Dimensional Descent

The world shook as the clanging of armor echoed through the air.

Emerald energy became solid in the air, forming gems that stacked onto one another in complicated armor patterns.

When the armor took shape, a ripple of gorgeous green light spread, and a humanoid formed in each one.

The Force Arts they formed from collapsed, fusing into their bodies.

Leonel didn’t recognize their faces, but he could recognize their Races more than easily enough. And when he did, he couldn’t help but burst out into laughter once

more.

Plutos. Six of them.

It was said that the Pluto Race couldn’t be blasphemed, that the world wouldn’t allow it, and yet here were six of them turned into construct puppets, refined for no other purpose than to do his grandfather’s bidding.

Leonel’s hand danced in the air as the last of his seals took shape. The world pulsed around him as well.

He had never used seals like this before. However, in this context, it was very much necessary.

Every shift of his hands seemed to direct his Force to move in very special ways. That was because despite the billions of ways Leonel could split his mind, he had focused them all on the man before him, straining himself to the absolute limit.

If he could avoid shifting his attention away for even the slightest moment, then he would take it.

His Dream Seal ability was something that he had prepared specifically to deal with opponents as strong as Gervaise, individuals who needed his full and undivided attention for every second he could spare it.

Dream Seal was an off-shoot of Dream Counter, Dream Counter was only meant to trigger when Leonel faced death, subverting his reaction time and bypassing his mind to force his body to commit an action ahead of time.

Dream Seal worked similarly without the need for death. By assigning very specific Force movements to the positions of his fingers, he could trigger these actions without thought.

And in this case...

Summon his Destruction Beast.

ROAR!

AKIM ann an -mnarro

Billowing black fog spilled out into the region, pooling into the resplendent green waters and turning it into a murky darkness.

Blackstar surged out of the billowing fog, taking the shape of a Void Beast, its head akin to a black dragon roaring inches from his grandfather’s face.

However, that was nothing more than an illusion of shadows that scattered a moment. afterward.

Leonel had already appeared on the real Blackstar’s back and they shot forward as a single entity.

A bow appeared in Leonel’s palm.

Timeless Radiance filled the skies. Arrows moving instantaneously through time and space looked prepped to riddle Gervaise’s summons with holes.

However, Leonel’s attack just clattered off of their armors as though they had no strength at all.

Blackstar’s roar filled the skies as he swiped down, a smirk spreading across Leonel’s lips.

CRACK

The armors that looked to have been doing just fine suddenly cracked seconds later. Gervaise’s eyes narrowed, raising his scepter only slightly. The fractured armors healed and the Pluto all took a step forward, sending out a punch that looked entirely identical down the line.

And they were.

The six fist auras fused into one, appearing before Blackstar in a blink.

Leonel’s gaze flashed and he pulled his fingers from his bowstring, forming another seal swiftly.

A surge of waters plowed up from below, a dense Water Force colliding with the fist before it even made it to Blackstar.

The world was overturned as a shimmering silhouette appeared behind Leonel.

The Sea Goddess.

In all her glory, her green-blue skin shimmered beneath the radiance, her body draped in solid violet armor.

She opened her cherry lips, a chant echoing as the emerald waters around them began to surge again and again.

Spiraling flood dragons took shape once again and the attacks of the Pluto were shredded apart.

Leonel, Blackstar, and the Sea Goddess burst through its rain of aura, appearing before Gervaise.

Blackstar smashed a palm down toward Gervaise while the Sea Goddess controlled the emerald waters once more. It looked like Gervaise was standing over an abyss, but the Sea Goddess caused the waters beneath him to tremble, forming tendrils that wrapped around the Emperor.

Leonel himself drew his bow, firing out six powerful shots. But not a single one of them were aimed for Gervaise.

Infinite Radiance.

Arrows carrying the weight of the world appeared before all of the Pluto, stopping them from helping Gervaise deal with the situation.

All the while, the Emperor faced the claw of a God Beast of Destruction and the restraint of a Goddess of the Ocean.

Anarchic Force and a gorgeous Force of Creation filled the skies, swirling together in a mass of Destruction and Creation that melded into a single fuse that sparked and

exploded.

Chaos.

Gervaise looked up calmly. Ever since his last outburst, he seemed to have returned to his usual self, his body, mind, and soul, all moving like a single well-oiled machine.

He exhaled a light breath and Force Arts bloomed in his eyes.

Just as Leonel’s arrows were about to hit the Pluto, Force Arts appeared on their foreheads and they were directly deconstructed.

[Assimilation].

No, it was a higher form, a variation that Leonel had never seen before.

The Pluto’s essence was sucked into Gervaise’s body and time suddenly froze for Blackstar and the Sea Goddess.

Leonel, the only one who could still move, was only now recovering from his recently fired arrows and wasn’t prepared for the sudden change.

Gervaise only waved his scepter lightly and a solid blow collided with Leonel, almost as though the Emperor’s intention had become tangible and attacked him. There wasn’t even the slightest ripple of Force on this Dimensional Plane, it was all hidden

away in the Second.

Leonel was sent flying off of Blackstar’s back and his pupils couldn’t help but

constrict.

He was certain of it.

Gervaise had just used not one, but two different Ability Indexes just now.