Dimensional Descent

1804 Patience, Calm and Loyalty.

The atmosphere was quite tense. With two enemies being forced to face one another for the first two families, or rather three, had been at one another's throats for centuries, pulling back and forth on one another and sowing grudges that lasted through the generations.

Within the crowd, they could spot individuals who had killed their brothers, their sister, their husbands, their wives, their parents, their grandparents.

It was a hard pill to swallow. If not for Leonel’s existence in the middle of it all, they would have been entirely crushed.

Libli, who had lost her own father not too long ago, tried to maintain her calm, but it was obvious that even someone as cold and calculating as her couldn't quite maintain a cool head.

She couldn’t help but look toward Leonel with a blaming look in her eye. She thought that Leonel had come with intentions to help them eradicate this evil, but he had instead brought their enemies to their front door and was even acting as a shield for them.

“What do you mean by this, Leonel?" Libli asked.

have a high standing,

she hadn’t been there to personally witness Leonel's battle against Harmony like the

her tone to be so disrespectful. Didn’t

within an Empire's borders, things

that they hadn't gained all this territory through their

be born into an exceptionally talented world which then proceeded to swallow up

wrong for these families and organizations to feel little toward the Ascension Empire other than some fear toward their potential and what the strength they had

it came to territories like that of the Radix family, or the Florer family, the way they saw things, their territories were still their own to protect or flourish within, they just happened to be under a new umbrella of influence, much like they had

to make it clear that Leonel had disrespected her

from one section of his territory into the territory of another faction of his Empire. Leonel tapped his finger and a wave of violet King's Might spread out in

Emperor's Aura, but it was also the most effective in a situation like this one. It immediately suffocated all opposition and seemed to remind Libli who she was in

rise of the Fawkes family and the Ascension Empire. You feel that everything you've spent generations of blood building is being swept into the hands of another just because they were born into a higher station than

fists as Leonel spoke as he seemed to be whispering right into their souls. He was right,

is true, there is no denying any of that. The world is unfair. There is only so much that hard work can do, and working hard isn't something you can have a monopoly on either. You might be working your ass off, but there might be someone twice as talented as you willing to work just as hard, and that person will make it further just by virtue of the