Dimensional Descent

Leonel's words seemed to light a fuse under an atmosphere that just barely seemed to be calming. Many more had survived than one would have thought, much due to Leonel's previous actions. However, in that moment, everyone seemed to remember the original reason why they had all suddenly ended up in this place.

Amery seemed to not have heard Leonel at all, his expression just the same as always. And, oddly enough, despite him continuing to walk and even close in on the egg, Leonel still hadn't looked in his direction.

The youths no longer had much of a choice. There were two Amethyst Tokens handed out this year and it felt that neither was undeserving. The tension alone seemed to prove this.

In any other situation, those who knew well of Amery's strength would have called Leonel foolish. In fact, even at this point, the bias toward him was still very much real. The difference was that it was far less vocal than it had been in the past.

Amery stepped through the maze of eggs, ignoring them all. By this point, the Rapax that remained had grown too weak to do much of anything. The sudden appearance of the shadows had taken out a lot of their remaining strength and the reinforcements they had been waiting on still hadn't appeared. It was unlikely at this point that they would ever appear now.

The strongest of them was the only one that had still had the strength to move around. However, he had found himself crushed by the Variant Invalid even before he could go out in his final blaze of glory.

Leonel watched silently as the Rapax gathered up the last of their strength, pushing themselves up from the ground and steadily walking toward Amery.

Leonel didn't do anything as Amery brandished his sword, cutting them down one after another. No matter how many Rapax fell, another would appear in their place. Even in their final moments, as they breathed their last and fell to the ground, they took special attention not to harm the eggs around them.

their thoughts entirely. They felt that even if the worst case happened, and their future King was taken away and killed, at least what remained of the

didn't take any special care to hold himself back from harming them either. If it wasn't for the Rapax using their

overhead, a pair of hands clasping his cheeks and jaw and lifting his head up. He hadn't even noticed, but sitting on this damned rock, his posture had been as terrible

her heart sink when she

slept in years, his face was covered in sweat that drenched her palms, and his skin felt as

He was tired.

a Quasi Gold Spear was taxing. He hadn't even managed to have a break all

stop Amery yet was because he was using the distance the latter had yet

And yet, Leonel grinned.

Am I that handsome?

stunned for a moment, not even knowing how to react. She suddenly felt that maybe

been a little less stubborn, they all could have taken a lot

just a little less hot tempered, it would have been everyone's burden to deal with. Things had started off with

hadn't accounted for the fact that he would actually want to save a baby Rapax now. Before, he had already decided to trade off giving up on the egg

Sovereign ability in his hands would be an extraordinary boon to his future. By then, it would only be a

thing that wasn't the most logical. It made