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?"

couldn't even meet Leonel's

Factor had nothing to do with foxes at all. As for the true nature, even Silam didn't know. This was a truth kept stored away so that the Umbra family would be able to

that Leonel was lying through his

Lu, the very same poor sap Aina had killed and Leonel had ultimately gotten the ring that led him

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

He was from Crars!

this, everything was pieced together. Why would the Three Finger Cult infiltrate the Crars Empire of

to tie in one after another once this was

their methods of detecting and avoiding their capture. However, it would also be the case that the Umbra would likely feel that

this 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

the Three Finger Cult was, but if it could kill his grandfather and make his father so serious,

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

take this risk. Unfortunately for both parties,

things were reverse engineered from Leonel's perspective, he was able to deduce the connection between the