Dimensional Descent

Leonel smiled. "Luck?"

Though Leonel had said this lightly, the elders didn't seem to find it very funny. Even Elder Tobis, one of the few Leonel had seen that weren't so uptight, wasn't very moved.

But, this only made sense. Valiant Heart Mountain was already in a terrible situation even long before the Oryx made such a move. Now they felt as though they were being pincered from all sides.

For these elders, it must have felt like watching their legacies crumble before them all in real time. How could they be in the mood for jokes?

As much as these elders wanted to believe that so many freshmen could survive, they had already prepared themselves to be wiped out completely. But now, instead of being pleasantly surprised, they were just skeptical. And, after interrogating all of the freshmen about what happened, it all seemed to revolve around this one young man.

Leonel sighed when he saw such a scene.

"I'm a Force Crafter who has a high affinity for metal and whose ability happens to be a sensory type. Finding mines and navigating them is probably what I'm best at."

Leonel's reply was straight to the point.

The elders looked toward one another. This matched up with pretty much everything they knew.

The elder who sat to Tobis' right scanned Leonel up and down, his eyes blazing with a peculiar light.

"Your explanation sounds perfect, but I still have some questions."

"Mm?" Leonel met this elder's gaze.

"What happened with your seniors?"

"If you can even call them that. They were directly responsible for several deaths and separated from us after we entered the mine tunnels. In order to avoid the breakout

you in a crisis, yet you were still able to leave before them? Despite having to protect more than

do

had no hand in." The Elder replied plainly. "It also wouldn't be the first time some with less than optimal motives used outside help to become more storied and hallowed than they

replied. "It would probably be up to you, then, to prove that I colluded with the Oryx to leave safely. If that's all,

stood and stretched his back, feeling

say you could

"Nope, you didn't."

waved goodbye and walked out

snot-nosed brat!" Heinla grit

Tobis stopped the elder before he could blow his top. "We have certain

patience almost as soon as

often asked questions he didn't need to. Somehow, Leonel had

one that Leonel's ability was indeed sensory and two that it was even powerful enough to see through elders on their

him like a traitor when

worse every

he didn't seem intent on going to make trouble for

smiled bitterly. "We're getting old. It's best that we just let the

of any of us old

so many freshmen out doing missions? If it wasn't for the rule changes, they wouldn't

we should interrogate that Raylion little brat too and see if he's the one colluding

had remained silent

should be happy that he cut things short,