Dimensional Descent

[Only 1 chapter today. I was kidnapped away for birthday related matters, so this is all there is]

The smile on Violet Rain's face grew brighter and brighter. It was finally time for this farce to come to an end. Now that the second round had come around, there was no longer any words to hide behind.

A devious light flashed in her watery eyes as she turned on the voice projection system once more having gotten her fill out of the crowd's boos.

"I will now explain the rules for the second round as I did for the first."

One of the male Commanders by Violet Rain's side had a weird expression hearing these words. They were supposed to share hosting duties, so it was meant to be his turn to explain things. They had done this a couple times before already, so Violet Rain should be familiar with the process.

'Whatever. The rules for the second round have always been the same anyway. It doesn't need to be me.'

However, he had only barely finished thinking this when he was suddenly stunned by the next words he heard.

"The second round this time will be a seeded elimination tournament where your performance from the first round will be taken into account. You will be split into seeds one through eight.

"The first battle will be between seed seven and eight. The winner of the battle will go on to challenge seed six, while the winner of that will go on to challenge seed five. So on and so forth.

"In the end, whichever seed remains standing will be allowed to challenge the best performer from the first round."

After being stunned a while, the two male Commanders looked toward each other and smiled bitterly. Even if they were beaten to death, they wouldn't believe that this wasn't targeting a certain person. But since Violet Rain hadn't done anything too outrageous, they really couldn't say anything. Plus, it wasn't like they could make her retract the rules she had already said, right? They had already lost face once today after readmitting Leonel.

in which everyone battled at once. Eight would become four, then two, then

third gathering, no one picked up on the oddity. They only felt that the rules

sake of Leonel? If anything, they

wasn't even aware. Leonel hadn't taken part in the other gatherings so how could he know what was normal and what wasn't when even the fanatics in the

smile grew as

of the rankings will be decided by who lasted for the longest after crossing the minimum ten minute requirements. As for those who had the ability to kill the one or more Invalids, they will be even above that. Those at the very top will be decided by whoever defeated the five Invalids

the seeds are as

Clap. Third Seed: Roaring Black Lion. Fourth Seed: Erupting Volcano.

"Indomitable."

crowd was silent for a moment before cheers erupted once

"HAHA! Serves him right!"

luck going through our gauntlet of geniuses,

"Indomitable? More like Indumbitable!"

"… That was lame."

fight broke out in

crowd to get rowdy to their hearts content

I will reiterate the rules

opponent will be subject to judgment by military law. This is a time of war, remember that. Your sentence

from the racks provided can be used." She took her time to emphasize the word only, and for good reason. "Those weapons are all of the C-grade