3228 Strong
Leo and Leah were shocked again.
Their father had always taught them not to be reckless, but this seemed to be even beyond that.
Aina smiled, seemingly seeing through her children's thoughts.
"When you are strong, the things others see as reckless are just time-saving measures," she said softly.
"Dad is really that strong?" Leo asked.
Despite what Leonel had said, his children were too rational. They didn't idolize him, and they were even prepared for the possibility of being disappointed.
Without even realizing it, they trusted their mother's strength far more than their father's, funny enough. If it was their mom who had acted like this, they would be far less surprised.
But in practice...
The Sylvan who had spoken last had his head cut off, and Leonel took another step forward.
He felt the Regulator quake.
"No, no," Leonel said with a booming cadence to his voice. "Since you wanted blood, I'll give you blood."
The wild grin on Leonel's face widened, slicing through the Regulator's pressure and appearing in the midst of the Bow monument.
He could feel an oppressive force trying to cut off his Spear Force in this region. This wasn't the act of the Regulator, but rather a natural action of the monument itself.
How could Spear Force be allowed to thrive in the domain of the Bow?
"Because I say so."n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om
Leonel took a step onto the monument, and it seemed to explode with power, an assaulting presence coming at him from all sides.
The Bowmen and women were slow at first, but they reacted quickly to the change. Even as Leonel's robes fluttered down to catch up with his speed and forward momentum, they had already fired their first arrows.
Leonel's spear, however, seemed to be on an entirely different level.
Despite the distance being barely a hundred meters, his wrist flickered and he parried the dozens of arrows with a deft smoothness.
It didn't matter how heavy they were or how fast. His spear became akin to a shield before him.
"Where do you think you're going?"
A world-ending Bow Force towered into the air.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
A spiraling Bow force appeared around Leonel and then grew to the point it wrapped around the Bow monument itself.
They ripped through the ground like chains and forcefully tore the monument back
up.
Leonel's hand pulsed and a bow appeared in it.
His aura flared and the bow monument trembled.
At that moment, a Blessing fell in torrents from above.
Leonel soared into the Higher Tiers of the Seventh Dimension, then from the 7th to
the 8th Tier, and then from the 8th to the 9th.
His Dimension crashed against the barriers of the Eighth Dimension and the
momentum seemed to be dying down...
Until the properties of the Sylvan heart he had just swallowed shuddered.
A blooming golden energy rocketed out from Leonel and he finally shattered the barrier and entered the Eighth Dimension for the first time in his life.
He raised his head to the skies and unleashed a billowing roar that shook Existence and the Idol Battlefield.
A Spear Domain, Bow Domain, and Quill Domain rotated around him, the madness of power pouring into him from all sides.
Leonel's violet hair danced in the wind, his eyes shimmering with sharpness as a crown he was suppressing flickered into and out of existence on his head.
When his aura finally solidified, the world fell into silence. But at that moment, there
wasn't a single individual who looked at him with anything other than a somberness in
their eyes...
Well, other than his wife, who wore a proud smile, and his children, who looked like they were trying to fit whole eggs in their mouths.