Dimensional Descent

It wasn't long until everyone had followed Mistress Oliidark, and when they heard what was said, their expressions formed various shades of excitement and anticipation.

According to Mistress Oliidark, she had just gone to a Gathering held by the Four Great Families. At this meeting, all Classified Families and Organizations were tasked with mandatory attendance to a second gathering, this one designed for what they called a "future investment".

Leonel had all the books of the Oliidark family in his mind, so he knew about the Four Great Families. The issue was that he didn't know anything else substantive about them. He read tales of their "feats" and "grandeur", and they were also apparently the final line of defense between the human world and the Chaos Demons, but that was all Leonel knew.

He didn't know the names of these Four Great Families, he didn't even know where they were located.

The same was the case for Mistress Oliidark as well. In truth, this "gathering" wasn't designed for everyone across the human world. It only encompassed this region, a region they called a Bubble.

As for why they called it a Bubble, it was because a Bubble wasn't decided by scope, size or even arbitrary distinctions or war like most territories were. Rather, a Bubble was a point where the Spatial Spheres of this world and the demon world met.

At every one of these points, a set of organizations and families were tasked with defending it in these positions that hung over abysses just like this city.

Depending on the contact point to the demon world, you could run into stronger or weaker demons. Likewise, just like demons, these regions were classified as Low Class, Middle Class, High Class, Human Class, Fiend Class and Chaos Class, labeling a Bubble by its threat level.

Though it was possible for a threat to appear that surpassed these threats, it wasn't too common. If such a thing ever happened, help could be called.

But it was much more likely for higher level Bubbles to request aid from lower level ones. This was what happened with Mistress Oliidark's husband and son-in-law, which left her to command the house on her own.

was a lower end Middle Class Bubble. A Middle Class Demon would appear here once every few years and it would require Mistress Oliidark to deal with.

arduous, not to mention life threatening. With what the Oliidark family had to go through, it was no wonder they were so obsessed with becoming more

odd to Leonel that the Oliidark

Athrae herself. And in this generation they had to recruit dozens of boys who

their library. Leonel wasn't surprised though, why would leave such a secret

and give them an opportunity. What this opportunity was, no one quite knew. But what they did know was that the

Sebastian and Slaton. That left just a single spot left for those that remained, a spot that

beneath the Oliidark's family's potential son-in-laws were quite

Leonel thought to

the next week then find time to escape once he had solidified his standing. But this

needed to claim this final spot for himself. Clearly, Mistress Oliidark already expected

against demons will never be organized and when in

the grounds!" She

Athrae all moved back, giving the 20 or so young

she was about to signal the start,

Sixth Star and you're equally as arrogant. I hope

seemed like he was levying a challenge toward Leonel, but what he was really doing was reminding everyone of the forcefulness of

their odds were relatively equal before, but remembering what

well be this young man they knew so