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...

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

took a deep breath, breathing in his wife's scent and

that moment, his Spear and Bow Forces seemed to have been suppressed by something. His mental state evolved, and

the clear waters around him rippled as though waiting for something, but not

too, was

the very same that had once been wreathed in chains and suffocated by seas of blood. But after Leonel had seen Mo''Lexi's painting, he

manifestation of the

second was so rare that it only awoke once

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

even while immersed in shrouds of darkness, was able to silently resolve the

From this day forth...

Forces would never clash

his happiness almost fluttered out

was an illusion, but she could see dancing violet butterflies and fluttering violet fairies. They left delicate swirls of violet winds in their wake, making the atmosphere

to tell with certainty. But the reality was that she cared too much for the man standing right before her

to care for them either. He looked down into his

beautiful, want to take

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a moment before he laughed uproariously. His laughter boomed across

with a grin. "You'll be my vanguard; I'll be a nice

take care