Dimensional Descent

By definition, Distorted Zones were technically Unique Zones to begin with. Unique Zones were Zones where outside influence changed the initial difficulty. Distorted Zones were Zones warped by outside influences as well, it was just that their difficulty didn't tend to change much at all…

However, there wee exceptions to this rule, and that was reserved for Zones formed as the fall of an Empire neared or its formation was nigh.

At these two opposing points in an Empire's history, its impact on the timeline was the greatest, making any attempted distortion very difficult. The result would be a Unique Zones whose difficult was far and above away what it should have been. Not only would the distortion fail, but the likelihood of death would skyrocket.

Even still, many would clamber at the chance to enter such a Zone, some even more so than Mythological Zones. After all, a Mythological Zone was a random spin of the wheel, there was no telling if you would get a magic system that was powerful or weak. However, a Unique Zone that had been distorted was almost a guaranteed jackpot as long as the Empire was powerful.

By now, Rychard's reaction to it all was more than just a little bit justified. The Silver Empire more than fit the bill for what was worth it. However, he soon calmed himself.

For one, the timeline that Aina and the others had entered had been the Empire's infancy, not near their downfall. Samson had long since said that they would be meeting a young General Fye, that alone spoke for itself.

Though it was possible for the Silver Empire to have grown off the back of some ultra treasure that this Zone would unveil the existence of, the likelihood was small. Most Empires didn't rise like that so Rychard wouldn't put his hopes into such a thing. Many of an Empire's trump cards came later as they accumulated wealth over thousands of years.

The second reason Rychard calmed himself was because of the rules of the Viola family.

he was meant to have

couldn't just snatch their gains

all the wealth of information, but from what he could tell from this recounting, the one to having likely benefited the most was

Rychard's eyes narrowed.

seemed to be the daughter of Vassal Miel Brazinger, which was good because Miel hadn't chosen a

get Aina to his side, wouldn't it be like also having Miel as well? Even if Miel didn't see it this way, what would the other

often haughty and she seems to have the right to be. Samson describes her as

this regard, to have such a woman warm up would take years. In fact, in his experience, unless

depending on the kind of cold and detached she was, things could also

type, she would be easy to convince with logic and reasoning. The latter type of woman wouldn't hesitate to even marry him so

thought as he read the information to himself all over again. 'This

my training resources, giving them to her in exchange for

of them he felt were viable.

sending out orders, his gaze