Dimensional Descent

Chapter 2978 Mental State

Leonel put Aina down and hugged her tightly. At that moment, silently, a burden that he had been holding onto for a long while was put down. He didn't even sense that his wife was naked, and there wasn't the slightest bit of lewd thoughts in his mind anymore.

The last lingering influence of his future self vanished like wisps in the air, and all of the guilt that wasn't his own to bear disappeared along with it.

He would never again be faced with losing his wife in this life.

He held onto her tightly, listening to her breathing, feeling the beat of her heart, the warmth of her skin.

Aina could feel Leonel's emotion and her eyes couldn't help but tear up. She silently laid on his chest, her breathing even and at peace.

She could also sense that the last lingering darkness in Leonel's heart had vanished.

Leonel's mental state was contradictory a lot of the time, but this was just how the human mind worked. He loved his father, but he had never felt as much guilt toward his death as compared to Aina's. That was because his father was his idol, a man he felt was above all things. If his father died, it was because he wanted to.

That idolization was a double-edged sword.

On the one hand, it made Leonel take his death hard, so much so that he had practically become an entirely different person.

But on the other hand, it helped him avoid the fate of falling into an endless pit of despair, facing off guilt because he hadn't been able to help his father in those final moments.

Sure, there were some feelings of inadequacy, but they were ultimately drowned out by that feeling of despair and unwillingness.

Aina, however... she was his other half, his woman, his first and only love, his wife...

to him. Protecting her was his responsibility and no one else's. Failing to do so had

his wife's scent and feeling his heart hit a rhythm

been suppressed by something. His mental state evolved, and deep within him, a

bow appeared on this figure's back and a spear across its lap. With his eyes still closed, the clear waters around him rippled as

was at

by seas of blood. But after Leonel

figure was the manifestation

but a second was so rare that it only awoke once a generation. Only a single person from the main line would be able to allow this Lineage Factor to see the light

within Leonel, by Leonel's own hand at that, that even

was this very Lineage Factor that, even while immersed in shrouds of darkness, was able to silently resolve the largest issue that Leonel had faced until

From this day forth...

Forces would never

Aina, and his happiness almost fluttered out of his heart and into

it was an illusion, but she could see dancing violet butterflies and fluttering violet fairies. They left delicate

if she could focus on them, she would be able to tell with certainty. But the reality was that

into his wife's eyes,

to take over the

put a baby

laughed uproariously. His laughter

you from now on," Leonel said with a grin. "You'll be my vanguard; I'll be a nice

fight, you take