Chapter 458: Dream Sense (2/2)

”This one will do.”

With a flip of his palm, the saber vanished and Noah walked to the entrance of his tent.

”Jessica, all the preparations you made for the Demon Empire, forget them for now. We have a city to level.”

Jessica nodded.

According to their intelligence, the Demon Empire had allied with Camelot and planned to submit to The Empire. With this sudden change, their thoughts might turn from submission to thoughts of taking advantage of The Empire in their time of weakness to maintain their own sovereignty.

In that case, rather than giving them a hollow show of power for mere negotiations, they'd show them a real one.

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Within Camelot's treasure vaults, Leonel had no idea that his grandfather was aware of his presence already. In fact, he wasn't even aware that he had a grandfather to begin with. In Leonel's mind, his only family was his father and his missing mother.

But, maybe even if he was aware, he wouldn't have the mind to think about it.

Leonel sat on the ground, beads of sweat falling down his face.

If one stopped focusing on his visage and focused on his hands, it would be possible to see a ghastly sight without compare.

Blood dripped from Leonel's hands, ricocheting off the ground and echoing through the vast vault.

Little Tolly happily swam around Leonel's fingers, not realizing the damage it was causing. But, Leonel couldn't blame the little guy, despite having evolved into the Fourth Dimension, it was still nothing but a toddler. In fact, the little guy hadn't even really begun to form cohesive thoughts of its own.

Though Leonel could command Blackstar with words, Little Tolly didn't accept such direction well. Leonel had to use a series of images for Tolliver to understand his meaning.

However, understanding didn't make it any less painful.

There was good news and bad news.

The bad news was that it was almost impossible to suffer such pain and focus on crafting at the same time. How could one maintain a steady connection and complete such intricate actions when it felt like the world was collapsing around them?

The good news, however, was that Leonel managed to evolve under pressure and create a new ability. He called the ability Dream Sense.

Since it was so hard to feel such pain and focus at the same time, why do so at all?

Dream Sense allowed Leonel to split his senses the exact same way he split his mind, it was just an extension of his Dream Clone ability.

Leonel used Dream Sense to split his mind two ways. One tackled the brunt of the pain he was feeling while the second focused entirely on his Crafting.

It was on the third day of using this ability that Leonel evolved once more. He realized something incredibly important.

If he could split his senses to help him focus, why not split his sensory pain between several minds? If he did that, wouldn't this allow him to dull his pain by several factors?

If he split the same pain between ten minds… Wouldn't he reduce his own pain by a factor of ten?

This realization truly opened Leonel up to a new world. If he could control his mind even down to this minute level, just what other possible abilities could his creativity have in store for him?