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?"

figure out what reason you could possibly have. I decided to think outside of the box. Rather than assuming the obvious and believing you to be

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 no greater than any

was when I stumbled onto a clue. I heard your

regained his composure. From the first sentence Xavnik had spoken, he had

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 like everyone is coddling you too much and on the other, they want

precarious. The Tribulation of Sword Domain is coming u very quickly but the inheritor of this generation hasn't grown up yet. In a situation like yours, I would be stressed out as well. Unfortunately, your Sword Deity isn't

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

death to some, but to a select few… It can be

to me. However, for the sake of my goals,

what target your Sword Deity has that's so important that he must risk his life in this way

didn't receive the answer he was looking for at a glance. It seemed that his deductions would come to an end here, but he didn't seem

Suddenly, Rosen smiled.

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

is quite a low number. So, imagine how surprised I was when I found out

calm. If his goal was truly to kill Leonel, he should be sweating buckets. Such a large

this out 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