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.

to be 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 be dozens of years of hard labor. On the other

reported this, he was

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

It made

could Leonel allow someone else to take advantage of this juicy piece of meat he had caught?

None of them were fools, they realized that Leonel had caught onto

do you want." Orinik spoke through gritted

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

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

begin with? He had a raging furnace inside his body. By the time he sensed a wind, it would have been charred to a

lip trembled, his fists clenching tight. But, after a moment, he

the Void Library as a reward for your work done as an envoy and I'll also need 70% of the profit you made on this

man. However, his expression had regained its calm, his hands becoming steadier and steadier the more he

reading through the contract, Leonel nodded and signed it, accepting all

him of practically everything else. Leonel would have taken more, but he

the clothing he owed Leonel and disappeared,

Aina said after Leonel finished

Or, at the very least, she didn't like that it looked

was decidedly colder than it had been