Dimensional Descent

It made sense that the Radix never saw this pattern. They had accumulated this data over several centuries and they never categorized them in terms of wins, losses and draws, they just documented what happened. For Leonel to draw that connection himself after flipping through them spoke for itself…

However, that didn't explain why any of this was important.

"I'm not entirely sure why you're so confused." Leonel said lightly. "The fact you don't think it's important that you're standing here, doing nothing, while your supposed partner and equal is fighting down to his last breath doing something you commanded him to do… You don't really understand how people work, hm?"

Avarone's pupils constricted.

"If you still don't get it, I can give you another stat, maybe that'll help things sink into place for you. Of those 10 706 battles fought, there were 17 092 members of your families that died. Of that number, 64% were from the Midas family.

"How about another stat? There were 27 893 participants of the battles total. That means that there were 10 801 survivors. Of the number of survivors, 72% of them were members of your Radix family."

Avarone's expression darkened with every word Leonel spoke.

"And now, once again, a member of the Radix family is watching a member of the Midas fight to the bloody end. But do you know what the difference is between this time and all those other times?"

Leonel smiled, and looked around. "You have spectators."

The battlefield had already fallen into a silence the moment the second junior starship appeared and it felt like the tides were shifting. However, because of all the commotion and noise the battle between Belize and Siris were making, not to mention the distraction of Leonel's words, Avarone hadn't even noticed the issue until it was pointed out to him.

members of the Midas family looking back

were simply far too powerful as they had monopolized an entire

a lot of the internal conflict between the two families was ignored and allowed to fester. But, having a spotlight shone on it like now made the problem several orders of magnitude

because the Radix were so calculative, the nature of these battle stats had always been an open secret. If there was anyone that would be smart enough to survive a close battle, it would

scab wound would be torn

thinking." Leonel continued with a smile. "Or rather, I know what you'll eventually conclude, because right now

her own technique, the Florer family will retaliate fiercely. After all, it's been 207 years since one of their Heads has died, and

midst of a battlefield with no other powerful enough members of the Florer family

inevitable and fierce coming retaliation, the Midas will have no choice but to swallow their discontent and your issues can once more be swept under the rug,

There's just a

head angled up to the second

and you still think that they're on your side when

these words, both Heira and her father narrowed

you that by now, all of the members you bribed and placed on their council have been assassinated. I can also see, no matter how he tries to

they've accrued over the years because when it

the largest scale plot you had cracked was thwarted by another? What if all the resources you had poured in, all the effort, was meaningless? How would the

his gaze practically red at this

Radix family got played. If the Milky Way Guild succeeds in getting a foothold in Earth's Fold of Reality, you all won't even be that large of a threat to them anymore

you agree with me? Isn't this a funny little skit you have going