However, what the world didn't know was that by this point, Leonel was no longer paying attention to it. Instead, he was standing within the world of the Life Tablet.

He looked up at the enormous library, no longer in shock and awe about its size, but rather focusing all of his attention on something.

Wise Star Order.

Wise Sea Order.

The names no longer mattered to Leonel, because what he cared the most about was what they represented.

The first sought out the stars, seeking to understand the universe and all of its mysteries. Ability Indexes, Lineage Factors, fantastical abilities that couldn't be fathomed by man in a time long since passed.

The second sought out the seas. Down to earth, focused on earth and water, the two substances that probably had the most to do with keeping the frailest of creatures alive.

It focused on understanding the self and the living beings of the world. Free from the shackles of Existence and its pressure to evolve and grow, it focused on the purest definition of what it meant to live and breathe.

One shot for the Stars in an irony of ironies, and the other was grounded.

Together, they formed a perfect and whole image of the world, one that went beyond just being an Oracle... it felt like the mysteries of the universe were all laid out before him, and the mysteries of his own body might as well have been an open book.

Through their union, he could feel the Northern Star Lineage Factors within himself more clearly than ever before, and the moment they sensed some stimulation, he was able to grasp them in his hands and force them back into focus.

had sacrificed his Lineage Factors for the sake of elevating his constitution and rising above his

had never truly vanished precisely because of

do what Wise Orders did best...

time, he was going to do

Void Beast in a single body, something that had not been done in countless

would elevate them to

Force? He

hand, wisps of airy crimson flashing around it. Cracks of red began to appear across his skin, shimmering like molten

He also didn't

out another hand and wisps

special were never their Forces. Infinity Force might have been the number one ranked Force, but it was a jack of all Force, difficult to use

ranked Force, though it was more accurate to say that it existed outside the rankings entirely because more mistook

could break down even one's own body, and didn't allow for the use of any

powerful,

that he didn't have the time to start from scratch to learn the Force Manipulation of a whole new set of

how powerful they were, if he was in the mere Unfurled State with them, they would be far weaker than any of

truly didn't need

seemed to be

had skin that paled considerably, and hair and eyes

hair and eyes were a

grow, but Leonel firmly suppressed it every time, compacting it into a smaller

cells could take more,

akin to greedy leeches, sucking away everything they

transformation began to come to

firmly at the pinnacle of

of his movements made the world