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?"

that. They were directly responsible for several deaths and separated from us after we entered the mine tunnels. In order

before them? Despite

do you think

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

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

his

say you could

"Nope, you didn't."

and walked out of

brat!" Heinla grit his

his top. "We have certain rules we need to follow too,

patience almost as soon as the line of

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

two things: one that Leonel's ability was indeed sensory and two that it

to prove. Though his leaving was a bit rude, wasn't treating him like a traitor when they

getting worse and worse every generation. I can't stand any of them." Heinla

intent on going to make

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

contagious. He didn't even care for the opinions of any of us old timers before he

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

see if he's the one colluding

third elder, who had remained silent until now,

cut things short, there's