Stalling?

The imposing aura Leonel was releasing was resonating and suffocating. Even from such a far off distance, Annalysia could feel it with impossible clarity. 

He realized that no matter how young they were, underestimating a Creation State Dream Master was a fool's errand.

When she had received the information from Wise Sea Order, she had thought that it was a joke. The implication was absolutely ridiculous, and even going back to review the footage of the Gathering of Minds, she still had no idea how Leonel had managed to pull it off. 

What it also proved to her was that Leonel wasn't nearly as impulsive as he had made himself seem. In fact, it was almost too obvious that his recklessness was just a persona he used to lower the guards of others.