Dimensional Descent

"Ah. right!"

Emna looked around but couldn't find the body; After a while, she shook her head, it didn't matter much; The root of the mission wasn't the body at all, rather it was twofold; One aspect was for the sake of an offensive maneuver with defensive underpinnings; The second aspect was for the information that was likely here;

"This place is a station of Shield Cross Stars;"

This was a simple sentence. but the instant Leonel heard them. his expression turned serious; This wasn't just because of the words themselves. but it was rather because Emna was so forthright with this information to begin with; He could imagine the amount of effort it would have taken to get this sort of information. and while it seemed that Emna had a good impression of him likely stemming from their first meeting and her interactions with Raylion and Aphestus. the fact she could give him such an important piece of information without blinking just went to show how high his place in her heart was;

It was an odd feeling; Leonel had gotten very used to running into enemies wherever he went; There was even a point in time where he felt that maybe he had overestimated his charisma in the past; Why else could he not seem to make any friends in the Dimensional Verse?

However; Leonel made a mistake a lot of successful people; or just people in general; really; He focused a lot on the bad and didn't spend a lot of time looking toward his back-view; While there was a trail of devastation in his wake; there was also a lot of good that he had done;

He hadn't seen the light of hope in the eyes of Earth's Ministers just a few days ago when he returned; He hadn't seen the joy in the eyes of the citizens of the Ascension Empire when they had heard of his return; He hadn't experienced the relief they felt when he massacred the Brazinger family members in the skies;

And these were just the people of Earth;

he had saved; and there was still Emna who had seen him single handedly take on the Milky

Void Palace who appreciated his helping them escape the Rapax Nest; There was still Simona who cried when he returned to her

ignore their conscience so easily; There was bad in the world; but there was often good to be

no idea that her simple words had made Leonel smile from the depths of his heart for

was so caught off guard by the genuine smile that she froze, forgetting the next words that she was going to speak; It took her a long time to recover, and by the time she realized that she had made such a mistake, she

could see Emna now; they would probably be stunned

felt this sort of overwhelming magnetism coming from Leonel; one that even she could resist; For a moment; she even thought that it would be worthwhile to die for

only was Emna hyper aware of this feeling; she didn't even feel any rejection toward

feared the most. It wasn't Emperor's Aura. nor was

It was Emperor's Charm.

Emperor's Might was continuously cleansed and refined beneath the Emperor Runes. The more

sing. When the Emperor was furious the skies

Leonel felt genuinely happy, a happiness that originated from the depths of his soul. Because of his genuineness, the clarity of his soul influenced