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?"

for several 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

were still able to leave before them? Despite having to protect more than 70 other freshmen? Does that make sense even to

do you think

no hand in." The Elder replied plainly. "It also wouldn't be the first time some with less than optimal

see. Well, you're 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.

stretched his back, feeling a

say

"Nope, you didn't."

waved goodbye and walked out of

Heinla

his top.

almost as

truth, he often asked questions he didn't need to.

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

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

are getting worse and worse every generation. I can't stand any

words, he didn't seem intent on going to make

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

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

it wasn't for the rule changes, they

brat too and see if he's the one colluding

elder, who had remained silent until

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