Dimensional Descent

"I can't take it anymore, Sael! This brat needs to be taught a lesson!"

Not a small number of those who had followed Sael to this place took a step forward. First, their junior had been beaten half dead to the point his eyes rolled to the back of his head. Second, even after they appeared, Leonel dared to strike a near fatal blow on a senior of his. And third, he was now blatantly threatening their captain.

"Wait…!" Sael tried to step forward to stop things again, making another effort.

"That's enough, Captain! I know you have your reasons for acting like this, but I don't give a damn what special background this brat has! We'll take the heat for you!"

Growling several members of Sael's squad stepped forward, glaring at Leonel as though they were a pack of wounded animals. They wanted nothing more than to tear him limb from limb.

Leonel had been absentminded, still trying to put the pieces together when he heard those words.

'Background…? What do…' Leonel's eyes flashed with a bright arc of lightning. It almost seemed to manifest itself into a spiraling whip, beating against his mind for taking so long to come to the proper conclusion.

'Is this about Earth…? No, if Terrain could just attack us because they felt like it without any sort of intervention, that should be impossible. If anything, since Sael had alluded to troubles Valiant Heart had been having, they would be salivating at the prospect of Earth entering the Fifth Dimension so they could send an attack force of their own.

'If this was about Earth, they would just kill me off. There would be no need to allow a talent from there to live.

'That means this either has something to do with my maternal grandmother's Snowy Owl Lineage Factor and the family it came from… Or… dad's Metal Synergy Lineage Factor…'

Leonel didn't know which one it was. Technically, both could have been exposed during his talent assessment. Now that he thought about it, Sael didn't read his results aloud back then either.

know how powerful his background was. He

And, he was also aware that the Snowy Owl family, or, rather, the Luxnix family, according to the dictionary, was of the Sixth

issue was… He didn't really know what this meant and what weight it carried. He was like a baby carrying around a shot gun, having no idea where the trigger was or what kind of backlash pulling it

Leonel was

massive place. He didn't know what influence, if any, a family on

sound silly, but think about it for

families be situated? From so far away, how much influence could they possibly have

the existence of these families almost like how the common people might not even

watch to maintain perfect control. Now imagine if instead of just having to

Leonel couldn't even wrap

how to prove that he was from these families. It wasn't like he hid his last name ever, but practically no one cared that he was named

useless, there was obviously no point in changing

more important point. The most important, in

these families cared enough about

them. Where was the guarantee that this would mean anything? He had no idea if these

Aina's backstory, her mother was executed while she and her father were expelled from the Brazinger family. And why did all of that happen…? All because her mother wasn't of

would his father raise him on the much weaker Earth? Why else would his mother vanish like that despite the loving eyes she used to look

was the only explanation Leonel could come

Why would he trust this 'background' of his