Dimensional Descent

"Big sis…" Gersan's face was filled with all sorts of complicated emotions.

She could feel Sael's rage, but he also knew it was all futile. Defeating Raylion? It was impossible.

Everyone knew how terrible his ability was. Even if he never trained an ounce of Force in his life, he would be an undefeatable force. To ask Sael to carry this weight on her shoulders was no different from asking her to walk through a wall of fire. She might not even leave this place in one piece.

Raylion looked down from the stone rising, his gaze just as expressionless. As though Sael's challenge didn't mean anything to him, he began to speak again.

"Now that the will of the people has been spoken, the context of the coming battle must be laid out."

The crowd grew hushed once again, their emotions still boiling from the recent events.

This was the most important part of every trial. After the majority agreed, the wager would be set. This wager would decide what changes would occur and what spoils would be given to the winner.

Usually, this would just be a change in the percentage resource allocation. But, something was telling the crowd now that this would be a much larger change.

Raylion brought out another scroll and handed it to Aphestus.

With a toothy grin, Aphestus accepted the scroll and leapt down from on high. His stride was so long that he practically did the splits in the air, plummeting down more than 20 meters and landing with a soft thud on the toes of his feet as though it was nothing.

members without a care in the world. It was as though he didn't fear them lashing out

to scram? I have a battle to fight." Aphestus

understand what was happening by now, they'd be fools. Rather than stepping forward himself, Raylion had actually sent Aphestus to

This sort of nonchalance…

she could only watch as

toss, Aphestus threw the scroll into a bowl. Immediately afterward, it erupted into a pillar of flames,

stretch out his body. "Are you idiots still not leaving yet? There only

of respect for the Valiant Hall members, forcing them to

we really going to allow

the happenings without a word from start to finish. They had initially set up the Valiant Heart Mountain political system to allow competition between the youths, but they were certain that whatever changes Hero Peak had proposed with that scroll couldn't just be a matter of the younger generation. It would cause great, rippling tides to drown whatever semblance of their old teachings

of this was a farce, then who would? Still, even now, while Sael and Aphestus faced each other in a pending duel, of them stepped forward to do anything? Even the elder who

done it the traditional way. But, those traditional ways were exactly what put them on the brink of

to a point where they could leisurely have such bouts of internal strife, but the elders knew better. They were a wilting flower, prepared

be able to hold their heads up

hope. Even if his methods were underhanded and cruel, which part

about

correct or not. But, what was true regardless was that

fists, the air around