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 only

the little guy's strength, though. It was only a casual swipe of the paw yet the wind pressure made Leonel's

forcefully raised to Tier 9 recently, let alone for him to feel pain. Yet, not

a single inch. The little guy was still in

met again. He had a feeling that they most definitely would at

atop Leonel's head as Leonel

two for helping me

flustered. Someone without context might think she was a girl in love, but Leonel knew enough to understand that Candle's mind hadn't even matured enough to give breath to such emotion. She was functionally

time he spent with them, the more guilty he felt treating

away and rearing them like

Leonel sighed.

reins on them, their power would grow far

looked up into the skies. Finally, he made

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

quite understanding Leonel's words. Even concepts like freedom and free will were foreign to them, let alone terms like family

had expected as much and chose

all the Savants to ever be born? There were most definitely powers out there that used

Of course not.