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.

they were exploiting the people they had to protect. Even the

Leonel reported this, he was

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

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

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

saw Orinik's reaction, their expressions changed. None of them were fools, they realized that Leonel had caught

What do you want."

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

in need of some clothes, there's an

laughing. Did this man even feel the cold to begin with? He had a raging furnace

a moment, he began drawing up

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

Leonel finished, Orinik was nothing more than a deflated man. However, his expression had regained its calm, his hands becoming steadier and steadier the more he wrote. In the end, he didn't hesitate to hand over everything Leonel

through the contract, Leonel nodded and signed it,

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,

the clothing he owed Leonel and disappeared, not saying another

problem." Aina said

calm so easily. Or, at

was decidedly