Dimensional Descent

Seeing that the situation was taking a turn for the worse, Mordred took a step forward and blocked Aina to her back, feeling slightly protective of this young girl.

"Aina is not tied with us, she is only here as a helper." Mordred tried to explain.

Nile's gaze remained locked onto Aina.

Aina felt her vision swimming, her feet feeling somewhat unsteady. From an outsiders perspective, it seemed as though she was feeling pressured by Nile's gaze. But, the reality was that her body seemed to want to shut down at this moment.

After several minutes of trying to force her ability to activate, her situation only got worse. In fact, it seemed as though the repressive effects of her scars was getting fiercer.

Without the energy she needed to fight back against it, the situation she was facing only grew worse.

"The reason she is here is irrelevant. The fact that she is here at all is already a challenge to His Majesty's sovereignty."

The momentum of Nile and the four wolf riders to his back grew.

In the Ascension Empire, there were only a handful of titles without a democratic prefix attached to it. The reason behind this was clear, other than the royal family, others had to constantly scratch and claw for their positions. Any failure to do so would result in the destruction of countless generations of effort.

Due to this structure, The Empire had fostered a sense of complete and unquestionable loyalty. Those who failed to meet such standards could just as easily be ostracized during the next cycle of elections. It was also exactly because of this reason that there were no noble families with useless heirs as useless heirs would only drive the effort of the family into the ground!

a traitor to The Empire yet hadn't taken action, the

control over a powerful province. In fact, his Evergreen Province was located in harsh wintery climates year

and was as such ranked eighth amongst the Provinces. And, unfortunately, the only reason they were not ranked ninth was because Dark Cloud Province, the location of Dark Cloud Prison,

a blessing to the family that Nile had awakened as a Variant and had had the opportunity to stay by the Prince's side for the past

mistakes. He had to uphold the justice of The Empire

this point, though, Aina's mind was far too foggy to consider her surroundings. She stumbled and fell backward, only to be caught by Mordred who realized that

yet to

I also hope that as a power soon to be under the jurisdiction of The Empire, that you

gaze landed on Mordred and Arthur

unmoved by it all. The distance was only a hundred meters, so with his newfound strength, he could easily hear

it?'

name. Could she be from that family? But she

as large as the universe, obviously, there were still many instances of unrelated people having the same last names. Knowing this,

eradication of over 99%

to the names of these hidden families. His grandfather had said that there were many enemies eyeing their Earth, and these hidden

sure of the origin of these families. But, there were two running theories

possibility was that these hidden families were existences that once vied for supremacy over Earth like their Fawkes family

it was easy to ignore it… but didn't their Fawkes family also all have the same white-gold hair and emerald