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."

at Leonel's face, but he only burst into a

It was only a casual swipe of the paw yet the wind pressure made

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 little mink hadn't even

Leonel could tell that Little Blackstar's Dimensional grade hadn't budged a single inch. The little guy was still

to thank Kira when they met again. He had a feeling that they most

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

you two for helping me

think she was a girl in love, but Leonel knew enough to understand that

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

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

Leonel sighed.

them, their power would

and looked up into

is enough. I hope to treat you both the same as I do my brothers. I will trust you two so long as you don't give me a reason to

Even concepts like freedom and free will were

as much and chose to take things

just going to avoid 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.