Dimensional Descent

Aina didn’t give them the chance to refute. She took a step forward and the arc of her blade flashed.

Anya and Minerva were both forced to raise their defenses as quickly as possible, Anya with a scythe and Minerva with her sword.

DING! DING! DANG!

The two were forced to take a step back and they were, rightfully, stunned.

Aina had no business being so powerful, not after spending so much of her time rearing children and being bedridden with a body too heavy and fragile to get any sort of real training done with.

But what they didn’t know was that this was precisely the reason why she was so powerful now. In fact, it could be said that Aina had gained more giving birth to Leo and Leah than she ever would have gained from the Idol Battlefield.

Right now, she was already prepared to complete the last three of her Rebirths, officially entering the final tiers of the Ninth Dimension. All she was lacking was the resources... something she was sure her husband would get for her very soon. As for why she was so powerful now, it was because she had birthed two little Spirituals from her womb. Well, that wasn’t the exact reason... it was because she had birthed two little Spirituals who also happened to have bodies jam-packed with Weapon Force Innate Nodes and their father’s King Force.

It had to be remembered that Aina had personally constructed their children’s bodies herself.

Usually, this would be done by the Spiritual after their birth. It was both a training opportunity, and it gave the mother higher odds of survival.

Spirituals were so supremely talented that if they were birthed the normal way, the mortality rates of mothers would be through the roof, So evolutionarily speaking, it was far more beneficial for the bodies to be formed after the fact.

But not only had Aina taken the risk to do it, it benefited her greatly.

Essentially, while her babies were in her body, their souls and their bodies were just extensions of Aina’s own. This meant that Aina’s Soul and Body Clairvoyance abilities applied to her children as well.

On the one hand, this allowed her to construct their bodies with absolute perfection.

And on the other, it also allowed her to grasp weapon Forces that she never had before, incorporating them into her own understanding.

In the past, Aina had used weapons to strengthen her own Weapon Force. She had

tried the sword, the spear, even unconventional weapons like ribbons and the like. Every time she did so, she would return to her ax just the slightest bit stronger. But this... was on another level entirely.

She didn’t just dabble in the weapons a small bit. She had helped her children to construct entire Innate Nodes.

That meant that as many Weapon Force Innate Nodes as her children had, Aina had the Sovereignties to match them all.

A perfect understanding of them.

Her daughter had the Battle Ax Force Innate Node in her body. Even if it was just that alone, having the comprehension to craft it from scratch would give Aina a shocking amount of power.

But in the end...

Aina had taken the same route her husband had.

With so many Innate Nodes at her fingertips, why would she only incorporate a single one into her understanding?

Aina’s aura bloomed and her Manifestation appeared to her back.

It was a woman, with blood red hair that cascaded like rivers of life and equally as bloody red eyes. She wore an armor that looked worn and torn by the tides of time and in her hand, she held out a weapon that was constantly changing shapes and forms until the weapons vanished entirely, leaving nothing more than a finger pointing down on the world.

BOOM!

Aina’s ax flickered and a slash cut across the skies.

The two women desperately blocked once again, only to find themselves getting blown back even faster.

”Damn.” James mumbled, looking over toward Milan who was staring back at him already. ”You think we can comfort them after this loss?”

”I don’t think sis is gonna let them live.”

”Ai...” James sighed. ”... Why’d they try to be home wreckers? They brought this on themselves. You think Leo would bring them back to life?”

”You want Cap to die an early death?”

”Sometimes.” James nodded after thinking about it for a while.

With every step Aina took forward, they were blown back again and again. But then,

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she suddenly stopped.

Rotating her wrist, Aina seemed to have felt that she had knocked off enough of her

rust.

Her smile bloomed like a rising sun as she raised her ax once more.

With a flash, she vanished.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

Her every stroke seemed to be predictable that even Minerva, who seemed to be on her backfoot, could react quite well every time.

And yet...

PUCHI!

Blood suddenly spurted out of Minerva’s shoulder, an injury she didn’t understand

suddenly hindering her.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

PUCHI!

Another unknown gash appeared in her thigh, then across her chest.

Aina’s wrist twisted and her ax swung up from below in a wide arc.

To Minerva’s horror...

She realized she couldn’t block.

There wasn’t a single sound. The ax flowed through Minerva’s body so fluidly one would have thought that she was made of nothing but air.

Unfortunately for her... she wasn’t.

Minerva froze, not quite understanding even now how she had died so easily.

She tried to pick up the pieces of her body, but it was all useless as she fell from the

skies in two pieces.

Aina looked at her blade, seemingly satisfied that there wasn’t even a hint of blood on

it. Then, she looked toward Anya who was holding onto her ax so tightly that her knuckles had turned a pure shade of white.

”I’ve sensed you eyeing my husband for a long while.” Aina said with a blink. ”He met you when we were going through a slightly rough patch, right?”

There was something particularly dark about Aina’s smile right this moment.

”I don’t like you very much at all. If it was just this, maybe I would give you an easy death... but you’ve allied yourself with the Brazingers. That...

”Is unforgivable.”