Dimensional Descent

Royal Blue Fort's situation was more complex than Leonel knew.

In truth, there were many things that Leonel hadn't thoroughly thought through until he had a conversation with Aina.

For one, what purpose was he truly trying to accomplish?

Acting against Royal Blue Fort, even if it was just to kill a Junior Governor Duke, was no less than an act of war. At this point, Leonel would be truly setting himself as the lifelong enemy of The Empire no matter how one looked at it.

Beyond this, after killing the Junior Governor Duke, how would things proceed from there? Who would take leadership of the people who would be left behind? Would The Empire treat them all as rebels if they chose to follow Leonel? Did Leonel even want to lead them?

It wasn't that Leonel was too unintelligent to think of these things, it was rather that he was still too immature. He cared more about paying the Junior Governor Duke back for harming Aina and slighting himself than he cared about the consequences his revenge would bring.

This was the true reason Aina wasn't as enthusiastic about Leonel's plans to begin with. She had even initially rejected Leonel's suggestions. But, for some reason, in the end, she couldn't bear to say no after Leonel brought up the Segmented Cube plan.

Still, she had no choice but to douse some cold water over Leonel's dreams.

After talking some reason into Leonel, they decided on a plan.

First, they would scout out the situation. With their abilities, it wouldn't be a problem to observe the Fort from afar. Even slipping into the core of the city protected by the Junior Governor Duke's illusion ability wouldn't be an issue.

If they found that their friends and their families were struggling, they would use the snowglobes to take them in and escape the city. They would then bring them to another Fort in a new Province.

This last part of the plan was a bit more difficult to pull off. After all, The Empire had strict monitoring standards. But, they had the perfect excuse for this as well.

the Ascension Empire. As long as they had a valid excuse for breaking the law,

valid excuse for escaping one's Fort

were several other nobles there to take charge.

to Royal Blue Fort. However, they

...

skies, Earth's climate had taken a massive hit. The poles seemed to flip, the magnetic field was out

but the higher ups

– Leonel – had washed his hands of the matter. Luckily, there

what was happening wasn't quite enough. Earth

The Empire might still have some means of stabilizing the climate. But, with the interference of Force, not

As such,

buried beneath several feet of

chillingly cold, this made the situation far worse. The snow fell as an almost half water, half snow combination, making

Even the tall Fort walls were covered with an

the sudden

to find methods of combating this

wasn't just a matter of climate change. The most

knew that Earth's progress had to be great because he didn't receive his usual reward for being the first to clear an SS-grade

have been a great thing, but it was very much

strength. And the second

Leonel found a collapsed building to observe the Royal Blue

"That... Is that possible?"