Dimensional Descent

"Who are these people?"

Within the Arundo family, a young man with a dark expression sat, staring out toward the 'heart warming' meeting between Elthor and the other geniuses of Earth. Of course, in the perspective of others, this was anything but a wholesome moment. He would have liked nothing more than to put an arrow between their brows.

Osron wasn't a person he knew personally. In fact, on a normal day, Osron wouldn't even be worthy of carrying his shoes. However, in this sort of situation, things were very different.

Every action made by a member of the Arundo family, especially when the person was as high profile as Osron to begin with, was a potential boon or blight on their reputation.

To a high level family, reputation was very important. Though it wasn't exaggerated as a saying like 'Perception was Reality', it wasn't very far off.

When a family grew as large as the Arundo, they actually entered quite a precarious state. They had so much territory to govern, rule and, most importantly, protect. In such a situation, their soft skills became far more important than how large their fists were. Even the Luxnix family experienced such a thing, or else they wouldn't have gone into such a state of hibernation for three generations.

To make a complicated matter simple, the stronger your front as a family, the more battles you could avoid because those far weaker than you would know not to waste your time.

As an example, take the Arundo's territory. They might very well have dozens of much smaller families surrounding them. Under normal circumstances, due to the prestige the Arundo family had built up, these lesser families would never deign to attack them.

Arundo would still be able to deal with them. But,

in the same way a chess grandmaster would know to resign when a game reached a certain point because

believe they lacked the skill to 'close out the game', it would begin to breed

with strong enough Deterrence could a family occupy large amounts of territory while withstanding the

of the Arundo, he too was a bowman, and, unsurprisingly, he felt that his performance in these Selections would decide whether he became the Crown Heir

don't know who they are, but there are some

nose. He had quite a mischievous streak between his eyes as he seemed amused that Isac wasn't as well informed as he was. Of

us both. I don't know about you, but I have no intention of inheriting

enjoying his distant cousin's lack of a

the far better social network. On the other hand, Isac was the stronger one, something Ysac accepted, but he lacked the skills a Patriarch

other's throats like Rychard and Gradeyr had been. Though, that was

was right on this one. They were indeed a united

was news that came a few days ago that there was a huge commotion that went down at the Luxnix estate. There were even reports that

Isac didn't

in the last few months. I thought it was just some political scheme to deal