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 the lightest punishment for such a thing would be dozens of years of hard labor. On the other end, there was direct

this, he was

Faction. Orinik suddenly realized that no matter what he did, he would

in confusion. It made him

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

of them were fools, they realized that Leonel had caught onto the latter's

What do you want." Orinik

I'll sign a contract to keep

in need of some clothes, there's an uncomfortable

begin with? He had a raging

moment, he began

token you received to the Void Library as a reward for your work

nothing more than a deflated man. However, his expression had regained its calm, his hands becoming

the contract, Leonel nodded and signed it, accepting

left Orinik 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

the clothing he owed Leonel and disappeared, not saying another word from

problem." Aina said after Leonel

didn't like the fact Orinik had regained his calm so easily. Or, at the very least, she didn't like

decidedly colder than