Dimensional Descent

"We need to run! Now! The Titan Hyena is the favored mount of the Oryx Tribe. You don't understand how rare it is for this species to have a complete skeleton of metal!

"Originally, I didn't think much of it. Titan Hyena's with incomplete skeletons are still rare, but it wouldn't be impossible to run into. But, one with a complete skeleton is a completely different story. The full metal skeleton genes are all recessive alleles. If even one is missing, the Titan Hyena will have an incomplete skeleton. There's no way the Oryx Tribe would mistakenly let such a pure bred Titan Hyena loose without reason!"

The freshmen was so agitated that he spoke out everything in a single breath.

Leonel frowned.

This Oryx Tribe… It wasn't the first time he had heard of them. During Raylion's speech, many of the worst sins toward the end involved the mention of this Tribe. But, that was about all Leonel knew. He wasn't aware of anything else about them.

A recessive allele wasn't complicated, at least not on Earth. There were only two types Leonel was aware of. The dominant allele and the recessive allele.

When a baby is conceived, it will receive one allele from each parent for every gene expression it might need in the future. A dominant allele only needed one of itself present to manifest. A recessive allele, however, would need both from both parents.

This essentially meant that for the Titan Hyena to have a full skeleton, both of its parents would have to also share this trait.

Well, that was as long as genes were expressed in the same way across worlds, something that Leonel wasn't exactly sure of. For all he knew, the process was more complicated than this for Titan Hyenas.

Technically, if things worked like they did on Earth, two parents who each had one dominant allele and one recessive allele could still come together to produce a child with two recessive alleles. But, from the words of the freshmen, it seemed that the Titan Hyena needed multiple sets of recessive alleles for multiple gene expressions rather than just one.

In that case, the luck that would be involved for the spontaneous creation of a perfect Titan Hyena would be astronomical. It was no wonder this freshmen was panicking.

In all likelihood, a member of the Oryx Tribe was definitely nearby. Or, at the very least, they were scouting in preparation for a mission and just never expected that there would be anyone in this region who was capable of taking down such a beast.

Thinking it through, the likelihood of it being the latter was incredibly high.

This was a region where freshmen were deployed for population control missions. Logically, there shouldn't be danger on this level here.

Leonel's gaze sharpened. 'What an interesting opportunity… Seems lady luck is on my side.'

Leonel looked toward Aina, their gazes seeming to have come to a tacit understanding. It seemed that things were getting interesting.

Hyena's corpse, taking out a spear with a long blade. It was a weapon those of Valiant Heart Mountain would drool over, yet he seemed to always use

flesh off. If it wasn't for the sparse droplets of blood that still remained on the corpse, one would have never guessed

teams in this region?" Leonel

Yes, there should be quite a few." Irolana replied. "Ever since freshmen began to need merit points to train, this has been one

been focused on Aina and finding their next target,

getting everyone to retreat.

to leave the mountain. Logically, there would probably be some life saving measures Valiant Hall taught

but they only

reaction of those four who ran away to know how that would go. Even if he lit the flare under the guise that they needed help just to attract everyone over, who knew how many would come?

in infrared and the warmer colors of visual light. They basically only see in reds and everything else blends into it. The color of the flare was chosen to easily blend into

by the Oryx, it was still possible

it. Light

…

I can't run any

think that as Fourth Dimensional entities they would be able to

stand in this place without falling to their

chasing us,

think we got far enough

"… The others…?"

had spoke these words before looking toward each other. A hint of

young man amongst them

only gotten us killed. We didn't have the strength to be of any help, what good would it have done to throw our lives

somewhat better hearing

that some of them survived? Would there even be

you

"Hear what?"

tremor shook

looking in a certain

bend out of the way, the foliage snapping and flattening under the

they saw was a simple