Dimensional Descent

The sight of numerous talismans being activated at once was ironically quite beautiful despite the purpose they were meant to serve.

In the Luxnix main family, there were numerous bodies or 'powers'. First there were the Three Arms, then there was the Elder's Council, the Feather Sword warriors, the Star Order Council, and finally the Patriarch's Faction.

These seven facets of the family worked in a balance and counter balance sort of way. The Star Order Council, the Patriarch's Faction and the Feather Sword warriors could be considered the high end of this balance, there were many push and pull effects that dictated the politics.

At the lower levels, though, there were the Three Arms and the Elder's Council. Of course, these Three Arms were the Wisdom Arm, the Healing Arm and the Speed Arm. These Three Arms were 'overseen' by the Elder's Council, a group of seniors that weren't good enough to enter the true elite ranks of the main family, but still had strength given by their seniority and age, nonetheless.

This was important to understand at this point because it also described the weight of this command token.

The so-called command token was known by many things, but it was essentially a breadth of authority given to those of a certain rank. As a Division Head, a high-level position of the Three Arms, Therin was, of course, given this authority.

With how the Luxnix were designed, it was no surprise that they promoted competition. At the lower levels, this competition manifested in the head butting of the Three Arms. Sometimes this internal struggle would travel up to the Elder Council who had once been part of the Three Arms themselves, but this was much rarer.

Simply put, battles between the Arms was not rare in the slightest. The command token was used when these situations grew to a level that large portions of the Arm would become involved. The call of a Division Head was enough to spring several talents of the Healing Arm into action.

The trouble was that middling talents like Alfin wouldn't be the only ones alerted.

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stood in the middle of an empty training field. Beads of sweat poured

a step forward when he

topless, but he still had his spatial ring and some ornaments on him. As a force of habit, he never took them off. But, he was still baffled when he saw the pendant swinging

month out from the Selection and they've sparked a faction

the Speed Branch and Elaquin of the Wisdom Branch, Elody

had been spent on entertaining Orinik and

such

responsibility as the Head of the Healing Branch to show up for these

'Forget it, I won't go. What

been used, it was possible that one of the other Heads was involved. If Syllar and Elaquin were participating, it might be worth his while to spar with them, it had been quite a long

I'll wait… It'll be obvious soon if they participated

to swinging

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