Dimensional Descent

Elthor looked up to meet the murky gaze of the head of the tribe. He didn't answer immediately, instead looking around and gauging the reactions of everyone else.

As one might expect, not everyone was happy that Elthor would express his opinion first. Though the men who were on the Oryx Council were much more measured than the ones who would pick fights with him day in and day out, as far as Elthor was concerned, they were just better at hiding it. No amount of maturity would make a man okay with his wife being so attracted to another.

Toward this, Elthor could only shake his head. His smell wasn't even present while he was in his normal form. But, in order to prove that he was an Oryx back then, he had no choice but to enter his battle form which had practically imprinted his scent in the minds of everyone.

Luckily, Leonel had expected this and constructed a few counter plans, but they would still take time to implement, that much couldn't be changed. That said… This was an opportunity to bring up the due date by a few measures.

"I believe that we should accept."

Let alone the others, even Raymundus was surprised by these words. He wasn't a fool, he could tell that Elthor had been brought over to rope them all in. If anything, Heira's appearance was no different from throwing a wrench in his plans.

The fact that Elthor wanted them to join him wasn't a secret, this wasn't something that he could hide. The only real secret was that he was working at the behest of Leonel rather than some mysterious, unknown Oryx Kingdom. This information was more than enough for them to understand that Elthor may very well be against this.

Raymundus had asked Elthor first precisely because he knew all of this. He didn't want his small Tribe to end up in a power struggle between two entities.

They knew too little about the worlds outside of Planet Valiant. There very well could be an Oryx Kingdom that they had never heard of. But, think for a moment… Why would such a Kingdom go so far out of their way to send a Prince to recruit them?

from the same race, one only needs to see the interaction between humans to know that this isn't normally enough to maintain peace. There's no reason for such a Kingdom to care about a group they'd see as no different from a bunch of

that mean that this Kingdom was in trouble? It was a very logical conclusion to leap to and one that neither Leonel nor Elthor would blame them for having. In fact, it was almost preferrable that

be true. Someone who was wizened and had seen much of the world wouldn't easily accept that some higher power was helping

Raymundus and the others believed that Elthor had a purpose for using them, they could then assess the situation themselves. If things were in the form of a transaction, it would be easier to

they wanted to maintain was their pride and dignity. Beyond that, they wouldn't even mind drowning in a river of

reasons that Elthor's words were so baffling. Him saying this made Raymundus raise his guard. It

is…

they want to use us, can we not use them as well?"

gaze narrowed.

Kingdom had once been in such a

looked toward the other elders and they all simultaneously nodded. It seemed that they had reached this conclusion long ago as well. But this was perfect for Elthor, it made him more believable, especially since he was already using large

a result of our Hyper Evolution period, we never took full advantage of it. My father always

to rise, the blood of