Dimensional Descent

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Time passed and it wasn't long before Leonel was all alone within the Segmented Cube. Well, alone if Vice, Candle and Little Blackstar were ignored. As for Silam, he had left after recollecting himself, realizing that he and his family didn't quite have much of a choice in the matter.

Life worked in quite mysterious ways, honestly. Leonel had initially wanted to target the Radix and Midas families in order to complete the Silver Empire's legacy, but he actually ended up gaining the Umbra family instead.

Of course, it was a chess piece that he couldn't use quite yet, but it was one nonetheless. Having them would make things… Interesting.

As of right this moment, though, Leonel wasn't really concerned about such matters. Even now, with how real everything had suddenly gotten, it felt like a distant future. Instead, he was spending some time with Little Blackstar, trying to figure out exactly how the little guy had changed.

Raising the little mink by his arm pits, Leonel looked into Blackstar's deep black eyes. The little mink's long whiskers twitched as though to show his dissatisfaction toward being treated like a baby. Toward this, Leonel could only laugh.

"You're only three or four years old this year, right? You are a baby."

"Yip!!" Little Blackstar protested. "Yip! Yip!"

Leonel, who could feel Blackstar's meaning through their connection, almost choked on air. Did he gain another little pervert for his group? Why was this little guy saying such vulgar things.

"Look at you, being so boastful. What are you so proud about? The both of us are virgins."

Blackstar tried to claw at Leonel's face, but he

strength, though. It was only a casual swipe

to even feel anything he didn't want to feel was a tall task considering his body had been forcefully raised to Tier 9 recently, let alone for him to feel pain. Yet, not only had Little Blackstar done exactly that, the

guy was still in the first tier of the Fifth Dimension. And yet, his power had

would have to remember to thank Kira when they met again. He had a feeling

up to his favorite perch atop Leonel's head as Leonel himself turned toward

you two for

understand that Candle's mind hadn't even matured enough to give breath to such emotion. She was functionally still a child, as

truth, the more time he spent with them, the more guilty he

still human. Locking them away and rearing them like cattle while only

Leonel sighed.

them, their power would grow far too

and looked up into the

fact that I know it is enough. I hope to treat you both the same as I do my brothers. I will trust you two

blinked, clearly not quite understanding Leonel's words. Even concepts like freedom and free will were foreign to them, let alone terms like family

Leonel had expected as much and chose

all the Savants to ever be born? There were most definitely powers out there that used Savants like their own hidden trump cards, would he just

Of course not.