Dimensional Descent

Leonel took a seat at the edge as though he couldn't sense anything around him.

As expected, the abyss had wrapped all the way around the city. As for why, Leonel felt that he had a small understanding now after listening to Mistress Oliidark.

This city was placed here to protect what Leonel assumed was the world at large. As for what it was protecting the world from, it was down there, in the abyss.

Leonel assumed that all of the cities were probably like this, protecting some sort of abyss from something. This sort of environment would also explain why everyone was always so high strung and focused on power. They were, quite literally, on a battlefield.

Mistress Oliidark's exact words just a few minutes ago were.

"My Trith City has been protected by my Oliidark family for centuries. If you want guanrantees, fine, I'll give them to you. But, you won't receive them for nothing. Since you want to make this an equal exchange, we can do so.

"Everything you do will be done based on merits. You will be constantly monitored and your performance will dictate how much you receive.

"However, if you want to unlock these options, you'll have to bring me back the head of a Six Star Demon. If you can't do that, you're not worth investing in."

From these words, Leonel had made his deductions, and now he was sitting at the edge of the abyss. There were several people around him giving him odd looks, but they didn't say anything more and went about their business.

had chains running across, but they also had chains dangling down. Clearly, these chains were meant

lost an arm,

were all grinning ear to ear, carrying bags of a bloody something. It was clear that whatever they had

were nearly as happy. It was either they had lost someone precious to them, or their

sure that there were huge numbers of groups that never

but at least that establishment was a gathering of geniuses, the best humanity had to offer. But from what it seemed here, no one had such a chance. The entire world was the frontline when the enemies were right

could you always worry about doing what was morally upright? Leonel himself had

Or so it seemed.

collarbone, it was still very tender. His passive healing factor had done quite some work, but it wasn't

trump card. If he could help it, he would only use what he had already shown them, his Water Force affinity and

followed or monitored, he just didn't know

a battlefield, who knew if he would need to use within the next 24 hours? It would

but eventually shook his head. Freezing his collarbone now would actually make him heal

so it was still manageable

down tremendously. But, the light around him only seemed to dim faster and faster. It was at a rate that didn't make

Leonel had experienced before came back, trying to lull his mind into an odd trance-like

not losing his mind that his sense of time distorted.