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 protect. Even

this,

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

take advantage

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

What do you want." Orinik spoke

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

clothes, there's an uncomfortable

to refrain from laughing. Did this man even feel the cold to begin with? He had a raging furnace inside his body.

his fists clenching tight. But, after a moment,

received to the Void Library as a reward for your work done

However, his expression had regained its calm, his hands becoming steadier and steadier the

reading through the contract, Leonel nodded and signed

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 saying another word from start

a problem." Aina said after Leonel

Or, at the very

decidedly colder