Leonel stood high in the skies, his Auspicious Air emanating stronger and stronger waves as a white and black ball circulated around him. In that moment, it looked as though the skies had become painted in bronze, almost erasing the darkness brought by the Constellation that was high up above them all. Leonel's expression was calm.
Quite frankly, what he had just done was entirely on a whim, but the flexibility that came with the Mage Core in his Ethereal Glabella in combination with his ability to create Natural Force Arts could only be said to be on an entirely different level.
He had tapped into the Earth Force of his Mage Core and synced it with the formation of a Natural Force Art that played on his own body. At this moment, his body was a perfect fusion of the Dark and Light halves of the Northern Star Lineage Factor, and as such, it could be said to only exist because it was likewise in perfect balance.
When he condensed so much earth and baptized it beneath this unique Force Art, it was like he was molding it into an entirely separate existence.
The push and pull of yin and yang could almost be used like a perpetual motion machine, explosively increasing his own strength and lowering the strength of his enemy at the same time.
"Interesting..."
Quite frankly, Leonel didn't think too much about it. He had only taken some inspiration from the way Cindra used Light Force and began to think about these matters more from the perspective of someone from Earth.
The result was outside his expectations.
He ignored the beaten and ragged Amynta, raising a palm and allowing the two orbs to hover over his hand. They orbited around one another. He could feel a strong pulling attraction coming from the black orb, and from the white, he felt a strong repelling force.
Right now, they were restrained, but if he nudged them with his Earth Force a bit...
"The power is mine to wield."
BOOM!
The ground beneath Ryu's feet suddenly exploded, a pit that reached into a depth of over a hundred meters forming and the building that had once been there was flattened to nothingness.
Leonel's gaze flickered. All he had done was activate the white orb a bit and direct the repelling force downward, and yet this was what happened.
If he had used the black orb instead, did that mean that the building would have rushed at him instead?
Amynta was strong, sure... but she was only strong in comparison to a Human.
In her defense, her strength actually wasn't very far from the Emberheart and Moonstone Lords... if it was taken into account that she was still in the Eighth Dimension, that is.
If she broke into the Ninth Dimension, she may be able to give them a good battle. But in practice, she was still inferior to them, and Leonel for that matter.
However, this wasn't to say that she was helpless.
From what Leonel could tell, Amynta had sacrificed a lot to achieve this. She had spent a long time in the Incomplete Worlds and had likely ruined her greatest potential.
As for the reason why... Leonel could already see it.
The Constellation Family Bloodlines.
During their battle, he had been using his Internal Sight to thoroughly check the city and he quickly found out why it was that everything seemed normal.
That was because the largest changes weren't external, they were internal.
He could sense that many had gained the Bloodlines of the 12 Constellation Families, and they were slowly growing used to their new power.
Amynta was never meant to be their figurehead. She had given up this right so that she could plant seeds.
In the future, so long as the children Leonel was observing grew up...
"They will be formidable."
They would become far more powerful than even Amynta.
However, Leonel was also smart enough to understand exactly how all of this happened.
"Now... Can you tell me how many lives you sacrificed to make this possible?"