Dimensional Descent

[There's an odd situation going on in the comment section of last that claims that I passed off a normal chapter as a bonus chapter yesterday. I'm not sure where this narrative came from, or if it's a joke that's going over my head, but to clarify, I uploaded 4 chapters yesterday, one more than the promised three, that much should be obvious. I'll post screenshots of the discord bot activity with time stamps as proof in the comment section of this chapter]

Orinik's forehead beaded with sweat.

The more Leonel talked about the rules, the more he felt like he had forgotten something. But, no matter how hard he thought, he couldn't come up with a reason why Leonel would sound so confident.

A part of him wanted to believe that Leonel was just a fool, but as he recited the laws basically word for word, the sinking feeling in Orinik's gut only grew heavier and heavier.

"Aina."

"Hm?"

Leonel grinned. "What rank am I?"

Aina blinked, seemingly thinking. But, she eventually shook her head.

"I don't know, the Void Senate hasn't given you a rank yet."

The moment Aina said these words, Orinik's dark skin flushed, his eyes almost rolled to the back of his head. It felt like his heart was about to fly out of his throat.

This wasn't a small problem in the slightest. Not only had he broken the law, it was a law with the harshest of punishments. Killing was prohibited in the Void Palace, but another enormous taboo was negatively influencing the Human Domain.

of mankind. They couldn't be protectors if they were exploiting the people they had to protect. Even the lightest punishment for such a

Leonel reported this, he was

the first issue. Orinik still had to deal with the Gold Standard Faction. Orinik suddenly realized

blurred vision, Orinik could see the crowd looking around in confusion. It made him realize that Leonel

would. How could Leonel allow someone else to take advantage

changed. None of them were fools, they realized that Leonel had caught onto the latter's weakness even if

you want." Orinik spoke through

smiled lightly. "I'm glad you've come around. This makes things easy. I'll sign a contract to keep mum about these matters, and you just have to do a few

clothes, there's an uncomfortable draft

refrain from laughing. Did this man even feel the cold to begin with? He had a raging furnace inside his body. By the time he sensed a wind, it

trembled, his fists clenching tight. But, after a moment, he began drawing up a contract,

your work done as an envoy and I'll

regained its calm, his hands becoming steadier and steadier the more

reading through the contract, Leonel nodded and

left Orinik with just enough to pay the Gold Standard Faction the 30% cut he owed them while stripping him of practically everything else. Leonel would have taken more, but he felt that he already had enough enemies, there was no need to be on the bad side of a Silver Grade Faction when he had already gained so

returned with the clothing he owed Leonel and disappeared, not

a problem." Aina said after Leonel

the fact Orinik had regained his calm so easily. Or, at the very least, she didn't like

decidedly colder