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.

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

reported this, he was

the first issue. Orinik still had to deal with the Gold Standard Faction. Orinik suddenly realized that no matter what he did, he would be suffering

Orinik could see the crowd looking around in confusion. It made him realize that Leonel had spoken these words for only him

take advantage of this juicy piece of meat he had caught? How

were fools, they realized that Leonel had caught

do you want." Orinik spoke through

This makes things easy. I'll sign a contract to keep mum about these matters, and you just have

I'm in need of some clothes, there's an

cold to begin with? He had a raging furnace inside his body. By the time he sensed

moment, he began drawing

for your work done as an

regained its calm, his hands becoming steadier

contract, Leonel nodded and signed it, accepting

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

Leonel and disappeared, not saying another

problem." Aina said after Leonel finished dressing

had regained his calm so easily. Or, at the very least, she didn't like that it looked like

smiled, but it was decidedly colder than it had