Dimensional Descent

Xavnik chuckled. "Why do you make it sound like I'm the only one that benefits from this arrangement? It can't be you've already forgotten how much you've earned just from this alone?"

Rosen sat back in his chair, still staring as though he had already forgotten how to speak. He wasn't normally a man of such few words, but facing this boy, he seemed to have become a mute.

"Since things are like this, it might be best if we lay out all the cards. We've been speaking through coded phrases and tacit head nods for too long. Don't take this as my insulting your intelligence, I simply want the line to be drawn as cleanly as possible.

"You gained the right to change the rules of the True Selection as you deem fit, the greatest control over the Senate's actions for at least the next few decades, and you've also… given your rising star an advantage over the competition."

When Xavnik said these last words, Rosen's pupils constricted. Though his heart remained steady and his expression remained indifferent, even for a person like him, there were certain ingrained reflexes that couldn't be easily circumvented.

It seemed that he had still underestimated this brat a bit too much. He had thought that Xavnik would try to humor him a bit, but who would have thought that he had something like this up his sleeves?

"There's no need to be so surprised, senior. It was a bit obvious, don't you think? Why would the mighty Unfettered Blade Party risk falling from the good graces of the Void Elder Legion and offending so many powerful families and Organizations just for the sake of sending a batch of youthful geniuses to their deaths?

"A lesser person might really believe that Senior was a traitor of the human race, wanting to cripple this generation. But, you know something that most don't, right?"

box. Rather than assuming the obvious

realized that this might have been a death sentence for most other years, but considering the talent of this generation, it was more likely that such a challenge would result in casualties

a clue. I heard your family has

who had already regained his composure. From the first sentence Xavnik had spoken, he had already expected much of

access to a whole other world, but the restrictions are heavy. You can't even set foot onto a Void Battlefield until after having accumulated enough merits and if you fail to gain access to one fast enough, you get punished with demotion nonetheless. It's an odd push and pull where on one hand, it looks

bit precarious. The Tribulation of Sword Domain is coming u very quickly but the inheritor of this generation hasn't grown up

is for your Sword Deity as it represents more than just a death trap. However, you

that the Void Battlefield is a land of death to some, but

never really liked swordsman, you're all quite annoying to me. However, for the sake of my goals, it seems I have no choice

from this. I wonder what target your Sword Deity has that's so important that he must risk his life in this way and can't wait just a few years to

glance. It seemed that his deductions would come to an end here, but he didn't seem

Suddenly, Rosen smiled.

that you're the only one with deductive abilities? I personally found it very interesting when I heard that there were only

So, imagine how surprised I was when

calm. If his goal was truly to kill Leonel, he should be sweating buckets. Such a large movement wouldn't fool

to do that? My goals are much higher than that. I wasn't even aware that Littlest Nova would be joining with this batch until just a few hours