Dimensional Descent

Leonel felt vicious thoughts rampaging through his mind.

Death. Destruction. Hunger.

He wanted to devour it all...

And shockingly enough, all of these thoughts didn’t come from him...

But rather Tolliver.

The menace that was Spirits was well documented. One of the very first lessons his father taught him was to only feed Tolliver in moderation.

Leonel had never really had the time to think about why it was Spirits were like this. Why were they so dangerous...

Ultimately, the answer didn’t have a complicated background like most things he dealt with. Instead, it was quite straightforward.

Spirits were bundles of instinct. They only existed to improve themselves...

If Invalids were the counters to humanoids... then Spirits were the counters to Regulators and World Spirits.

They were existences that only lived to improve themselves, and that was why they were so good at creation. It was ironically because they took so much.

Spirits were none other than the perfect embodiment of Destruction taken to an extreme to form Creation... They were creatures that lived only to Devour, and yet, they were the greatest tool that Crafters had to forge their creations and shock the world...

But Tolliver had now swallowed the potential of an Infinity Beast, ironically completing the cycle. By taking on a beast with enough Creation potential to become Destruction, it had formed two halves of a whole.

Finally, realizing this, Leonel allowed Tolliver to truly lose control, before taking hold and striking the perfect balance that they were looking for.

And just like that, one half of his intentions was already complete... and then there was the other half.

Invalids... they were Existences that were designed only to destroy. However, they were also the lifeblood that allowed improvement.

It had happened so long ago now that it was easy to forget, but one of the main ways Leonel improved before he gained Dimensional Methods was by killing Invalids.

In the past, when the first Fourth Dimensional world began to appear, Invalids and their deaths were the only way for humanoids to improve. Only by killing them and

swallowing their energy could they improve.

This embodied Destruction for the sake of Creation.

The Invalid Worlds formed the foundation of Leonel’s Destruction World... but where did his Creation World come from?

That came from none other than himself, his Scarlet Star Force, the embodiment of who he was as a person, and his Innate Node...

Leonel was a man who had thought himself to be a Destruction Sovereign all his life, only to realize what seemed to be far too late that he was actually a Creation Sovereign.

He was the end of the Cycle... the Creator who bloomed so greatly that he Destroyed instead...

Like this, Leonel completed all four legs of the cycle...

Tolliver and the Infinity Beast...

His Creation and Destruction World...

Creation so great it bloomed to Destruction and Destruction so bright it bloomed to Creation...

Destruction so harrowing it left nothing but Creation behind and Creation so destructive it could only be seen as Destruction by a layman...

The four pieces of Leonel’s Sovereignties came together, one piece forming his Divine Armor, and the other piece forming his Inner Worlds, while his body formed the anchor that kept them all in place.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Leonel’s aura blossomed as the Idol Battlefield shook apart at its very seams.

”Do you feel it now?” Leonel said lightly.

The Regulator shook fiercely, but no matter what it did, it couldn’t get out of Leonel’s grasp.

”Weapon Forces are a beautiful thing. They’re the first example of Humans taking what they needed from the world around them. The very first instance of Creation leading to Destruction... the Creation of a Weapon for the sake of killing another...

”It’s a cycle that can only be continuously perpetuated, and the so-called Ancient Humans loved to take credit for such things, no?

”Today, however... you will become the foundation I need to put an end to this... to everything.

”My Innate Node is now the center of my body. It’s the Weapon Force Innate Node that shines my path forward and makes me feel secure in the future of myself...

”And now, your Idol Battlefield will become the center of my worlds of Creation and Destruction. I’ll grind everything you are to dust with my intent.”

Leonel spoke every word slowly and calmly, unmoved by the shaking of the Regulator at all.

”You see, I don’t usually like to explain myself when I do things. But I feel like for you, I need to make a very special exception... because you seem too foolish to understand it

on your own.

”The things you’ve done to me in this world, maybe it’s the case that you were only doing your best to keep up with the status quo. Maybe you felt that you were doing

what was best for humanity.

”But... I really don’t give a damn about any of that.”

Leonel suddenly grinned a fiendish grin.

”Even if the world ended today, and it took all of you with it, I would be perfectly content. I have a wife who loves me. Brothers who are willing to fight by my side. Two little mischievous little munchkins who share my and their mother’s face...

”What more could I ask for?

”But it’s selfish people like you who always want for more for reasons I could never understand...

”All my life I’ve been quite lazy, more than willing to let things come as they may. Maybe the only thing I was ever truly active in was pursuing my wife’s love.

”And yet, for some reason, there are so many people not content with what they have. Do you think you’re superior to me in some way?”

A bit of Leonel’s arrogance flared up. It was the only piece of his confident pride that he was unable to fully expunge...

And he let it bloom.

”If I, Leonel Morales, King of the Existence, am content with what I have...

”What right do you have to ask for more?”

BOOM!

”Who do you think you are?!”