Dimensional Descent

Leonel and Aina left the Senate Branch after completing a few other things. But, Leonel still seemed lost in thought as though he was still trying to work something out.

"What's wrong?" Aina asked.

From what Leonel had said earlier, it sounded as if all their troubles were dealt with.

"Did my cousin say anything else to you? Anything that might sound suspicious? Anything that stood out?"

Aina fell deep into her thoughts but after a moment, she shook her head. She couldn't think of anything like that. Back then, she had been very focused on the contract and negotiations, so she had practically memorized every little thing Sceio said. But, even then, she couldn't come up with anything like what Leonel had asked for.

"Is there a problem?"

"I'm not sure." Leonel said honestly. "It just feels too easy. On the one hand, the Void Merit rule should be rarely used. Void Merits alone are difficult to gather in the first place. Although you'll have almost 200 at the end of this month, there are very few people who could boast such a thing. The number of individuals on the leaderboards to begin with are barely a fraction of the number of students in the Void Palace, and that doesn't even consider the fact that only the top three get to enjoy Void Merits in return in the first place.

"Then there's the fact that anyone who could earn Void Merits through any method to begin with wouldn't normally be people that would need to get out of a contract. They would be geniuses that would be easily taken in by a Faction or Party without issue. Something like selling themselves in exchange for help would never happen.

"So, that would make the use of this rule even rarer."

"Then that should be a good thing. Why are you worried?"

"Like I said, it just feels too easy. If my cousin is intelligent, he'll look at things from all angles. He should know both how valuable Void Merits are and the fact that you'll earn a lot in just a couple more weeks.

"If I was him…"

daze for a moment as he activated an ability he had only just created.

only 'remember' the things his target would. This way, he wouldn't have his thoughts colored by bias and

Control, Leonel could create a Dream

and deductive ability, as well as factor in personality and tendencies as well. But, since Leonel knew so little about his cousin, he could only draw conclusions with about 20-30% certainty, using an 'average' Sixth Dimensional existence as his

why give a chance

many ways to circumvent that problem. The easiest way to do things would be to shrink the deadline. Rather than a month, I would give you two weeks. Two weeks is still semi-reasonable, especially since neither of us would be aware that the clinic would mark up the

it,

could give away his real goal, he did say: "I never touch the women

brows raised as he fell

too many

what Sceio might do. The real issue was that he could think of too many. And, without knowing exactly what Sceio knew,

would be all too easy to close the loophole he and Aina planned on using. Sceio would only have to be demoted back down to Aina's level, then she wouldn't be able to use Void Merits to escape

But, if it was Leonel, if he could force a talent like Aina to work for him, that would be worth exchanging whatever effort it took for him to raise his level. Aina was someone who had entered 20 leaderboards in her

he could even think of some methods where demoting

there are too many possibilities, disregard them all." Aina

"Hm?"