Dimensional Descent

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Leonel's palm flipped and the rest of the message was cut short.

"You see, I'm not a very sentimental person. It's very easy for me to not care about things, even if I once cared for them in the past. There are very few things in life that can weigh me without very concrete stipulations being met... However…"

Leonel's expression darkened, the aura around him growing several levels heavier. It felt to Silam as though he was within a whirlwind of murderous intent, his heart threatening to leap out from his throat.

"… My father is a man who exists beyond those stipulations for me. His rage, is my rage. His sadness, is my sadness. His love, is my love.

"To dare to touch my grandfather, a man my father so clearly cares so deeply for… I sentenced this Three Finger Cult to death the moment I heard its name."

Silam's gaze rolled back, his consciousness almost passing out completely. However, before his mind could go completely blank, Leonel's rage receded like a tide, leaving Silam like a small boat swaying in the wind.

"… With this new information my father brought me, finding the traces of the Three Finger Cult was far easier than it was before and it wasn't long before I realized that as clean as the Valynore family was, they weren't nearly clean enough to escape my deduction.

"The trouble was I had all these loose ends that had yet to be tied together. I had ultimately lucked out in stumbling upon the conclusion, but the road leading to it was still fuzzy and couldn't be quite pieced together… Until, that is, I learned that the Three Finger Cult had a Shadow Fox Bloodline within its ranks… Sorry, I mean the Shadow Tail Bloodline, right?"

even meet Leonel's

was that their Lineage Factor had nothing to do with foxes at all. As for the true nature, even Silam didn't

that Leonel

poor sap Aina had killed and Leonel had ultimately gotten the ring that led him

he didn't find anything special. He was a normal youth and didn't have anything special

He was from Crars!

pieced together. Why would the Three Finger Cult infiltrate the

one after another once

Three Finger Cult for so long, the Umbra family definitely had their methods of detecting and avoiding their capture.

way, the Umbra family was a lot like the Florer family. They were more powerful than they showed on the surface, but they had to continue to maintain a low profile. And, in the case of the Umbra, the only way they could guarantee their survival was by rising up to one day matching the strength of

could kill

then, that before separating from this Cult for whatever reason, the Umbra family caught wind of some of its plans and chose to get a step ahead of them. With how powerful the Silver Tablet was, Leonel had no doubt that in the hands of a powerful family, it could cause a qualitative change in their strength given just

no wonder the Umbra would be willing to take this risk. Unfortunately for both parties, the ring landed in

perspective, he was able to deduce the connection between the Umbra and the Cult by virtue of