Dimensional Descent

When night fell in the Void Palace, it just made the blacks blacker. It was already difficult to see ahead of you in the day, but the darkness of night made it impossible to even see your hand before your face.

This wasn't normally a problem during the modern day because the Void Elders had set up formations that allowed a perpetual dull light. Though it didn't help with the fog, it made the transition from night to day almost impossible to track.

However, in a Zone like this one, back before the humans had reclaimed their territory, there was no such luxury. But, that also left things in the perfect state for Leonel and Aina. It made them even more difficult to detect in the darkness.

Aina was surprisingly quite able to navigate in the darkness, but Leonel didn't ask about it. He assumed that it was related to her Life Force affinity. Unlike other Forces, almost everything had Life Force. And, the things that didn't really stand out by virtue of that fact alone. Using this sort of perspective, it wasn't hard to imagine how someone with Life Force could parse apart their surroundings without their eyes.

No longer worried about Aina, Leonel shot forward at a faster speed, weaving through the trees. Aina followed to his back, their steps in perfect sync.

Leonel knew that they still had to be careful even in this environment. Because of their culture, the Dwarven Race was very well adapted to seeing in dim and no light situations. While Leonel couldn't even see his hand without activating his Lineage Factor's eyes, they could probably see just fine, albeit worse than they would otherwise be able to do in the day.

But, he had already taken this into consideration the moment he saw that the castle's lighting situation was… less than optimal.

Soon, he and Aina made it to the last line of trees.

bow to his back along with his arrows. He didn't make much of the latter, though. With so many Dwarven bowmen around, he would have more of

Sights linked as one. This time, the two of them were ready for the level of intimacy required and

didn't need to waste energy calculating and using their instincts to

forward, practically cutting

appearing at the base of the castle

use his Earth Force to dig through the ground here before

spend even more than a fraction of a second atop the wall before

they bolted forward, slipping not the gate furthest to the

Beyond the walls Leonel and Aina had just fallen from, there were five gates or doorways. These five gates were actually the starting point of grand tunnels dug into the face

were greeted by an enormous tunnel followed by yet another wall. This wall was the start of an underground city. However, they ignored it entirely, slipping around to the back of the

when they were building their settlements but a robust landscape for their safety was only

Crafter, was likely a miner. But, this didn't come with the same negative connotations it did in the human race. In fact, they took great pride in

mining tunnels wouldn't lead to much of anywhere. But, during his scouting, Leonel found that some of these passageways doubled as escape routes and bunkers. Many of them led to dead ends where

'Trap ahead.'

to Aina before accelerating once

the so-called dead ends but Leonel had already