The Martial Unity

Leonel stood silently for a moment then took a step forward.

Aina gazed toward his back with a complicated look. Why would he allow her to come here? It can't be that he really trusted her to this extent, right?

But when she thought about it, what other choice did Leonel have? She sprung this sudden mission on him without warning and even plainly said it was in the area his Paradise Island might have fallen.

Let's assume for a moment that he didn't come here? What then? What if he waited until he separated from Aina to come to this place? What would those observing him think of this?

It was obvious. Their first instinct would be to think that he was hiding something.

However, Aina's actions gave him a good opportunity. There was a level of spontaneity that made everything seem natural. He really seemed like a boy who was looking for the remains of his father.

When Aina analyzed things to this point, she found a corner and crossed her legs in meditation.

Of course, she had no idea that this was only part of the truth. There were ultimately still many ways Leonel could have avoided this outcome. He could have made her wait outside under the pretext he wanted to grieve alone, for example.

The ultimate reason he allowed her to come here was because he trusted her. It was as simple as this.

Whether that trust was due to his rosy colored glasses or if she was really worthy of it, maybe even Leonel himself didn't know.

Leonel noticed that Aina had closed her eyes and had stopped paying attention to her surroundings, but he didn't say much about it. He continued forward and eventually stopped at the pedestal furthest to the left.

He reached forward through the barrier of energy. He had thought that it would stop him, but surprisingly, it didn't. His hand passed right through as though it was nothing more than air.

Leonel picked up the unpolished ring. As expected, it had a texture similar to an uneven coat of dry paint.

After observing it for a while, he couldn't find anything special about it. He even got the vague feeling that it wasn't even in front of him despite the fact he was very much aware that it was in his hand.

Suddenly thinking of something, Leonel stopped observing with his eyes and focused all his attention on his hands. Maybe he could find something similar to the Force Art on the door handle?

disappointed. No matter how he looked at it, this really was just a ring with a poor finish quality. Whoever made this thing really must have not cared for his

'Wait...'

teaching him how to use his spatial bracelet. What if this was a

control of my Internal Sight... Concentrate it... Imagine opening

hand. To the current Earth, those who even

Leonel had been willing to risk it and hid the existence of his spatial bracelet, it was unlikely anyone at Royal Blue Fort would be able to call him out

when Leonel was about to succeed, he felt a BOOM resound

ravaged his thoughts and blood dripped from his

in a daze, crashing

he was staring blankly at the ceiling, not even reacting to his head rebounding off the hard

eyes flashed open. When she saw Leonel on the ground, she shot up and to his side, but no matter

Leonel's body was being violently shaken by Aina, his mind was in a completely different place. He felt as though he had stepped foot into a hellish world. No, he might not

low rumbling of thunder beating

these clouds formed vertical swirls of cyclones and tornadoes, touching the ground like demonic omens of greed and

and black. However, these specks of earth looked more like the world had been covered in a

distance, Leonel could see the ground begin to roll into small hills. The further into the distance he looked, these hills gradually grew in size, eventually becoming small mountains. In the end of it all, there was

wasn't the

atmosphere, or even the impossibly tall mountains. What he couldn't take his eyes off of

were dotted across the world. Some of them were broken, others were whole, some had dried blood caking their polearms, while

for a long while before he finally licked his dry lips. What

forward, but suddenly found that a mountain

forward by just a single step. However, even though he succeeded,

find something to steady his wobbling knees, eventually catching hold of the shaft of

BOOM resounded in

found himself in another world, racing

covered his lower half, his bare torso rippling with muscle as he hopped from tree to

saber toothed tiger raced toward him from