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.

had to protect. Even the lightest punishment for such a

Leonel reported this, he

only the first issue. Orinik still had to deal with the Gold Standard Faction. Orinik suddenly realized that no matter what he

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

of course he would. How could Leonel allow someone else to take

realized that Leonel had caught onto the latter's weakness even if they wouldn't be

do you want."

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

some clothes, there's an uncomfortable draft

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

tight. But, after a moment, he began drawing up

to the Void Library as a reward for your work done as an envoy and I'll also need 70% of the

his hands becoming steadier and steadier the more he wrote. In the end, he didn't hesitate to hand over

nodded and signed it, accepting all of

he owed them while stripping him of practically everything else. Leonel would have taken more, but he felt that

and disappeared, not saying

problem." Aina said

so easily. Or, at the very least, she didn't like that

it was decidedly