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

going to scram? I have a battle to fight." Aphestus said with a wide,

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

This sort of nonchalance…

was steaming pile of rage by this point, but she could only watch as the Valiant Hall crowd parted for Aphestus

bowl. Immediately afterward, it erupted into a pillar of flames, but he didn't react much to this. It seemed that he was already

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

Hall members, forcing them to clear out even beneath their seething

going

Founding Peak Section, the elders had been watching 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

Aphestus faced each other in a pending duel, of them stepped forward to do anything? Even the elder who spoke had never really expected an answer

traditional ways were exactly what put them

have such bouts of internal strife, but the elders

as ten years, they wouldn't be

hope. Even if his methods were underhanded

they could. Who knows, maybe this new system would bring about a surprise for them. Maybe, with this

or not. But, what was

air around her