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?"

deaths and separated from us after we entered the mine tunnels. In order to avoid the breakout of another fight, we had no choice but to not follow

you in a crisis, yet you were still able to leave before them? Despite having to protect more than 70 other freshmen? Does that make sense

do you think

The Elder replied plainly. "It also wouldn't be the first time some with less than optimal motives used outside

be up to you, then, to prove that I colluded with the Oryx

and stretched his back, feeling a satisfying

we say you could

"Nope, you didn't."

and walked out of the

Heinla grit his

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

almost as soon as the line of questioning

in order to hide this truth, he often asked questions he didn't need to. Somehow, Leonel had seen right through this and knew

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

bit rude, wasn't treating him like a traitor when they mostly confirmed that he wasn't also rude? Especially since

fine! These brats are getting worse and worse every generation. I can't stand any

seem intent on going to make trouble for

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

himself, and now it's getting contagious. He didn't even care for the opinions of any of us old timers before he flipped years of foundations on its

any other time, would there have been so many freshmen out doing missions? If it wasn't for the rule changes, they wouldn't have been in the line of

brat too and see if he's the one

had remained

that he cut things short, there's