Dimensional Descent

Yuri and Savahn looked toward one another. The stress between their brows was almost too obvious for all to see. It felt like they were a pair of mothers trying to care for their child, but the problem was that this child had the strength to flatten a mountain with a single stomp of her feet.

Was it jealousy? Maybe it was a bit of that. But, from what Yuri and Savahn understood about the situation, it was very likely that Aina was seeing something beyond that, something that she simply hated to see.

Once again, Leonel was putting himself at risk for the sake of saving someone else. How many times had she already seen something like this?

The trouble here, though, was the fact that they weren't sure what this meant for Aina's personality. Was it returning? Or was it a child-like temper tantrum triggered by something unknown?

It was simply too hard to tell, and this wasn't exactly a situation where they would be able to tell either. The two worriedly looked toward Leonel. Even if it wasn't for Aina, they wouldn't want to see Leonel die here. But, if he really did die, who knew how it would affect Aina?

…

Hearing the clear taunt in Leonel's words, Orinik's fury was at risk of tipping completely over.

"Leave it be."

The sudden voice was like trinkling rain water, delicate and echoing. It was soothing to an almost impossible degree, and yet it washed over the arena with a momentum that made many freeze. The power behind it was so undeniable that no one seemed to even think of imagining the kind of beauty behind these words. Just the thought alone felt blasphemous.

It was suddenly obvious to everyone present that Orinik, Ganor and the others were only the face of what the Void Palace had presented… The true brawn hadn't bothered to appear… Maybe precisely because they were unworthy.

it. Though the voice sounded beautiful,

had changed the pitch of her voice slightly in the off chance that Leonel would recognize it. It seemed that she was

and nodded in thanks to seemingly empty air. Only after this did he lead Aulina away and

on their

manage to stop him?" Ganor looked toward

not in time. However, because he hadn't seen much of a point in forcing himself to stand for the entirety of this day,

put him on the opposite side of the arena to where Leonel had come from, so he could only use his aura. He had thought it would be enough, but he couldn't have possibly expected that Leonel

but he didn't

he took his role in the Void Palace quite seriously as well. If

expect someone to actually be

the right to participate, but after their overseer spoke, he would be looking down on her

…

patted Aulina on the head, but she continued

an even greater burden by crying, maybe she would have

Even though you failed this time, won't there be a next

She looked up to find Leonel's

"Next… time?"

reassured. "Isn't the only requirement that you be below the Sixth Dimension? Right now, you're only at Tier 2. Between now and the next cycle, how much will you grow? By

be left behind by everyone else, which of them here didn't

Two single streaks of tears