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?"

us after we entered the mine tunnels.

you in a crisis, yet you were still able to leave before them?

Then what do

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 should

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

and stretched his back,

say you could

"Nope, you didn't."

and walked out of the

snot-nosed brat!" Heinla grit his

Elder Tobis stopped the elder before he could blow his top.

almost as soon as the line of questioning

hide this truth, he often asked questions he didn't need

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

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

worse every generation. I can't stand

didn't seem intent

It's best that we just let the younger generation take

brat is too full of 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 head. Now look at the

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

little brat too and see if he's the one

who had

should be happy that he cut things short, there's something far more important to turn our attention